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gorch

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  1. Don't stop your dispute. It starts to hurt. That's what's it supposed to do. He's got the ball.
  2. You are doing exactly right. I still own and care for my good old DUAL CS 626 record player I bought 1980. I refurbished my old Ohm Acoustics L speakers this year, because I immediately fell in love with their sound when I first heard them and thought I would not get anything better for the same money invested on new speakers. It's been the right decision doing so as they again deliver the sound I remembered from the early days. Unfortunately, my good old receiver died a couple of years ago, but I invested in a new one for the long run again. Although I bought my Hamers used for various reasons, I bought them for the long run. They are really good sounding guitars and of tremendous quality. Since they were stock, I made little changes to one or the other to have the sound delivered I like to hear. Maybe, when the kids are out someday in the future I will turn up with a custom order. Sharpen your pencils for the long run.
  3. Your bass is gonna be seriously bad ass. Congrats. Thank you Sir. ... In the near future it will look like this... ...damn nice bass but no carpets on the floor. You will need to make an arrival photo like veatch did last time.
  4. No Benz in there. It's all British stuff, Jaguar and Range Rover. Leads to the suggestion that the wholly shit is British. But it is isn't. They are from New Mexico.
  5. Excellent headstocks there are. Excellent guitars they are. Nothing to argue about Hamer guitars really except they are cheap on the used market.
  6. It's been a long way to read through this thread. Right at the current end, I am not sure what to think about. I somewhat lost direction. What are we actually talking about? Hamer USA is a custom shop delivering ~10 people's monthly salary? Assumed it really does. The Fender Custom Shop as stated on the Wikipedia page has 5 times as much employees to basically do the same thing. Produce copies of 50 year old guitar designs. Whether you call it Modern Vintage (Hamer) or Replicated Vintage (Fender), it's the same song blown through different horns. As the creator of core guitar designs, obviously, Fender has a marketing advantage they had used over time. On the other hand, I am not seeing Hamer through patriotic American glasses. Business like, to me Hamer consist of more than a little custom shop. As long as zenmindbeginner drives his Mazda there is a vindication for the so called Import line. Did you notice that Hamer runs three workshops on the Import line that are located in Korea, Indonesia, and China? I would not expect Hamer selling badly at all considering this extent of the company. In addition, Hamer is part of the Kaman Music Group that's called "being the largest independent distributor of musical instruments and accessories in the United States" according to Wikipedia. Within the group Hamer is described as "high-end electric and semi-acoustic guitars and basses". And finally, there is the recession which paints its own color on to the brand and the market as a whole. There are Hamer guitars that still sell for around $2k. Others sell for less. Be happy and catch one handmade for cheap if you can. They will conserve their value in the long run for my opinion especially the post millennium produced ones.
  7. Ian Gillan for sure for me. He lead me to follow his solo career for decades excluding most of Deep Purple. David Coverdale is another one. Freddy Mercury had a true voice. Although most people think he stood for Queen, I admire Brian May and Roger Taylor evenly.
  8. The other day I read an article about all that Activision game stuff, especially GuitarHero was interesting to read about. They, Activision, make the contracts directly with the bands. Saying, that the whole music industry is locked out of the game. Not a bad return in an already billion dollar market. Next step for them could be producing any popular signature guitar for the millions of home-players. Then Gender and Fibson would be happy to find their logo on the headstock to compensate for lost guitar sales and a diving guitar market.
  9. I can only think of a Microsoft blue screen or... ...there have been an update installed reboot starts in a minute. Security alert: you catched the porn worm
  10. That is my nightmare. That right above in the quote. When traditional wooden guitars with magnetic pickups going through tube amps played by musicians, are supplanted by plastic guitar hero devices & computers "played" by wanabe's that actually believe they're the real deal. ... It's not that far away. Watch the video in this thread. Port a Line6 into any Game Cube and you are there. I'm just seeing Greg presenting nicely made truck style pics of the first custom ordered GuitarHero-Tiger-Tally to us in my mind.
  11. Stop dreaming guys. It's all about business and business is counted by numbers. There are two labels that rule the guitar world, Fender and Gibson. Gibson stands for Les Paul, SG and ES-335 (for hollow-bodies). Fender is Strat and Tele. Something special: Explorers and Vectors. The rest of the world is copying what's created in the 50s and 60s. On top of all the Strat. The Strat is the synonym for an electric guitar. Nearly every silhouette of an electric guitar outlines a Strat. That's nothing new, but Hamer does nothing different. It's a niche company earning salary for 10 people staff in the US workshop recently. The overall value of the Hamer label could be estimated by the serial numbers of the import line guitars. Those numbers rose to 7 digits as opposed to 5 for the USA line. From a marketing perspective the US workshop works as a figurehead for the import line. It complements the general Fender model line in a diversification aspect as not everybody wants to buy a Fender or cannot afford an original. Another reason would be to mask monopoly. With Hamer Fender puts another footstep into the Gibson dominated Humbucker market. No one may think the guitar market is a growth market. It's a cutthroat competition market. The next challange will arise from the software market with games like GuitarHero. That's a market none of the traditional manufacturers have a footstep in. As I said this before in another thread. GuitarHero already is a billion dollar market. I wait for the first band becoming popular that created it's unique sound with something like GuitarHero-Designer and taking the software life on stage in stadiums around the world. It all doesn't sound good for us nostalgists though. Let's go ahead dreaming. I can't wait to come home this evening picking up my lovely Hamer Standard or Tally or Newport. Hmm, I can't decide at the moment which one to select later on. That problem will keep me busy this afternoon.
  12. I only listen to these occasionally, B-side from Queen II Deep Purple - Concerto for Group and Orchestra, both versions - Live in Japan Electric Light Orchestra - Eldorado Ian Gillan Band (Deep Purple singer 70th solo stuff) Gillan - Mr. Universe (Japanese album) 2nd gen. solo stuff
  13. Just this weekend I left out a Brian May Red Special replica of superb quality made by RS Guitars for the second time. It was damn cheap, but the guy was just stupid so I felt uncomfortable to buy from him. The first I missed around new year's time 08-09. It had a stunning very unusual top for this type of guitar and was fairly priced. I love wiring pickup in series. The RS is the reference for what's possible with series wiring.
  14. This is going to be a pretty nice T-M comparison. Mark just head on. Don't feel bothered at all. Btw.: for some reason I had difficulties to load the Hamer homepage. New site on the way or just web distractions?
  15. It sounds very promising for the first steps. I think your are the best candidate to really compare the Monaco Elite to the Talladega Pro.
  16. Thanks Mark. It seriously wasn't meant that way. Of course it is a great guitar. And the fact that quite a lot of Tally owners swap pickups to humbuckers show exactly the interest for a humbucking alternative. Since it is a new model and with regards to this thread's title, there are obviously only a few of them around which leads to room for controversy and speculation. Personally, I am closely following Jol's articles on the Tally Pro in the workshop blog. It is splendid to see how Hamer improved the way to chamber electric guitars. Magnificent! At the end of the day it's all a matter of taste for my opinion. Congrats Mark. I am sure you will be happy with your Pro. Edited: I wrote the above before coming through the whole thread. Reading further on, I had the thought the Schaller LP tremolo could be a very nice bridge alternative. It is tuning stable, wouldn't leave open screw holes left from the stop tail, and, finally, allow to individually setup for intonation.
  17. The Pro's still seem to be rare though. I have the impression there are many more guys in the HFC that tried or still own the Tally without the pro. That leads me to the thought that the Pro does not offer that much new.
  18. It seems we are directly connected to the incites now. That's really coool. Welcome to the board Kris.
  19. Lesson learned: It's not Shmutz. It's Schmutz. Made in Germany this word is. Therefore, an import value or value import.
  20. Check your finger positioning. If you feel you are putting the finger at the right place you might have to adjust the string height a bit by adjusting the trussrod and the bridge. I'd say, lower the trussrod 1/4 - 1/2 turn and wait for a day. Then check the string height from the bridge's point of view. Keep the guitar tuned at anytime.
  21. As you decided to open an individual thread for this rather than following mine I will follow up this one then. With regards to our mails it would be nice if you would provide the DC resistance values of the pickups here. The details could be interesting to all of us. I would not want buy the pickup without the knowledge it fits to the one I already have. Buying the set seems to be quite pricey.
  22. How do they compare to Vovox and Monster cables?
  23. Seriously, what's the serial number? How old is it? Did it have a blow job?
  24. I'm following this one. Different weight and sound than a Custom, but equally worth to play. Excellent value for money. Add quality hardware to it and it rivals the original. Is it a Korean model? Nope, it's Chinese, which i've always heard put down as the lesser guitar to the Koreans. And that assertion may very well be true... i've never played a Korean, so i can't say. My Chinese STD works fine for me though. Mine is a Korean from 2002. I've read in another forum that Hamer's Asian manufacturers actually build different guitars for the same model. The guy wrote that he had two guitars of the same model made in different plants of different countries that had different neck profiles. Obviously, Hamer or Kaman did not provide exact measures for the individual models. It seems that the wood is not completely cut CNC based. Handwork still seems to be major factor here. This brings me back to the original theme of this thread. Taking the current Newport thread into account and what we actually know from Hamer. The bodies are CNC cut and not handmade. From that point of view this guitar is not better than any other guitar, although they put very much effort to the details later on in the building process. The guitars mainly differ in finish and pickup selection. As pickups generally are stock pickups, it's the finish that lasts. As opposed to this, early Gibsons and Fenders differ in handcraft, pickups and finish. Any of these early made guitars can be seen as true individuals. For a $4000 list price guitar that has a production time of more than 6 months, I'd expect that production of the core body would take more than a couple of hours to run the CNC machine. The serial numbers don't have a major impact, though, except for the first digit. From this point of view, I don't wonder the guitars drop in price that quick. Never mind the final quality. But, the guitars seem to lack individuality right from the base or root. You Know what I mean? A poor conclusion with regards to the XT series models. Comparing the cost for handcraft, the XT series and the USA series are basically produced the same way. Obviously, we pay for luxury for the USA models do we? Look at this: Here's a nice gallery. Scroll down to watch the pictures. You don't need to understand the German description. Oh, oh, I don't want to continue this.
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