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Description

Unleash your inner rock star with the Kramer Paul Dean, a solid body electric guitar designed for players who crave both aesthetic and performance excellence. This instrument is a collaboration with Paul Dean, the legendary guitarist from Loverboy, ensuring authenticity and quality in every detail. The guitar boasts a classic double-cutaway body that facilitates easy access to the higher frets, perfect for shredding solos and power chords alike.

The Kramer Paul Dean is equipped with custom Alnico V humbuckers, giving it the power to deliver robust tones that cut through any mix. Whether you're playing in a garage band or on stage, this guitar offers a rich, dynamic sound that's both versatile and distinctive. The sleek maple neck with a smooth fingerboard provides a comfortable playing experience, allowing for swift transitions and intricate fingerwork.

Built with precision and durability in mind, the Kramer Paul Dean features a robust hardware setup, including a reliable tune-o-matic bridge and die-cast tuners, ensuring stability and consistency in every performance. This guitar is not just an instrument; it's a gateway to expressing your musical creativity with flair and precision.

Key Features:

  • Custom Alnico V humbucker pickups
  • Double-cutaway solid body design
  • Maple neck with smooth fingerboard
  • Tune-o-matic bridge for enhanced tuning stability
  • Die-cast tuners for precise tuning adjustments
  • Collaboration with Paul Dean, guitarist of Loverboy
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Owner Insights

We analyzed real musician discussions from forums and Reddit to find what players love, question, and tweak about Kramer Paul Dean.

Comparisons

  • The Kramer Pacer Custom I and II are often compared, with users praising the early 80's shred-type super strats for their design and playability.

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  • The Kramer NightSwan is sometimes compared to high-end models like the Caparison Horus and Kiesel Jason Becker, noting its affordability relative to these options.

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Mods and upgrades

  • Some Kramer enthusiasts recommend custom refinishing to achieve rare colors, like fluorescent yellow, through ex-Kramer employees on specialized forums.

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  • Owners suggest replacing the stock pickups with a Dimarzio Super Distortion in the bridge and a potential Super 2 in the middle for enhanced tonal versatility.

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User experience

  • Chinese versions of the Kramer Striker 600st are noted for their durability, with owners reporting satisfaction even with less expensive Floyd Rose II tremolos.

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  • One owner recalls the NightSwan from 1989 as their first serious guitar, emphasizing its lasting visual appeal and quality over the years.

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Features and functionality

  • The description of a pointed and swept headstock with gold lettering is a notable feature for those hunting down specific Kramer models.

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  • The Kramer NightSwan is notable for being the only short scale Floyd Rose-equipped non-Dean guitar, offering a unique playing experience in the super strat category.

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  • The NightSwan's unique dot inlays, often likened to "ping pongs," are a distinctive aesthetic feature that attracts many players.

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Value and pricing

  • The nostalgic value of 80's Kramers is recognized, with users frequently searching for models around $800 or less, despite color rarity.

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Paul Dean

Singer, Guitarist

Loverboy

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Starting around 1984-1985ish, for the album "Lovin' Every Minute Of It" in particular, Paul jumped from inexpensive guitar manufacturer Hondo to the quintessential guitar brand of the 1980's - Kramer - best known for being used by Edward Van-Halen.

With Kramer, Paul redesigned his previous "Dean Machine" design to be a neck-through, mahogany bodied, Seymour Duncan HSS equipped (2X Duncan Vintage Flat strat pickups and a Seymour Duncan Jeff Beck (J.B.) Humbucker), Floyd Rose original vibrato equipped guitar shaped just like his previous Hondo/Odyssey/Home-Built guitars. Kramer created a production model, with some early guitars being manufactured by Larrivee in Canada, some being made at the Neptune New Jersey Kramer factory, and others being made in Japan.

Paul had multiple variants of these guitars including a single humbucker EVH style one from an 85' Loverboy concert, and several that may have been home-built bodies and necks that Paul used to cobble variations of these guitars in various configurations in the studio between takes on the Wildside album (those were bolt-on necks though).

More info on these guitars is availible at vintage-kramer.com https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BaJ00sEgLEU

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