Kramer Disasters!!

[kramerpacer]

CL ad. Was a Focus 1000...

[sixstring]

Holy SH!T!! The club foot rides again.

[moku]

wow... poor focus. looks like a focus 6000.

[Full Crib]

There's another one!!!

laughin WAY too loud at work...drawin attention to myself
thanks Kenny

[gilbertwannabe]

hahahahaha i love the one with the holes drillled. so good. the mortal combat one isnt terrible...not good, but atleast its a fun game. The clubfoot had to have been a break and make due. if not that is the wildest most ridiculous idea i have ever seen. ... i have those ideas too... but they stay ideas..

[skydive69]

Anybody have any pics of the asphalt Baretta?

You know the one

you talking about the bedliner? laugh all you want about those, but they were done at the usa factory where they were made.......

[Kramer_Krazy]

I don't have any picture of it, but this reminds me of the single hum, Rockinger, strat-head '81 Voyager that I once owned were a previous owner had routed it for a neck position hum, toggle switch, and a Kahler with a drill and a hammer and chisel.

[pointyheadstock]

I like this one, atleast it was a Save and the Person kept the Nana theme , I praise this one

True there but I gotta say I LOVE the string tree.

thats innovation.

[TommySixGun]

My son, Nick had this idea several years ago....looks cool, but I had to explain the difference between Gibson scale and Fender scale

[mrwhipper]

Baretta anybody?????

[moku]

what is that thing, the pickguard? web cutouts?

[da5hcharl]

man i say you could save that last one if that pickgaurd was tortoise.

[r3-Active]

i found that last one on a local dutch ebay kinda site.. but pretty messed up... i couldnt believe my eyes

[MAKiguitars]

Alas I've seen more than my fair share of Kramers that have been screwed by their owners. It's their God given right to take a perfectly good guitar and tear it to pieces in the name of modification!

I have a Baretta body on the way that was stripped, a neck humbucker route installed, you might have seen it on Ebay recently. There is also a Kramer R5 banana neck on the way, the body is for a custom graphic and to be rebuilt to add to my permanent collection of 'beaters' that I have rescued from death and beyond.

Botched repairs are great, I love them! Floyds that have been mangled, sweat, blood, bodily fluids, you name it and I've found it under the saddles to the shim and spring that rest above the sustain block. It's disgusting so remember to wipe your Floyds down after going for it!

Charvels that had botched wiring, EMGs that someone took their first soldering lesson inside the wiring cavity, I need to post some pictures or at least a new web site so you can see the horrors, it makes you wonder whether it's worth carrying on to be honest. I only do this sort of thing as and when I can due to ahem.. health issues however it's still shocking to see what turns up in the sea of discontent or rather when an owner gets bored and decides to mod their guitar..

Best wishes,

Rob

[da5hcharl]

I will admit. I mod my guitars and sometimes it ends up in tears. However, usually when i'm modding it's on bits and pieces i've bought not on whole healthy guitars. I also love to rescue worn out dead things i find in pawnshops.

Maybe we could start another thread called "Kramer (or other) Resurrections" with mangled before pics, and prettier after pics? or is there enough of that floating around?

[sixstring]

[joelson6]

thanks for putting that up


guess i was too lazy to find this thread

[smorgdonkey]

No pics needed...

~Gorky Park
~Bubbles Kline
~Rainbow Kline
~My very own special that someone made into a deluxe!

Hey man...don't forget the JS.

[Lynch Collector]

popvamp's recent purchase.... currently being restored. hope you don't mind me posting it here

don't know what the hell the seller was thinking

This is what happens when you get a guitar, a drill press, and beer for Christmas. Maybe it was too heavy and had too much tone, so he "fixed" it. What I really like is that he used tape to keep the wood from splitting.

[robwor]

Least we forget...

[sixstring]

Latest inductee!

[da5hcharl]

I wish there was some way this thread could get smaller instead of bigger damn shame what some people do to instruments that by all rights don't deserve it... but i guess everyone has a stage like that.


I have to get pictures but a friend of mine sold his pre lawsuit ESP Explorer to a guy trying to make it.

2 years later pictures have popped up of it sans neck pickup and refinished in neon green duct tape...

[Heinz]

Think that was factory Nuke Yellow too...now it's a Stryper Special.

[moku]

I wish there was some way this thread could get smaller instead of bigger

i know. but we need to honor those kramers who have sacrificed their lives...

here's one that got a ______ paint job. you can fill in the blank (no offense to the owner ):

[withoutasound]

That poor swan...