gorch Posted August 28, 2014 Posted August 28, 2014 Atomicwash, will you go there every now and then and feed us with pics in different sunlight?
Tres Aardvarks Posted August 28, 2014 Posted August 28, 2014 Daaaaayum!!! There's some real lookers in there!
RichRS6 Posted August 28, 2014 Posted August 28, 2014 Woah !Just checked the price on the white standard and almost choked.$7195 !!! (List $8995) good job I don't like pickguards on standards (or victory inlays).White Studio Custom $6950. (list $8710).No wonder they've been on the wall so long.Just one more reason Hamer went out of business if their C/O's were this expensive.
atomicwash Posted August 28, 2014 Author Posted August 28, 2014 Gorch, I wish I could!The photos were sent to me, I'm not local. Dang web wearches.
mc2 Posted August 28, 2014 Posted August 28, 2014 After someone posted that Lightning Joe's had a bunch of NOS Hamers around a month back, I checked out their site.There were no Hamer Basses left...but I spotted a rare '87 Gibson Custom Shop Thunderpbird. I called them up and everyone I dealt with was a complete pleasure to deal with. I did think it odd, initially, when I was told the bass was "hanging up high on the ceiling" so I had to wait for someone to get it down to give me an in-hand di scripting.Anyway...I ended up with the bass. It is actually better than described, practically mint. looks like it may have been played once and then thrown back in the case for 27 years. Original case too. Got them to knock the price down a hair....which was already around half of what it is worth....they priced it like a run of the mill, used modern Gibby TBird.So, I found them to be really great to deal with.
Never2Late Posted August 28, 2014 Posted August 28, 2014 FYI, the Mahog Standard I call "dibs" on - I've contacted them.
mc2 Posted August 28, 2014 Posted August 28, 2014 I LOVE their website. Not the typical cookie cutter look. Looks like someone spent a LOT of time in Photoshop. A little odd navigation wise but I think they made it that way to force you to look at all the weird graphics...Pic of the rare '87 Gib Cust Shop TBird I scored from them. Big 60s headstock...ebony fingerboard. I have a set of NOS '70s chrome TBird PUPs, same as they used in my '86 TBird II...might throw those in it.Gibson hadn't built TBirds since the Bicentenial ones in the late 70s...then began doing some very limited ones in 1987 at the Custom Shop. They had made a few TBirdII builds in 1986 for a Dealer in Japan...10 or so. I have a Polaris White one of those. All the pre-90s ones are extremely rare. I've seen fewer than six of each ( in photos, not even in person..almost all artist owned) of the TBird II and TBird IV basses in searching for them since the '90s. The handful of 80s TBirds are the last U.S. ones made with the big 60s style headstock and neck-thru bodies.
atquinn Posted August 28, 2014 Posted August 28, 2014 I LOVE their website. Not the typical cookie cutter look. Looks like someone spent a LOT of time in Photoshop. A little odd navigation wise but I think they made it that way to force you to look at all the weird graphics... Surely you jest? Go to the website below and click on the Hamer Artist Ultimate link. Or perhaps you'd like to look for more Hamers in Hidden Treasures? Laughably, inexcusably horrible. http://www.lightningjoes.com/newelectrics.html
MCChris Posted August 28, 2014 Posted August 28, 2014 Yeah, I really hope mc2 is joking.Even "pick" is misspelled in their fucking clever tagline!
mc2 Posted August 28, 2014 Posted August 28, 2014 No, really...I DO like the website. It's eclectic and weird....hard to find stuff and secret back doors. I like the strange Monty Python-ish graphics. They probably HAVE all that NOS stuff sitting there BECAUSE the website is so hard to navigate and most people get fed up and log off of it. ....it's kind of like if Salvador Dali sat at a computer some drunken weekend with a "HTML For Dummies" book. Then again....I have owned like 20 Karmann Ghias and though they were cool too.
Disturber Posted August 28, 2014 Posted August 28, 2014 I like the strange Monty Python-ish graphics. A woman with the lower part of the body like an onion. What is NOT to like? You thought you had seen it all. The Unicorn. The Mermaid. The Yeti. You were sooooo wrong, you had completely missed... THE ONION WOMAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The Cramps should write a song about her. Wait, Lux Interior is dead. DEAD!
devrock Posted August 28, 2014 Posted August 28, 2014 No, really...I DO like the website. It's eclectic and weird....hard to find stuff and secret back doors.Which is the LAST thing I want when I visit a website, much less one where I'm trying to find rare guitars. It's hard enough to find oddities and get really irritated by some store that thinks it's cute to have some asinine site that is as complicated as can be. That's a sure fire way to get me to NOT come back ever.
mc2 Posted August 28, 2014 Posted August 28, 2014 Geez.....Then don't click on FatDawg.com to look for rare guitars and parts....you will,have a coronary.They are both out in that San Francisco space cadet area....after decades of earthquakes and old LSD leeching in the groundwater, these websites probably make sense to them.I actually asked Lightnin Joe if the painting on the Bass link page with the distorted horse heads and guitars was for sale...apparently he just had a graphic of it for the website...said it was some strange local San Francisco artist's work.
cynic Posted August 28, 2014 Posted August 28, 2014 I'm with mc2, I like it as well. Navigating it is similar to weaving in and out of the piles of trash/treasures back in the pre-internet pawn shop days.
atomicwash Posted August 28, 2014 Author Posted August 28, 2014 Roxy's old web site had no up to date stock listed, I had to actually CALL THEM. And that's how I found my Tally Pro! Call me scavenger.
aknapp Posted August 28, 2014 Posted August 28, 2014 Roxy's old web site had no up to date stock listed, I had to actually CALL THEM. And that's how I found my Tally Pro! Call me scavenger. Scrounger. Fixed. And a fine job scrounging you did, sir!
Tres Aardvarks Posted August 29, 2014 Posted August 29, 2014 Geez.....Then don't click on FatDawg.com to look for rare guitars and parts....you will,have a coronary.FatDwag's site makes me desperate to actually get there on my next trip to our Berkeley office. They let you see just enough to know there's PILES of whacky shit in there, but you're not gonna be able to get it off the website!
mc2 Posted August 29, 2014 Posted August 29, 2014 I think that is part of the genius of having a wacky website that makes you go spelunking through it.Serious guys will see that there are nuggets hidden there but unable to get them all just via the website.....so you HAVE to go in person or, at least, call. Either way, it forces traffic into direct contact with humans at the store and probably adds to sales.
devrock Posted August 29, 2014 Posted August 29, 2014 Geez.....Then don't click on FatDawg.com to look for rare guitars and parts....you will,have a coronary.They are both out in that San Francisco space cadet area....after decades of earthquakes and old LSD leeching in the groundwater, these websites probably make sense to them.I actually asked Lightnin Joe if the painting on the Bass link page with the distorted horse heads and guitars was for sale...apparently he just had a graphic of it for the website...said it was some strange local San Francisco artist's work.There's NO comparison. While FatDawg is a sloppy site, I can pretty much see all guitar pics in less than 5 minutes.
tonefiend Posted August 30, 2014 Posted August 30, 2014 I've played a lot of the Hamers there, and they have some nice stuff. However, the prices were freaking outrageous. You'd better really, really want the guitar.In 2010, I went there specifically play and possibly purchase the earthen Tally, but left pretty disappointed with that one. I recall it had a lot of bass saturation. IMHO. I've owned a regular Tally and a Tally Pro, and I thought they were both much better sounding.
tonefiend Posted August 30, 2014 Posted August 30, 2014 I think the website was designed by someone on 5 hits of acid with an affinity for labyrinths.
ghamerinfrance Posted August 30, 2014 Posted August 30, 2014 No seller website plus no attractive price has a very positive effect......Your guitar catalog in stock is always very high....which is a positive thing.
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