Kramer Frankie #28 for sale?

[ELVIS]

I read it...

They just were not spectacular guitars...

Neither are the frankie clones...

You don't need a spectacular guitar to be Eddie Van Halen...

You just need to be Eddie Van Halen !!

[jhale667]

It's all in the fingers...

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Gimmi a used white Kramer stryker and a can of red spray paint, To go ! ...

[sadaist]

Those Charvels were not all that...

They were pretty cool to a 16 year old who's only guitar was a Hondo (Fender copy). Dang, I need to find that old brochure to jog my memory of which it was that I wanted so badly.




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They were hit-and-miss too...one of my friends had one that was amazing, another friend got one shortly thereafter on which the bridge stud-mounting holes for the Floyd were drilled incorrectly - the thing was incapable of being intonated properly! did.

I'll be the first to admit that I have no musical ability whatsoever - just liked to crank power chords and tap and pretend I was EVH. However - I sold that Kramer to a guitar playing buddy of mine, and out of all the guitars he's owned and played over the years, he still swears by that one. Says it played the best, felt the best, sounded the best out of all of them with the exception of his Les Paul. He sold it to another guitar playing buddy of ours, and HE said it's the still one of the best guitars he owns. I don't know shit from shinola when it comes to guitars, but I believe these guys know what they're talking about. It pretty much looked exactly like the white one Ed is holding in the picture above - still have a pic of it somewhere. I think somewhere along the line it got painted hot pink...

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Charvels ? Like the late 80's ones ?

[sadaist]

I think this is it! Man that Model 6 in white still looks pretty fucking yummy to me. RAWR!!!

[sadaist]

Oh damn. That's a big photo. LOL. Sorry.

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I had a red kramer beretta in mint condition back in 1990. It was fucking sweet. I got it for 200 bucks from some rich kid that did not know how to play. I had it for about a week, it got knocked over and the cool banana head stock broke off. Was bummed bad !! Easy come easy go I guess.

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I think this is it! Man that Model 6 in white still looks pretty fucking yummy to me. RAWR!!!

Yeah, I had a model 2 back in 1987-ish ...It really was a nice starter guitar.

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Wow, trip. I had the model 2 bass also. White, just like the one in the picture. That was my first bass. Again, great starter guitars.

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Elvis, what kind of rig do you use?

[ELVIS]

Elvis, what kind of rig do you use?

ADA MP1 stereo into a Behringer V-amp on one channel and random analog effects on the other into a 1973 Super Lead Half Stack and a Fender Hot Rod Deluxe Stack, respectively...

[sadaist]

Wow, trip. I had the model 2 bass also. White, just like the one in the picture. That was my first bass. Again, great starter guitars.

You play both? I tried to switch to bass when my guitar playing wasn't going so great. hey, 4 strings has got to be easier than 6 right? Umm...those fucking strings are HUGE! My fingers still hurt when I think about the week I borrowed a friends bass to see.

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You play both? I tried to switch to bass when my guitar playing wasn't going so great. hey, 4 strings has got to be easier than 6 right? Umm...those fucking strings are HUGE! My fingers still hurt when I think about the week I borrowed a friends bass to see.

Yes, although I play bass in bands I do have guitars and play and write a lot on the 6 strings. I also tend to play my bass a lot like a guitar because of that. To me they are the same. If you can play one you can play them both. I just like the bottom end and prefer bass. I have been playing for 27 years. Damn I am old. Ha!

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ADA MP1 stereo into a Behringer V-amp on one channel and random analog effects on the other into a 1973 Super Lead Half Stack and a Fender Hot Rod Deluxe Stack, respectively...

Bad ass !!!

[jhale667]

Always figured those Charvel Model series Basses would make pretty cool fixer-uppers...the necks and bodies didn't suck, they just needed new pickups and hardware...

I was also checking out those close-up pics in the RT thread, and the whale-tail on that Floyd is seemingly ever-so slightly different than my circa-1983 Floyd...bonus points for a transitional model...lol

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[Nitro Express]

I had a weird Floyd Rose where you fed the strings through the ends of the saddle pieces and then the string went over rollers. It had the fine tuners and looked pretty much like a Floyd but it didn't have the string clamps.

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If I remember right I think those had a crapy Floyd where the strings just slid through them and you didn't have tighten the string with alan wrench on the bridge. Kinda like the regular stock fender type bridges. (or was that the cheap Kramers?) ...And yeah the bass was a heavy duty beast would have been awesome to hot rod out.

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I had a weird Floyd Rose where you fed the strings through the ends of the saddle pieces and then the string went over rollers. It had the fine tuners and looked pretty much like a Floyd but it didn't have the string clamps.

Ha! yep. You beat me to it.

[sadaist]

Yeah, I had a model 2 back in 1987-ish ...It really was a nice starter guitar.

That was the other choice I kept turning to. So sleek & clean looking especially in the pearl white (and 1/2 the price of the #6).

[jhale667]

Those Floyd knockoffs sucked... OFRs only, please.

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I had a weird Floyd Rose where you fed the strings through the ends of the saddle pieces and then the string went over rollers. It had the fine tuners and looked pretty much like a Floyd but it didn't have the string clamps.

Damn - I forgot all about that. Totally remember using an alan wrench on that. First thing my friend did who bought that guitar from me was change out the Floyd for a proper one.