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Hamer Club?!
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Wacky paint job? I like those "granite" finishes they did.
Hamer did some of the nicest custom finishes out there. Their graphics guy back then, Jim O'Connr was outstanding, especialy with his snakeskin, celestial and marble finishes.
Hamer did some of the nicest custom finishes out there. Their graphics guy back then, Jim O'Connr was outstanding, especialy with his snakeskin, celestial and marble finishes.
Here's a poor pic of my Chaparral Max at rehearsal recently
Yep it would be Kaman era then. The paint work like that probably actually originated with Hamer and was copied by Kaman on their other lines like GTX which were basically just Korean made Hamer copies
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Oh the Hamer stuff is just as good in that era. Kaman mostly let them run their company as they saw fit.,
Here is mine.
Hamer Cruise 4 strings, Slammer Series, 1st generation MiK.
Body: Alder.
Neck: Maple.
FingerBoard: RoseWood, 34'', 22 frets, 38mm Nut width.
PickGuard: Tort.
Bridge: Schaller 3D-4, 19mm spacing.
Tuners: Y-Shape.
Pick-ups: Seymour Duncan Antiquity II. 250K Pots. Copper shielding.
Knobs: Fender Style. Volume, Volume, Tone.
Strings: D'Addario Half Rounds ENR71, 100-80-65-45.
Bought this beauty in 1999. First bass, first love.
Hamer Cruise 4 strings, Slammer Series, 1st generation MiK.
Body: Alder.
Neck: Maple.
FingerBoard: RoseWood, 34'', 22 frets, 38mm Nut width.
PickGuard: Tort.
Bridge: Schaller 3D-4, 19mm spacing.
Tuners: Y-Shape.
Pick-ups: Seymour Duncan Antiquity II. 250K Pots. Copper shielding.
Knobs: Fender Style. Volume, Volume, Tone.
Strings: D'Addario Half Rounds ENR71, 100-80-65-45.
Bought this beauty in 1999. First bass, first love.
The numbers on the Hamer import models weren't "Serial Numbers, per se. Same for many of the stick on adnesive numbers on other brand imports. What those are are a way for U.S. Dept of Commerce to keep a count on how many import pieces are being made by a manufacturer. It 's just a headcount, not a Serial Number that a manufacturer can look up and tell you specs on. Only the U.S. Hamer models had SN#s that were kept in a logbook with the original specs of the build. Unfortunately, I was told that the goons that Fender hired to "close" Hamer, forced the employees to destroy most everything at the factory and throw it all into the dumpsters....logbooks, templates and all the important stuff too....or else they would not get their severance checks. Real Nazi B.S.
I just picked up my third USA 2Tek. I had sold one, as it had a wider string spacing for some reason. I got this as a project bass, it was beat up, but for 450 and bordering my favorite bass i felt i had to do it. So here's this beat up metallic blue that they made, i unpack it, go to tune it and the nut falls off. I can see its not the original nut as i have this same bass. To me the most impressive thing is even in this condition, it still plays better than almost anything i've ever pick up (and certainly 100% better than any Fender ever). Nice knowing you guys as i will probably now get kicked off TB.
Oh, and mc2ny, i constantly google specs for Hamer instruments, they are hard to find to not at all. I cant even find what nut material was used on this last purchase.
Oh, and mc2ny, i constantly google specs for Hamer instruments, they are hard to find to not at all. I cant even find what nut material was used on this last purchase.
Most 90s thru early 2000s used their black 'lubritrak' synthetic material. I have several 90s up to '04 Hamers that all have that type of nut, and '05 and '07 guitars with bone - so they seem to have switched back around then.
Can't say I notice much difference, and if I were replacing I wouldn't go out of my way trying to track down that synthetic material. I always make my replacements out of bone blanks if I have to swap one out...
Any idea is lubitrak is the same as TUSQ. I have a bone blank, but its white unbleached. I have no problem using it, i;ll have to look at some models and see if it looks funny. Most of my nuts do seem to be black.
Not sure specifically what the lubritrak material was comprised of, but yeah the Graph Tech material looks close enough... Those teflon-infused TUSQ nuts are available in black:
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Hi, I believe that is a Schaller 3d bridge. At least it is what came with mine and it looks the same.
schaller 3d bridge bass - Google Search
I have almost nothing. The Slammers,tried them at a store, was unimpressed. Bought a Hamer Velocity even though it wasnt much better. Looks like someone modded the bridge, i put the same on the Velocity. Didnt help much. One thing i say about the modded Velocity is people seem to compliment the tone, only reason i kept it.
Hi, nice bass, needs new strings, ahah!
That is not a Slammer bass, those were made in Indonesia.
The Hamer Slammer Series is the first imported bass Hamer did, according to a former Hamer worker (e-mailed me some information) and was made in Korea with components sent from Hamer USA. They were made somewhere between 1995 and 1997. Then, Hamer moved the production to Indonesia and on the headstock it was only writen "Hamer". Later they became only "Slammer". Very different basses.
I think the bridge is original, very similar to the one in my bass and I think it's a Schaller 3D.
