Eclipse USA vs Slammer

Anyone know the key differences between the Eclipse USA and the Eclispe Slammer? I'm looking to find one.

I'm curious about tonewood, body thickness, harware, pickups, and the fit of the neck pocket and neck... Does one have a fatter neck?

For example... I notice the USA has a wraparound bridge and the Slammer has a bridge/tailpiece setup...

When you say Slammer, are you referring to the SLAMMER by Hamer on the headstock or the Hamer Slammer Series on the headstock?

Avoid the former. The later Slammer Series stuff isn't to bad. A friend of mine had a sunburst (slammer series) that was nice. I have a Centaura slammer series. Aside from the tuners, I think it's decent. Would I gig with mine: No.

Edited to add, I never ran into an Eclipse.

The USA wood, construction, hardware and electronics are all considerably better quality. Although most of the 6 string Eclipses had the Wilkinson TP, there were also some USA models with the stop/tuna arrangement.

Honduras Mahogany body/neck, Schaller Tuners, SD Firebird Mini-hums, and all around better attention to detail on the USA models. I'm sure that the Slammers are okay, but not having owned one, I can't say. The USA models are really underrated though if it helps, so you can still score 'em cheap.

Dude there is an american Eclipse on Ebay right now for cheap! It has some cosmetic ugly issues, so what! You can probably get that for like $375- $400. It will sound and play great!

I've owned both. The Hamer 'Slammer Series' Import, like a lot of the imports from that era, was a good bang for the buck, but not in the USA league. It had a stoptail/tuna-matic arrangement instead of the wilky wraparound, and generally not as good hardware all around, two-piece body instead of one, and considerably milder pickups as well. Control cavity shielding was nowhere near as good, electronics were the cheapo variety, etc.

That said, it was a decent axe for the money and different enough from the USA model that the two coexisted in my stable for quite some time, since I thought of them as significantly different guitars.

As for the neck pocket.... it's a setneck, so I dunno. I never took it far enough apart to find out.