...and gone to heaven, Shawn. Well, it's pretty close anyways.
#89 is cool for a lot of reasons. I had Hamer #89, a 1977 Sunburst, that was a busted mess and Greg put it back in order. Being such an early one actually saved its life.
Then I put an order in with Mike and got #89, an alignment of sorts I guess. It was a hodgepodge of all the guitars that came before it with a couple tweaks for good measure.
It's got the Les Paul's switch placement and Ebony board, the Junior's P90 and fat neck (Mike nailed it!), the Special FM's flamey goodness, the 30th Anniversary's chambered body, the last Sustain Block made by me, and a tip-'o-the-cap to the woman who keeps me alive.
These pictures suck. The random flame happening is beautiful and reeeelly tough to photograph. I know the color knocked down the wildness of the top, but in a good way. If I had a niggle, it's that the color is more red than expected, but that worked out, too. The deeper burgundy I'd originally wanted would have totally killed the top.
The faux binding is killer, as are the Luminlay side dots and Sperzel open-back tuners. The 24-fret thing was mostly to move the neck pickup closer to the bridge and thin it out a bit. It worked.
And once again, Josh nailed the pickups. I said '50s P90 for the bridge and a single coil in the neck, both in humbucker size. And he delivered!. I haven't A/B'd it with the Junior, but my naked ear says this P90 is pretty damn close. How does he do it?? Thanks, Josh!!
So... Shishkov #89. A huge Thank You to Mike and Trish for bringing it to life. The build quality is amazing. Mike really takes the very best of what Hamer did to another level. It's pretty f***ing cool.
#89 is cool for a lot of reasons. I had Hamer #89, a 1977 Sunburst, that was a busted mess and Greg put it back in order. Being such an early one actually saved its life.
Then I put an order in with Mike and got #89, an alignment of sorts I guess. It was a hodgepodge of all the guitars that came before it with a couple tweaks for good measure.
It's got the Les Paul's switch placement and Ebony board, the Junior's P90 and fat neck (Mike nailed it!), the Special FM's flamey goodness, the 30th Anniversary's chambered body, the last Sustain Block made by me, and a tip-'o-the-cap to the woman who keeps me alive.
These pictures suck. The random flame happening is beautiful and reeeelly tough to photograph. I know the color knocked down the wildness of the top, but in a good way. If I had a niggle, it's that the color is more red than expected, but that worked out, too. The deeper burgundy I'd originally wanted would have totally killed the top.
The faux binding is killer, as are the Luminlay side dots and Sperzel open-back tuners. The 24-fret thing was mostly to move the neck pickup closer to the bridge and thin it out a bit. It worked.
And once again, Josh nailed the pickups. I said '50s P90 for the bridge and a single coil in the neck, both in humbucker size. And he delivered!. I haven't A/B'd it with the Junior, but my naked ear says this P90 is pretty damn close. How does he do it?? Thanks, Josh!!
So... Shishkov #89. A huge Thank You to Mike and Trish for bringing it to life. The build quality is amazing. Mike really takes the very best of what Hamer did to another level. It's pretty f***ing cool.
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