kizanski Posted April 14, 2017 Posted April 14, 2017 11 minutes ago, redline said: Yeah, but it kind of looks like an Explorer 2...When Gibson started copying the Hamer. Gibson wishes.
BTMN Posted April 14, 2017 Posted April 14, 2017 I see why you regret selling that. What a beauty. Maybe one day it or something similar will float your way. Yep Ed I was just thinking yesterday I am about a 20 year veteran of the HFC. Think I found this place about January 1997. There was a photo of BCRGreg with a pair of guitars on the front page. Here is a vintage link to a 2000 Screenshot at the wayback machine. http://web.archive.org/web/20001121043000/http://www.hamerfanclub.com/
cmatthes Posted April 14, 2017 Posted April 14, 2017 The screen shot you're thinking of Gene was from late 99-2000. Back in '97 it was...well...sparsely populated around here!
BTMN Posted April 15, 2017 Posted April 15, 2017 4 hours ago, cmatthes said: The screen shot you're thinking of Gene was from late 99-2000. Back in '97 it was...well...sparsely populated around here! I do remember stopping by the first time about then because that was when I first surfed the net about 20 minutes each day for 3 days a week during free time at the job I was at. We were learning to use that new thing called the internet with Netscape no less. Never did join AOL but that was one of the other hot spots way back then. .
cmatthes Posted April 17, 2017 Posted April 17, 2017 No disputing that it looks good, but it's no more a 4 digit Standard than a retopped, reworked '53 Goldtop is a '59 Les Paul. At that asking price, it's a very expensive project guitar at this point, not a restoration, because the construction and repair varies so significantly from the original. Just my opinion...
Disturber Posted April 18, 2017 Posted April 18, 2017 It think that guitar looks fuckin' bloody awesome, re-toped and un-kahlered, in all it's glory! I have had gas for it since I first saw it posted here. It might not be as collectable as an unmolested 4-digit. But I am sure it still plays like one, and with an old DImarzio PAF in the bridge, instead of that Super Distortion(?) I am sure it would be just as great as when it first left the factory. I WANT IT. So stop bad mouthing it. Personally I'd take it over a new Shishkov any day, and that does not mean that I don't want a Shishkov. But a Hamer is a Hamer...... And a 4-digit is a 4-digit, even if it has been fixed.
gorch Posted April 18, 2017 Posted April 18, 2017 Haven't we had an original thread on the restauration picturing the original paint and set up? Just wondering.
gorch Posted April 18, 2017 Posted April 18, 2017 20 hours ago, cmatthes said: No disputing that it looks good, but it's no more a 4 digit Standard than a retopped, reworked '53 Goldtop is a '59 Les Paul. At that asking price, it's a very expensive project guitar at this point, not a restoration, because the construction and repair varies so significantly from the original. Just my opinion... Sometimes you and Serial are a bit to much picky in your posts.
hamerhead Posted April 18, 2017 Posted April 18, 2017 22 hours ago, cmatthes said: .....but it's no more a 4 digit Standard than a retopped, reworked '53 Goldtop is a '59 Les Paul...... So my new Wish bass will never be a 1990 Impact?!? Dammit.
kizanski Posted April 18, 2017 Posted April 18, 2017 22 hours ago, cmatthes said: ..it's no more a 4 digit Standard than a retopped, reworked '53 Goldtop is a '59 Les Paul. While I agree with you, the difference is that when someone takes a '53 Goldtop and "converts it" to a '59 'burst, that '53 usually ends up being worth more than it was worth before.
cmatthes Posted April 18, 2017 Posted April 18, 2017 59 minutes ago, hamerhead said: So my new Wish bass will never be a 1990 Impact?!? Dammit. If you wish REALLY hard...
Hamerica Posted April 18, 2017 Posted April 18, 2017 5 hours ago, gorch said: Haven't we had an original thread on the restoration picturing the original paint and set up? Just wondering. Hey Gorch, I am fairly certain there was some pictures on the HFC at one point. It was probably the main reason I decided to have one of my Hamer standards restored at the Hamer Factory. Kim Keller and team did an outstanding job on both #0525 and mine. I lusted after #0525 for a long time. Since I wore those shoes, I understood the investment and decision made by dgstandard to or not to conduct a restoration and not to take it lightly. In both cases both four digit Standards were never ever going to be unmolested examples of a 4 digit standard that argument went out the door once someone routed out for a Kahler. I edited Disturber's post and for me he summed it up nicely. Edited Post "I think that guitar looks fuckin' bloody awesome, re-toped and un-kahlered, in all it's glory! I have had gas for it since I first saw it posted here. It might not be as collectable as an unmolested 4-digit. But I am sure it still plays like one, and with an old DImarzio PAF in the bridge, instead of that Super Distortion(?) I am sure it would be just as great as when it first left the factory. I WANT IT." I WANT IT. So stop bad mouthing it...but a Hamer USA is a Hamer USA... and a 4-digit is a 4-digit, even if it has been fixed. - Disturber Hamerica
cynic Posted April 19, 2017 Posted April 19, 2017 9 hours ago, Hamerica said: I am fairly certain there was some pictures on the HFC at one point. It was probably the main reason I decided to have one of my Hamer standards restored at the Hamer Factory. Kim Keller and team did an outstanding job on both #0525 and mine. I lusted after #0525 for a long time. The 0525 restoration is also what prompted me to have 0227 restored at the Hamer factory.
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