Hamer Virtuoso 1988 Ice Pearl

This is a 1988 Hamer USA Virtuoso in Ice Pearl Metallic in good overall condition.  The guitar has 36 scalloped frets on a flamed maple fretboard, with an EMG single-coil pickup and a Hamer-branded Schaller Floyd Rose tremolo. The guitar has set-neck construction and a 26 1/4" scale. The Ice Pearl Metallic paint is very heavily lacquer checked (I've owned a few different pearl finished Hamers, and the pearl paint tends to check pretty easily).  The string height is set to .060 off the frets at the 24th fret on the low E string and about .040 off the frets on the high E string and the fretboard is adjust pretty flat. The guitar plays cleanly at all frets, and the intonation is set properly with .010 strings.

When I first purchased the guitar, I loaned it to the factory and this is the guitar featured in the Hamer Workshop blog here:

hamerworkshop.wordpress.com/2010/11/02/virtuoso/

This guitar originally had a Seymour Duncan Hot Rails pickup installed when I bought it about 10 years ago; I had an EMG installed by the factory when the guitar was on back on loan to the Hamer factory shortly before it closed.  The factory had an order for a new Virtuoso, and I loaned this guitar to Hamer so they could capture additional details for building a new one. 

The original Hot Rails pickup and electronics are included with the guitar, along with the locking nut wrench that goes on the back of the headstock and the bar for the Floyd Rose.  The case is a brown snakeskin hardshell case that has a very faded logo (possibly 'Rockley Music Center' which makes sense as I bought the guitar from an owner in Colorado) but fits the guitar properly.

According to 'The Ultimate - An Illustrated History of Hamer Guitars' by Steve Matthes and Joe Moffett, the Virtuoso first appeared at the 1987 NAMM show and was only available as a catalog item from 1987-1989. From all the years I've been on the Hamer Fan Club message board, there have been maybe about 30-40 of these guitars found so it is a pretty rare guitar.  According to the Hamer workshop blog above, this guitar was built in June of 1988.

This guitar is sold as-described so please ask any questions before buying.

I will not ship this guitar out of the continental United States.