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I love Rails pickups. I've got a set of Bill Lawrence (Wilde) 500s (can't remember if I chose XL or what) that I've wanted to try.

The pickup is good, but it is indeed high gain. I'll admit to liking how it responds to the volume control. It turns my JEL50 from a Marshall into a proper high gain head. LOL

Bareknuckle Aftermath is what I was told. The stock pickup was a Duncan. I can find the spec sheet, but something fairly common is my recollection. Like maybe a JB?

https://reverb.com/item/91105013-charvel-custom-shop-san-dimas-1h-fr-candy-apple-red Somewhere on hear I've probably said that I'm not terribly fond of Floyds. I don't mind using them, it's just I don't use the trem aggressively enough to make it better for me than non-locking trem systems. I don't enjoy the added complexity when changing strings. This one was set up by J Gravity in St. Louis. I'm game to trade. I'd be open to travelling to Kansas City, Chicago, Nashville, and perhaps cities of a similar distance from St Louis to make a trade. I've got 100s of positive reviews on Reverb. I think the only challenge dealing with me is I've got a new baby and dealing with my FIL in hospice care so I'm operating on less sleep than I have historically and can be a bit of a space cadet. I'm somewhat flexible on price and trade value.

I'm not joking about having the ability to buy a whole collection of Hamer guitars if you get serious. I'm certainly not going to keep them all, but I would certainly be keeping a few and flipping others. Hit me up, if you get serious.

I'd buy it if it was like $1200 shipped. But I'd be looking are placing some or all of the pickups. I'm not OCD, but I can't jive with how the spacing looks so off. Maybe it's just the picture?

I agree that selling them on Reverb really is the way to go, but I also know it's not for everybody. You have to take good pictures, document issues, get boxes, answer questions, deal with rude people. How long it takes really depends on how much you want to maximize the money you receive. Selling guitars as a lot is fast, but if you've got a reason you want to do it quickly, I can't blame you. But you'll be lucky to get 30% of what you'd get if you sold it yourself from a typical shop. That's my experience with instances where I've taken an offer for a shop and then sold it myself. Mostly PRS and Knaggs specifically, though.

Appraisal isn't a bad idea, but my personal experience with them is that they often come in high. I inherited some Tiffany silverware that was appraised, and I can't find any set that has sold for even 30% of the valuation that the appraisal gave. I felt like it was probably that high for insurance reasons and not for sale. I think we've all seen someone trying to sell a guitar for what someone said it was appraised for by their reputable local shop and it was at least 50 to 100% more than what they typically go for. Of course, the seller could have been fibbing. What I should say is that an appraisal can at least help you identify the year, model, and condition. In some shops, I would take an appraisal pretty seriously. Gruhn's, for example. I guess I'm just saying, if you can do your own homework and look up what things have actually sold for.

Share some pictures! You're going to need lots to share. I have the money and interest to buy that many guitars, but probably not at the full value of what they can go for if you were to slowly sell them all individually on Reverb yourself. Just being honest.

This guitar reminds me that I don't like Floyd Roses. Even when perfectly setup.

Bought it! It looks way nicer than pictures of it from the last time it sold on Reverb. Not different in condition per se, they just took pictures with horrible lighting.

Love this guy's thick Maine accent. "Haymer guitaah". Anyhow, it tracks with the description @Tortiousprovided. The video features a standard.

@Kerry Marchman That does give me more information and I appreciate that. The one I'm hoping to buy is made in 1986, has Ebony Fingerboard, Boomerang Inlays and (?) for pickups. So that implies to me that the specs are more inline with the Custom BUT that the distinction didn't exist in 1986 so calling it an elite simply because it has those specs might be slightly misleading to some.

Still kind of hoping someone can explain what makes an elite different from a standard. While I notice the inlays and ebony fretboard are like what I've pictured, most of the elites seem to have a nicer body. I don't really have enough context to understand if someone could basically order a mixture of specs. Like, is there a more basic elite, a fancier standard, or ... maybe they weren't even making such distinctions at that point? Anyone willing to school me a bit would be appreciated.

I know enough about Hamer's to know I need to ask. I don't know if it's just the inlways and an ebony fretboard that qualify this as an elite for if there are other qualities (fancier finishes?) that require for it to be an elite. I'd be buying this likely from the guy who bought it from the dude on Reverb. He's got at least two Hamer's. He bought an interesting looking Scarab that's a bit too much for my tastes. I don't particularly love Floyd Rose systems, but I almost want to own one just to give it a try. To be clear, I use trem systems and love them, but most well-set-up trem systems will work for me. A FR is sort of "extra" for my actual needs.

From my perspective, it just seems odd that a shop is willing to hold onto guitars so long just in order to get a little more money. I don't fully recall all the guitars they had from that same estate sale, but it was a lot of nice stuff. There were a few I'm pretty confident stuck around for years, but this was the tone that struck me both as the most interesting and overpriced. I was clearly right about overpriced.

It's not NOS. They helped the collector who died custom order it. His widow sold it back to the shop. It's not mint. In my books it's what REverb would call very good. It has some dings on the back IIRC

It felt heavier than that, but I also usually play PRS and Strats which rarely hit the high eights in weight. I'm slightly surprised to hear it's under 10lbs. Like, I almost don't believe them.

I love Ebony. I don't know the weight but I'd get 11lbs or so.

If my memory is correct, I first saw this some time in 2017. They told me they had custom-ordered it for a collector, and he had just passed. They had several high-end guitars from his estate, and this is the last one still listed. They're asking $3600 and haven't budged on the officially listed price in years. Today, I went by there once again and asked them about it, and they told me verbally they'd take 2500. I think that's still a bit more than the average for these guitars. It's a heavy SOB and brighter than your average singlecut guitar. I may have posted about this before and posted about it before. With another few years of inflation, they may eventually get the price they're asking for it.