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Aw duuuuude !!!! Big hug & slaps on the back for ya. Noonan

Hey cajunboy, email the phone# and the message you would like delivered, I'll be happy to lob a few attempts in for ya. Chin up buddy, they're out there. Try to be patient & keep the faith. Noonan dannynoonan@prodigy.net

What about the back of the body & neck? Anything special there or just the standard dark red (burgundy?)? Sorry, I'm sure I have the color names wrong. My wife knows I'm color-lexic.....not color blind, just color challenged. Noonan

Only did it once. Took the Seths out of my Newport Pro Custom and put in PhatCats, mainly due to the raves that I heard coming from this forum about the PhatCat/Newport combo. And because I already own an Artist with a pair of Seths. The raves were right. The Newport sounded very good with the Seths, it sounded awesome (to my lame little ears anyway) with the PhatCats. Other than that, I've never changed a pup. I figure that the guitar designers have probably done a lot of pup swapping and experimenting before the guitar was released for sale. I have not been disappointed with stock pups yet. Maybe some of the disappointing guitars I use to own would have been more appealling to me with different pups. But they were also easier to sell when advertised as "100% original except for the strings". But hey, what do I know. I'm just a hack with chronic G.A.S. Cheers to all you pup swappers out there !!! Noonan

Ummmm.......guys? With all due respect, may I please have my thread back? I didn't mean to start a slap fight over Jol's "business compass", or why the shelf should not be a problem, or why dealer A got what he wanted but dealer B did not, or why the blended heel makes no sense to someone, or etc, etc, etc. I simply (& perhaps naively) wanted to know if someone had a Monaco III with a heel job and if so would they please post some jpegs. Now let us go forward in love and worship of our Hamer Guitars. Amen. Thanks & please make a generous deposit in the collection plate. ;-) Noonan PS - My goodness, for a Friday afternoon there sure are a lot of crabby boyz out & about. Gentlemen, I don't believe that Al Gore had this kind of unruly behavior in mind when he created the internet for us. Kaint we awwwllll jus geet alowwng?

I saw that one in the new Hamer Custom Gallery. That's very close to what I'd like to see, but on a Monaco III and with the "shelf" removed.

Don't know if its do-able or not. What I do know is that I asked an Authorized Hamer Dealer for a custom order quote with this feature and several others. I received a total price and no exceptions to any of the custom features I requested. If you have a Monaco with a sculpted heel please post jpegs of the heel. Thanks folks. Noonan

I'm considering ordering a Monaco III with a blended/sculpted heel. I love that feel of the scultped neck joint on the Mirage I and I'm looking to get rid of the dreaded "shelf". {{{Author's note: no need to rehash "Why is the shelf an issue?" Boys....that horse is dead and will not be running in this race. We respectfully request that you please stop beating it....the dead horse that is. ;-) Thank you! }}} If anyone out there has a Monaco with this kind of neck heel would you mind posting a jpeg or 2 of that heel? I'd like to get a look at the result. Thanks. Noonan

#1 for gigs is a Warmoth Tele Thinline. #1 for rehearsals & #2 for gigs is a Hamer Duotone.........or Eclipse.....or Newport Pro.......or Artist.......or.................... There always seems to be at least one Hamer within reach at all times. Noonan

fwiw, I own one of these Gibson Nighthawks and its a wonderful guitar. With a very unusual set of features for a Gibson. - 25.5 scale. - Bridge similar to a Strat Hardtail. - Body shape similar to a Les Paul but slightly smaller, with a beer belly bevel. - Mine is very lightweight. - Slimmer neck than what you'll typically find on a LP. - The pickups & switching arrangement lets you get a wide range of sounds. Lots of choices of single coil & humbucker. The Gibson Firebird style mini hum in the neck sounds very nice. - Very versatile guitar. - Like most things Gibson, any particular specimen may require a bit of adjusting to get it right. Mine needed a serious fret leveling, nut needed to be properly cut, and the truss rod needed to be tweeked regularly for a while before the neck seemed to settle down and stabilize. Once it was over that hump though it became a keeper. A very nice guitar. Just thought I'd give this one a bump because a good Gibson Nighthawk at $600 will make someone very pleased. Noonan PS - The usual disclaimer. I have no financial interest in the sale of this item. Likewise I accept no responsibility if this one turns out to be a real dog. ;-)

Thanks for the guitar physics lessons gents. Very interesting stuff to know. Noonan

OK, so now this is grabbing my attention, and as a result I have several questions: - Is this something that has been observed with both 24 3/4 scale and 25 1/2 scale guitars? - Have you ever observed this on a bass? - Have you ever observed this "deadspot issue" on a PRS, Gibson, Fender, Gretsch, McInturff, etc? or just Hamers? - Is it more common on semi-hollow or hollowbody gutiars than on solid body guitars? - Is it more common on setnecks, thru necks, or bolt ons? Thanks guys. Noonan

Now why in the hell did you have to go and stir up this "deadspot" issue? Here I was perfectly happy with my '00s Newport Pro Custom and my Duotone and my mid '90s Artist & Eclipse & Mirage. Now I find myself sitting here with all my guitars out and a scope, and I'm calculating the decay time of the all the notes on all the strings on all these guitars !!!! Lo & behold I find that there is an imperceptable difference in decay of the note at the 12th fret of my Newport. Don't get me wrong, on a statistical basis it is indeed mathematically identifiable. But not to my ear. OH !!!! Son of a buck.....the Eclipse has one also, just not quite as bad as the Newport. So here I sit with what I use to believe was a superior instrument. Now as a result of your "deadspot inquisition" I am the proud owner of a seriously flawed, el cheapo six string. Equivalent to something I could have picked out of the Sears catalog. Dammit, I knew I should have saved the money and bought that Danelectro ! ;-) ;-) ;-) Ok, ok, ok.........my tongue is now removed from my cheek. Great googly moogly guys, I don't see this as a fatal flaw. Isn't it just part of the natural characteristics of any guitar. From a pure physics standpoint the 6 string - 22 fret - 24 3/4" scale guitar is not perfect. Some notes may not produce the exact precise mathematically correct frequency when they are fretted. Isn't this the myth/theory that Earvana & Buzz Feiten & a bunch of others work off of? Furthermore the fretted note may produce frequencies that collide with the harmonics of the rest of the guitar structure. So some notes sound better, some worse. Play the good ones. Play around the bad ones. Bend the note. Vibrato the note. Ease up on your finger pressure. Bear down on your finger pressure. Go a few frets up or down on a neighboring string. Trust your ears and move your fingers. Sorry. I'll get back to mowing the 14th tee now. Noonan PS - Oh man this deadspot on my Newport is gonna keep me staring at the ceiling for a few nights, I just KNOW it !!! Its as if George Costanza just became a Hamer critic.

Somewhere between "gut hiding" & "johnson hiding". I try to keep that belt buckle rash centered right in the middle. Noonan