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I am going for this guitar...

Ebay Auction

Can Serial or Peter or someone else in the know tell me if they belive this guitar origially came with the Floyd?

Do the pickups and binding etc look stock?

I've always wanted a bound V and am definately looking to grab this if it's on the up and up!

:D

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HI G&S: Definitely the bound top is original as there are vectors out there that had bound tops from that 80's period. The floyd being original is a bit hard to tell from the pictures. You really need a shot of the face of the guitar to see that it wasn't converted from a sustain block trem if it had that as well as the back rout to see if it was enlarged to accomodate a floyd and then touched up as it sort of looks orig from the pictures and of course the tell tale would be the neck at the nut area. If it had a sustain block trem it would have had locking tuners and the seller would have to go to some effort to change the tuners to non-locking ones but the route for the floyd nut would also be a dead give away that it wasn't stock.

The pickups seem fine to me, just slammers (double black).

I personally think it is all orig, just seen its days being played but otherwise a cool one. Black with binding always looks good. Only thing that would be better would be crown inlays and bound neck and explorer headstock.....LOL

Hope that helps, just my two cents worth.

Peter.

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I'm not a big V fan, or a binding fan either, but that one looks great. Good luck!

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It is possible, but not common. That is an '83 mahogany necked Vector and that style Floyd really didn't show up much at all as original equipment on a Hamer until '84 and a lot more in '85. Not sure when the fine tuner Floyds were produced, but any Hamers I've seen with factory Floyds before '84 had the older version. The cavity doesn't look to be routed and I can't tell if the sustain block pivot bar was ever there (telltale screw holes would be there). Anything is possible on the 80s Hamers pretty much. The neck pickup looks ok-maybe it's just the flash, but the bridge p/u is hard to tell. No real way to tell w/o more pics.

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It bugs me that he intentionally does not show the back of the whole head.

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Not early Floyds. My earliest Steve Stevens guitars have regular back plates.

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Well this blows...

Earlier in the week I emailed the seller of this and asked what kind of money she wanted to get out of this guitar.... her reply, "I am lookinf to see how high it will go".

I took this to mean highest bidder wins... Fair enough!!

Now after putting in a nice bid (more than fair and far above the ending price) and the reserve not being met at auctrions end, I believe her real intent to the above statement was...

I am not really selling, just determining market value.

I emailed her again 1 day before the end and asked her reserve. She never replied back...

That would really suck if items started poppong up with enormous reserves just to guage market value with no intent of selling by the owner.

Just my pissed off 2 cents

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hmm....anything goes with Hamer, but that just doesn't seem original, the Floyd I mean. Either that, or it was one of the earliest factory jobs before they got the whole Hamer Floyd rout thing figured out and dialed in (meaning recessed back plate with only four screws, etc). The nut seems off too, what with the bell truss rod cover and all. But the main thing...how many mahogany necked Hamers came with Floyds from the factory? Were there any?

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Now after putting in a nice bid (more than fair and far above the ending price) and the reserve not being met at auctrions end, I believe her real intent to the above statement was...

I am not really selling, just determining market value.

That would really suck if items started poppong up with enormous reserves just to guage market value with no intent of selling by the owner.

They have to pay something for the item reaching a percentage of the reserve don't they? Anyone can pull their auction an hour before it ends to determine the same value figures. Perhaps she just is unrealistic on its true value. If someone told her that it is a limited classic and that it originally cost $1200, perhaps she now believes it is worth 3x that much even though the market will not bare that out.

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