Hamer Special production run ?

[tweed]

I was recently checkin'  out  Hamer's  on Reverb and saw  a 2006 model for sale. I thought they  stopped production on that model in the mid 90's .

[tweed]

Oops, I might be in the wrong section.  Sorry.

[velorush]

Got a link?

[HamerCustomEr]

5 hours ago, tweed said:

I was recently checkin'  out  Hamer's  on Reverb and saw  a 2006 model for sale. I thought they  stopped production on that model in the mid 90's .

From this HFC page:

https://www.hamerfanclub.com/the-hamer-special-through-the-years/

"After Hamer moved in 1997 from Arlington Heights to the Ovation facility in New Hartford, the Special was not produced in significant numbers and soon left the catalogue. Following a number of custom orders a new version of the Special appeared with a single ‘Dogeared’ P90 and scratchplate. These are often made of korina and have a retro-styled wrap-around bridge and tuners (Schaller tulip-buttons usually). It became a production model in 2004. It was initially refered to as the Junior), later the Special Korina Jr.."

[tweed]

19 minutes ago, velorush said:

Got a link?

I posted here by mistake, but "crunchee" provided a link where I should have gone in the first place for this question, in the HFC  Messageboard

[tweed]

15 minutes ago, HamerCustomEr said:

From this HFC page:

https://www.hamerfanclub.com/the-hamer-special-through-the-years/

"After Hamer moved in 1997 from Arlington Heights to the Ovation facility in New Hartford, the Special was not produced in significant numbers and soon left the catalogue. Following a number of custom orders a new version of the Special appeared with a single ‘Dogeared’ P90 and scratchplate. These are often made of korina and have a retro-styled wrap-around bridge and tuners (Schaller tulip-buttons usually). It became a production model in 2004. It was initially refered to as the Junior), later the Special Korina Jr.."

Yep, seems like they copied that format for a custom order, but mahogany body, 2 P90's and compensated saddles  on the bridge.    

[bruce919]

I know there were some Mahogany P-90 specials built in New Hartford. I saw several in the stock room at one of the HFC open houses it was either in 2000 or 2001.