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Sold an Explorer, then these magically became available. Finishing paying off my condo will have to wait a couple extra months so I can jam more guitars in it. 🙃 Got the '06 Artist on ebay. Seller had a realistic price, and I have an extra set of Gravelins I haven't put in anything yet, so that will be on the agenda whenever I can make it to Hollywood Guitars. Really nice condition. Not too different than my korina Artists, but different enough. And very black. PRS came from Dave's. Dated Feb 2025, how something this new can already be 'used' is fascinating. But I'll take it if someone else took the depreciation hit. The new PRS TSA cases are nice, too.

I was looking more at the nut, and the line behind it on the headstock. Maybe it's just the world-renowned advanced photography tricknology GC is famous for, deceiving me into thinking I'm seeing something that isn't there. 🤩

I was mildly intrigued right up to here: I'm not even sure what that is, but it looks pretty wrong. Decent deal if correctable though

Is y'all's google broken? this happened years ago. https://guitar.com/news/gear-news/ovation-guitars-has-been-acquired-by-gewa-music/ GEWA Music has announced its acquisition of Ovation Guitars from longtime partner, Drum Workshop Inc. Associated brands Adamas and Applause are reportedly part of the deal, which was inked in September 2020. DW came to own Ovation Guitars in 2015 through a multi-brand acquisition from Fender/KMC. GEWA was then awarded sole Ovation distribution rights throughout Europe, and began designing exclusive models for the European market. As of 1 February 2021, GEWA Music USA will take over distribution of Ovation Guitars in the US. GEWA will also continue servicing the international retail partners with which it currently has deals. Ovation’s New Hartford Custom Shop will be taking over manufacturing of the Adamas models from DW. According to GEWA, the hand-built instruments will be available for viewing on the Ovation website, and can be purchased through the brand’s worldwide network of Ovation PLUS retailers. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ovation_Guitar_Company In 2008, KMCMusicorp (and with that the Ovation brand) was sold to the Fender Musical Instruments Corporation.[13] In 2014, Fender announced that they were closing the Ovation guitar factory in New Hartford, Connecticut, leaving all production of Ovation guitars overseas.[14] Before that announcement, Fender established a U.S. production of various acoustic guitars in the New Hartford factory. Alongside Ovation and Adamas guitars, which were produced there for decades, Fender started a U.S. production of other Fender-owned brands in that factory, as is known, Guild (Guild Guitar Company) and Fender Acoustic Custom Shop.[15] Shortly after closing the New Hartford factory on April 30, 2014, it was announced that the Ovation brand had been sold to the company Drum Workshop, alongside a few other previously Fender-owned brands. The announcement was made on January 7, 2015. In addition to the Ovation brand, Drum Workshop also opened a smaller New Hartford factory near the old facility and reinstated the previously ceased U.S. production of Ovation and Adamas guitars.[16] In 2020, the German-based GEWA company acquired the brand and assets of Ovation and Adamas from Drum Workshop and moved production to a smaller shop in New Hartford, Connecticut.[7] In January 2024, Ovation and Adamas guitars were displayed at the NAMM Show in Anaheim, California, as part of the larger GEWA family of brands. I do recall reading that a couple people from the old US factory kept the equipment workable for the years they weren't making anything post-FMIC shutdown.

Spectacular. Want.

Correct. The pic he posted in this thread gives a good idea of how much damage has occurred since he had it. But no mention of the pickguard.

Hi TJ, Fender used to, a long time ago. They sold it off with part of KMC to Jam Industries (they were the ones behind the aborted 2017 attempt to resurrect the brand with Indonesian made, Hamer-branded guitars). Jam Industries itself was acquired by Irish conglomerate DCC. Neither Jam https://jamindustries.com/ nor DCC https://www.dcc.ie/ web sites make any mention of the brand that i have seen in a long time, but last I knew, Jam/DCC was still the effective owner of it. As far as I know, there is no 'official' merchandise being manufactured.

Would be extremely cautious with this seller should you pursue this one. Have had a very bad experience with them. According to yelp, it wasn't just me. https://www.adkguitar.com/collections/guitars/products/used-hamer-newport $2300 "Up for sale is a gently used Hamer Newport Pro made in the USA. This great guitar has been thoroughly inspected and found to be in perfect working order. The guitar will include the original Hamer hard shell case. Approximate weight - 7.34lbs"

I am surprised that Henry-less Gibson has not made a run of these yet.

Non-Floyded '78 $699: https://www.adorama.com/ev5107900576.html?sdtid=18194563&emailprice=t

Yep. Clipped from a Reverb ad from a year ago: https://reverb.com/item/78866430-hamer-usa-standard-korina-limited-edition-98-of-100-ltd-1995

Damn, this one again, haunting me. I'm reasonably confident this is yet another CL scam ad. I just missed getting this guitar for stupid cheap when I stumbled across it on offerup a few months ago. I never look there, and happened to be searching out something totally unrelated. Anyway, I signed up for an account to contact the seller and missed by a couple hours. A few days later, Guitar Broker/Craig Brody had it listed on his site, and ebay and reverb, but he had changed the strings and top-wrapped them on the tailpiece. The pictures in this ad are from his site & the Reverb/ebay ads. He listed it for like $5500-6000 or so. Reasonably sure he didn't sell it for anywhere near what this current 'seller' would be unloading it for. Totally not his style. You can see the same brick wall in his listing for a 4-digit lefty Standard: https://www.guitarbroker.com/product/1979-hamer-standard-left-handed/ Also, the CL ad is the same text from the Guitar Broker ebay/reverb listings. Has the same mis-spelling of Rick Nielsen's name copied right from the Guitar Broker erroneous ads. Same mis-identification of DiMarzio pickups etc. Conclusion: beware of this ad. Seems to be very common scam procedure lately on many sites, just take pictures from another ad and claim you have the guitar. Edit - found the Guitar Broker Reverb ad: https://reverb.com/item/85207605-hamer-standard-1997-stunning-27-year-old-faded-cherry-burst-flame-top-a-la-cheap-trick Also, if you want to see where it came from before then, and why I am 'haunted' by it: https://offerup.com/item/detail/45f1278f-4f75-32e5-9cd8-2d1fa201c08e?cid=6.7 I didn't want it to re-sell, I wanted it. Grr.

Looking a little further, this may be a scam. Was sold allegedly by our good close personal friend brentrocks on TGP last year: https://www.thegearpage.net/board/index.php?threads/hamer-usa-chaparral-elite.2540343/ The CL ad is even using the same photos. Beware.

I'm not that far away, maybe an hour with traffic. If you or someone really wants it & seller won't ship, I might be able to assist.