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Mike's
KUSTOM KRAMER
This one took way too long for my liking to complete through a very difficult period of
construction of our new facility. Many thanks to my very patient customers of this past year! But, good things come to those who wait, and the outcome was a great looking, playing, and sounding instrument. It came to me with the "hockey stick" headed neck that he liked the feel of, but wanted the other Kramer headstock shape, two octaves, ebony fingerboard, and a blue-burst paint job. While making necks may be somewhat routine for us, the easiest way to effectively get 24 frets in there was to block the neck pickup cavity, route a section of the face of the guitar down the middle and lay in a thick veneer of complimentary wood. Then, re-route the neck pickup making room for the 24 fret fingerboard
extension. The inset maple is a piece with nice soft flaming that fit nice and snug with no seem except belied by the flame pattern. We used the same piece to veneer the face of the headstock to help tie it all in together. I was supposed to make it a parallel headstock like Fender guitars, but, in the course of events, I missed that detail and tilted it like the neck we were otherwise copying. Lucky for everyone, he noticed and really liked the increased sustain and resonance the tilt-back design affords and decided to keep it that way. Sometimes fate works for everyone!
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