Craig S
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You can have a guy play a Hamer that sounds better, plays better, feels better, looks better.
He'll still pick the bolt on Fender guitar or a Gibby.
Why?
One reason, I have flipped a lot of guitars over the years... I can always move a Gibson or Fender quickly... I've had some nice Hamers over the years and selling them can be challenging at times... things like Hameritis and the fact imports look very much like the USA models haven't helped the cause much either.. I've always gravitated towards unusal and unique guitars... Now I just play what I can turn if I want to.
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Rumors I heard: Mott the Hoople might do a reunion... I think Ian Hunter is in his 70's and supposedly Mick Ralphs is on board to to do it.... that would be a must for me.. also heard the Kinks might go out again.. I saw their them on their last tour but I didn't get as much out of that as I would have liked.
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I think that you can remove the baffle board from the back side and have good access to the bolts. Check out this discussion:
http://www.fenderforum.com/forum.html?db=&...c_number=690182
Thanks and yes that's kind of the case, but actually I did the restoration on the amp and built the new baffle board duplicating the original 68' board.. they are very simple... except getting the baffle screws out. I would have to back the screws out towards the grill cloth and then dremel the heads off and then bring them out the back side. I should have built it with for per speaker and just left holes for the remaining screws...duhhhh!!!!! I'll probably just do a removal and suck it up.
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Real longshot here. These are the only speaker I've ever liked in this amp. Problem is that I still have the 8 screws per speaker mounting setup, Celestions have 4. This is a 68' Twin so there is no removable grill. I can attempt to back them out and then cut heads but what a pain. The studs also have a reverse "locking thread to hold them in place. Sometimes folks drilled the frames on there Celestion to get them in a Fender and can't get rid of them because of the mod. If you have a set of those you'd like to part with I'd be interested. A pair of regular 8ohm V30s would be cool too.
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1x12 Switchblade or a 68' Twin Reverb... I'm kind of re-thinking the Twin these days, don't use it much anymore but I've had it such a long time that it stays. The Twin seems to hate any O.D pedal I put in front of it but the cleans are spectacular.
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Go play some Husker Du now.....
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Going to Dave's house is more fun than going to GC....he has cooler stuff
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Nirvana didn't really do anything new...it just caught on with them.... and then it got ruined.. there were a lot of cool bands cruising under the surface in the 80's like the Replacements Husker Du, Pixies and a bunch more who couldn't get mainsteam airplay... Nirvana made all that stuff suddenly cool for the masses... I don't think anybody ever listened to their first album... I remember telling some people that Nirvana was going to be huge and they laughed, 6 monthes later you'd thought they invented them.
Lot's of people think of the 90's as the period of alt rock..., I think that's when it ended.. IMO the height of the alt scene was the 80's when hairbands ruled but their was a cool underground scene. I imagine a lot of the metal folks gagged when the hairbands got big.
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Butcher, thanks for the great pics and sharing the adventure.. mods, thanks for not sending this post to the outer circle and letting everybody see these..
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Our thoughts are with you.. Remember, I'm just down the road if you need anything..
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Those newer American Standard trems are kind of a hybrid. They have the 2 point fulcrum piviots, and the vintage style bent steel saddles like the vintage 6 screw pivot trem.
I personally like the original cast AM Stand. saddles. They held the string in a groove for less sideways movement on the saddle, which you get with the vintage style bent steel saddles when you slack the strings from trem use.
Am. Std. whole different thing... The original vintage type trems will stay in tune just fine if they are set up right.. no locking tuners, graph tech saddles ..anything.. The split tuners in the vintage trem system will lock the string if you do it right.
The bent steel saddles won't hang if lubed, the cast ones will. If the original nut is bone or something of that density that nut sauce stuff will work just fine. Some of the bent steel string trees work fine with lube, the machined ones don't.
If I had a Am. Std I might go with locking tuners and graphtech saddles(only for the cast saddles)...generally I just blocked the trem when I had them before.
I started down the path of buying acessories to make the trem work better and then backed away when I discovered a good setup did the same thing.. My Strat is a Clapton so it's a bit different than a American Std.
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Check out Kinman's website on Strat tuning.. I have a vintage trem setup on mine. A little nut sauce, good string stretch in and winding the safety tuners correctly, the thing is flawless... I'd put it up against a PRS for tuning reliability.. On a vintage setup the tuner winds are crucial..
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THat's the one.
and weighs about 2 pounds..... That one isn't a real tough call as a play out guitar..
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I skipped the PRSs last night and played my Les Paul and strat. The Les Paul sounded great. Just freakin' great. But it's just not as comfortable for me to play. Never has been. When I pulled out the strat, my bass player says ("I don't like lace sensors." I told him that I tried some "nicer" pickups in the guitar, but went back to the lace sensors. When I plugged it in and played it second set, his head whipped around when he heard it. He was shocked at how good it sounded. I ended up playing the strat two sets to the Les Paul's one. That probably gives you an idea of what I like.
Was that the "Sparkle Strat" you have? That's a really good sounding guitar...
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I have to admit I like PRSi now but never had much use for them in the past. My FM is doing "PRS" duty right now and is outfitted with coil taps a Custom 5 in place of the JB. Still I like the balance and trem of the PRS Custom 22 better than what the Hamer offers and buy a PRS when the right used one comes along. I think a Custom 22 trem combined with my Clapton Strat and H&K Switchblade would be the ideal cover band rig.
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Something just occurred to me....the techs/Factory you were talking to were most likely talking about TRANSISTOR amps.
Actually both tube and transistor, it shouldn't really make any difference anyway; the basics are pretty much the same. Asked Peavey a question about my P.A. And Hughes and Kettner about my Switchblade.. To the H&K question..all I had was 16 ohm extensions at the time... the internal is 8ohms.. Running these in parallel is 5.something ohms (I don't feel like calcualting the number right now close enough. H&K said do use the the 8ohm tap but to use the 4 ohm amp tap for the 5 ohm speaker load. Peavey said do not load up monitors to equal less than the 4 ohm amp output...
Bottom line is that I match my stuff anyway.. I converted all my cabs to 8ohms because I can run a balanced load with all my amps which like to see 4 or 8 ohms. Dave not trying to really argue and obviously do what you think is best.. the only major failure I ever had was with a P.A running a low speaker load...It was pretty spectaclar.. flame out the back and a lot of smoke
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Actually, that's totally wrong. It's safer to go lower in impedance, ie 8 ohm out into a 4 ohm load, than to go up.
I don't think so.... I had amp techs/companies tell me to never do that... It's the same concept of chain to many cab in to your P.A. ... look at the back of many amps.. Wattage goes up as the speaker load drops...which results in more heat....
I could be wrong on this but I've never had a amp failure with a higher speaker load... I've had a power burst into flames with a lower power load.
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QUOTE(Craig S @ Feb 28 2008, 07:58 AM)
I'm an old duffer too and understand were you are coming from in the "feeling odd" about playing one thing. I have a Mahogany Standard that weighs in at the light Les Paul weight.. It's a stellar sounding guitar and just obliterates any Gibson Explorer that has come up against it and easily competes with my Paul. I always say I should sell it(the whole being old/looks factor) but never can bring myself to actually do it
Do it !!
bubs_42 I have a band practice coming up and I'm going to play my "on the bubble" guitars... You'll be the first to know. I have yet to play this guitar in a band situation, can we say excess??
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I'm an old duffer too and understand were you are coming from in the "feeling odd" about playing one. I have a Mahogany Standard that weighs in at the light Les Paul range.. It's a stellar sounding guitar and just obliterates any Gibson Explorer that has come up against it and easily competes with my Paul. I always say I should sell it(the whole being old/looks factor) but never can bring myself to actually do it
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I made the rounds in about 15 minutes and with the exception of talking with the HFC folks it was pretty much a non-event for me... Like David E my gas is pretty much cured for the time being.
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My only Hamer purchase in the last two years. I was lucky to pick this up when Mahogany's were not at a premium. I pull it out and play it on occassion. The Explorer body shape is not a typical shape for the kind of music I do or my age but it's still cool looking.
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Wrong kind of action. In the process of re-bruising ribs... I have to see if I have some guitar playing pics.
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Yep... I played in a band in the late 80's early 90's that make the conscience decision to not take it seriously and do songs we shouldn't...most successful band I've ever been in. We had all got tired of being in band that tried to do songs "like the record" and be serious. My current band has the attitude that energy is more important than flawless execution although we are very tight.
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Another one I love; "Up for Grabs", like we've been waiting a lifetime for their item.
Probably not that bad but I was up to 1:00 last night doing a sump pumpectomy.... Lack of sleep and scrambling to avert of a flooded basement hasn't added to my cheery demeanor today.
83' Sunburst - Prices increasing or decreasing?
in Hamer Fan Club Messageboard
Posted · Edited by Craig S
Big Duh on this.... I asked a question about the going price a while back...just asked it again... Better question is: Are used prices for the vintage stuff going up or down these days