NGD - USA Hamer Blitz with crowns and Floyd

[jk2171]

I'm thinking of refinishing the guitar since the front is really beat. How does black with white or yellow bezels sound?

Do a Mick Mars tribute and go bengal!

[j2379]

if its old enough that they still used the ink stamp serial # you might just want to do the body. dont remember when they changed to a stamped into wood serial, but i know it was around that time. pups should be duncans

[lhrocker]

The serial is definitely inked, and if I were to do a refin, I would leave the headstock alone

[straycat]

Man I like that one a lot.Kind of an odd bird there.High end inlays on a lower end Hamer very cool.

[85 San Dimas]

actually those are lower end only in the way that an old Jackson Rhoads or Soloist "Student" was lower end. it's the same guitar "build" but less frills. That's a fine guitar. If the floyd is well maintained, and the neck is in good shape w/high quality tuning gears that thing will be (is) a monster.

Congrats. fun little "project" there.
just keep the stuff you take off if it's original.

[lhrocker]

Actually, I don't think that anything is original on the guitar. The trem is a Schaller, not a Hamer Schaller. The pickups don't look like Dimarzio slammers, and they aren't labeled at all. The tuning keys are locking Grovers. Anyhow, it will be a cool project - white w/black bevels maybe. It does play great, and with a little makeover, can be an eyecatching firebreather.

[skorb]

that's very nice but I prefer the full-sized explorer body.

looks like a 90% size body to me?