Apache1 wrote:In the photograph above what is the black guitar to Hanks left ?
It is a Hayman 3030H (the H stands for humbucker, to distinguish it from the models fitted with single-coil Superflux pickups). The Hayman story is told both in Paul Day's The Burns Book and in Per Gjorde's Pearls And Crazy Diamonds.
One interesting feature not immediatley obvious from looking at a Hayman guitar of this type is the 'Vibrasonic Chamber'. When Jim Burns was asked by Hank to make a guitar as close as possible to the Strat, he worked out that the tremolo springs contributed to what he called the "vibratin' sound". This nugget was obviously stored away, because when Jim came to design the Hayman 1010, 2020 and 3030 guitars he inserted a box of springs into the body, in a area routed out underneath the bridge. The strings are inserted from the back, through the 'Vibrasonic Chamber' , out the front and over the bridge. If you rap the body of a 1010, 2020 0r 3030 you will hear the springs jangling.
Hayman have an honoured place on the Shergold website,
http://www.shergold.co.uk
Here's my 2020H, with a rosewood finish. The 2020 was the semi-acoustic version.
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