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Be sure to read the fine print.

Headstock looks like it was used to stir the coals.

I don't get it either, but as much as I don't need 40 Vs I also never needed 86 guitars at one time, but dammit I had them.

Abbie's straight-edge little brother. I surprised to see the Accept discography continued beyond Metal Heart.

Good grief...I hope we all aren't expected to be as adult as this. So, in your humble opinion, it was only your ignorance of the backstory that prevented you from enjoying the performance? Again with this adulting nonsense! Many of you have become the reason we played our music so loud as kids.

Valid if that was what was being posted focused on value, but it wasn't so it isn't.

OMG!!! SOMEONE MODDED THEIR GUITAR!! 🤯 I agree with Bubs (even if he meant it more tongue in cheek). Good on the owner for taking what he had and making it what he wanted. Were any of us in the audience we'd only think "cool, a natural Monaco"

Ha, I felt like one of the guys that used to ride around Southern California selling cheap speakers out the back of the white mini vans. Anyone watching would have probably been thinking even worse.

Somehow I've become "computer guy" to my elderly mother, and "computer" encompasses anything that involves electricity. It's my least favorite thing in the world, made worse by a woman that goes out of her way to sabotage her electronics. Most recent case: When she got a new iPhone I set it up for her and let it do its auto-copy thing from the old phone. After a week or so she complained her new phone was no longer working. Turns out she'd swapped the sims for some reason, although she swears she didn't. I assume she read somewhere that you should swap sims when getting a new phone? She's as bad as my lying teenage ass ever was.

From what I've gleaned from comments here and there from Germany Hamer fans there seems to be a widespread belief in that area that all the boards, even on early production guitars, were Brazilian rosewood. There was allegedly a music store somewhere in Germany that was creating these certificates stating as such and also to confirm that it was all sourced pre-cites so it was a-okay for international shipment

They could have had a Glock switch which makes the gun wildly inaccurate. Great when the target is alone, but horrible in a crowded space.

Bridge pickup doesn't have the beveled slugs so it's likely been replaced. Great looking guitar! Nice score.

I thought we'd just enjoy a laugh but if you're seriously interested It's likely a pre-2002 Full Shred "B"ridge pickup wound by Maricela "J"uarez.

Seymour Duncan BJ? Not sure I’m up for that.

They're fairly good quality but IMO that price is more indicative of that particular model's (copy of Hamer 0000) scarcity than it genuinely being a $1750 guitar. That said, I've seen them sell for much more.

Grab a black one and you've got a heck of a head start on a franky.

Their Orca model took everything about an LP and dialed the sexy up to ten. The Dolphin looks like something they sucked all the sexy out of.

But he said “great” bands

Are you able to hold a pick with your left hand? You might be reduced to campfire songs while developing your right hand for chording and your left hand for picking, but it flips the script in a way that adds some symmetry to the challenge of regaining some level of proficiency.

Unless it was repaired in the manner requested by the owner, then it’s a perfect repair. Sunbursts also stopped using the wide octave dots after ‘79. I believe it was the same across the brand.

You may be right? Mine was sold as and annotated as a 1500 on my receipt, but there’s gretsch ad copy that calls it a 1000. 1500 seems to be what most online are calling it these days.

The 1000 was very similar but not exactly the same.

My first was a cheap Sears acoustic I got for Christmas of 1979 as a test to see if I'd "stick with it". My first real guitar came seven months later, a 1980 Gretsch BST-1500, bought new for $315 total for guitar, hard case, and a Lab Series L3 amp. It has seen thousands of miles accompanying me on over twenty-three years of military deployments and even managed a decade or so with the infamous Wonderbar installed. It remained stock (aside from the trem) for most of its life but spent some time with @murkat several years ago for a refresh.