Hamer 12-String Anyone?

johnallg · Post by **johnallg** » Tue Apr 17, 2007 6:14 pm

kenposurf · Post by **kenposurf** » Tue Apr 17, 2007 6:32 pm

Paul?

jingle_jangle · Post by **jingle_jangle** » Tue Apr 17, 2007 7:03 pm

Thanks, George, got a couple...I really prefer black to metalflake magenta any day of the week, where these are concerned.

brammy · Post by **brammy** » Tue Apr 17, 2007 9:03 pm

yowza! Thats gotta be hard to play.

jdogric12 · Post by **jdogric12** » Wed Apr 18, 2007 1:08 am

I've tried other 12-string basses in stores, and with a pick they're not much different than 12-string guitars or 8-string basses.

What's up with that saddle spacing?

studiotwosession · Post by **studiotwosession** » Wed Apr 18, 2007 2:41 am

Back in the mid 80s, I used to shop in a store in Hollywood. The owner of the store was friends with Tom Petersson, who was selling off many of his instruments at the time in that store. I talked with Tom there one day about his first 12, which was hanging on the wall in front of us, for sale at the astronomical then sum of 1800.00. The store told me it had been refinished three times or so, had the headstock broken and repaired, etc. Anyway, I'm sure some CT or Hamer fan would pay considerably more for it now. I wonder what happened to it.

atomic_punk · Post by **atomic_punk** » Wed Apr 18, 2007 7:40 am

I'm still looking for that one, Glenn...

jingle_jangle · Post by **jingle_jangle** » Wed Apr 18, 2007 8:29 am

I have a Hamer, same model as the one shown here, but basic black, purchased from a Forum member. It is an amazing feat of guitar engineering. I have not calculated the forces on the neck, but it has never shifted and stays in tune very well.

It IS a lot of work to play, especially trying to keep the neck dive at bay.

Bob Sinclair, who I'm building a 12-string acoustic for, owns Waterstone guitars, and sent me one of their Tom Petersson 12 string hollowbodies for use and comments. Tom switched to Waterstone a couple of years back, and Bob and he came up with a hollowbody design with a body the size and proportions of (a) a Les Paul on steroids or (b) a Gretsch Country Gent (it's BIG), but with a nice round hollowbody tone and another amazing job of engineering.

I keep threatening George that I'm going to use it for a rhythm instrument on a set...but so far it's seen action on only a couple of songs. Maybe in the studio next month, eh, George?

atomic_punk · Post by **atomic_punk** » Wed Apr 18, 2007 10:38 am

I have that Hamer too, Paul, if you ever figure out how it works, let me know

I use it a lot in a 3-piece band where there is no rhythm guitar, it fills that space SO well...

jingle_jangle · Post by **jingle_jangle** » Wed Apr 18, 2007 11:50 am

HaHA!!! You're right. I just leave it cranked up and use the amp for tone and volume...

studiotwosession · Post by **studiotwosession** » Wed Apr 18, 2007 1:05 pm

I have not studied Tom's Waterstone basses closely, but off the top of my head they remind me in appearance more of a 360F than anything else.

jingle_jangle · Post by **jingle_jangle** » Wed Apr 18, 2007 1:12 pm

I think it's closer to a Les Paul:

The 360F has a fatter waist amd upper bout and a rounder cutaway.

kenposurf · Post by **kenposurf** » Wed Apr 18, 2007 1:35 pm

Big Bottom!

jnbass · Post by **jnbass** » Thu Apr 19, 2007 7:16 am

Hamer Time!

atomic_punk · Post by **atomic_punk** » Thu Apr 19, 2007 10:23 am

Do you own that one, Jared? That's Johnny Colt's, ain't it?