As Billy Idol spent the ‘80s cementing his reputation as a platinum blond, spiky-haired rock star, guitar foil Steve Stevens was strutting his stuff on his signature Hamer SS1.

The Hamer Guitar models being reissued today at NAMM include the Vector Flame (VECF-HB). For years, the import version of the original Vector V Hamer guitar introduced in 1973 has been a top seller.

If you were looking for an image that defined ‘80s hard-rock guitar, you would do well to find a better one than the cover of Guitar World’s May 1986 issue featuring Steve Stevens. Shot by ...

The firm initially specialised in high-spec eye candy based on Gibson’s Flying V (the Vector) and Explorer (the Standard) models. The first Hamer production model, the Sunburst, landed in 1977 and ...

As the decade progressed, Stevens forged an association with Hamer that culminated in the brand creating signature two models with him: the SS1 and SS2. But as he explain, his relationship with ...