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harddriver
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Here are my main players.....I call them the Twins.....1983 Pacer Imperials C serial numbers not too far apart from one another both poplar body wood. The one on the right came with an oil finished satin neck direct from Kramer, the only one I have ever seen in the wild, I know this because I bought it new from Ricks Music store in 1984 for $600 bucks out the door, I still have the receipt!
. I thought all of them were like this but it is truly an oddball Kramer for the year. It was my only guitar through HS and College and played the frets totally flat all the way up the neck. My luthier couldn't believe it when I took it in for refret the first time.
I swapped out the Schallers almost immediately for a Seymour Duncan Seymourizer II and EMG lacer series single coil in the neck position out of a box of pickups I bought off a guy in Chicago, I taught myself how to solder and install pickups. I went through every Dimarzio and Seymour Duncan that was in the box and the Seymourizer II kicked all their asses, the box pretty much had all the best dimarzios and duncans at the time.... The SEY II is still in that guitar today, it's 12.5K with a rough cast ceramic magnet like the Distortion/Custom just less ohms resistance. The 83 with the heavy poly neck is my test mule for pickups and it is currently running a SD Whole Lotta Humbucker right now.
Most had the thick polyurethane clear like the one on the left. The heavy C backshape neck profiles on these are just on par or better than an EBMM axis IMHO, 12" radius, 6100 jumbo frets. Most of my partscasters have the same profiles and close to those measurements that I can get on order.
. I thought all of them were like this but it is truly an oddball Kramer for the year. It was my only guitar through HS and College and played the frets totally flat all the way up the neck. My luthier couldn't believe it when I took it in for refret the first time.I swapped out the Schallers almost immediately for a Seymour Duncan Seymourizer II and EMG lacer series single coil in the neck position out of a box of pickups I bought off a guy in Chicago, I taught myself how to solder and install pickups. I went through every Dimarzio and Seymour Duncan that was in the box and the Seymourizer II kicked all their asses, the box pretty much had all the best dimarzios and duncans at the time.... The SEY II is still in that guitar today, it's 12.5K with a rough cast ceramic magnet like the Distortion/Custom just less ohms resistance. The 83 with the heavy poly neck is my test mule for pickups and it is currently running a SD Whole Lotta Humbucker right now.
Most had the thick polyurethane clear like the one on the left. The heavy C backshape neck profiles on these are just on par or better than an EBMM axis IMHO, 12" radius, 6100 jumbo frets. Most of my partscasters have the same profiles and close to those measurements that I can get on order.
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