The Kramer Club

[Fretless370]

I'll take the next club number if they're still being passed out. I have an '81 Kramer Duke that I'm restoring.... Here is the Very first "before" pic...

 

[gazzatriumph]

Reunited with a 350B after 30+ years

 

[angrychair]

picked up a white forum I today.

 

[Damian.H]

I'm in the market for a # too if that's possible?

 

[wolfkeller]

How can I find out when my bass was made? Picked this up today, 700st all original.

 

[amimbari]

I always thought the ST and Forum series were made from 89-91?

 

[Bone]

Guess I don't spend enough time here any more., missed this thread until today. Played this bass for 20+ years and made a living with it. Cross country tours, bar house gigs, festivals, 5 nights a week until I wore the frets down to unplayable. Cost more to have the frets repaced on the Ebonal board than the bass was worth so I traded it in on a Lakeland DJ4 in 2006. Owned a 1/2 dozen other Kramer basses but none as good as this one, bought new in 1980. Miss it to this day. This picture is from 1995.

 

[wolfkeller]

I always thought the ST and Forum series were made from 89-91?

Love that bad boy!

 

[wolfkeller]

the twin! Duffy on left has a Jazz neck I painted and the complete harness from a fender Duff Sig along with original Dunlop straploks. On the right, Duncan 1/4 lb rewired vol/vol/ TBX tone. I will also paint this neck.

 

[wolfkeller]

Crazy thing, I pulled the Duncan's out of the white one, they wouldn't fit (P) in the black one!!! Quite a bit with the dremmel and that was to make the smaller covers fit. The 1/4 er cover was even bigger. Both basses came with Spector passive pups. Very strange.

 

[amimbari]

oh man I had so many that the paint and poly was so thick I wondered what type of covers the spectors had on them (a mm smaller? )

 

[two fingers]

I'm the new owner of this Forum I. It's getting a brass nut soon, but that's it.

I think I speak for all long time members of this forum when I say you can't OWN this......

Oh, you mean the bass. Nice ax.

 

[angrychair]

I think I speak for all long time members of this forum when I say you can't OWN this......

Oh, you mean the bass. Nice ax.

ha thanks, I have two now btw.
I did the copper shielding mod to the electronics cavity on both, and my Spector(not shown since it isn't a kramer era spector)

 

[amimbari]

heres my old forum3 preamp

I had a bunch of ST700 lefys and rightys and EVERY single one of them had a crooked bridge, and so do yours wolfkeller

 

[wolfkeller]

I didnt really notice til you pointed it out.

 

[amimbari]

ya I don't know if someone discovered the CNC machine was messed up too late ( the people who put the hardware on after it was all done ) and just said well they werent going to throw away a couple thousand bodies and let them go thru to completion hoping that the returns would not out do the sales.

 

[wolfkeller]

For me, being a rear routed lefty for a good price makes the bridge issue irrelevant to me.

 

[amimbari]

it was the end of Kramer as we knew it, they didn't care enough to take the financial loss.. and yea, I never cared they were crooked either.

 

[wolfkeller]

I'm not a fan of wide, fat necks, most of my basses are more a Jazz profile, yet, I really like this Kramer neck. When I buy a bass it's all about the body and neck as I usually toss the hardware. I will say, I love these Kramer/schaller bridges!

 

[Xandrell]

KRAMER D-1 CASE. Does anyone now where I can get one or know which store in Australia will ship to the US ? The only ones I can find are in Australia for some reason.