There might not be anything wrong with the guitar, but still. I'm wary of ANY imported guitar that has a S/N put on it with a paper sticker OVER the finish, just because. That's when I saw that, anyway.ĪFAIK, the 'true' S/Ns on imported Hamers (Korean ones anyway) were normally on a decal or transfer, and placed UNDER the clearcoat finish, if it wasn't a matte finish to begin with.just like the 'Made In Korea' part in the OP's photo, and just like in scottcald's photo.
+1! Epiphone used to do that a lot, too.even on their Japan-made 'Elite'/Elitist' models, back about 10 years ago, give or take a couple of years. I've seen some of those with stickers obscuring the "USED" markings, but I don't seem to recall that any of those stickers indicated a serial number, since the stamp usually obliterated the original serial. Many of them in the late 90s-early 2000s were stamped "USED" and sold at a discount or through liquidators. If I ever change my mind and take off the sticker I will update this post!! That doesn't mean Hamer put it on as it could have come from the original distributor or shop that sold the Hamer new. I have seen a couple other Hamer imports on CL(Bay Area) with this same type of sticker, which supports that it may have came on the guitar originally. Some thoughts for anyone else who comes across this and is curious:
Guitar plays great and is really in fantastic condition, I think it had just been sitting around in storage for a while because there was basically no fret wear and the guy who sold it to me was a musician who came across it but said he didn't play guitar. Sorry to the curious, myself included, but I think I will leave the sticker on. Thanks for the responses! sounds like there is not much to learn from this serial number, whether it is a meaningless number from Hamer or some stocking/inventory number from elsewhere. Does anybody here know more about this? I was mainly just curious to find out how old the guitar is. I am assuming that they utilized a different numbering system for the Korean guitars than the American but I have not been able to find out anything confirming that. There is a small sticker on the back of the head under "Made in Korea" with a serial number (9802407) printed below, but the serial number does not seem to follow the numbering system I have seen posted here and other places. I recently purchased a MIK Sunburst Archtop guitar off of craigslist.
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