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soli'd

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  1. it has been said, "once in a while you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right."
  2. There's a nice Newport Pro (spruce/hog) on Savannah craigslist, looks sweet, slight Hameritis at the heel but pretty clean with OHSC, asking $1700, no affiliation. Something about the replaced knobs and tuner buttons looks familiar, but don't know if this one has circulated here. https://savannah.craigslist.org/msg/d/savannah-hamer-newport-pro/7647755618.html
  3. I'd love to see more shots of this headstock, looks like tall (>0.5"?) tortoise binding on the headstock bevels?
  4. Those are great guitars, I used to own a Glory Custom, really nice. Terry does impeccable work. Whether that's the market price or not, that's a lot of guitar for the money.
  5. I guess I should've said, I haven't seen one of those since 0072.😁
  6. @currypowder is that a Schroeder bridge? I haven't seen one of those in some time- NOS?
  7. Are you looking for a real/vintage one, or other like mu-fx, etc?
  8. This is a timely thread as I realized I hadn't posted about a recently completed parts guitar that was completely built around a set of Gravelin pickups. I already had the raw body from guitar mill, really light swamp ash. It got a very thin white blonde lacquer finish done by Dustin Bloomer with some nice subtle checking. I found the warmoth roasted maple neck second-hand but it had not been mounted. Somewhere in the process I emailed Josh, told him I was looking for a super-strat type set with a big fat rawk humbucker in the bridge and big piano tones in the neck and middle, but somehow for the bridge and singles to sound related/compliment each other. Josh went to work on the recipe, and what he came up with is freaking awesome. It's hard not to live on the bridge pickup all of the time, it slays- but the singles are big and bold as well, and the middle & bridge together in the 2 position is fantastic. I used a Sophia 2:22 trem which I think I like, but it's endlessly tweakable, I may end up playing with some floating setup, right now it's blocked for dive only. Anyway she's easy on the eyes, and a total win sonically, too. Thanks so much @JGravelin!!!
  9. The pic with the serial could very easily have chrome or nickel tuners and the gold hue is just the lighting, the Hamer logo in the other pic looks overly yellow, too. But the serial number suggests '88 rather than '91, so there's that. I would think that @JustKid's brush with this guitar is likely the biggest red flag here.
  10. That Mirage (I) has the coolest looking koa top I think I've ever seen. I've always wanted a II because of the 2xHB layout, but I love the blended heel of the Mirage I.
  11. Interesting- that NewPro was 7 guitars after Chris's standard. Dudes were in the zone that week.
  12. Interesting aside- that movie scene was shot in my hometown, and those people are not in on the joke at all. The production company wanted the reactions to be as realistic as possible, and those people thought they were extras for a traditional ballroom scene. The guy they solo at 1:38 is a dude I went to high school with. 😏
  13. Do you need loops for your pedals, i.e., all pedals are fed independently to/from the switcher, or just MIDI control over the pedals' patches and on/off state? If you're looking at loop switchers, there are a lot of options. Boss ES-8 is great if you have the room. It allows for 6 mono loops and two stereo loops, it offers matrix switching (you can rearrange the order of which loop feeds which), offers full control of all your MIDI capable pedals, it has inputs for expression pedals that you can assign to do different things in any of the patches, and it has relay ports that you can use to switch amp channels (or any amp footswitch duties). The Boss ES-5 is a slightly stripped down version of that is more suited to mono rigs. If you're looking to go smaller footprint, more modular, Morningstar engineering makes great MIDI controllers. You could pair a small button box like the MC6 or MC3 on top of your board for control with a loop switching box underneath like the ML5 (5 mono loops) or the ML10x (5 stereo or 10 mono loops, with matrix switching) that your pedals run to/from. Both of these options include software to program everything easily.
  14. You found your special purpose! You're somebody! Cheers
  15. Never seen this one before- looks pretty road-worn but cool. Sustain block trem, OHSC. https://reverb.com/item/67992492-hamer-blitz-1983-black-silver-graphic
  16. Still going to see as much live music as I'm able to, it remains my favorite pastime. I think I saw Billy Strings four times last year- that guy is mind-blowingly good live and is ALWAYS on tour. Also caught a couple Goose shows, having never seen them before last year. The only people having more fun than the crowd at those shows are the dudes on stage. I've got Sunday passes to Shaky Knees with my 13 year-old daughter as my rider, she's a HUGE fan of Hozier (neither of us have seen him live) and he's being followed by the Flaming Lips (playing the Yoshimi album, should be great), then the Lumineers that night. Going to Dead & Co on my 50th birthday coming up in late May, then Love & Rockets mid-June, and the Cure at the end of June.
  17. As a side note: that seller has some other really unique guitars (and other gear) for sale in their shop. https://reverb.com/shop/mmguitarbar ETA: this standard reminds me a lot of @BTMN's ultimate. minus the chickenhead knobs
  18. Love the looks of that one, but I'm with @Feynman, it's gotta be a spruce top. As for the inlays, the problem for me is more the number of them than the type.
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