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Question about a Hamer

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Special J Newbie

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I believe these are the older Korean made import Hamers. Duncan-designed pickups. Pretty decent quality for the $. Comparable to a higher-end Epi. They've been replaced by the XT series which are made in China, and IMO, not as high quality. Throw a set of good P90's in here and you'll have a nice workhorse guitar.

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I believe these are the older Korean made import Hamers. Duncan-designed pickups. Pretty decent quality for the $. Comparable to a higher-end Epi. They've been replaced by the XT series which are made in China, and IMO, not as high quality. Throw a set of good P90's in here and you'll have a nice workhorse guitar.

 

 

I have a Chinese made Vector and I actually put the stock pickups back in it. It plays and sounds killer.

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Play before buying. Some of the import Hamers are kind of cheesy, some of them are pretty damn decent. I have a Chinese Scarab which is a nice guitar. Or, at that price, save up your coins and get a used USA Hamer for maybe $250 more. You likely wouldn't ever sell that or feel a need to upgrade.

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Play before buying. Some of the import Hamers are kind of cheesy, some of them are pretty damn decent. I have a Chinese Scarab which is a nice guitar. Or, at that price, save up your coins and get a used USA Hamer for maybe $250 more. You likely wouldn't ever sell that or feel a need to upgrade.

 

 

Agreed, though the USA Goldtops go for more like $900-1200 used.

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Agreed, though the USA Goldtops go for more like $900-1200 used.

 

 

Yeah he wouldn't be in goldtop territory - more like Special territory. But that's a good territory to be in unless you really need the goldenness . . .

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Yeah he wouldn't be in goldtop territory - more like Special territory. But that's a good territory to be in unless you really
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the goldenness . . .

 

 

Yeah, I think I will save up for a USA most likely. Thanks for the replies!

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Guitar Player magazine did a comparison test of sub-$500 guits a while back, and the imported Hamer, similar to that one, was one of maybe 3 out of 15 that got a superior rating.

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Thread acutely relevant to my interests, due to this.

I saw your vids this morning Frets99, thanks for making those. Very nice playing!

Does anyone know for sure if these do or do not have a maple cap? Maybe the Korean ones do, and the XT/Chinese production ones don't? I was looking around all day, and I thought I finally came away with the answer that there was no maple on these XTs.

C'mon UPS, get it here quickly and in one piece!

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Thread acutely relevant to my interests, due to
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I saw your vids this morning Frets99, thanks for making those. Very nice playing!


Does anyone know for sure if these do or do not have a maple cap? Maybe the Korean ones do, and the XT/Chinese production ones don't? I was looking around all day, and I thought I finally came away with the answer that there was no maple on these XTs.


C'mon UPS, get it here quickly and in one piece!



I believe you'll be happy with that one...:o

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