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Nice snag! It'll be great to see it up and running again!

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Nice snag, you’ve got the critical bones of a great instrument.

Since the Acoustic voice is currently mute, how’s the tap tone? 😀

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43 minutes ago, topekatj said:

...how’s the tap tone? 

Tap tone??  Is that the new acoustic voice?

Take a minute and think about what you did.

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Dammit, Kiz. You're really out of it today. Everybody knows about tap tone.

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4 hours ago, hamerhead said:

Dammit, Kiz. You're really out of it today.

Today?

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I actually strung it up Friday night.  It's going to be a really bright guitar....very good note separation up and down the fretboard.  I had to tighten the truss rod a 1/4" turn... now the action is nice and low.  It plays cleanly.  The nut needs some attention, but I was expecting that when a saw that it had probably been strung lefty at one time, due to the strap button hole on the lower horn.  Now I've got to build a wiring harness and wait for the pickups.  I didn't get a chance to check out it's "tap tone", lol. 

  • 5 weeks later...
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Finally got it together...for now.  Pearly Gates in the bridge.  Fender Shawbucker in the neck.  Speed knobs were all I had in the parts bin, so I threw those on there.  I'm still planning to get the Dimazios rewound, but for now, I'll play it like it is.  It sounds really good...excellent note definition.  The only thing I had to buy for it was the Shawbucker, which was $50.

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👍on the switch tip!
Looking again at the photo of the entire guitar it’s striking how large the Hamer logo is on the headstock.

I’m curious when the STADIUM logos came into being and/or if the Hamer font on all the checkerboard logo Specials are so large.

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