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I found this '99 Standard last fall with extensive Google searches. It's very minty and quite difficult to capture in photos. I like to think of it as my Ultimate Shishkov (I'm sure Mike at least walked by it in the shop).

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Love it. I rather have that one, the real deal, than a Shishkov. If I could have only one Standard.

But just as well as in some countries one can have many wifes, one can have many Standards - so there should be room for both some awesome Hamer Standards and a Shishkov.

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The dark side of the force...

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Glad to see those two from Casa de MC2 reunited!!

They look killer together......although I never had a wagon wheel. :)

i'm surprised no one caught that there are NO INLAYS on the Standard.

That Kahler on the B4S Is factory original....although I could never figure out what the hole in the tail of the bass body is for??? Maybe chromium will have more luck in figuring it out. I asked Jol and he didn't recall either.

NICE SHOT !!

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Just consider this a small annex in the Southwest. Always willing to harbor runaway Hamer basses, especially 4# versions of these with maho necks :lol: Besides, the castaway pile of EMGs is getting cumbersome

That hole in the B4S baffles me too. I can only assume... bass trepanation! :blink:

It's nicely executed, though, as far as superfluous holes go

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Maybe there was an earlier Kahler version on the bass that needed the hole to be adjusted?

But now it is just a leftover, obsolete mystery.

......Sort of like a human appendix or tail bone.

Or it had a B-bender on it. :)

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i'm surprised no one caught that there are NO INLAYS on the Standard.

Actually, I did notice that - I paid for that bass about 15 years ago, but somebody spooked the LA-based seller about shipping it, and he didn't complete the transaction and returned my $$. Pissed me off royally, but glad that it's in a good home now until Chromium feels like selling it to me. :D

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i'm surprised no one caught that there are NO INLAYS on the Standard.

Actually, I did notice that - I paid for that bass about 15 years ago, but somebody spooked the LA-based seller about shipping it, and he didn't complete the transaction and returned my $$. Pissed me off royally, but glad that it's in a good home now until Chromium feels like selling it to me. :D

Definitely NOT me. I suspect it was Tony Babylon, he had something going on with the seller, trying to do one of his third party sales, just before I got it.

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Yep - I knew it wasn't you Jon!

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  • 8 months later...

Its been a while for this thread. And there are still some new in the list.

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That is one of the coolest, most classic Standards.  I'd go for a 3 ply white guard, myself, but that looks fantastic!

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7 hours ago, cmatthes said:

That is one of the coolest, most classic Standards.  I'd go for a 3 ply white guard, myself, but that looks fantastic!

Are you thinking wt.bl.wt? It didn't come to my mind really. So I have checked pics on the net. Which show it indeed looks nice.

A shell style guard might add some nice tension to it optically. Brown and white both would be classics.

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I do miss that '94 Standard 8 String, Jon...of course, it's impossible to play on a small/medium stage without taking out cymbals or mic stands!

Killer bass though...

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Yeah, that is one of those that found me after I missed out on it when you first let it go.

Actually, all three of these 8-string Standards I missed the first time but they eventually found me.

Definitely not for small stages 😀

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51 minutes ago, Crwth145 said:

Now that's an awesome pair!   ^^

Simply that! ^^^

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