NBD: New Rarity Day. Hamer B12L.

[Sean]

I've just got back from Islington after collecting this monster that I bought 6 weeks ago. I'd given up on finding one years ago. 

 

I've gigged a 12 in the past, I've played "those" songs live, I've seen Cheap Trick a few times, I've seen Tom Petersson guesting with Pearl Jam playing Surrender in the US, I've been chasing one of these for years. 

It's a 1999 B12L and it's like New Old Stock. It's pristine.

@Wolverinebass has given me some great pointers for biamping via the HXStomp and shared patches that I've already trialled with 4-string Spectors. 

It's the first set-neck bass I've ever had, apropos of nothing, just saying. 

 

It needs a set up, it'll get new strings in the morning and then I'll see what it can do. 

 

It's relatively light for such a thing @9.5lb. No idea of neck dive yet. That's the original Hamer case and the original certificate with serial number is in there.  

 

More pics and updates as the week progresses. 

 

 

Edited 9 hours ago by Sean

[itu]

That bass looks serious! Hopefully we will hear some playing after you have changed strings. That number of strings, it may be wise to change one at a time and not stress the neck too much. 

[Wolverinebass]

9 hours ago, itu said:

That bass looks serious! Hopefully we will hear some playing after you have changed strings. That number of strings, it may be wise to change one at a time and not stress the neck too much. 

From experience, you would want to change one course of three at a time. I did make the mistake of taking them all off at once to restring and it took the neck almost a full day afterwards to equalise back. Which was a bit stupid.

Edited 58 minutes ago by Wolverinebass

[HeadlessBassist]

That's a fabulous looking thing. Obviously going by the mantra of, "He who dies with the most strings wins!"