An Ass For Every Saddle
Jol Dantzig’s Guitar Diaries
by Jol
2y ago
The Ventures were my first rock band crush. I wanted to be like them, look like them and sound like them. I had begged my parents for an electric guitar after a young counselor brought one to day camp and played it for us. My school buddy Larry turned me on to The Ventures, and that, as they say, was that. The original Ventures lineup with Nokie Edwards on bass Before that, I didn’t play guitar. I had briefly taken violin and piano lessons, but I couldn’t stick to it, because it was the electric guitar that had captured my imagination. Compared to the cutting twang of the guitar, those old orc ..read more
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Making More Than Just Guitars
Jol Dantzig’s Guitar Diaries
by Jol
2y ago
  Building the second Hamer shop 1979. I’m leaning on the Richardson neck lathe we rescued from Gibson’s original Kalamazoo factory. More than 45 years ago, I had a dream to build a vintage inspired guitar for myself. It all came to fruition in the back of our little vintage guitar shop in the Chicago area when we started Hamer Guitars in 1973. Some people say we started the “Boutique” electric guitar trend—but I never saw it like that. I was just doing what I loved—making cool stuff.    A lot has happened since then. I’ve built instruments for lots of my musical heroes, and wo ..read more
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An Ass For Every Saddle
Jol Dantzig’s Guitar Diaries
by Jol
2y ago
The Ventures were my first rock band crush. I wanted to be like them, look like them and sound like them. I had begged my parents for an electric guitar after a young counselor brought one to day camp and played it for us. My school buddy Larry turned me on to The Ventures, and that, as they say, was that. The original Ventures lineup with Nokie Edwards on bass At the time, I didn’t play guitar. I had briefly taken violin and piano lessons, but I couldn’t stick to it, because it was the electric guitar that had captured my imagination. Compared to the cutting twang of the guitar, those old orc ..read more
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Making More Than Just Guitars
Jol Dantzig’s Guitar Diaries
by Jol
4y ago
Building the second Hamer shop 1979 More than 45 years ago, I had a dream to build a vintage inspired guitar for myself. It all came to fruition in the back of our little vintage guitar shop in the Chicago area when we started Hamer Guitars in 1973. Some people say we started the “Boutique” electric guitar trend—but I never saw it like that. I was just doing what I loved—making cool stuff.  A lot has happened since then. I’ve built instruments for lots of my musical heroes, and worked for many famous brands in the guitar world—Gibson, Fender, Gretsch, Guild and a whole lot more. I’ve hel ..read more
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Stream of Consciousness
Jol Dantzig’s Guitar Diaries
by Jol
4y ago
This is my original sketch for the Vernon Reid “Clock” guitar. Vernon and I collaborated on the ideas for what would be included in the painting. We sat in my car in front of The Lincoln hotel on Clark Street in Chicago, where Vernon was staying, for about an hour jotting down ideas in a notebook. You can see the page from that notebook in the photo.When I got back to my home studio I drew this layout. The body and drawing went to Jim O’Connor to airbrush, and he did a great job. It was all stream of consciousness stuff—we didn’t think it would be so iconic at the time, it was just something w ..read more
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