Wednesday, March 26, 2008

The original hybrid - The DuoTone Custom

Posted by Jon in • Hybrid Guitars

Hamer DuoTone Custom
I thought I had Hybrid guitars pretty much covered until a comment on the latest hybrid into an ever growing choice by legendary guitar designer Jol Dantzig made me realise I had been overlooking a guitar that has been around for a very long time! It also made me realise I have only featured one Hamer guitar here on Guitar Noize which is absurd. So I give you the Hamer DuoTone Custom. This guitar was the first workable hybrid electric-acoustic created by Jol in 1991!! Now was he ahead of his time with this one or what!

”The acoustic pickup utilizes a kynar cable sensor feeding into an onboard preamp with fully adjustable threeband equalizer. The magnetic pickups are time-tested Duncan humbuckers selected for this application, and together with the rosewood bridge, provide a truly warm electric sound. A full duplex output allows you to rout each signal to a separate discrete sound system, or to join them together.”

The DuoTone is a really great looking guitar due to its archtop spruce top complete with traditional f-hole and sunburst finish and lets you switch between or combine electric and acoustic sounds at the flick of a switch. Now the other hybrids don’t seem quite so groundbreaking do they?

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on 03/26 at 11:41 AM

Wow, that’s a beautiful guitar! I really like the acoustic-style bridge

Ovidiu - GuitarFlame.com on 03/26 at 06:25 PM

Very interesting guitar. A beautiful and classy one. It shines “classic” out of it’s every inch, even if it is a hybrid and not a classic one.

GLW on 03/26 at 09:57 PM

There was a very nice Hamer Hybrid on eBay recently. It had three small round soundholes instead of the f-hole on the example you pictured.

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