Goodbye Hamer (very sad)
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Jeffrec
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Re: Goodbye Hamer (very sad)
Mine is all mahogany. It was one of the first two prototypes for the Archtop Custom. One was all mahogany and the other had a maple cap according to Kim Keller at Hamer when I wrote to them back in the day. They decided to go wit a maple cap after that I assume.
Jeff
Mine is all mahogany. It was one of the first two prototypes for the Archtop Custom. One was all mahogany and the other had a maple cap according to Kim Keller at Hamer when I wrote to them back in the day. They decided to go wit a maple cap after that I assume.
Jeff
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Hamer should have been as successful as PRS. Why weren't they?
I think it's because none of their original designs were as happening as Paul Reed Smith's ONE design.
For some reason their original designs just weren't sexy. I never lusted over a Hamer guitar.
Owned quite a few of them over the years and had some great playing, great sounding Hamers though. Loved the Hamoer Monoco Super Pro. But it wasn't as sexy as my ES-335 and didn't inspire the same lust.
Also, the finishes always seemed to thick.
It's a shame.
Hamer should have been as successful as PRS. Why weren't they?
I think it's because none of their original designs were as happening as Paul Reed Smith's ONE design.
For some reason their original designs just weren't sexy. I never lusted over a Hamer guitar.
Owned quite a few of them over the years and had some great playing, great sounding Hamers though. Loved the Hamoer Monoco Super Pro. But it wasn't as sexy as my ES-335 and didn't inspire the same lust.
Also, the finishes always seemed to thick.
It's a shame.
Jeffrec
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Re: Goodbye Hamer (very sad)
Lew,
I also think PRS was in the right place at the right time. A lot of bands at that time, or at least the players in that age group latched on to them. It became THE guitar to play. PRS did a better job of marketing their stuff too. However, I do agree that the Hamer stuff looked great, but looked like early Gibsons and PRS was way different. I never really warmed up to any PRS I played, but they are great guitars.
Jeff
Lew,
I also think PRS was in the right place at the right time. A lot of bands at that time, or at least the players in that age group latched on to them. It became THE guitar to play. PRS did a better job of marketing their stuff too. However, I do agree that the Hamer stuff looked great, but looked like early Gibsons and PRS was way different. I never really warmed up to any PRS I played, but they are great guitars.
Jeff
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Finish on my two fairly recent USA models( 2004, and 2005) were very thin. I had a USA Studio brieflyaround 93 but I do not recall.
Otherwise I agree. There was some fundamental aesthetic quirks about them that really could be detracting. On some of the stuffthey put outin the 1980s...it wws really quirky like the blitz' with that traditional 3x3... yuck.
Control layouts were an issue too AFAIC on everything but the Standard.
Nitpicking, yes...but when someone is spending 2 grand plus on an axe, nitpicks can and will kill a sale.
Amazing guitars,and I will miss them.
Finish on my two fairly recent USA models( 2004, and 2005) were very thin. I had a USA Studio brieflyaround 93 but I do not recall.
Otherwise I agree. There was some fundamental aesthetic quirks about them that really could be detracting. On some of the stuffthey put outin the 1980s...it wws really quirky like the blitz' with that traditional 3x3... yuck.
Control layouts were an issue too AFAIC on everything but the Standard.
Nitpicking, yes...but when someone is spending 2 grand plus on an axe, nitpicks can and will kill a sale.
Amazing guitars,and I will miss them.
Jeffrec
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Re: Goodbye Hamer (very sad)
Amazing top on that baby! Enjoy Bro'
Have never GASed for a PRS but I am ate up over Hamers since 1977. Newer version of your's jeffrec, a 2005, that I got last week for my birthday later this month.....
Amazing top on that baby! Enjoy Bro'
