Attack of The Kramers

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A friend stopped by today to share his new found love of 80s Kramers. All USAs(ESP built) Pretty Cool Fun was had.

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SchwinG! Love them old Kramers!!! Id like to be a Kramer Kollector! Charvels too!!
 
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Wow...Motley Crue VHS? Live, sh1t, binge and purge? Total 80s!

I wonder if a TB would still line up with the strings.
 
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ahhhh, there's an 85 Baretta sitting in a local shop right now. Just don't have the cash....thanks for making me feel worse!
 
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Love me some Kramers - remember the days when I lusted after one, but had no money.

I've got one now!
 
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No covers on the singles? Not even electrical tape? Never seen that before, dunno how durable the windings might be.
 
Attack of The Kramers

ESP didn't build all those. They built the obvious imports (Focus series, Striker series, etc). ESP made bodies and necks, shipped them to Neptune NJ, and they were built there. Sports (a Canadian company) also made some parts earlier on.
 
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No covers on the singles? Not even electrical tape? Never seen that before, dunno how durable the windings might be.

Yeah, I told the owner but he is convinced it's Cool. :eek5:
 
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I'm curious if the tone knob on the Baretta came installed from the factory (some actually did if ordered that way) or aftermarket.
 
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Every kid in my hi school had one of those. Haven't seen a single one or years. And now there back?
 
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What exactly is a USA ESP Kramer? What's the headstock look like? Are they like custom shop ESPs? I'm confused.
 
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i was a teenager in the 80's and Kramers ruled the era... and yup a white Baretta with a rosewood board neck was all a dreamed about in the mid-late 80's... never did get one... i had to make do with a awful Striker! i smashed that Striker after the wood around the trem post screws failed... at a guitar sale a few years ago i found another striker someone had added a Dimarzio and a EDGE trem to it for dirt cheap... i got the Striker, 10 packs of store brand strings, and a baseball hat all for $99... the Dimarzio and EDGE are for other projects... managed to turn the striker into a working guitar again with spare cheap parts laying around
 
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What exactly is a USA ESP Kramer? What's the headstock look like? Are they like custom shop ESPs? I'm confused.

In the mid-80's, Kramer changed their body and neck source to ESP. They were getting necks from ESP for a time before then but not the bodies. ESP would send the raw bodies and necks to Neptune, NJ where the bodies were prepped, painted and hardware put on, necks were sanded and fretted and final assembly took place. Towards the end of the 80's, I think that some of the bodies came from ESP already painted but I'm not 100% on that. The headstock is the more common tilted "pointy" headstock, painted black (or matched color on custom models).
 
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