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  1. 4 hours ago, kizanski said:

    Have you ever heard anyone inquire as to the year build of their Squire Strat?

    I totally get and agree with your point but there are many examples that make it better than this one.  Some eras of Squires have a steadfast cult following where the serial number and date and location of manufacture make all the difference between a guitar being worth as little as $400 or as much as $450! 

     

     

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  2. On 3/25/2024 at 6:15 AM, ARM OF HAMER said:

                                                   Lets face it ALL shipping sucks these days, if it's not the cost it is the carelessness of the service or both........................my daughter just bought a 4K+ computer and it arrived with the monitor completely shattered. Glass everywhere when she opened it......................thanks UPS. Now she gets to wait another 5-6 business days for a replacement. UPS isn't the one covering the cost or bearing the responsibility for the damaged unit Best Buy is. Hopefully this new one will make it here in one piece.

    Makes sense UPS would have no liability here.  Best Buy likely operates with their own insurance policies in place that cover shipped items so they wouldn't have purchased any additional through UPS.  I worked as a mail carrier for USPS for nearly a year because I'd always wondered how the sausage was made.  In nearly every case of something being damaged it was due to poor packing.  I did see some gross examples of how things are handled, but proper packing goes a LONG way to defeat the majority of it.  Did Best Buy open and inspect the monitor prior to shipping?  If not there's really no way of knowing the monitor was intact when UPS picked it up.

  3. I'm cleaning out my closet, so to speak, and looking to liquidate everything, so I'm not interested in trades.

    All prices are net to me, shipping to the lower 48 included.  Shipping outside the US may be possible but will be handled case by case.

    More photos available on request.

     

    Schecter Sun Valley Super Shredder PT FR

    Metallic white mahogany body, hard maple neck with ebony board.

    EMG Retro Active Hot 70 pickups

    Weight is 7 lbs 14 oz, neck thickness is 0.81" at the 1st and 0.88" at the 12th

    Excellent condition and a whole lot of fun.  Schecter quality is superb for inexpensive imports.

    $500 with off-brand gig-bag

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    ESP LTD KH-602 Kirk Hammett

    Alder body, maple neck through with (darker than most) Macassar ebony board

    Floyd Rose 1000 bridge, EMG Kirk Hammett signature "Bone Breaker" pickups

    Weight is 8 lbs.  Neck thickness is 0.81" at the 1st and 0.85" at the 12th.

    Extremely fast to play with great low action.  Excellent quality for the money.

    Purple Sparkle and cool guy skull and cross bone inlays! Get your wah on!

    $1050 with OHSC

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    Seventy Seven Albatross Jazz II Redwood

    Seventy seven is a Devisor brand coming from the same folks as Momose and Headway guitars.

    LP-size semi-hollow mahogany body and neck with ebony board.  Redwood top.

    Pickups are Gravelin HUM-90s, Josh's humbucker sized P-90s ala Bubs's Shishkov #0070.  

    Wonderfully big sounding guitar in a tiny package.

    Case has some tolex that's coming loose but nothing that affects the integrity.

    Weight is 6 lb 1 oz.  Neck thickness is 0.90" at the 1st and 0.97" at the 12th.

    $1400 with OHSC

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  4. Completely off topic, but it was my stumbling across some of Greg's photos of that guitar that first brought me to this forum years ago.

    I installed double creams in my LP a bunch of years ago and it kinda had the weird effect of making the pickups look too large for the guitar.  It may be the perspective in the photos, but they appear overly prominent in your guitar as well.

    I'd at least put some electrical tape over half the neck pickup to see how the traditional Hamer config might look before making any other changes.

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  5. 4 hours ago, cmatthes said:

    Or…and hear me out on this theory…he ordered an inbound Sunburst before Hamer released the Special as a production model.

    The Grovers, if original, would support that. 

    That makes good sense.  I would have assumed the move to the narrow octave dots coincided with the addition of the Special to the lineup, but that's just because I like things to line up all tidy like.  Even if that is the case there would have been a few outliers on either side of the change.

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  6. I'm just a schmo, but I generally try to match the radius of the board.  If it's a compound radius I try to extrapolate what it would be if continued to the bridge and then fudge that towards being less flat than it should be but more flat than at the highest fret.

    I don't worry too much about the attitude of the individual saddles until I have the radius right, but my final step is to level them out so they're level/stepped rather than cocked to match the radius.  It comes more from a place of OCD than any particular know how.

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