Some are just junk! (Focus/Pacer line). Things to look for on 80's Kramers BEFORE YOU BID!!! Vectorworks Serial Mac Crack. ! If you are looking at a guitar or parts that are, have or look like the following parts they are not off USA Kramer Models. SERIAL NUMBERS. IF the neck plate is cast (has raised lettering) with a SL#. Can anyone help me with this bass? Owner says it's a Kramer but doesn't know the model. I find it odd the model or serial number etc. Wouldn't be on a. Early Kramer basses had Aluminum necks. That bass looks like a cheaper import from the later days. Kramer Aluminum Neck Guitars. Last edited: Apr. Henry Vacarro produced these guitars after Kramer stopped making them. Very rare serial number 00039.

I was reading the very interesting wenge/wenge thread about different wood species for necks/fingerboards and it made me wonder(again) why aluminum bass necks didn't catch on.I haven't really played anything other than my Kramer 650B since the 70's and have always thought of it as a quality bass. Yet I have never been able to compare it to any really good basses to know for sure.I remember Travis Bean's used aluminum and the early Kramers,but I don't think anybody's tried it since.It's certainly held up well and the bowling ball material fingerboard doesn't show any wear after almost 35yrs,including 6 nites @week for several yrs. Does anybody have any insite as to why it's not used anymore?

Just curious whether it's sound related,costs or production problems etc.? Thanks and have a great week!!

(I hope this is the appropriate thread(luthiers corner),sorry if I'm wrong! Steve Jones Mercy Rarlab there. !). I played one of those Kramer basses with an aluminum neck several years ago, and the issue for me was the weight. It played and sounded fine, but it felt like it weighed twice as much as a regular Fender bass, plus it had the most extreme neck dive of any guitar or bass I've ever played. I would think that it would be possible to build a lightweight aluminum neck - before carbon fiber bicycles became all the rage, the lightest racing bikes were aluminum - but maybe the manufacturing process is just too costly.

I played one of those Kramer basses with an aluminum neck several years ago, and the issue for me was the weight. Pinnacle Dv500 Dvd Drivers Windows 7. It played and sounded fine, but it felt like it weighed twice as much as a regular Fender bass, plus it had the most extreme neck dive of any guitar or bass I've ever played. I would think that it would be possible to build a lightweight aluminum neck - before carbon fiber bicycles became all the rage, the lightest racing bikes were aluminum - but maybe the manufacturing process is just too costly. Those are all certainly valid 'cons'.I guess I've lived with mine so long I don't think about how heavy it is and when I was playing 6 nites @ week we always had rooms in the hotel we played in so it was usually already at 'club temp'so tuning wasn't an issue either.