playstopause
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For those of you who lived trough the 80's like me...http://www.vintagekramer.com/Ads/GuitartPromo/KramerGuitart.jpg
+ new website
http://www.kramerguitars.com/
+ George Lynch with a 1985 Kramer!
Hair spray ftw!
Kramer revival!
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For those of you who lived trough the 80's like me...http://www.vintagekramer.com/Ads/GuitartPromo/KramerGuitart.jpg
+ new website
http://www.kramerguitars.com/
+ George Lynch with a 1985 Kramer!
Hair spray ftw!
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Clydefrog
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Real Kramer's, before they were a hodgepodge of "assembled-here-but-made-there" pieces of crap, could rarely be beat. Baretta's.. drool.
jtm45
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Funnily enough i saw an old thru/set (couldn't tell as it was all painted)neck Kramer the other day and thought "Fuck,that looks exactly like an ESP".
Must have been one of those.
Didn't know ESP actually made them.
Looked like a nice guitar.
Chris
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Paisley and red leather, ftw!
My first guitar was a Kramer, because Motley Crue played Kramers, and I wanted nothing more in life as a 13 year old lad than to be Nikki Sixx. (I thought he was the guitarist.
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My first guitar was a Kramer, because Motley Crue played Kramers, and I wanted nothing more in life as a 13 year old lad than to be Nikki Sixx. (I thought he was the guitarist.
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jtm45
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The guy i used to sort of be in a band with when we were kids came into some cash and bought a brand new Hamer (Explorer shape called a Blitz or something stupid)because the Crue were playing Hamers at the time.It cost him nearly £1k at the time,and that was when 'Theatre Of Pain' was out.A lot of cash back then (or even now!)
I think some of those Thunderbirds Nikki Six had were Hamers too.
I think some of those Thunderbirds Nikki Six had were Hamers too.
playstopause
Contributor
Paisley and red leather, ftw!
My first guitar was a Kramer, because Motley Crue played Kramers, and I wanted nothing more in life as a 13 year old lad than to be Nikki Sixx. (I thought he was the guitarist.
same for me!!! I used to take my mom's makeup and draw those 2 black lines under my eyes! My 2nd guitar was a white single hum. Kramer Baretta.
swedenuck
Strictly Business
George pre-muscles, he's twice the man he used to be.
Michael
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Cool. Some awesome looking designs! Gotta love the 80's!
Love Kramer's, beautifully made guitars back in the day
WHOOAAAA yeah his arms are like 3x as big now
he's one beastly dude.
Yeah, that was one of the Kramer Stagemaster models. The woodwork was done in Japan by ESP, and then the hardware and finishing were done by Kramer, I believe. It's basically a slightly modified ESP Horizon.
Interestingly, Kramer always outsourced a lot of their woodwork, even before ESP got involved in the late '80s. They had some wood shop up in Canada making their necks at one point.
The Kramers to look out for are the pre-ESP Barettas and Pacers, which have serial numbers starting with a single letter from A-D. Ten years ago, you could buy one at a pawnshop for like $200, but the prices have started going up recently. Many of them are all-maple monsters with humongous tone, but the quality varies a lot, in my experience.
Chris
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I used to take my mom's makeup and draw those 2 black lines under my eyes! My 2nd guitar was a white single hum. Kramer Baretta.
Me too man. 
A friend of mine used to have an oldschool Kramer, black with gold hardware, the thing was nice.
The only thing that spoils it for me is the writing at the bottom left of the website:
