I have a '83 Blitz bass that has a few chips through the paint down to the mahogany, two of which are located on the edge of the headstock. From what I can see, there is a very thin layer of a lighter colored wood or some type of thin overlay (fiberboard?) over the front of the headstock (backed with mahogany of course), and this can be seen via the chips. It is a distinctly lighter color from the mahogany neck, grayish white from what I can tell. These chipped areas are not fresh chips, there is some aging to the exposed wood involved. I've heard that Gibson used/uses a thin holly wood overlay on the front of the headstock on guitars from the '50's and early '60's and their reissues, under the black paint...and holly is a very pale, whitish wood. Did Hamer do the same thing here at least early on, or use some type of thin fiberboard, or something else entirely different? TIA!
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I have a '83 Blitz bass that has a few chips through the paint down to the mahogany, two of which are located on the edge of the headstock. From what I can see, there is a very thin layer of a lighter colored wood or some type of thin overlay (fiberboard?) over the front of the headstock (backed with mahogany of course), and this can be seen via the chips. It is a distinctly lighter color from the mahogany neck, grayish white from what I can tell. These chipped areas are not fresh chips, there is some aging to the exposed wood involved. I've heard that Gibson used/uses a thin holly wood overlay on the front of the headstock on guitars from the '50's and early '60's and their reissues, under the black paint...and holly is a very pale, whitish wood. Did Hamer do the same thing here at least early on, or use some type of thin fiberboard, or something else entirely different? TIA!
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