Anyone here on the HFC actually own one of these?

[ARM OF HAMER]

                           Just wondering if anyone here owned one of these....................past or present. I almost bought one but he wouldn't come down in price and it was a pretty heavy guitar at 10.5. 

[hamerhead]

What is it?

[duncans]

Jim Beach

former Hamer employee, in Chicago?

[HSB0531]

Well, there originally were the four owners: Paul, Jol, John "Monty" Montgomery, and Jim Beach.  It might be the work of Jim, but there was a 5th person that was an employee into the 1980's that might have made that.

[Biz Prof]

Jim was not a Hamer investor (Hamer, Dantzig, Monty, and Walker were the OGs). He was the owner of Wooden Music and was a friendly competitor of Northern Prarie in the pre-Hamer days. He fabricated bodies and necks of Explorer and V style guitars and sold the guys a very small number of husks that became the earliest Monty-built guitars. IIRC, the unbranded Akkerman V and the branded #0000 prototype Standard were built using Beach parts. 

 

https://www.oakpark.com/2012/08/14/jim-beach-63-musician-and-craftsman-sailing-and-biking-enthusiast-entrepreneur/

[ARM OF HAMER]

                                                                       Yes that is the guy from Wooden Nickel Music Jim Beach. Thanks! Cool guitar!