randyb

Hey Moparmagic, A buddy of mine had a lime green Charger that my daughter loved when she was little. "I want my guitar to look like the big green monster car that Rick gave us rides in when I was 6. This guitar is loud like that!" So it was mopar that inspired the design! Randyb

Thanks for the positives on the paint job. I have done a lot of woodwork in my life and have taken to building custom drums and doing special finishes on them as a bit of hobby. So doing the paint on this was well within my wheelhouse. My daughter is a pretty solid kid (very different than I was, must get it from her mom)) and it was a pleasure to do. So, another question. There are two other pickups in it that don't say anything on them that I can see without unwrapping them. Is there ways to identify them? Also, I am sort of happy to know that I didn't completely change a real Hamer with my paintjob. For a lot of things it having "original" on it is a plus even if it is pretty faded etc. Randyb

So is it common to put different pick ups in guitars? You can buy Hamer pick ups without buying the guitar? Or is it more likely that someone took a Hamer apart and put the parts into this guitar? When I looked at the wiring diagram for a Hamer it was pretty similar to the way this one is wired. Or do all electric guitars sort of get wired the same way? Thanks for the info btw. It helps me understand a bit more. Randyb

I am not sure when Hamer started importing their guitars instead of doing them in America, but I think my buddy has had this since the early 90s. Here are some links to the pictures. First two are after I painted it. http://www.ghostnote.net/vbforum/picture.p...;pictureid=1819 http://www.ghostnote.net/vbforum/picture.p...;pictureid=1818 This is the only picture I have before I painted it. I only took this picture so I would have something to look at if I had problems putting it back together. http://www.ghostnote.net/vbforum/picture.p...;pictureid=1817 I hope to have it completely together in the next couple days and will take more pictures then Randyb

Hi I'm a newbie, I'm not a guitarist. Actually I'm a teacher who plays the drums and builds custom drums as a hobby. My daughter on the other hand began playing guitar about a year ago. She was bugging me to help her get an electric guitar. Eventually a buddy of mine sold us this pink guitar that had no name on it. He bought it in 91 off a guy after dropping it and breaking off a piece of the headstock. The guy had told him it was custom made and my buddy wound up paying $350 for it. It had no name on it and my buddy felt he had been overcharged. He used it as a back up over the years but never liked the look(Pink) despite liking the sound. Anyways, he sold it to my daughter for $150cnd. She didn't like the color either and asked for a custom paint job from me. Took it apart, did a lime green paint job with black racing stripes over the weekend. Then as I was assembling it I looked on the back of the pickups and noticed "Hamer". I thought, "Weren't those the Cheap Trick guys guitar? After a bit of searching I found out this was a Californian. Also found this site. One problem is there is no serial number on the headstock. I am not sure if it was painted over or removed before my buddy got the guitar. Whoever had the guitar first sanded the pink paint off the neck of the guitar and the headstock was pink both front and back. So I am wondering if they painted over the serial number when they sanded the paint on the neck. I read on this site that they started out writing the serial number in ink but eventually began to stamp it into the wood. I wonder if I sanded the paint off the headstock if I would find the serial number. The covers for the electronics on the back are not there either. Now a question or two. Does having the serial number matter? Have I screwed up the value of the guitar by painting it? Is there more I should know about the guitar? The value thing doesn't matter much because my daughter doesn't plan to sell it. She likes her custom paint job and likes the sound of the guitar. I will post some links to pictures of the guitar as soon as I load them onto my server. randyb