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11-06-2012, 10:55 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2005 Location: Kingston, NY | | | This is a HAMER?
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11-06-2012, 11:10 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Colorado Springs | | | Judging by the headstock - yes, a horribly mangled Hamer.
Looking at the top edge it appears to have started life as a Hamer "Blitz bass" (an explorer shape).
Is that a thumb rest/pull bar mounted north of the bridge?
Not very "cool" looking imo. for $200 I guess you can't complain...but i'd wait & offer $100. That ain't gonna move too quick.
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11-06-2012, 11:11 AM
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Me endorsed? | | Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada | | | Looks like someone took a sawsall to it IMO.
I am not a Hamer expert but I wouldn't expect Joel Danzig would have made such a rough looking bass.
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11-06-2012, 12:13 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: Germany | | | Looks like an ex Hamer Scarab Bass.... |
11-06-2012, 12:21 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: Boston, MA | | Quote:
Originally Posted by senmen  Looks like an ex Hamer Scarab Bass.... | +1 Why anyone would butcher a bass like that is beyond me.  |
11-06-2012, 12:24 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2011 Location: Gatineau QC CA | | Quote:
Originally Posted by smcd +1 Why anyone would butcher a bass like that is beyond me. | He didn't like pointy basses maybe? 
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11-06-2012, 12:30 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: Boston, MA | | | Call me crazy, but if I've always felt that if you don't like pointy basses, don't buy one. Or if you get one for free, sell it and buy a bass that isn't pointy. But vandalizing an instrument with a hacksaw is the mark of a dope. |
11-06-2012, 12:31 PM
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11-06-2012, 12:37 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Colorado Springs | | | d'oh - I knew I'd seen that scoop cut below the bridge somewhere...
the scarab - good eye, senmen.
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11-06-2012, 01:18 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: Upstate, South Carolina | | | Correction...WAS a Hamer.
Was. |
11-06-2012, 01:19 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2012 Location: Durham, United Kingdom | | | LOL.
Yep, a VERY butchered Scarab.......what a waste.
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11-06-2012, 01:21 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: Germany | | Well I like pointy ones, and Hamers, and 12 strings. My 2005 Standard 12 string....  |
11-06-2012, 01:24 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2012 Location: Durham, United Kingdom | | | Very nice senmen
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11-06-2012, 01:37 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Mansfield, TX USA | | | Never shocked any more at what people will do to their instruments. Hey, it's theirs, they can do what they want.
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11-06-2012, 02:10 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: South Jersey | | | I would ask if it comes with the pipe. You know, the one he was hitting when he thought that was a good idea.
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11-06-2012, 02:19 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Somewhere in the maritimes. | | A Hamer Scarab is something that I've wanted since I was a teen listening to Def Leppard... to see one defaced like this makes me want to weep, and tear my clothing... 
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11-06-2012, 06:14 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2010 Location: Cary, Il | | | Jol Dantzig would be rolling over in his grave...if he weren't still alive!!
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11-06-2012, 06:32 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2010 Location: illinois | | | Looks like a scarab. But depending on the year the headstock would have a black veneer. Why someone would ruin an expensive handmade instrument like that is baffling!
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01-30-2013, 05:32 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2011 Location: Hudson Valley, NY | | | Lots of funny stuff floating around Smallbany lately. Saw another pointy Hamer earlier this week.
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02-17-2013, 10:51 AM
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