Kramer Frankie #28 for sale?

[jhale667]

The dumbest move I ever made was trading a beautiful Gibson Les Paul Custom for a Krammer. That Les Paul was a chunk but man did it sound great.

I loved the way my Voyager looked (which is why I held on to the body all these years) and it sounded OK, but the beak-headstock neck was like a baseball bat...the opposite of wood-inducing wood, had ditched it by like '86...

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[jhale667]

Btw, new neck = schwing!




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[sadaist]

Nope.

But does anyone remember another pic of Eddie almost identical to the ad above, but he is wearing the 'No Bozos' shirt? That was my all time fav pic of Eddie.

My mistake. He wasn't holding a Frankie at all.




Maybe I was thinking of this one. But that's the original guitar.

[jhale667]

The 'No Bozos' ad sold tons of Barettas...

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[sadaist]

The 'No Bozos' ad sold tons of Barettas...

Not me. My dream....damn dude maybe you remember this....all through 4 years of high school in the 80's I had that Charvel model line-up brochure in my back pocket. I want model #6! Shit, now I want model #3! I forget which one I mostly wanted, but it was white. Never did get it though :-(

[ELVIS]

Those Charvels were not all that...

Neither were thr Kramers...

[jhale667]

Not me. My dream....damn dude maybe you remember this....all through 4 years of high school in the 80's I had that Charvel model line-up brochure in my back pocket. I want model #6! Shit, now I want model #3! I forget which one I mostly wanted, but it was white. Never did get it though :-(

Totally remember. Those were the 1st Charvels made after they sold to IMC (same company that made...Hondos...ugh), and while they weren't complete crap, they paled in comparison to the USA Charvels. The Kramers wre kind of hit and miss too - some were ESP parts, some weren't.

[ELVIS]

Edward's Kramers had ESP made necks...

[Zing!]

The 'No Bozos' ad sold tons of Barettas...

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Yep - I bought one back in the day based on that ad alone. Wish I would have held on to it.

[jhale667]

Yep - I bought one back in the day based on that ad alone. Wish I would have held on to it.

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! Hell, even on my Voyager, which played fine, there was an out-of-the-box electronic error that somehow made it through QC...whoever wired it had dropped solder on the main wire bundle, had a nice short the first time I plugged it in...

Paul Unkert was building these (including the one in the OP, had ELBOW bothered to read the RT thread) for EVH, though so imagining they had none of the errors the ones off the line did.

[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...