Bennyboy-UK Posted November 14, 2023 Posted November 14, 2023 Evening all, Heres a bit of a specific ask, does anyone have an early 90s era Sunburst Archtop available to buy for a non-insane price. I happen to really love the wide thin necks and Stadium logos. I’m lucky enough to own a most beautiful Floyded 59 burst version which I love and find myself actually in need of a Hardtail version. Here my old thing with a couple of other old nails: (Hardtail unless Scotty Hills guitar appeared…) If it was Salmon Blush with a lovely top - that would be nice but to be fair, most of the Hamer from 89-93 to me, seem to have good pretty tops. I’m in no desperate hurry but I would love to hear from you. Cheers all, Ben.
ARM OF HAMER Posted November 15, 2023 Posted November 15, 2023 Those are all really nice but that Hamer Sunburst...............................WOW! that TOP!................. that IS BEAUTIFUL!
topekatj Posted November 15, 2023 Posted November 15, 2023 @Bennyboy-UK : I hope you find the ‘90’s sunburst archtop of your dreams and don’t mean to undermine your thread, but your mention of Scotti Hill reminded me of two custom Hamers that Guitar Center in the East Bay (Bay Area) had back around ‘89: IIRC they were loosely Firebird shaped, but bigger and longer, more angular, both blue, with I believe Floyds, and both with ‘Scotti Hill’ on the peghead. Anyone else know of such beasts? @cmatthes? @HamStd? I don’t have ‘the book’, are they in there? Thanks for humoring me, We now return to Bennyboy’s search….
cmatthes Posted November 15, 2023 Posted November 15, 2023 Peter owns those and they are in the book.
donner Posted November 15, 2023 Posted November 15, 2023 Not quite what you're looking for, but close: https://www.kleinanzeigen.de/s-anzeige/hamer-studio-sunburst-1997/2590292805-74-331 For sale in Germany, I could assist. No affiliation.
cmatthes Posted November 16, 2023 Posted November 16, 2023 8 hours ago, donner said: Not quite what you're looking for, but close: That’s actually very different from what Benster’s looking for here. The early 90s models are very unique, actually.
Disturber Posted November 16, 2023 Posted November 16, 2023 Love that SSIII / double humbucker Centaura! Tell us about it?
Bennyboy-UK Posted November 16, 2023 Author Posted November 16, 2023 3 hours ago, Disturber said: Love that SSIII / double humbucker Centaura! Tell us about it? Ah yeah that thing is fantastic and gets played all the time - I think Centauras are such great guitars! I had two HH models from 1990 which I really loved and it confirmed that these are good for me, but I really wanted a maple board model, and one that was in better nick that the older ones. I bought this one from Japan - there were quite a few HH versions in black with Maple fingerboards that appeared to make it out there. Often these guitars seemed to have Schaller logo'd FRs rather than Hamer ones for some reason - and the guitar came with Black hardware. I had a couple of NOS Glod Hamer logo'd FRs, one of which I bunged in here, and some suitable machine heads and Locking Nut etc. I'm totally over having a problem with Gold Hardware - I think it looks fine It's a 1995, and came over with an EMG 85 in the bridge position and the expected SD 59 in the neck position. I added a JB I had lying around to replace the EMG - although I will be replacing both with 80s Slammer Humbuckers (as per the 1990 models I had before) - I have one in hand with another I just need to sort out. Obviously I' quite like the HS model that Joe has, but as thats practically impossible - this does me just fine for the Steve Stevens vibe, and its different to what a lot of people have - and all the better for it - the colour scheme is lovely to me!
jer_vic Posted November 21, 2023 Posted November 21, 2023 @Bennyboy-UK Is this the sort of thing you're looking for? No affiliation. https://sanantonio.craigslist.org/msg/d/san-antonio-usa-hamer-sunburst-archtop/7678570144.html
Bennyboy-UK Posted November 22, 2023 Author Posted November 22, 2023 Nice one thank you - I had seen that one a week or so ago - shame the photos make it look so plain! - I'll do a bit of digging
JGale Posted November 23, 2023 Posted November 23, 2023 I just need to clear $1800 and have shipped Internationally previously. This a bad time of year to do so IMHO.
donner Posted December 2, 2023 Posted December 2, 2023 On 11/23/2023 at 12:37 AM, Stike said: What do you consider a non-insane price? This could be such a price. On German Kleinanzeigen is a black Archtop Std./dotted for 1400 Euros/1200 GBP/1520 USD (+shipping, customs & fees etc.). It popped up just today. STADIUM-Logo. No affiliation. https://www.kleinanzeigen.de/s-anzeige/hamer-archtop-standard-usa/2619028812-74-8445
donner Posted December 3, 2023 Posted December 3, 2023 Yeah, keep 'em cummin': This ones's from today. Blue with black binding. Unfortunately, w/o the accompanying Marshall. https://www.kleinanzeigen.de/s-anzeige/hamer-sunburst-studio-archtop-limited-edition-trans-blue-1992/2619490798-74-1449
Bennyboy-UK Posted December 3, 2023 Author Posted December 3, 2023 On 11/22/2023 at 11:37 PM, Stike said: What do you consider a non-insane price? Good question! I guess it’s a bit tricky because if I’m importing from abroad which is most likely and what I’ve had to do for a load of my nicest guitars, I have to add on a decent chunk of extra costs to any purchase. I need to add insured shipping and then about 25% tax and duty on top of the total. So for the guitar itself I guess £1,500 - £1,700 or so, excluding all the other costs I mention. I do still have the jaded old school view of the pricing of this stuff, and obviously if I’m selling one of mine, clearly it would be priced at a reassuringly expensive level 😛
topekatj Posted December 4, 2023 Posted December 4, 2023 Try to reel ‘em in, @Bennyboy-UK https://reverb.com/item/37075366-hamer-studio-custom-usa-sunburst-flamed-top-bound-and-crown-extremely-rare-version-with-floyd-rose
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