Studio Custom

My offer is in already

It's a dying industry, he's trying to sell you a lemon to get anything out of a worthless asset. Being a business owner is very stressful and only worth it when you can quadruple your pay.

The Dunlop 65 kit has a fingerboard cleaner and a seperate conditioner. Add a toothbrush and you're all set.

A little metal polish and the felt head on a Dremel tool will polish it up quick.

U so special!

Shipping it could be a potential disaster, as most shippers do not offer that amount of insurance. Businesses have the added benefit of their business insurance to cover any losses above the carrier's $1,000 limit. This has to be a cash in hand, no Paypal, transaction, to eliminate the aforementioned risks.

Tell him with two players, he needs to reduce is gain so the both parts can be heard clearly.

It's funny how the complaint use to be about the greedy bastards at the record companies. How they refused to promote such and such band enough to your liking. Of course the balance sheet side always told us they need two superstars, like Madonna and Springsteen, several lower tiered still very profitable bands like Rush or Queensryche, a bunch of bands like Winger and Dokken to support the 70% of the acts that either broke even or they lost money on. If you had a million dollars to invest, would you put 70% of it into investments that might not pan out, to maybe hit a home run on the other 30%? Now those people are out of the picture and no longer the hindrance we use to assign to them, but we're STILL complaining. Now it's about iTunes and illegal downloads. Music has always been a technology based industry, and as such, it evolves far quicker than other business models. Is the MP3 the end, have we seen the last technological revolution? Maybe, but if not, the market will change again to accommodate whatever is to follow. The other issue is the lack of venues to go see live music. And the patrons, who do not support the places that remain. It seems people would rather be home listening to Kayne West downloads while sexting instead of going out and experiencing real human interactions.

I'm sure Mike has received many quote requests, but how many deposits? If there was so much real demand, Hamer would have produced more than three guitars their last year. I think Mike is going to producing a hundred quotes for every five orders intially. Which is exactly why many custom builders eventually go to a few tried and true models, offer some variation to create the illusion of "custom", but in reality cut down on wasted time resolving every unrealistic daydream.

I'll second Murkat's seconding. PRS made sure that their guitars were in the hands of upcoming bands and consequently gained remarkable brand identiry. Hamer did it in the late 70's and 80's, but when they swiitched back to the Modern Vintage type of models, much fewer new relationships were established. Don't know why. Its simple, it's called math. In Arlington Heights Hamer made ten times as many instruments as they did in New Hartford. When your game plan is to cut sales 90%, you cannot afford, nor require the advertising budget you once had. It was a self fulfilling prophesy, just keep doing less and less until there's nothing. It's truly the ultimate (pun intended) business plan, just run in reverse. You need not ask how was it Hamer ended up closing its doors, but rather, after so many bad decisions and business fuckups, how did they survive as long as they did. The answer, deep pockets.

That's exactly when the pricing STARTED to make sense. Huber, PRS, DeTempe and others were getting it and as far as I can tell none of them had about twenty firsts in the market place. The problem was the existing customers were use to cheap prices and they failed to get new upscale customers. Remember BMW used to just be another car brand before the mid 1980s, they wrote the book on how go upscale after the market views you as mid market.

Like we supported Hamer by buying used and complaining about their new model prices? Yet the market pays those prices for PRS and Gibsons all day, everyday.

Kim would know and will be around through May.

The company was closed, not bankrupted. Odds are Fender doesn't want deal with warranty issues and will likely give refunds.

Someone already stated the space is leased. The equipment is generic wood working shop stuff other than the CNC, all of, which could quite possibly be had cheaper elsewhere. It only makes sense if you are buying the whole operation, as a running business, such as, the Hamer name and equipment. The reality is, Fender paid $117,000,000 for Kaman, so they are not going to sell Hamer with equipment for $200,000. If they would, I'd write the check right now.

What other luthier jobs are within 30 miles of New Hartford? Assuming you get an offer, of course they know you're unemployed. Then you have to move. Is you house above water yet? It's bad all the way around.

I tried and spoke at length with Jol to get his insights. Unfortunately it appeared nonviable, and the price was not in line with the production at the time. You pay for a business based on what it is earning today, not what it earned two decades ago. In the end, it would be Hamer in name only going forward as all the people will have scattered.

It was only a matter of time. Last time I was there and had lunch with Kim, things looked bleak. I did my part and purchased at least ten new Hamers over the years.

I guess Randy Rhoades' Ozzy audition with a Peavey Bandit wouldn't fly with these guys.

AxeFx II

Bought a Holloskull Friday and flamed SS last week

Anyone think Gene gives him 50%?

It's only one with sterling raygun inlays made, yes it was his.

Forgot this one: And this one:

SS II in snakeskin SS II in purple burst SS I in yellow granite SS I in white with boomerangs SS I in raspberry