Help me ID this guitar. (Updated - New guitar in question!)

[martysmith]

[Bassassin]

Told you - it's a Hamer:

http://www.dantzig.com/hamerhist/artist ... neyman.htm



J.

[101Volts]

Thanks Bassassin! I'll have to keep an eye out for Hamers

Oh and now I have another guitar I'd like to know the name of. Someone said it could be a Gretsch.

It's the guitar the singer is playing in this video. 2:04 shows a close up of it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_65Y_QDZKo

[Michael Ambrose]

No way in the world that's a Gretsch.

The 2nd guitarist/backup singer is playing a Gretsch Duo Jet (possibly a Firebird), however.

[Bassassin]

No idea about that one - in fact it might once have been a more normal (and perhaps identifiable!) looking guitar that someone took a chainsaw to. I should know - I did something alarmingly similar to an old (and rather nice) SG copy when I was younger. And dumber.

J.

[101Volts]

It could very well be a guitar that was sawed, sanded and refinished. Here is what I can tell from the video...

It has a whammy bar.
It has a fender style headstock.
It has three pickups, The bridge being a humbucker.
It has a telecaster style pickup/volume/tone control, Or something similar.
Finally, some of the edges are too sharp not to have been sawed off.

Check frames around and at 2:28 and 3:05 to 3:14. Those are the clearest I've seen.