Caddie

Spruce top? OHSC included? How many of us have said or heard this before: I need to sell my ABC before I can buy your XYZ. That's where I am. Cheers! caddie

UPS Custom Shop

Nothing but bad luck lately, eh? Buck up dude. Luck is statistical. Eventually your cards will come up. Be a patient predator. Some nice tasty prey will come along soon enough. Cheers caddie

Maurice Ravel wrote Bolero in 1928. Alice Cooper wrote "School's Out" in 1972. It ends with Bolero riffs. So does the studio version of Freebird. Stairway was written in 1970, 44 years ago. To the attorneys out there in HFC Land, is there a statute of limitations on this stuff? Can Maurice Ravel's family sue Alice Cooper for infringement/plagiarism/unpaid royalties? I don't know but I'd get Don Felder's attorney on retainer, pronto! Cheers caddie

ooops. damn auto spellcheck. cancles should be cankles,

I don't have enough experience to comment on the Daytona. However I've had a bunch of mid '90s Hamer setnecks. Studios, Artists, Mirage, Eclipse, Duotone. Its uncanny how similar the necks feel. I've played a couple '00s Vintage Carve necks. They feel pretty close to those mid '90s necks. Maybe a touch thicker where its curving up to join the fretboard. However I may have just been retaining water that day. Cheers caddie kiz? Water retention issues for you too?! Fingers feel like little sausages? Feeling like you suddenly have cancels? Your calves fell like (2) full grown cows?

I can hardly contain myself. I want to break off a few headstocks just so Greg can fix them! Cheers caddie

Oh no you di nt. Even all the King's Horses and all the King's Men could not have put THAT Humpty Dumpty Les Paul back together again. Next few shows when Mr. Jovi plays it on stage he best give you a shout out or 2. Cheers caddie

booMERS!, booMERS!, booMERS!, booMERS!, booMERS!…………. Cheers caddie

After the Titanic hit an iceberg and began to sink, Hartley and his fellow band members started playing music to help keep the passengers calm as the crew loaded the lifeboats. Many of the survivors said that he and the band continued to play until the very end. One second class passenger said: Many brave things were done that night, but none were more brave than those done by men playing minute after minute as the ship settled quietly lower and lower in the sea. The music they played served alike as their own immortal requiem and their right to be recalled on the scrolls of undying fame.[2] The last few artist-craftsmen stayed with the good ship Hamer until it slipped beneath the waves.

As always, genius at work. I'm proud to say I own a Hamer Studio with a BCRGreg headstock repair. Did Mr. Jovi at least give you a "shout out" at a few shows? Yo, Greg, buddy, who does your nails? Man, apply that Dremel to your thumbnail. Keep up the good work fella. Cheers! caddie ps - its weird but it seems like that Studio headstock repair job he did somehow made that guitar sound better. Greg sez its cuz the repair actually strengthens the neck. I don't know. All I know is it sounded better than I remember when i got it back.

That case is inspiring me. I have a beat to crap Hamer OHSC. The case is structurally sound, even the locking latch works, but the onion skin thin covering is shredded. No mo black duct tape baybee! Ho yeah, its just aching for a Wyld Finish. Day-um now i wish i hadn't put all those Guitar Player mags into the ol' recycle bin when i moved. Any more pics out there of Wyld Artwork. Post 'm please. cheers, caddie

Where can i get a case like that? Was that designed n decorated by wyldbill?

Hamer USA Eclipse, wrap tail. Simple, dare I say elegant, design. when paired up with a few 6L6s it will rock anything. $650 w/case. $350 beer money left over from your $1k budget. Problem solved. My work here is done. caddie

Bruce, not too many men can rock the pink feathery boa like you do. SirDaniel, had i known you'd be there……. good to put a face on the voice and the keyboard. Scary! Looks like a good time and some good liquor was had by all. Cheers caddie

Hahaha yep. The second someone drops the L word, you know you're dealing with a wannabe poseur asshole. As sure a thing as when someone opens or closes a story with "true story" or "I swear to God this is true," said story is bullshit. Hahaha yep. The second someone drops the L word, you know you're dealing with a wannabe poseur asshole. As sure a thing as when someone opens or closes a story with "true story" or "I swear to God this is true," said story is bullshit. Dear Penthouse Forum, I never thought I'd be writing to you but this is a true story, it happened one July night at a truck stop in northeast Montana......... uh huh.

Has eBay sunk down to the levels of the email trollers in Nairobi? A Nairobi prince will pay you $4M in 60 days if you give him $40k to help him………. I haven't done a deal thru eBay in years. I've gone to bricks n mortar or people I know here. The last ebay deal i tried to do was for a Mesa Mark IV that i was trying to buy. The deal started to raise red flags within minutes of the auction close. The deal was terminated after the seller threatened to have "people" come to my home. That's when I got law enforcement involved. I have not heard from the seller since. Making a threat via email is a felony. Most ISPs will cooperate with law enforcement in tracking down the W's (who, where, when…..). The seller closed his account on eBay…….and probably resurfaced under a new name to pull more slimy eBay deals again. I sold a Hamer Cruise bass on ebay a few years ago. About a week after it was delivered i get an email from the buyer. "My luthier..." (red flag, just be honest n say "the guitar tech at Sam Ash"). A long list of major issues from electronics to a twisted neck and cracked neck joint, you would think it arrived in firewood condition. My first response was "I'm sorry to hear that. Pack it up n send it back for a full refund." his tune changed substantially, from a $600 quote for repairs by his luthier was negotiated down to $40 for strings n a setup and positive feedback. Can you say extortion? No mo eBay fo duh caddie. I go to the few remaining small, privately owned guitar shops. Not many left but the ones that are still in biz are usually very good, that's why they are still in biz. Loyal clientele. caddie ps - Isn't sanctus-traum a condition best treated by a proctologist? possibly related to the spoon up the hooter issue

Tempting. Nice teaser, Hookers Resort. I don't think I can get there by showtime from F.I.B. land. Good luck. Break a string. caddie

Looks like Fender needs to host The Final Hamer Fan Club Factory Meeting and have a Hamer Garage Sale at that meeting. They can unload all these completed guitars and uncompleted projects, necks, bodies, misc parts, and that mythical, highly coveted stash of Hamer USA Stadium decals n checkerboard decals n skeleton n Studio decals, blah, blah, blah. Maybe a few sustainiacs are laying around or one of those damn onboard pre-amps like the ones in Duotones n VintageS n T51F that have a very brief half-life. Just my $0.07 (adjusted up from 2 cents due to the looming inflation tsunami) Cheers caddie ps - This proposed Final HFC Factory Meeting would give us all the opportunity to properly grieve the passing of Hamer Guitars. We can heal together. Perhaps a few rounds of Kumbaya, Will The Circle Be Unbroken, Amazing Grace, etc will soothe our guitar luvin souls. Maybe we can convince John Hiatt to drop by to play "Smashing a Perfectly Good Guitar".

I know its completely against the gospel of Thee Hamer Fan Club, but downsizing my herd of guitars and amps helped me back in the day when I was still playing. I think it helped me focus more on what I was doing rather than what I could blame it on. "I'd improve with better equipment" or "I'd improve with a better setup" or the incureable "I need more stomp boxes." Just my $0.07 adjusted up from $0.02 to account for the impending inflation tsunami. caddie btw-anybody need another mid 90's Studio?

Sugar Plum

Well, 41 pages isn't exactly 104, but it took the Boobies thread almost two years to get to page 41. This thread is only 3 months old (to the day!). Really, Caddie... What were you thinking? Hang your head. Hey caddie, Your scorecard has a bunch of 3s & 4s on it. So how did you do THAT while losing 5 golf balls? Uhhhh... yeah. I got the next round of beers guys. Cheers caddie

WOW!!! This thread is about to surpass the boobies thread in # of pages! And that's w/o all those pics. Jeepers Wally!!!

Uh oh... its been a few years since we had a good long "So long n f@$% you all" post around here. I hear the train a comin', its rollin' 'round the bend......Nobody has slammed Johnny Cash lately. Come on y'all, join in!

Amen Brother. Plus everyone seems to believe that Prince had these deep thoughts, plots, subplots for heaving someone else's guitar into the air. Its much simpler than that. Plain old disrespect of other people. Its kinda like the ass in the mall parking lot who lets his car door swing open and put a nice scrape n doink into the door of your Porshe. Other people are invisible to these types of people . I'm no psychologist but isn't that refered to as a sociopath? Not a psychopath like Ted Bundy. A sociopath like Bernie Madoff. Screw everyone else, its all about ME. The Me generation. caddie