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Hamer Guitars was an American electric guitar manufacturer founded in 1973, in Wilmette, Illinois, by vintage guitar shop owners Paul Hamer and Jol Dantzig.The company's early instruments featured guitar designs based on the Gibson Explorer (The Standard) and Gibson Flying V (Vector), before adding more traditional Gibson-inspired designs such as the Sunburst.
He brought the idea to his manufacturer (Hamer Guitars) to build. The original design sought by Nielsen was a circular guitar allowing him to spin the guitar from neck to neck. This design was scrapped by Hamer due to weight and logistical issues. Nielsen and Bobby Demonic both have employed several five-necks over the years.
HAMER B12S. The 12-string bass is an electric bass with four courses of three strings each, though they occasionally have six courses of two strings.. Normal tuning is eeE-aaA-ddD-ggG, with one string of each course tuned the same as the corresponding string of the four-string bass, and the remaining two strings tuned to the octave.
Bernard Robinson (born 1912 in Liverpool, England, died 1970) designed sets for several of Hammer's films in their heyday, including The Curse of Frankenstein (1957), Abominable Snowman of the Himalayas (1957), Dracula (1958), Curse of the Werewolf (1960), The Phantom of the Opera (1962), The Gorgon (1964) and Quatermass and the Pit (1968).
A 43-inch R2-D2 unit, crafted from parts used during the original trilogy, recently sold at auction for an incredible $2.76 million — far surpassing its $2 million pre-sale estimate.
Mötley Crüe's Vince Neil with a Jay Turser Warlord guitar. Jay Turser produces guitars, basses, mandolins and banjos in a variety of models.. Production facilities are located in China and rely primarily on Asian suppliers for parts and electronics but use imported woods, such as mahogany, maple and rosewood, for the body and neck.
Manufacturer Est. Location Description/ Associated Brands Atlansia 1982 Nagano: Atlansia was formed in 1982 by Nobuaki Hayashi, who also uses the pseudonym H. Nobel and who previously worked for Matsumoku.
Duesenberg is a brand for electric string instruments founded in 1986 and located in Hannover, Germany. [1] Duesenberg claims most of the production of the guitars is done in Croatia, with the final setup and assembly done in Germany.