Kramer Baretta Special Guitar - Candy Blue

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Solid Mahogany body, with a stylish Purple finish, and a dual-cutaway shape for easy access to the guitars upper frets I will try this again. I was wondering how it could stay in tune with the angle of the strings beyond the nut being what it is. Did you do any work to the nut, and did it help? The fretboard has no binding around it, which doesn't actually bother me. Aesthetically, it fits the guitar. But the slots they cut in it to put the frets in are filled kind of poorly. This is very minor and not a playablitiy issue at all, and given some of the QC topics I've seen here on some really expensive Gibson's, I really have nothing to complain about. The fretwork itself seems quite good. Nothing sharp or paper cutty. String height and intonation out of the box, in retrospect, were not great, but the action was pretty solid. The quality of the bridge is sub par. one of the length screws has filled threads on the upper 1/8th on an inch of the screw, so I'm not super sure how the convinced the screw into the saddle in the first place, but the saddles threads are now nearly stripped because of this. The chrome comes off the bridge very easily and there is something copper coloured underneath, probably copper or some alloy thereof, probably not red gold unfortunately. It is most obvious under the string height screws. This could be a function of me setting string height while tuned, but it is a little disappointing. It seems like the chrome should stand up to that.

The hardware is fairly simple as well, but it’s not at the same level of performance as the rest of the construction. In addition to this, the Mahoganybody is shaped to fit comfortably against your torso, and gives you easy-access to every note on the fingerboard. No-Nonsense Voice Improving the hardware is up to you, though. You could take its awesome metal sound to the stage with better hardware, thus saving you the money a mid-level or professional guitar would cost. This latest collection is certainly worthy of the brand’s heritage, with wild finishes and no options for fixed bridges. It is, after all, what Kramer were famous for – and they still are, looking how much the American-made originals go for secondhand.This Kramer guitar has a vintage-style tremolo bridge plus a whammy bar, which is similar to what Eddie Van Halen used to have. Some would say a whammy is essential for ‘80s metal playing. After a few month of owning this, and you know, learning about the instrument I own, I have come to realize that a binding nut was the issue. I took a pencil and applied graphite to each nut slot and I no longer have massive tuning issues.

The simple style of the guitar correlates to the sound, but that’s not to say it’s not good. It’s simply raw, straightforward, exactly what you’d expect out of an EVH-inspired guitar.That said, it’s still capable of pulling nice clean tones, with natural warmth and resonance thanks to the mahogany. Through a good tubular amplifier, for example, you can crank up the clean channel and see the guitar shine as it gains power. The Jersey Star is the most expensive offering in this line-up. Is it worth the extra money? In this case, very much so. USED products: 4% of the current new selling price to increase the warranty from 3 months to 1 year. 4% for each additional year.