burningyen

I think New Hartford ('97 onwards) f-holed Hamers had significantly thinner tops than Arlington Heights Hamers.

Beautiful, and great price.

I’ve been using this technique lately, works great:

Yes, IME a Newport will feedback easier than an Artist.

Agreed that that’s the best option.

You can try wicking some water-thin superglue into the screw holes to try to harden the wood, letting it dry, and then rescrewing. I would avoid supergluing the bridge itself into place, as that may just result in the finish going with the bridge next time it lifts up, and it would make any later servicing a pain.

What do you mean by the piece is pulling up?

Wait, you have a Mirage with 24 frets?

The HX Stomp has balanced 1/4” outs, so you can run a TRS-to-XLR cable to FOH and a TS cable to your amp.

Interesting, although it looks like someone fooled around in the control cavity: https://www.ebay.com/itm/177534835629

Or you could just: https://reverb.com/item/92687308-hamer-prototype-1980-black

You and Joe both lol.

There they are! Good times.

Easy to replicate if you can’t find one. Funny enough, the one in the pic looks off-center.

I'm a 9s guy, but Boomers are my go-to strings. I figure good enough for Gilmour, good enough for me.

Obviously not a Hamer, but for $1200 it could be a decent value.

The Classic S that passed through here (from srvwannab) was impeccable.

Pulling for you, Jay! Those were some brutal MSPaints back in the day. I never did understand why things got so heated here sometimes, but oh well, we’re all old now.

I remember BCR/Greg getting Hamer to do a run of "BCR Blue" Studio Customs. It was essentially the same color as the one in the OP, but with sparkles in the finish. All pics seem to be lost to the sands of time.

Looks like a lot of guitar for the money. GLWTS

Best wishes for your health, Mike!

Definitely an honor.

Wow!

I went through an extended anti-figure period but have come around to this point of view.

Because so many makers had used the S, T and P shapes for so many years (without a peep from Fender) that the shapes ceased to be a unique signifier of who made the guitar. The LP shape hasn't been quite as widely copied, so Gibson was able to register the shape as a trademark. But as has already been posted, they weren't able to prove likelihood of consumer confusion in the PRS case. Gibson has the trademark on the headstock, not on the Les Paul body which is one of many reasons PRS won the case. This isn't correct. You can read the appeals court decision here: http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/people/tfisher/IP/2005_Gibson_Abridged.pdf The court didn't invalidate Gibson's trademark on the LP body shape. That trademark still stands today. PRS won the case because the court decided there wasn't any infringement of Gibson's (valid) trademark because it wasn't likely that consumers would confuse a Singlecut with an LP.