What will I say about this, I am not posting a lot lately, but read from time to time, had a lot of issues and a full agenda the last couple of months. Something was in the air, but the departure of Jol was a surprise:( Hamer guitars were and are excellent guitars, but I do think they'll have a hard time and had a hard time the last couple of years. If you see how much labor the put in a guitar and the material they are using you can not expect to have a Hamer under $ 2000-2500 anymore. Then there comes a point of custommers, I can buy a $ 1000 guitar right away if I want and put earplugs in so I can't hear my wife, but a $ 3000 guitar is something else...with the financial crisis and raising guitarprices it gets harder and harder to sell them, and the fact they are not as well known as a Fender or Gibson. I am not a fan of Fender and the way they work, I own a Guild, and you have to search hard here to find an original Guild guitar cause their goal now is to sell $ 700 guitars. I think they wanna do that with brands as Hamer as well. (look how many times they've moved their Guild factory) They are more a compagny of making money instead of building nice instrumenst for a sellect group of people. Maybe, but it is speculation this is one of the parts Jol doesn't like and remember they started in the 70's with making better guitars out of a Fender/Gibson!! Maybe if he wants to and can finance it he'll build a Dantzig guitar, and if so I will buy 1.. Just my 2 cents.....my spelling sucks, my englisch sucks...but this is what I think Jeroen