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Location: Colorado Rocky Mountains | Ordered last year from the luthiers at the other end of the building and delivered earlier today . . . upgrades include the ebony board, bound f-holes, Jason Lollar pups, and just a little bit o’ bling. I’m not worthy! The finish is their standard transluscent cherry, although the image appears to be a bit more orange in the photo. Happy Birthday to me. And a special thanks to Al for coordinating the custom upgrades.
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Location: Las Vegas, NV | Very nice! |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | Now that is one sweet looking axe!
Congrats and happy B-Day Professor! |
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Location: Budd Lake, NJ | Wwwwoooowwww--what a beauty. What glorious music she will make.....
--Karen |
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Location: Yucaipa, California | Looks like the Archtop Fairy dropped another nice one! Very nice! |
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Location: Simpsonville, SC | Congrats Prof...looks to be well worth the wait!!! |
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Location: Marlton, NJ | Fantastic! Congrats and Happy Birthday! |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | Happy Birthday! It's nice when someone gives you just what you wanted, even if that someone was yourself. |
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Location: Nashville TN. | I'm jelious |
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Location: Jet City | Happy birthday Brad! Man, that thing is beautiful. I can't even imagine how sweet it must play.
Man...
Oh man...
*sigh*
I needs me one of dem Hamers. And custom, the exact way you wanted it...
That's the way to go my friend!
Enjoy, and I'm awaiting the review. |
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Location: Campbell River, British Columbia | Originally posted by PEZ:
I'm jelious Do you shake when you laugh? |
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Location: Colorado Rocky Mountains | I haven't played it yet, but Al did for a few minutes before he sent it on its way to me and he raved. The action is set incredibly low by Hamer. I'll give it a go tomorrow evening. I found myself playing the ES-335 CRSTD with the coil tap switch always in the single coil mode, so I really wanted the P-90s, then I read a review of a similar Monoco III upgraded with the Jason Lollar P-90s and had to have them myself. As you say, Damon, its nice to get something exactly the way you want. |
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Location: south east Michigan | I gotta think of a stronger, better way to say it than "nice".
But for now.... nice! |
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Location: Marlton, NJ | It's even sweeter having seen how they are actually built. |
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Location: Cincinnati | Happy birthday, Brad! That's one fine guitar! |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | beautiful. |
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Location: NJ | that is one I really did not want to ship.
great action
great feel
great tone
but it has a bigsby and that is not really me |
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Location: Upper Left USA | Happy birthday Brad! Sweet guitar.
If you are tired of that Koa VXT I can help you with the "Leave the nest" anxiety maybe? |
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Location: Blue Ridge Mountains | Outstanding Axe my friend and also: Happy Birthday! That is one Extremely Beautiful Guitar: I have no doubt that it plays and sounds great! |
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Location: south east Michigan | Ed's house in 2006.
We all had fun passing this one around.
You were there Prof, weren't you?
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Location: Capital District, NY, USA Minor Outlying Islands | Congrats. Damn nice guitar. I love those p-90's. |
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Location: Vermont USA | It's been said before AWESOME! |
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Location: Steeler Nation, Hudson Valley Contingent | It's things like this that make me want to try electrics. Beauty instrument! |
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Location: Colorado Rocky Mountains | Thanks for all the kind words, friends. Everyone should treat themselves to something this nice once in a while. The fact that it arrived the day before my birthday was icing on the cake, so to speak. Now I need a Hamer neon sign to complete the bandroom.
Brad, no, I wasn't there in '06, but I was in '07, and was amazed at his rack of Hamers in the basement. Paul is playing a Monoco standard with twin humbuckers. |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | Very Nice. Get some chicken head knobs for the V&T as well. |
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Just delivered from the good folks down the hall . . .