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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.
At the request of Kaman, Dantzig returned to Hamer as Technical Director in 1997 when the facility was moved to Connecticut. Dantzig was charged with the task of breaking down Hamer's Arlington Heights factory, shipping everything and reassembling the factory in New Hartford, Connecticut. Hamer was acquired by Fender Musical Instruments in 2008.
In the interim, during the 1970s, a small boutique USA guitar producer, Hamer, began making both flat-top and carved-top doublecutaway guitars very similar to the then-dormant Gibson designs. These Hamer versions of doublecutaway Les Pauls got widespread publicity for their use by the members of the rock band Cheap Trick and others.
As of 2018, Hamer has moved its facilities to China. [3] [4] [5] In 2014, FMIC sold KMC's Gretsch Drums, Toca Percussion, Latin Percussion, KAT Percussion, Ovation Guitars, and Gibraltar Hardware brands to Drum Workshop. [6] In February 2015, Fender Musical Instruments Corporation sold KMC to JAM Industries, [7] which rebranded as Exertis | JAM ...
The "Presidential Series" solid-body guitars are listed on the Trump Guitars website for $1,500 along with an "American Eagle Series" of acoustic and electric guitars that retail for $1,250 and ...
The guitar's birth was first conceived on ruled note book paper by Nielsen during one of his frequent scribble sessions. 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 guitar was later acquired by Bob Wiseman, a founding member of the band Blue Rodeo. In later years, Reid has used custom Hamer guitars , and started a relationship with Parker Guitars , who built the DF824VR Vernon Reid signature model based on their Dragonfly design. it has EMG-X pickups in a H SS layout with 5-way switching system, a ...
Artist Shannon MacDonald has been creating paintings and guitars for Rick Nielsen since 1979. Rick Nielsen is a celebrity co-owner of ROCK'N Vodka . [ 21 ] ROCK'N Vodka also partnered with Rick Nielson, Josh Bilicki and Insurance King [ 22 ] at the Daytona International Speedway on August 15, 2020 where Bilicki drove the Insurance King and ROCK ...