You'll be sorry.........
- theyre damn good....I used one live for years - and then my brother
has used it for the last 12 years - semi-solid with a Kahler trem and di
marzios on it - we both have 'better' instruments than the Hayman, and it
still sounds great and plays well - the necks are very good - (thru
JC120, twin reverb or Vox)...
Mike ;7)
I have had two Hayman guitars - a 3030 (with 2 totally lifeless Re-An
humbuckers) and a Comet (only one of them, but at least a coil-tap switch).
Neither instrument would ever stay in tune, due largely to the bridge/tailpiece
design. Even Grover machines did no good.
A friend has a guitar made up from a Hayman or Shergold neck & body, fitted
with better pickups and a proper bridge and a Bigsby. That guitar stays in
tune, but it is so different from a standard item it should hardly have the
name of a Hayman.
The first Hayman guitars were designed by Jim Burns, whose original (and new
reissue) guitars are/were BRILLIANT! I can't imagine why those Haymans are such
lemons.....
I played the scorpion a couple of times in rehersal and it was imensely
heavy though it looked cool in a kind of glam way (a bit out of time with
the then contemporary instruments apart from Marco Pironis stable....)
Mike :7)