Hammer Jammer

Subject: Hammer Jammer
From: s&r
Date: 09 Jan 04 - 11:32 AM

Picked up a gadget that sits on the guitar, and lets you hammer the strings.

It's all there except for 4 tiny machine screws with an allen screw fixing. Can't find anything locally. Any ideas?

stu

Subject: RE: Hammer Jammer
From: Amos
Date: 09 Jan 04 - 11:32 AM

Stu:

Explain?

A

Subject: RE: Hammer Jammer
From: s&r
Date: 09 Jan 04 - 11:39 AM

It has six rubber hammers on a frame, the spacing of the hammers is the same as the string spacing

The idea is that the frame is fastened to the edges of the fingerboard close to the body so when you tap the hammer it hits the string. Makes the guitar sound piano-ish. The frame is clamped to the edges of the fingerboard by small screws, so that it's removable.

Does that make sense? :'

Stu

Subject: RE: Hammer Jammer
From: Amos
Date: 09 Jan 04 - 11:51 AM

Ah!! Thanks. Definitely would want to make it removeable -- if it were permanent you'd lose a perfectly good guitar! As to the small machine screws, I would scout around the web for a firm that can deliver them by post, if local resources won't serve -- I doin't know where you are, though.

Thanks for clarifying!

A

Subject: RE: Hammer Jammer
From: open mike
Date: 09 Jan 04 - 02:07 PM

when was this contraption manufactured?
sounds like an invention from times gone by..
there is a device these days that uses a
small magnet to vibrate the string
which allows a sustained tone without
plucking or stumming...one string at a time.
It is called an ebow
.

Subject: RE: Hammer Jammer
From: s&r
Date: 09 Jan 04 - 03:28 PM

Tis is the device http://www.hammerjammer.com/
- it uses iit says a D4 set screw Who sells them in the UK?

Subject: RE: Hammer Jammer
From: open mike
Date: 09 Jan 04 - 04:05 PM

the hammer jammer is actually a product of:

The Guitammer Company
PO Box 82
Westerville, Ohio 43086
1-888-676-2828

and there is a web site here:
hammer jammer

Subject: RE: Hammer Jammer
From: GUEST,lone guitarist
Date: 10 Dec 05 - 07:43 AM

anyone got any photos of a hammer jammer as guitammer cant send me any... Loneguitarist (at) gmail.com