Production of the STANDARD (MODEL STDF, XT SERIES) began in 1999. Based on the original Hamer USA Standard Custom, but made in China the XT Series Hamer Standard has Ivoroid-bound neck, alder body capped with a two-piece Flamed Maple top. The XT Series Standard Flametop features two Duncan-Designed humbucking pickups and rosewood fingerboard with crown inlays just like the USA model.