Please Help Me With My New Hamer Impact Bass

kharmakazee1 · #1 02-07-2013, 02:20 PM

Just scored this NOS Impact from the back room of a local store. It is my dream bass and I would love any info that I could get for insurance purposes as well as personal like what is the name of the finish etc. I have tried to do research for specs but there is not a lot out there.
Thanks in advance TB Family!

alembicguy · #2 02-07-2013, 02:29 PM

Have you tried google? Looks like the Kip Winger one.

kharmakazee1 · #3 02-07-2013, 02:32 PM

Yes it is a Kip Winger Impact. The only colors that I can find however are red, yellow and a white. Can't find this pattern anywhere. Also the fingerboard is ebony.
Thanks!

**DeanT** · #4 02-07-2013, 02:46 PM

The Impacts were made from 1989-1992 and had glued in hard rock maple necks, 24 fret ebony fretboard with Pearl boomerang inlays, Mahogany body and two EMG pickups (an HB and a P-Style). Active electronics.

kharmakazee1 · #5 02-07-2013, 02:50 PM

Thanks DeanT, that's about all I have been able to find out myself. Really interested if anyone knows the rarity of the finish etc. It seems that there is a ton of hoopla here when one becomes available and this one is surely more uniquue than any I have seen to this point.
Thanks again!

recycled rocker · #6 02-07-2013, 05:22 PM

Looks like it is a marble or iridescent.hard to tell from the pic. Does it have multiple colors like blue,green,yellow? Or is it one color.either way most of the ones we did back then were black red or natural. So its one of the rare colors. I would love to see more pics and if there is initials under the pic-ups Or in the control cavity to see if i painted it or finished it

kharmakazee1 · #7 02-07-2013, 05:28 PM

Thanks for all the help!!!
It is black and gold only. I will gladly get you the pics you requested.

recycled rocker · #8 02-07-2013, 05:34 PM

Gold marble is what that was called. It was a custom color if i remember correctly. Although most hamers back then were custom orders. I always loved the boomerang inlays on ebony. And the neck profile fit my hand like a glove. Does it have the arched body?

funkyebk · #9 02-07-2013, 05:36 PM

You didn't happen to get that from Zoo Music in Dallas did you?

kharmakazee1 · #10 02-07-2013, 05:37 PM

Beveled/arched yes

recycled rocker · #11 02-07-2013, 05:39 PM

Sorry but that finish on that guitar was called iridescent not haloflash. They have it listed wrong.haloflash was esp or jackson or some other company.

kharmakazee1 · #12 02-07-2013, 05:39 PM

Ft worth actually

Any info would be great

recycled rocker · #13 02-07-2013, 05:40 PM

Sweet there was a few that went through that weren't arched. We even did a six string impact guitar for lita ford that was very cool

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Originally Posted by kharmakazee1

Beveled/arched yes

Avalon · #14 02-07-2013, 06:49 PM

Ha! This is when TB is at its most awesomeness - when the guy who finds a rare bass is able to get answers from the guy who built the rare bass.