PSA Firebird in Canada

[Eli]

No affiliation:

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[HamerCustomEr]

Is it just me, or do Firebirds remind anybody else here of Gumby?

[DBraz]

I just love Hamer FB’s

[kizanski]

28 minutes ago, DBraz said:

I just love Hamer FB’s

Yeah, but do you $4,600 love it?

[cmatthes]

I do not.

[kizanski]

19 minutes ago, cmatthes said:

I do not.

...$4,600 love it or am reminded of Gumby?

[Biz Prof]

15 hours ago, HamerCustomEr said:

Is it just me, or do Firebirds remind anybody else here of Gumby?

Some FBs have a lot of empty real estate behind the bridge which accentuate the curves, so I see how you might get that impression.  Truth be told, Kurt Hendrick fashioned the most Gumbyesque body shape I've seen to date. 

[GuitarGuy65]

43 minutes ago, Biz Prof said:

Some FBs have a lot of empty real estate behind the bridge which accentuate the curves, so I see how you might get that impression.  Truth be told, Kurt Hendrick fashioned the most Gumbyesque body shape I've seen to date. 

A band I used to play with in the 80's had one of those Hendrick's in bubble gum pink.  Hard to forget those!  Hideous guitar IMO but they are very collectible today...

[diablo175]

2 hours ago, DBraz said:

I just love Hamer FB’s

 

2 hours ago, kizanski said:

Yeah, but do you $4,600 love it?

Love the body shape and love this particular style with the Strat-style angled jack and that 6 in line head stock but the likelihood of one ever getting $4,600 outta me is less than zilch. Especially since they're short scale and this one has no boomers.

[Drew816]

Boomer-less Firebird, it's kind of a crime against humanity. $4600, wow, Boomerless-Bitch-Slap!

[Samuelc12qw]

I am pretty sure this is the same Hamer Firebird that was sold out of Washington state last year. Thunder road guitars was the place. The guitar is sweet but pretty beat, no boomers and the back plate is wrong. Meh 

The HSS is cool though. 

[DBraz]

20 hours ago, kizanski said:

Yeah, but do you $4,600 love it?

No!! 

[kizanski]

11 minutes ago, Ed Rechts said:

If he'd used the Gibson Moderne headstock, he would have hit the Gumby Guitar Grand Slam.

...and that's not what you want.

[killerteddybear]

13 minutes ago, Ed Rechts said:

If he'd used the Gibson Moderne headstock, he would have hit the Gumby Guitar Grand Slam.

...and had a lawsuit on his hands.

[kizanski]

19 hours ago, Biz Prof said:

Silly-ass looking guitars, but at least they don't look like a fucking potato.

[velorush]

23 minutes ago, Ed Rechts said:

None more Gumby

Where was that for a band name back when I was in college? 

Perfection!

[cmatthes]

2 hours ago, Ed Rechts said:

Imagine the ignominy of being sued by BOTH Gibson AND Gumby.

One does not recover from that kind of tort-exposure tag-teaming

[Travis]

3 hours ago, Ed Rechts said:

If he'd used the Gibson Moderne headstock, he would have hit the Gumby Guitar Grand Slam.

To paraphrase Nigel Tufnel: "It's like, how much more Gumby could this be? and the answer is none. None more Gumby."

At least the Moderne had an interesting design solution for creating a straighter string pull than the traditional Les Paul headstock...

Kudos for that...?

[Biz Prof]

33 minutes ago, cmatthes said:

Thank God that Lindert was awarded a patent for that headstock design.  So many players were clamoring for that profile that builders near and far would have been copying it had it not been for intellectual property protections.

 

 

 

 

 

Not.