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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.
Dantzig worked in various capacities for Fender until early 2010. Hamer no longer builds any American guitars and does not have any affiliation with former Hamer owner Dantzig. In early 2010 Dantzig left Fender [2] [3] and is building instruments under the Dantzig name. Dantzig resides in Connecticut where he is the owner of Jol Dantzig Guitar ...
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 ...
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.
The first known 12-string bass guitar, the "Hamer Quad," was designed by Jol Dantzig and built in 1977 for Tom Petersson by Hamer Guitars. Petersson's Cheap Trick bandmate Rick Nielsen reports that Petersson first conceived of the instrument in 1973, and worked with Hamer over the next few years refining the design. [1]
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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.
Dumont is endorsed by Hamer Guitars [24] and favors vintage MXR effect pedals. During live performances, he uses Kemper modeling amplifiers, but has also used Divided by Thirteen, Soldano, Vox, Matchless, Fender, and Silvertone amplifiers while recording. [25] [26] He uses Ernie Ball Regular Slinky strings. [5]