How to look up a guitar by serial number

GUITARS AND BASSES OF HAMER U.S.A. 1975 -2008

The guitars and basses described in these pages are those which havebeen produced by Hamer U.S.A. since 1974 and up to the present date. Obviously Hamer also made many one-of-a-kind custom instruments; the hardwareand style of production instruments may be different on SpecialOrder instruments. It also does not include specially ordered instruments that were not generally available. Therefore thelist is not exhaustive. The dates are also approximate due to the reasons given above and several models may not appear in catalogues. It should be remembered that Hamer builtinstruments to order, so many models were still technically available after they had been deleted from the official catalogue.

Hamer Guitar Serial Number

Hamer Guitar Lookup Serial Number Starts I have one Korean Standard thats said being produced in 2002 and the serial number starts with a 2. I case you have the simple Hamer logo printed on the headstock of your guitars and assumed a similar serial numbering system applies to the Korean made as it applies to the USA made then yours are from. Vintage Hamer Bass Guitar Neck DAMAGED. The neck has a bow because the truss rod nut is snapped off. The frets look good and are smooth. The headstock has a serial number on the backside.

Some pictures are shown in the text, but most can be found by following the links to other pages.

A Note on Hamer Serial Numbers

In 1974 Hamer used a four digit number stamped into the wood startingwith guitar #0000 and, until the launch of the Sunburst, this system wasused on all guitars. Some instruments (notably Standard guitarsand basses, Eight-string basses and some custom order instruments) were numbered using the four digit numberingsystem up until 1985(e.g Standard #0722 was completed in May 1984); in total about 750 instrumentswere numbered using these four digit numbers.

The Sunbursts were numbered using a different system: the first digit represents the year of production and the following four(or later five digit number) is the total number of guitars made by Hamerand numbered using this system. So for example guitar #8 0196 was madein 1978 and was the 196th guitar to be numbered using this system. Similarly# 8 21416 was made in 1988 and was the 21416th guitar to be numbered. Thesenumbers are printed using ink or paint (black on most but yellow on blackand dark coloured instruments). By 1980 most models with the exceptions noted above were numberedusing this latter system. From late 1987 the serial numberswere stamped into the wood rather than printed. Recently, USA has been stamped under the serial number in the same font.

How To Search Guitar Serial Numbers

Just to complicate matters,many one-of-a-kind and prototype instruments have numbers that do not relateto either of the above systems.

Hamer Guitar Serial Number Lookup