Production Years of LE 72 Korina Vectors & 100 Standards?

[FrankieIII]

I've seen these range from 1995 to 1997. How long did it take Hamer to produce all 172? I would think they were all produced in the same run over the course of a couple months, but apparently not. Granted, it's about a year if they started at the very end of '95 and ended at the very beginning of '97, but that seems like a very long time to produce 172 guitars.

My guess, is that it took that long for them to find the right korina to produce all of them?

[Hamerica]

From 1995 - 1997, Hamer USA doesn't mass produce guitars. They produced them based on dealer orders, customer orders and etc. Otherwise there would have been 100 Vectors (the original idea) in the run.

If you think 1 or 1 1/2 years is a long time to produce 172 guitars, wait for that custom order to arrive in 1 to 1 1/2 years. Its worth it however it is not going to be at the end of the week as with most firms.

Hamerica

[serial]

The Vector run wasn't even planned when the Standards were announced in late 1995. The 100 Standards (a HUGE run by Hamer numbers) did very well, so it was suggested (again, details in my book on all of this) that Vs be done and 72 were made between 1996 and March 1997.

Will there be awesomely cool pics in the book of all of this?

Do you even have to ask?

[Bennyboy-UK]

You're a tease as well!

[cmatthes]

You have no idea, Ben.

[Bennyboy-UK]

Oh god! You lot are a bunch of right sods!

[Hamerica]

The Vector run wasn't even planned when the Standards were announced in late 1995. The 100 Standards (a HUGE run by Hamer numbers) did very well, so it was suggested (again, details in my book on all of this) that Vs be done and 72 were made between 1996 and March 1997.

Will there be awesomely cool pics in the book of all of this?

Do you even have to ask?

That makes placing them together numerically extremely hard. Trifectas harder and anything beyond that damn near impossible.

Hamerica

[FrankieIII]

Thanks for the Info guys.

Hamer was cranking out thousands of USA guitars a year between '95-'97 so it would seem that the 100 Standards could've been easily completed in a couple months or less, no? Did it take a year for dealers to order 100? Seems like they would've been snapped up by dealers in no time with their reasonable list price, but then again, with Hamer being the big underdog it wouldn't surprise me.

[Steve Haynie]

It was either the Standards or Vectors that sold out at a NAMM show. It was probably the Standards because the list price was something like $1895 when Gibson wanted $11,000 for a korina Explorer reissue.

[Disturber]

The Vector run wasn't even planned when the Standards were announced in late 1995. The 100 Standards (a HUGE run by Hamer numbers) did very well, so it was suggested (again, details in my book on all of this) that Vs be done and 72 were made between 1996 and March 1997.

Will there be awesomely cool pics in the book of all of this?

Do you even have to ask?

I can hardly wait for that book. Hopefully it will do to Hamer as Doyles book did for Marshall.