Help identify this custom guitar

[Xavier180]

Hello Hammerheads,

does anyone know the story behind this one?

thanks!

[gorch]

Nice!

[Biz Prof]

Gonna go out on a limb and call that a refin.  Serial number would have been ink stamped on the headstock.  That's all I got.

[cynic]

Early short-scale Chap Custom with a crazy ugly refin.

[Xavier180]

11 hours ago, cynic said:

Early short-scale Chap Custom with a crazy ugly refin.

Haha yesss

[Xavier180]

Supposedly this guitar would have been made for Vernon Reid and the neck carved thinner than the regular profile afterwards upon Vernon’s request. 
Indeed strange that there is no serial #

Would be nice if an former Hamer luthier could confirm

[kizanski]

19 minutes ago, Xavier180 said:

Supposedly this guitar would have been made for Vernon Reid and the neck carved thinner than the regular profile afterwards upon Vernon’s request. 
Indeed strange that there is no serial #

More likely an Anthrax fan did it.  Even if it were made for Reid, it would have a serial number.

[joshoowah]

It would look at home in Mr. Reid's collection, but the two I saw when I met him 15 years ago had serial numbers and form-fit flight cases.

[kizanski]

1 minute ago, joshoowah said:

It would look at home in Mr. Reid's collection, but the two I saw when I met him 15 years ago had serial numbers and form-fit flight cases.

There would also be a photo of him playing it somewhere...

[Xavier180]

1 hour ago, kizanski said:

There would also be a photo of him playing it somewhere...

agree that I have not been able to find any trace / photo of the Vernon with this one ...

[Xavier180]

15 hours ago, Biz Prof said:

Gonna go out on a limb and call that a refin.  Serial number would have been ink stamped on the headstock.  That's all I got.

thanks!

[cmatthes]

That guitar has absolutely ZERO to do with Vernon Reid, except for an unscrupulous seller making a BS claim.

 

It's a mid-80s (early style) Chapparal, as mentioned above with an aftermarket, kind of amateurish, paint job. 

Cool guitar, but definitely not a Vernon guitar.

[Biz Prof]

Just now, cmatthes said:

Cool guitar, but definitely not a Vernon guitar.

Verily.  IIRC, all of Vernon's Hamers had his name on the headstock, as well.  

[cmatthes]

Just now, Biz Prof said:

Verily.  IIRC, all of Vernon's Hamers had his name on the headstock, as well.  

Not ALL, but many did.

[cynic]

10 hours ago, kizanski said:

There would also be a photo of him playing it somewhere...

[kizanski]

LOL

[Dutchman]

That's some pretty good photo shopping!!! Can you make fat guy's look skinny?? I need to update my meet and cheat photo's!! JK....

[gatorbyte007]

I can tell in 5 Seconds if a neck was carved for VR.  Very distinctive V shape.

[HAMERMAN]

I think most or all of Vernon's "Chapifornians" also had scalloped cutaways. 

[scottcald]

On 7/29/2021 at 8:40 PM, cynic said:

With his Clapton Epi-face about that finish.