You're in luck because I am one of the world's foremost Hamer Slammer pickup experts. The 9 or 10k Slammer pickups are pure MAGIC FWIW. I'm almost POSITIVE that this wind became the DiMarzio Axis bridge pickup, but I digress. The 17ks sound like DiMarzios take on the JB. If they came out of a USA Hamer from between 19, they are the special "Slammer" pickups. HAMER SLAMMER SERIES Electric Guitar Pre-Owned C 763.22 Buy It Now +C 88.77 shipping from Japan HAMER SLAMMER DIABLO-2 Electric Guitar Pre-Owned C 865.02 Buy It Now +C 88.77 shipping from Japan Hamer Slammer DA21 SSH Black Electric Guitar Brand New C 516. So, if the pickups came out of a "Slammer guitar", they are crappo. In 1988, Hamer shot itself in the foot by allowing Bill K to sully their namer with what was perceived by the general guitar buying public as cheap import junk. Prior to 1988, 100% Hamer guitars were made in Arlington Heights, Illinois (my hometown). I don't know who's idea it was to call their import line "Slammer series" since it confuses the name of the DiMarzio wound pickups in their USA line. Now, Kaman bought Hamer in 1988 and started an import line that was unfortunately named "Hamer Slammer series". Sometime in the late '80s, the DiMarzio developed a JB-like 16-17k Hamer Slammer humbucker for their bridges. Originally the pickups were around 10k-ish with the bridge being just slightly hotter than the necks. These replaced the specially wound OEM DP103s in their entire line of guitars. In 1983 Larry DiMarzio started winding a set of pickups that Jol Dantzig named "Hamer Slammers". Hamer started out using specially wound DiMarzio DP103 pickups for their entire line until around 1983. There is a lot of confusion over the term "Slammer" when it comes to Hamer.
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