i've been holding a kramer bass hostage for about 8 yrs now - it doesn't get played too often (nor terribly well) since bass isn't my main instrument, but it's around the house whenever i have bass ideas or record something.

kramer dmz 2000 with the natural wood finish.

have trouble using any other guitar, after playing on it exclusively for the past 2 years every other guitar has a tiny fretboard and feels so light it might float off my back. has taken its fair share of abuse but it really is built like a tank. love it when someone picks it up to try it out and immediately almost drops it to the floor because they didn't expect it to be that heavy.

dansoderburg wrote:kramer dmz 2000 with the natural wood finish.

have trouble using any other guitar, after playing on it exclusively for the past 2 years every other guitar has a tiny fretboard and feels so light it might float off my back. has taken its fair share of abuse but it really is built like a tank. love it when someone picks it up to try it out and immediately almost drops it to the floor because they didn't expect it to be that heavy.

Yeah, I had that issue when I played my friends Jazz. It's too light.

as of yesterday, yes!



got it for next to nothing ($100). mine has chrome knobs instead of black and the white composite core instead of black. It's a hollowbody.

it sounds fantastic. built like a tank. the dot inlays are hex rivets, too! it's hand built by Chris Fouke of Benton, IL.



woo!

Faiz!
DAMN that thing is cool.
Is $100 a typical price for them?

As for my answer, I have a TB1000s, but I'm telling you, I don't think I will for much longer.
4000 bucks???????
Too rich for my world.
I may divest.

Hell, that's worth, like, 40 metal lap steels.

-A

OH
MY
GOD

Please allow me to play it when I visit Chicago next.

Pretty please with curry on top?

This guitar, she is the beautiful.

you may play!


it's great. $100 is way lower than they go for. Fouke sells them custom built for about $700 on his site, and the lowest I've seen them go for 2nd hand is about $350-$400. a steal, for sure. mine's number 125, built in 2003.

Mine doesn't have the coil tap, and it's the thinner plated model (built thin so it can be played acoustically as well as electrically. I don't even have a slide. I've just been using a lighter. I'll go pick one up soon, though.


yay!

B.J.C. wrote:EGC TB500 #107

lucky guy...

Friz,

That is a sweet axe, yo. I want to mess with it.

I corresponded w/ Chris a bit when I lived an hour away from Benton. I daydreamed about being his apprentice or something, or at least having him make me an aluminum body around my Kramer neck. Never did.

You scored on the price, too.

o

Oh, and I have a Kramer 250G with only a Lace Red/Silver Dually at the bridge, a stock Vaccaro Generator X or something, and a Kramer 350G with a Phat Cat in the neck, another Lace in the bridge position, and a Kahler tremolo just recently installed on it. The 250G sounds exactly like I want a guitar to sound, the Vaccaro sounds better for drop-tuned stuff coz it's a longer scale, and the 350G just sounds thin coz of the Kahler. I'm trying to find a bridge pickup that would make it sound more like the 250G with the Lace despite the shrillness from the floating trem.

I'm no joiner though; I have a sweet mostly-cellulose Ric bass and several acoustic guitars with almost no metal at all.