Product: Hamer Californian Quilt Top
Price Paid: 250 (yew (euro)) used
Submitted
03/11/2006
at
03:33pm
by
Serbia
Features
:
9
* made about 2 years ago
* 24 medium-jumbo frets, 3-way selector 1vol, 1tone, 2 passive humbuckers,
*quilted top with abalone binding,
*strat like, hamer tuners, lic. double lock. floyd..
* very thin and 300mph fast neck
* comes with rubbish cable, and good gig bag two spare tremolo bolts,
and one for top-lock, 2 alen wranches (sec is for neck)
Sound
:
9
I play different types of metall
I have a chineese Aster lc-630 20w junk-amp, and guitar sond suprisingly good on that. I like the sond it produces
Action, Fit, & Finish
:
10
I've pick-up, a pickup:) and it sounds much better. Finish is complicated, but they've done it, great commitment* to details.
Neck is very, very, very fast.
Reliability/Durability
:
9
It will last long. no backup needed
Customer Support
:
No Opinion
Overall Rating
:
10
I Played 4-5 years. If it were stolen i would probably buy more evil looking guitar but it will be hard tu find, better for this price range. BUY THIS GUITAR AND YOU WILL NO REGRET
My english sucks btw.
10 is for price/quality...
Product: Hamer Californian Quilt Top
Price Paid: US $419.99
Submitted
11/24/2005
at
06:02pm
by
Mike
Features
:
8
This is a very nice guitar, mostly because of it's striking quilt top and abalone binding. It has two humbuckers, both "Duncan Designed" but they are really Hamer's stock pickups. To switch them, there is one volume and on tone control, and a 3-way switch. 24 frets, rosewood fretboard with abalone binding and abalone boomerang inlay at 12th fret. Double-cutaway with Floyd-Rose liscenced tremolo. Came with a cable. All black harware.. etc. etc. I don't give it a 10 because there's not many options for tone because of the single volume and tone controls.
Sound
:
9
Very VERY nice clean sound. I use a Fender Princeton 65 DSP and a digitech Genesis 3 for my sound. It's a metal gutitar though, and it is nice for leads. Great sound. Not noisy at all. I'd like higher-output pickups but these are still very nice.
Action, Fit, & Finish
:
8
Nice set up. Came with 10's on already, needed a neck adjustment when I switched to 9-46 strings. That will happen anyway though. Fast-playing neck, even though it is not a flat radius or jumbo frets. Plays sweet if you adjust it right. Neck joint gets in the way while playing higher frets, which is why it doesn't get a 10.
Reliability/Durability
:
7
One complaint I have is the Floyd Rose. The middle spring keeps coming off the bridge so you have to take off the back plate to get into it, then put the string back, then retune. I fixed it by taking the spring and putting it in another hole so it is angled and stays better... once you look at it you'll know what I mean. Haven't had it long but it seems dependable. Maybe before you go live you should fix the spring so it won't slip out during adive or a strong bend.
Customer Support
:
3
I like MF... but the page said that it was a set-neck guitar, which is why I ordered it. I was pissed to find out that it was a bolt-on, though not disappointed because it is an attractive guitar. I called and the guy said they'd email me within 24 hours... and they didn't. I was pissed because I almost got an ESP M-200FM which is neck-thru but it wasn't in stock. It took too damn long for the ESPs to get in so I ordered the Hamer hoping it would be set neck like Musician's Friend said, but it wasn't. I love the thing, but MF didn't do shit about my complaint. The guy on the phone was nice but no one else did anything.
Overall Rating
:
No Opinion
SWEET guitar and the most beautiful one I've seen. If someone stole it, I'd hunt them down and beat them, burn down their house and shove their nose in the ashes after getting the guitar back. Then I'd hug them for having such good taste in the guitar they keifed. Then slap them because it was mine. I wish it were a set-neck or neck-thru but the thing is so gorgeous I really don't care. All the guys I know that play my music all have black guitars so this one stands out. Also the pickups would be great with more output. I've considered getting Seymour Duncan Distortion or EMG-HZs for it, but they are still great sounding pickups.