musicyo kramers .... ?
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i'm not an expert but the real cheap ones that are like $99 could be plywood... the $200-$350 ones i believe they say are real wood bodies.... and the 1984/85 guitars are of a higher quality... the 84 is now said to be made 100% in the USA like the 85 is.... for a short time the 84 was made with off shore parts...
the 1985 is made in the Gibson factory i heard
i'm not an expert but the real cheap ones that are like $99 could be plywood... the $200-$350 ones i believe they say are real wood bodies.... and the 1984/85 guitars are of a higher quality... the 84 is now said to be made 100% in the USA like the 85 is.... for a short time the 84 was made with off shore parts...
the 1985 is made in the Gibson factory i heard
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Some of the older Yo Kramers were good deals a few years ago. I have a Baretta 404 SD - maple neckthru w/ alder wings, paid $250. The Jersey Star reissue and 1984 used to be available for a good price too, but with the new pricing structure all the decent axes are way overpriced (read almost doubled in price in the last 3 or 4 years).
Some of the older Yo Kramers were good deals a few years ago. I have a Baretta 404 SD - maple neckthru w/ alder wings, paid $250. The Jersey Star reissue and 1984 used to be available for a good price too, but with the new pricing structure all the decent axes are way overpriced (read almost doubled in price in the last 3 or 4 years).
kramer
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You must have misread.
I said their decent axes had tripled in prices. By decent I refer to the JS and the 85 models exclusively. I'd hardly consider one of their sub $200 models a decent guitar.....decent firewood maybe. If you want a good Kramer buy a used Focus on Ebay. Real Floyd, well made, great playing guitar for around the same price as a POS Yo Striker.
You must have misread.
I said their decent axes had tripled in prices. By decent I refer to the JS and the 85 models exclusively. I'd hardly consider one of their sub $200 models a decent guitar.....decent firewood maybe. If you want a good Kramer buy a used Focus on Ebay. Real Floyd, well made, great playing guitar for around the same price as a POS Yo Striker.
kramer
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Check out GR8Scott's Pawnshop acquisition thread for an example of a beautiful Focus 1000.
Check out GR8Scott's Pawnshop acquisition thread for an example of a beautiful Focus 1000.
Docrock
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I bought one about a year ago. A guy told me he had a Kramer for 100 dollars. My eyes perked up, but alas, it was a musicyo. I told him the story and gave a fifty dollar bill for it. It wasnt bad for a 50. I also aquired a Berretta with EMGS in it for a 100. I pulled those EMGS and sold the neck through body for 200 on the ebay site. I dont know how that happened.
I bought one about a year ago. A guy told me he had a Kramer for 100 dollars. My eyes perked up, but alas, it was a musicyo. I told him the story and gave a fifty dollar bill for it. It wasnt bad for a 50. I also aquired a Berretta with EMGS in it for a 100. I pulled those EMGS and sold the neck through body for 200 on the ebay site. I dont know how that happened.
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Re: the Music Yo stuff... I've heard some bad things about the American Kramer re-issues... mostly that the neck feels less like the old ones (narrow and slim) and more like a Korean copy (fat neck with wide profile). However, I certainly like the look of their '85 Barretta - it just begs to be "tapped" and dive-bombed while running through a two channel JCM800 stack with rack-load of chorus, delay and reverb.... big hair and spray can of Aqua Net not included, of course.
OT: ... I thought the neck-throughs were the Stagemaster series? I actually loved those Stagemasters... even though those were *supposedly* the Korean-made models. I had their '86-'87 catalog and wanted the black Stagemaster with the twin humbuckers and the Les Paul style knobs but ended up getting the less-expensive Barretta instead. Later, I had a local shop rout for a humbucker in the neck position, took out the stock JB and replaced it with a Duncan Distortion, then I dumped a Full Shred in the neck when they first came out. I wasn't that impressed with either pup or that guitar much after that... so I sold it and got an ESP Kamikaze.
Re: the Music Yo stuff... I've heard some bad things about the American Kramer re-issues... mostly that the neck feels less like the old ones (narrow and slim) and more like a Korean copy (fat neck with wide profile). However, I certainly like the look of their '85 Barretta - it just begs to be "tapped" and dive-bombed while running through a two channel JCM800 stack with rack-load of chorus, delay and reverb.... big hair and spray can of Aqua Net not included, of course.
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