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p90 specials, come standard with pickguards?


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52 minutes ago, kizanski said:

"Hello? Mr. Lou Theer?  Yes hello... Can you make my guitar look worse?"

"Specifically, can you make a pickguard for my Hamer Special?"

"I cannot. There are companies on the web. Hope this helps.
Best,
L. Theer" 

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3 hours ago, burningyen said:

Towards the end of Hamer USA's existence they were putting pickguards (and wraptails) on P-90 Specials:

special1.jpg

Only on a custom order basis.

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21 hours ago, burningyen said:

Interesting. Gryphon Strings must have custom ordered the one I posted, because I bought it new from them.

In the waning years of Hamer USA, there was a pretty good supply of guitars in the warehouse that had been accumulated from maybe 2008 or so.  These were available to dealers on a regularly updated list, and there were several guitars that had non-standard features that showed up on that list that I saw.  This very well could be one of them, but that wasn't a regular production feature.  There were very few slab-bodied Specials made in the last five-seven years that Hamer was around, actually.

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34 minutes ago, Armitage said:

I thought Greg made a few guards for people?

Of course he has.  
Specifically, when it comes to the weird pickguards Hamer put on these Juniors/Specials, Greg shaped the area near the neck/lower horn so that they are more visually appealing.

So this (weird)...

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...looks more like this (nice!)...

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44 minutes ago, MCChris said:

Disagree with the "more visually appealing" part:

More visually appealing than a real vintage Junior? No.
I was just referring to the bump out with the attachment screw.  That has to go.

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Put black screws on that pick guard and it would look fine.  Actually improves the unfortunate finish.

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On 10/21/2022 at 9:44 PM, BadgerDave said:

Put black screws on that pick guard and it would look fine.  Actually improves the unfortunate finish.

A set of oven knobs would detract from it too.

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On 10/18/2022 at 10:20 AM, burningyen said:

Towards the end of Hamer USA's existence they were putting pickguards (and wraptails) on P-90 Specials:

special1.jpg

My first Hamer was just like that, but it was a run done for Willcutt's and listed as a "Special Korina".  Shouldn't have sold it.  

Hamer Korina Special 2007 Cherry Transparent  custom order with WCR Godwood pickups image 1

Hamer Korina Special 2007 Cherry Transparent  custom order with WCR Godwood pickups image 8

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