NGD! My token mahogany double-hum guitar.

[Rich_S]

I'm a pretty hardcore Tele guy, but everybody should have a Gibby-length, maple-over-mahogany, twin-humbucker guitar in the stable. Being a fan of Rick Nielsen and James Honeyman-Scott, but chronically short of the $$$ needed to buy a real-deal Hamer, I've been on the lookout for one of these:



It's a '90s MIK Hamer "Slammer Series", reputed to be built by Cort, and not to be confused with later Slammer guitars. It plays too easily - the previous owner has a set of 9's on it, and I'm used to 10's on a Telecaster. This one's in really nice shape, no major dings anywhere. I believe the pickups are Duncan Designed HB102 (JB) bridge and HB101 ('59) neck.

Ignoring the "USA vs. MIK" and "Sustain Block vs. Tune-o-matic" differences, it scratches my itch for a red double-cut Hamer, and puts me in pretty good company:

 

[jeremy]

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nice! my maple over mahogany gibby scale two bucker guitar is a hamer too! at first i missed the 2nd tone knob but i ended up wiring the tone to just the bridge pup which works fine for me.

 

[Rand-O-Monium]

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Yum!!!
'Grats!

 

[BTMN]

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Great lil guitars to bang around on. I have it's twin I picked up in 2001 on a trip to Ohio.

 

[Rich_S]

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Mine has SIX strings.

I have to figure out the pickups. The ultimate would be a double-cream/zebra combination. The obvious, easy solution would be a pair of Dimarzio PAFs; the 36th Anniversary are probably pretty close to what Hamer put in the original "Sunburst" models back in the late '70s. If I want to stick with Duncans (all my other pickups are) I'll probably have to settle for two zebras, since ol' Larry has made getting double-cream Duncans so hard to get. If I did go Duncan, I'd probably go with a Custom 5 or C5/59 Hybrid in the bridge, since my goldtop Tele already has a '59 set.

 

[Wattage]

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Nice score!

JHS was a killer, too much too soon, damn

 

[Rich_S]

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I'd like to think he's playing the solo in "Tattooed Love Boys" in that poster photo; he used to do a big divebomb-with-the-tuning-peg thing at the end of that solo live.

 

[Rand-O-Monium]

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Zeeb nk @ least!

Nice Topwrap,too,do it w/all my TOMs!

'Grats Again,get a case/bag?

Looking forward to the progress!

 

[Demanic]

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I'd slap a set of BW's in there and never look back.

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[Southbound Suarez]

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I finally swapped all of my Gibson tail pieces for Kluson Aluminum versions...

https://www.tubesandmore.com/products/tailpiece-kluson-lightweight-aluminum-w-steel-studs

Many manufacturers claim that the use of lightweight metals and alloys, such as aluminum, provide a greater transfer of the string's vibrational energy or "resonant quality" to the guitar body since there is less mass to excite. Aluminum was also used in the early examples of stop tail bridges from the 1950s, so it carries the mantle of "vintage" vibe.

 

[MkIII Renegade]

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Ignoring the "USA vs. MIK" and "Sustain Block vs. Tune-o-matic" differences, it scratches my itch for a red double-cut Hamer, and puts me in pretty good company:

If you can be even 1/10th as creative as that bloke with your Hamer, it will be in very good hands. :cool2:

 

[bladefrenzy]

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Meet the twins!!! Love the import Hamers!!

 

[BloodRose]

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Nice Score!

 

[Rich_S]

NGD! My token mahogany double-hum guitar.

Update: I decided to go full-on Hamer mojo. Josh Gravelin is making me a set of pickups. Double cream bridge, zebra neck, wound to sound like the old Hamers. I told him I wanted that Cheap Trick Budokan snarl, and he said these will do it. I think they're pretty much the same pickups he wound for the first run of Shishkov Ultimates.

Blade frenzy, your twins are very pretty but I have a thing for flat-tops. I have some sort of strange right-forearm masochistic tendency.


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[jeremy]

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i think the original hamer pups (besides gibson pups) were an under wound dimarzio paf and normal paf in the bridge

 

[Rich_S]

NGD! My token mahogany double-hum guitar.

Yeah, I know that but Josh's pickups are a lot cooler, plus he worked me a deal where putting them in a Slammer isn't insane. [emoji41]


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[jeremy]

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haha nice! look forward to hearing a review once you get them

 

[Rich_S]

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Hmmm. This photo just arrived from southern Minnesota. I wonder what it means?

 

[jeremy]

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incoming!

 

[BTMN]

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Nice! Love my Gravelins in my Shishkov!