Daytona!

hardheartedbill

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thanks to GregC for a flawless transaction, my third Daytona arrived today and this is what I have bben looking for 7.25 lbs of snappy goodness. neck could be bigger ( my old T-51 is still the bigneck Hamer champ ) but still sizeable and good feeling. funny cause I just played a Suhr classic and the EJ strat last sunday, this dusts em both at 1/4 and 1/3 the respective prices! thanks to Admiral B for his sage advise

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Nice Score Bill!

Damn fine guitar... total vintage vibe..

I've own a LOT of strats over the years and this Daytona is one of THE finest!

I've had my hands all over this pice of ash all night:

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I just played a Suhr classic at last sunday, this dusts em both at 1/4 the prices
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"thats a bold statement" - vincent vega.

that suhr was killer. can't wait to check this daytona out.

 
NiceBill! I KNOW you will put it to good use.

Nice neck? How come the Daytona's I got my hands on all had Standard Strat thin C necks? Maybe one of these days I'll find one with a nice beefy neck.

 
it's got a neck similar to the 65 closet classic neck I tried, very similar to the Suhr Classic I tried , bigger than both my previous Daytonas. The real wow factor is the weight. I like light strat styles, this one is 7.25 lbs, very light. The first D I got was almost 10lbs, the second I got was a little lighter but had a smallish neck, this one is right in that zone. I swear, I'm a strat style guy and need to just accept that, I played a reissue 64 strat for years as my main axe , this Daytona seems to be the one!

 
Hello hardheartedbill and pesocaster,

Congratulations on your acquisition of your Hamer Daytona guitars. I dig the rosewood neck on hardheartedbill's guitar and pesocaster's Daytona has a cool tobacco sunburst finish on the body. I know you guys will be spanking the plank with those guitars. I would have bought one of those, but I have a cool '84-87 Fender Japan Strat that I'm enjoying right now. But who knows?

Guitar George

 
The one guitar I regret 'letting go' the most was a Daytona. I swear that one didn't weigh more than five pounds!

By the way, whatever happened to The Hardtail Daytona? Also a featherweight, but I couldn't deal with the jumbo frets it was apparently special-ordered with...

 
the thing w/ Daytona is that there all over the map in weight and neck size. I also think of the hardtail now and then , wonder what the neck is like

 
I've only played it straight into my Deluxe Reverb at living room levels , but I really like em so far, vintage "refined" seems to be where I usually gravitate toward and these are in that mode, but I must say the virtual P-90 has me wondering if I should order the V V strat style ( guess I made the DiMarzio switch and never noticed LOL ) I'll post a gig report

 
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Wow, they are both killer looking Daytonas. I just sold mine. It looked and sounded great but was too heavy for me. It had a great neck too not thin. If that was one pound lighter it would have been my favorite ever. Someday I'll get another but only if it's a light one.

 
Wow, they are both killer looking Daytonas. I just sold mine. It looked and sounded great but was too heavy for me. It had a great neck too not thin. If that was one pound lighter it would have been my favorite ever. Someday I'll get another but only if it's a light one.
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BD I owned the seafoam before DavidE, I feel exactly like you do about that one

 
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