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« Reply #30 on: June 27, 2008, 11:44:30 AM »
That Fernandes looks awesome!
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« Reply #31 on: June 27, 2008, 11:45:42 AM »
to be honest i was planning to bid on the fernandes.... too bad feline let the cat out the bag!
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« Reply #32 on: June 27, 2008, 11:49:08 AM »
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to be honest i was planning to bid on the fernandes.... too bad feline let the cat out the bag!

 :(

Have the bids started rolling in?

 :idea:  Still, you could buy my Edwards instead!  :wink:


(Sorry, that really was a joke.... NOT a desperate attempt at salesmanship) :oops:
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« Reply #33 on: June 27, 2008, 12:05:36 PM »
your edwards is really cool philly, but as i say i have a similar hamer. to be honest the hamer is a nicely put together guitar, but i rarely play it... partly it just has dimarzios, partly i find the sunburst a bit too much and partly 'undefinable reasons' - at least i got a great bargain with it. i expect the edwards with duncans and likely nicer build might get played more. i doubt you'd consider a px for my hamer as you're selling to free up some space.

the fernades steeler is still bidding at £160, but theres several days left. thinking rationally some more the floyd is putting me off a bit. £500 is probably a fair price to be honest. unless i get the bidding fever i might give it a miss after all.

i sort of realised recently that everything about a guitar has to feel right or it just sits in the case. for example, my feline V has great looks and obviously top notch craftsmanship... i hardly make any mistake when i play it, and it really flatters my everyday joe playing style. but i've not been able to find the right pickups for its unusual sycamore body. nothing i've tried really satisfies - at the moment i think maybe underwound mississippi queens would work.
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« Reply #34 on: June 27, 2008, 12:18:21 PM »
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i sort of realised recently that everything about a guitar has to feel right or it just sits in the case.

Yeah, absolutely... some guitars you "bond" with and some you don't.  For me it's less about the sound than the neck shape, the balance, the way it resonates acoustically.  The right pickups can always be found eventually (I play unplugged most of the time, TBH).  

And sometimes there's no reason at all - there's hardly any difference between my two SG-Xs, but the green one's "the one" and the black one stays in its case.  I don't know why.

I've had lots of guitars (as you know  :oops: ) but probably 70% of them will come and go, only a few are "keepers" - and they're not necessarily the best ones.
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« Reply #35 on: June 27, 2008, 12:56:15 PM »
I never wanted a Vee. I must be the only guitarist ever not to have had the urge at some point. :lol:
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« Reply #36 on: June 27, 2008, 12:57:12 PM »
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I never wanted a Vee. I must be the only guitarist ever not to have had the urge at some point. :lol:


you're quite young and theres still time  8)
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« Reply #37 on: June 27, 2008, 07:33:49 PM »
I am a V whore as well. Nothing gets me drooling like the site of a V-shaped, six string beast.

My latest V  addition is a Dean Black Gold V.

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« Reply #38 on: June 27, 2008, 09:46:05 PM »
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your edwards is really cool philly, but as i say i have a similar hamer. to be honest the hamer is a nicely put together guitar, but i rarely play it... partly it just has dimarzios, partly i find the sunburst a bit too much and partly 'undefinable reasons' - at least i got a great bargain with it. i expect the edwards with duncans and likely nicer build might get played more. i doubt you'd consider a px for my hamer as you're selling to free up some space.


I didn't realize you had a Hamer V, which model is it?  I chenged the DiMarzio's on my Hamer Sunburst to Abraxas' and they really work well with it.
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« Reply #39 on: June 27, 2008, 10:00:14 PM »
its an modern MIC one unfortunately - not bad, a bit nicer than an epiphone. i'm sure an 80s MIA vector would be a totally different kettle of fish however.
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« Reply #40 on: June 27, 2008, 10:00:42 PM »
I had an early 80s Vector (although you can hardly see it in this terrible photo  :oops: ).  One of the few guitars I really regret selling.

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« Reply #41 on: June 27, 2008, 10:17:00 PM »
Anyone else a big fan of KK's studded Hamer mini V?
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« Reply #42 on: June 27, 2008, 10:30:20 PM »
its very HIM.. ;) i'm a fan, but i don't think anyone other than him could pull it off.

i'd like a sort of gwem-ised version of his full size hamer though
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« Reply #43 on: June 27, 2008, 10:39:40 PM »
Left-handed?
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« Reply #44 on: June 27, 2008, 10:40:35 PM »
yeh, strange, but all the pics i could find are lefties

obviously(?!) though, i meant this one. heres the man himself looking like the metal god he surely is:
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