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This thing has a lot going for it...very pretty top, og case and has a sustain block BUT but had a headstock repair, 5 years ago they say. Kind of looks like it was glued only, no dowels. For the price they want, I'm leaning in. It's priced like it has an ugly repair. Disclaimer is I've not seen in person, pics only. Assuming it's structurally sound I think I can make the break/repair area look better. What's concerning is the truss rod area. It doesn't look right. It looks like there's more material/distance between the nut and where the truss rod access carve and screw hole for cover should be. Also, you can see the top of the headstock had work. Must've broke clear through. What are you seeing here?

I have a Behringer XR18r and for the money, you can't beat them for small(ish) band needs. You need a tablet or laptop and a separate router is recommended, you get 18 channels, 6 aux sends, some effects and can save configs. if you go old school analog, I think a new/used Yamaha would be a real safe bet. They're nice, sound good and can be had new/used at a decent price w/ aux send(s), basic effects, compression on a few channels. I have a MG12X I bought used a number of years ago, or maybe the 16 for you? I dislike how they all count channels these days. The 12 is really 8 because they count stereo inputs as two channel. The MX12 has 8 channel faders, so IMO it's an 8 channel mixer. All manufacturers are doing that.

thanks for the heads up

that's some serious Hameritis

...and it's gone already. I saw it yesterday online, very clean looking.

Beautiful guitar. If that was local to me I'd be all over it. Hamer prices are dropping, like the rest of the used market. I think Hamers are taking it harder because younger people have no idea what they are. Not sure we'll get back to $350 but we're trending downward for sure.

How would you add seperate bridge and neck pickup volume controls? FWIW I.like the look of the bell knobs. I'm mostly a Les Paul player and virtually never use the tone controls anyway ( on Stratocasters I do) However, I do use all options on the three way switch and usually blend the pickups to get different tones. To solve this I would probably go with no tone control at all and just have three volume knobs with no issue, but, in case there's a different solution, what do you think? (I have/had guitars with no tone control on humbuckers before so I get that)