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http://members.firstinter.net/markster/PROFILE2.htmlLate '80s Gear:
Hamer Phantom guitars
Thanks to Steve Matthes, Barry Duncan and to the Hamer Fan Club for helping with the following details of Glenn's Hamer guitars:
For the American leg of the DEFENDERS OF THE FAITH World Tour, Hamer Guitars issued a limited run consumer version of Glenn's A6 (six in-line headstock) Phantom guitar called the Phantom GT. This guitar featured a contoured body with double offset cutaways and a pick guard. The neck had 22-frets (24.75 inch scale), a rosewood fingerboard, dot inlays and was made of mahogany (changed to maple in 1985). Other appointments were a Kahler flat-mount 2300 C locking tremolo and a single Hamer Slammer pickup. The Phantom GT had a limited production run from 1984 to 1986. Glenn's personal models feature Duncan or EMG pickups.
Hamer GT Custom
For the TURBO/Fuel For Life tour in 1986, Hamer introduced a new non-production model called the GT Custom. Its black angular body loosely resembled a Gibson Explorer, causing it to be often mistakenly called a Scarab GT, though it is not a Scarab model at all. This guitar features a maple fretboard with black dot inlays, two Duncan and EMG humbucking pickups, a Kahler locking tremolo and a white stripe outlining the body shape.
"The GT is my own design and it looks a bit strange, but there's always method in madness. For me anyway, this is a great thing, because onstage, I still play some stretch stuff, so I need to get the guitar at this angle and as you can see, it just fits nicely to me. So this was all tailor-made. It's got a very narrow neck which is how I like to play. But the beauty of this guitar is we can do anything onstage, you know, play with our teeth or jumping around, and then I can just find the right position to play. So it's got a certain nice line to it, but it's very functional and it also balances the guitar. If you ever tried to design guitars, they can look very good, but they can be top or bottom heavy, but with this guitar, it's really nicely balanced and it's always in a good position to play."
- Glenn Tipton, Judas Priest website video feature, 2001
"For me, a guitar has to assist my role as a performer, and the Hamer GT does that."
- Glenn Tipton, Guitar World, September 2004
"Glenn has traditionally favored Strat-shaped guitars, and the GT is sort of a combination of different models we've made for him in the past. It features a custom-wound Seymour Duncan humbucker, and we designed the double cutaways so that he has unobstructed access to every fret."
- Joel Dantzig (Hamer Guitars technical director), Guitar World, September 2004
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