Mike Hansen Posted September 21, 2005 Posted September 21, 2005 Tuners upgraded to Grover 18:1, originals in case. Duncan Custom and Custom Custom pickups. CoA included, and I'll throw in an RS Guitarworks wiring kit that I never got around to installing. It's a feather, and everybody knows Hamer gets the best korina around. This one is no exception. $1925 shipped in the CONUS. Paypal preferred. Lots of references from the Gear Page and on Ebay under mike712. Please use this email: guitarfixer@gmail.com Lots more pictures here: http://photobucket.com/albums/v79/mikehans...orina%20Vector/
serial Posted September 21, 2005 Posted September 21, 2005 If you've been living under a rock, these are perhaps the finest Hamers going.
Brownsound Posted September 22, 2005 Posted September 22, 2005 Just spend an hour with mine....ahhh....I have her dialed in and the tone is big, fat, warm and very very expressive. Definitely worth the bucks....
cmatthes Posted September 23, 2005 Posted September 23, 2005 Sadly, it won't be me for this one! Ah well, I want to get a nice Korina one and paint it in an Easter Egg Pastel color anyway!
tomjoyce Posted September 27, 2005 Posted September 27, 2005 mine's up on ebay agin'. Looks like I've got to start paying my mom's mortgage now in addition to my own; I could probably make it without selling guitars, but I keep looking at these things and seeing valuable wood. Also, since I got the Newport, that's all I play. Anyway, Just like the other ones I've sold to to guys on the board, I'll offer an "HFC discount" of $100 off the buy it now price. http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewI...AMESE%3AIT&rd=1
Big Country Posted September 28, 2005 Posted September 28, 2005 Tom, yours seems to be a darker korina or is that just a the lighting? Not that it's a bad thing! Sweet looking guitar. Any differences between the new ones and the 97s?thomas
gregc Posted September 28, 2005 Posted September 28, 2005 IMO, they just keep getting better. The new stash of Korina looks great and the quality of stuff leaving the factory has never been better.gregc
tomjoyce Posted September 28, 2005 Posted September 28, 2005 yes, the wood is a bit darker and grainier. I actually liked the look of this better than some of the lighter ones, that's what made it a "must have at any cost" guitar when I first saw it. I read a couple threads here a while ago describing this wood from the first vector run as "black korina" and the lighter stuff as "furniture grade", but I don't know, maybe somebody else does. I have played them both and they sound the same. The wood on the body on these might be a tad thicker, but I might be wrong on that. In any case, they are all thicker than a gibson V. They sure resonate like a mofo, though, that's for sure. I like playing rhythm on this one, it just roars. But, I'm totally gone on the Newport, that's the ultimate for me now.
serial Posted September 28, 2005 Posted September 28, 2005 Hamer never used "black korina" for anything-they'd have never accepted the wood. Stike can chime in on the fallacy of black korina. It isn't a separate species of limba, but just junky, mineral filled reject "white korina". Tom's Vector is choice korina-the grain is beautiful on that one. Hamer manages to cut the wood so that you get that beautiful wavy grain on the sides (as in Tom's first picture). Stunning effect as wood goes IMHO.
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