Hamer Eclipse PU

[mtm105]

This guitar seems to be an original.

Tune-o-matic bridge, as opposed to a wrap around. Original Eclipse comes exclusively with SD mini-buckers. Candy Apple green likely on 12 Strings and Slammer series.

This guitar has what I imagine to be a SD Distortion on bridge. No label on neck, I assume same, or similar.

Can anyone take an educated guess??

 

[jeremy]

the color looks great!

hamer put a 59n and jb in a lot of their usa models for a while. there should be something on the back of the pup to tell ya what it is, if not then the dc resistance would give a clue.

 

[mtm105]

the color looks great!

hamer put a 59n and jb in a lot of their usa models for a while. there should be something on the back of the pup to tell ya what it is, if not then the dc resistance would give a clue.

OK. TY. I figured someone might have an idea.

I am in no hurry to tear apart. The neck pickup has no identification. Is there a likelihood that it isn't a Seymour Duncan? It seems like an odd matched set.

Hard to imagine. I bought an Archtop Sunburst. My son owns Eclipse. Each guitar over 30 years old and they both look brand new.

 

[Mincer]

Well, it is hard to tell from the pic...the back would have a stamped baseplate and a sticker, though. You can always just loosen the strings and unscrew the pickup to look.

 

[playas]

Hamers often had a zebra/reverse zebra neck combined with a double black/double cream bridge pickup stock - even sometimes on covered pickups - so that seems right, albeit with the rings removed.

Unscrewing the pickups at your next string change to look at the bottoms (without having to tear anything else apart) seems like a no-brainer to me.

They look to me like they haven't been extended, but the routes look like full sized humbuckers - I can't be sure from the pic, in which case you'll have to check the bottoms to have any clue. As Hamer USA was effectively a custom shop, one offs would be par for the course so full size HH from the factory wouldn't be impossible even for a guitar that came with mini hums as standard.

Otherwise my best guess from what I have read would be a seymourized mini humbucker set.

 

[mtm105]

It's a toss up. My son bought his guitar, and I figured I'd sell a Telecaster. I went out local pickup and bought a 1993 Hamer Sunburst archtop.

It came with a set of Florance Voodoo59 pickups. OMFG. The Voodoos sound like an original angry 59 Les Paul.

I like the SDs. Nice mellower user friendly sound. Both Hamers over 30 years old and look brand new.