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01-04-2013, 01:21 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2000 Location: Seattle,WA | | | Fender shuts down Hamer production!
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01-04-2013, 01:23 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Greenville, NC USA | | | The times..... they are uh changing.
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01-04-2013, 01:23 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2013 Location: Brighton, UK | | | perhaps i'm not reading into this enough but is there a reason why?
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01-04-2013, 01:24 PM
|  | aka Marc or Marky Potatoes | | Join Date: Jul 2011 Location: Brooklyn, NY, United States | | | I'm sorry to hear this, but I can't say that I'm totally surprised. I don't think too many people have been using Hamers since their heyday sometime ago.
Still, RIP producers of the first 12-string bass.
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01-04-2013, 02:13 PM
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Originally Posted by OneAri  perhaps i'm not reading into this enough but is there a reason why? | Sounds to me like they want to limit the number of different brands they're producing and concentrate on the biggest selling ones. It's probably a smart move on Fender's part. A company with too many irons in the fire can lose focus on what's important. |
01-04-2013, 02:13 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Austin, TX | | | Hamer was basically the redheaded stepchild no one wanted after the Fender buyout of Kayman, and its hard to have hard feelings for FMIC about this given Hamer's long term struggles with turning a profit.
They made great, great instruments, but a business must ultimately make money. Especially after incurring significant debt during the Kayman buyout.
I, for one, will never let my Hamer go.
In a way I think its better to see the brand ended than to watch it languish like has for the past few years. |
01-04-2013, 02:16 PM
|  | Always groove.... | | Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Columbia, Md | | | I haven't seen a new Hamer anywhere for years and years. I'm only surprised they were still around. |
01-04-2013, 02:18 PM
|  | Supporting Member | | Join Date: Jul 2012 Location: SC. Where everything is fried! | | | Old news. They priced themselves out of the marketplace. Hamer employees are now producing Guilds as FMC owns both brands. They were already a niche manufacturer (as of late), and then raised their prices significantly.
..and I love Hamers, I own 2 so no hatin' going on here... |
01-04-2013, 02:25 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2011 Location: Los Angeles | | | I have a different theory. All of those Slammers were eating into Squier's sales so Fender just decided to shut down the company.
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01-04-2013, 02:25 PM
|  | I love my BALLS! | | Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Warwick, NY | | Quote:
Originally Posted by BoomBoomOGTL Old news. They priced themselves out of the marketplace. Hamer employees are now producing Guilds as FMC owns both brands. They were already a niche manufacturer (as of late), and then raised their prices significantly.
..and I love Hamers, I own 2 so no hatin' going on here... | Oh that's right. This is old news from this morning RIGHT?
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01-04-2013, 02:27 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: I'm on a Mexican wo-oh radio | | | those bastages !!! I'm not surprised.
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01-04-2013, 02:32 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Austin, TX | | Quote:
Originally Posted by jlepre Oh that's right. This is old news from this morning RIGHT? | Last month, actually. |
01-04-2013, 02:35 PM
|  | Patiently Waiting For The Next British Invasion. | | Join Date: Aug 2010 Location: Ohio | | | Man I was just getting ready to order three of those.
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01-04-2013, 03:01 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: South Jersey | | | I tried to order a Standard guitar (the Explorer shaped one) from their Custom Shop about 3 year ago with the famous 80's boomerang neck inlays and they basically told me 'no way, not for you or anyone else ever again'. Now I can't even play guitar due to arthritis, but I would have kept it if they had let me buy it. I think if their Custom Shop will not remake a classic instrument for you from their heyday then maybe folding up that tent is the way to go.
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01-04-2013, 03:23 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Mansfield, TX USA | | | That Cruise bass with the 2Tek bridge was interesting but they cost too much to make. I just picked up an 80's Cruisebass here that might be a keeper.
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01-04-2013, 03:32 PM
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Endorsing Artist: Aguilar Amplification, Regenerate Guitar Works | | Join Date: May 2000 Location: Vancouver BC/Pacific Northwest | | | Always wanted a Monaco bass but the price never made it possible. |
01-04-2013, 03:36 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Boston, MA, USA | | Quote:
Originally Posted by SBsoundguy I have a different theory. All of those Slammers were eating into Squier's sales so Fender just decided to shut down the company. | Well it's much worse.
Hamer has been the one brand which manufactured all over the planet, in a variety of qualities, without ever marking anything clearly. Sure, Slammer was clear enough but for non-Slammers it was pretty much impossible to find out anything.
As a result the whole brand went down the toilet, and that killed US production in the end, too.
Worst brand management of any guitar company in the last decade. |
01-04-2013, 04:49 PM
| | | | I had thought they were out of business a long time ago. I have never in my years seen a new one. Ah well the vintage ones are now worth more. Hamer, you will be missed. 2-teks, Cruise basses and innexpensive MIAs are now a thing of legend. |
01-04-2013, 04:54 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: East Petersburg PA | | Quote:
Originally Posted by CORBS 2-teks, Cruise basses and innexpensive MIAs are now a thing of legend. | Warmoth is doing the 2-Tek bridge now. For guitar and bass. Not all is lost. |
01-04-2013, 05:04 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: Friday Harbor, WA | | Quote:
Originally Posted by andrew Always wanted a Monaco bass but the price never made it possible. | Yeah, the monacos always looked really cool. Same with a lot of their other stuff. This may be one of the coolest basses I've ever seen:  http://www.hamerfanclub.com/forums/t...falcon-update/
I also really love the look of their 12s and 8s in the similar body style. Shame I could never afford one.
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