chris_tondreau's Music Gear Setup

I play in a Bon Jovi tribute, so getting a Jersey Star was kind of a no-brainer. We play festivals and theaters and the odd bar show. Certainly, it's a beautiful guitar. The coil splitting makes it super versatile. It can cover all the bases from classic Jovi (high gain, dual-coil of, say, Bad Medicine) to ballad-y (singing single-coils of Bed of Roses) to the somewhat countrified songs like Who Says You Can't Go Home.

The floyd on it is nice and solid.

But I just can't give it five stars for three reasons - two of which are minor quibbles and one related to quality control.

Quibble #1 - couldn't go the distance and do 24 frets?
Quibble #2 - no coil-splitting on the neck pickup. I'm in line for my tech to add a push/pull volume pot that will serve as a coil split for the neck pickup. That would have made this guitar SO much even MORE versatile!

Quality control - I've had fret issues that have taken me until now to even almost get sorted. My tech levelled off a couple of frets, and re-seated one or two of them too. It seems that another one has come somewhat unseated too. All of the issues seem to be on the edge of the neck where the 1st string passes over. Never anything brutal... .just enough that the notes start to choke just a little, but not enough you'd really hear through an amp. Pesky though.

You could blame it on the humidity, but I keep my music rooms between 40-60% relative humidity, and I have nine other guitars that don't do the same thing. Four of those other nine also get brought out to shows - indoors and out - and they don't experience the same fret issues. To be honest, I expected more from both Kramer in general, and from really any guitar in this price category.