jolyon Posted February 1, 2006 Posted February 1, 2006 hi, i have owned this unique phantom A5 since 1987, its black with a white scratchplate, has the old headstock with three -a- sidetuners and most importantly , it has removeable carbon graphite fretboards! one normal fretboard, one polished steel fretless and one with spacings ive never seen anywhere else (a different "mode" scale entirely!)I knew that the instrument had been made for andy summers, but last year i got in touch with hamer to find out a little more about it...Iwas called back by jol danzig and he told me that he remembers the guitar very well, and that he made it personally for andy who had requested something a little different, along with his 8 string mando-cello and the A7 synth guitar...it really is a great instrument, its in great condition ( i never gigged it) the intonation is all perfect and the sound from the triple humbucker/ single coil combination is superb....the alternate fretboards are a lot of fun and can yeild surprising and unique results! it comes with the original Hamer hard case and Mr Danzig told me that he would be happy to verify the guitars history in writing should i ever sell it on..it must be one of the rarest hamers ever made and is certainly unique in the world- there have been no others ever made with the removeable fretboard feature..so anyone collecting Hamers should love it!I'm based in the UK but would ship the guitar wherever it needs to go...please make me an offer if youre interested at jolyondixon@yahoo.co.uk and i look forward to hearing from anyone with a comment on this wierd and wonderful piece of guitar history!
kizanski Posted February 1, 2006 Posted February 1, 2006 I think it goes without saying that photos are required.Oh wait..I just said it.Well, here's how to post photos...
jolyon Posted February 1, 2006 Author Posted February 1, 2006 hi there, well im going to post some photos later on today,...i have to get my camera charged first!they should appear later on! cheers...
jolyon Posted February 1, 2006 Author Posted February 1, 2006 hello all, i have photos of the phantom A5, but cant upload them onto the message board for some reason...will gladly email to anyone interested....cheers
mattb Posted February 1, 2006 Posted February 1, 2006 Send me pics please. matt@delta-whiskey.comThanks,-MattB
kizanski Posted February 1, 2006 Posted February 1, 2006 hello all, i have photos of the phantom A5, but cant upload them onto the message board for some reason...will gladly email to anyone interested....cheers Email them to me.I'll post/host them for you.
stonge Posted February 1, 2006 Posted February 1, 2006 I thought I remembered seeing something about that guitar years ago in Guitar Player magazine. I'm not sure if it mentioned in an interview with Andy Summers, but I do recall seeing advertisements for a company that made replaceable fingerboards that bolted on. I remember the microtonal fingerboards, because they had something like 30 frets per octave or something like that. They also had fretless and some wild tempered tunings ( I remember that most of the frets didn't cross the entire fingerboard, and some were just wide enough for single strings in some positions - 'no blues bends for you!'). I wonder if Jol grafted on some of those fingerboards or whether Hamer went nuts and built their own. They used to do some really wild stuff back in the day.
jolyon Posted February 1, 2006 Author Posted February 1, 2006 hi, according to jol, they were hamers own design and build!, and theyre not bolt on but magnetic...pretty amazing really considering the intonation is spot on...
kizanski Posted February 1, 2006 Posted February 1, 2006 Here are the pix! Hmmm...looks pretty clean.. Let the bidding war begin!!
polara Posted February 1, 2006 Posted February 1, 2006 Paging Doctor Fung. Doctor Fung to the auction hall!Sweet, though the stainless fretboard is bizarre.
jolyon Posted February 1, 2006 Author Posted February 1, 2006 hi...yes it is bizzare isnt it? but ive loved it and am quite sad to see it go...still ...
HAMERMAN Posted February 1, 2006 Posted February 1, 2006 Very cool guitar!I remember adds for Novatone magnetic fretboards. The ones I remember were geared towards letting a bassist switch between fretted and frettless.
jolyon Posted February 2, 2006 Author Posted February 2, 2006 ah yes the fretted fretless bass combo- fair play !
gatorbyte007 Posted February 2, 2006 Posted February 2, 2006 Very Cool!!!!! Update, Is it sold?? starting price????
DavidE Posted February 2, 2006 Posted February 2, 2006 I am disgusted that nobody offered........."TREE FITTY!!!!!"
bamboohead Posted February 2, 2006 Posted February 2, 2006 you only beat me to the punchline by a hairthat is a realy cool Hamer!if i win the lotto i WILL buy it
ArnieZ Posted February 4, 2006 Posted February 4, 2006 Jolyon. Interesting name. Interesting in the sense that it is Jol Dantzig's given name? Certainly not common in the USA.ArnieZ
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