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I would appreciate that very much. A new USA Chap with HSH-pickups and a highgloss black finish would be a dream for me! Fortunately my Chap comes relatively close to that. I'm convinced that there is a big and sustained market for Shred guitars. Definitely here in Europe. Especially those Super-Strats are higly demanded during the last years. Ibanez RG's are more a kind of midrange level but ESP has actually great success with their expensive guitar range (for instance Horizon or these custom models). But if Hamer ever would decide to go again that route, it would be a indispensable requisite to sign endorser contracts with actual and wellknown metal bands. That is today the source of success for ESP and others and not necessarily product quality! Although some ESP guitars are awesome. So to conclude (from my point of view) it is not primarily an issure of production capacity and willingness but a question of Marketing and business developement.

My first one and up to now my only one. It is a Chap from 1989 with Sustainiac-pickup. I have replaced the bridge humbucker by a Seymour Ducan TB 6 (very good decision!). Buyed last year via ebay.

I have a Duncan Distorsion HB as neck pickup in my Hamer Chaparral Standard (by the way: it sounds much more better than the Slammer-PU which was originally installed) and a SH-4 JB pickup in my Fender Strat plus. The TB-6 / SH-6 and the SH-4 are both excellent pickups from my point of view. In the neck position these two pickups have an extraordinary distorsion sound and (a little bit surprising) a very good clean sound as well. The decision for the your choice should depend - of course - on personel taste and prefered music style: I would say, the SH-6 has more mids and is better for high-distorsion-sounds (Hard-Rock, Metal). The SH-4 is a little bit more versatile. Some people say that for a Strat a SH-4 is the best choise of all. I would agree to this. So if you don´t want to make Hard-Rock or Metal, I would recommend the SH-4 instead of a SH-6 for a Strat.