DBraz Posted April 7, 2014 Posted April 7, 2014 Here is my latest beauty. After getting my Cali Custom with LED's I had to have another Hamer in the same colour. Having wanted a KK for some time (you may have seen my WTB thread months ago) but not finding one to my sort of spec I had this presented to me. She is a beauty and has a nice story. The guitar is crazy clean for it's age and is a real screamer - very high output. Strangely I didn't even notice the boomerangs were reverse until it arrived... She also has a lovely ebony board and Floyd (as opposed to the nasty Kahler) in addition to a slightly different shaped scratchplate. What do you think?
motorpriest Posted April 7, 2014 Posted April 7, 2014 OK, KK Downing solved. Glenn Tipton still on "to-do" list HNGD dude! It is a real beauty indeed. What´s her story?
DBraz Posted April 7, 2014 Author Posted April 7, 2014 Evidently she was commissioned by a huge KK Downing fan who had the guitar made in order to present to KK as a gift. KK kindly declined the gift and encouraged the fan to take up the guitar, which she did, but only for a short while.
diablo175 Posted April 7, 2014 Posted April 7, 2014 NICE! I almost bought that from HamStd but opted for the polka dot one instead. It boiled down to versatility over aesthetics. Love me some boomers, and that red and black is just coolness incarnate. But 2 p'ups vs. one was the deciding factor.
Disturber Posted April 7, 2014 Posted April 7, 2014 Great looking axe! Congrats. I would prefered if it had a Kahler though.
Ting Ho Dung Posted April 7, 2014 Posted April 7, 2014 I like it. Gloria must've been one hell of a fan.
analogsystem Posted April 7, 2014 Posted April 7, 2014 That is amazing! Love the reverse boomers on the V body, and yes, Floyds over Kahlers any day!! Congrats on that cool one-off Hamer! Sounds like KK was too humble to accept such an expensive gift, which is very cool of him.
BlueRedWhite Posted April 7, 2014 Posted April 7, 2014 Beautiful color and boomers...that's Gloria the Seductress...
Hamerica Posted April 7, 2014 Posted April 7, 2014 At the rate DBraz1976 is going, he is going to have more guitars than Peter in a few short years…keep up the good work! NGD is always a pleasure post to review. (oh and congrats on the KK!) Hamerica
DBraz Posted April 8, 2014 Author Posted April 8, 2014 NGD is always a pleasure post to review. HamericaI agree. Always something to look forward to seeing what others have bought and lavished love upon.
DBraz Posted April 13, 2014 Author Posted April 13, 2014 Looking at my emails on this guitar it appears my first description was slightly wrong. The description was done from memory. Anyway..."Gloria" had a Hamer KK made for her to give to KK. He refused and suggested she learn to play the guitar. She had that guitar (a Khaler equipped model KK) signed by the original band and, because she didn't want to tarnish the signed guitar, had another one made (this time with a Floyd) to use as a player.Her playing evidently didn't last long. The player is this guitar.
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