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Having received and played the early b-day present Caliablo, I was immediately certain that it needs to be modded (shocking). In pondering possible finishes, I happened to also be looking at porn of other shredder axes on FB and saw this beauteous Kramer in striking seafoam green and pretty much decided that's what my next finish on the Caliablo needs to be. Wondering why the late developing of love for seafoam as a hue. It's not like it hasn't been around for a long time...

Any other fans of the hue?

 

 

 

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18 minutes ago, Toadroller said:

That's a gorgeous Kramer.  Headstock pointed the right direction, too.

Really shows the ESP-ghost-building-for-Kramer lineage too LOL

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3 minutes ago, Jeff R said:

Really shows the ESP-ghost-building-for-Kramer lineage too LOL

Back in the day, my lefty buddy ordered a Kramer Pacer Imperial.  Delays, delays, delays because as a lefty, had a lefty pointy headstcok.  Dealer said the plant said they had one, but then George Lynch had nabbed it to get the reverse on one of his guitars.  That was probably B.S. by the dealer to get a teenager to stop asking "when's it coming?" every three days, but it was still a cool story.

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50 minutes ago, HAMERMAN said:

I like it too. One of the guitars that made me like it was the Kramer Elliot Easton model. Ironically left handed ones seem to be very scarce.

 

 

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Testing my memory really hard now, but IIRC the ghost builder in the case of EEs was not ESP but Tom Anderson Guitarworks. At least EE and TA designed it and TA was the ghost source for the production guitars' necks.

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2 hours ago, Jeff R said:

Really shows the ESP-ghost-building-for-Kramer lineage too LOL

Verily. Now that I look at closely, is there really much difference between the body geometry of that Kramer in the OP versus the Lynch Kamikaze?

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1 hour ago, Jeff R said:

Testing my memory really hard now, but IIRC the ghost builder in the case of EEs was not ESP but Tom Anderson Guitarworks. At least EE and TA designed it and TA was the ghost source for the production guitars' necks.

I knew that Tom built the prototypes, but I wasn't aware that he fashioned the necks for the production models. EE has spoken openly about how the production guitars were nowhere near the quality of his Anderson-built prototypes. Pretty much the same thing that Reb Beach said about his Ibanez signature model.

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Verily. Now that I look at closely, is there really much difference between the body geometry of that Kramer in the OP versus the Lynch Kamikaze?

No ... other than ...

** Kamis 99.9 percent of the time are maple and Kramers are typically alder.

** Kamis have a rounded neck heel with recessed bolts and ferrules. Kramers have plated heels.

** Variations on PU config and control cavities to accommodate the packages. Kamis are HS, one push-pull vol that selects pickups either/or and a perfectly round control cavity the size of a Les Paul's three-way toggle switch.

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41 minutes ago, Jeff R said:

Verily. Now that I look at closely, is there really much difference between the body geometry of that Kramer in the OP versus the Lynch Kamikaze?

No ... other than ...

** Kamis 99.9 percent of the time are maple and Kramers are typically alder.

** Kamis have a rounded neck heel with recessed bolts and ferrules. Kramers have plated heels.

** Variations on PU config and control cavities to accommodate the packages. Kamis are HS, one push-pull vol that selects pickups either/or and a perfectly round control cavity the size of a Les Paul's three-way toggle switch.

So what you are saying is nearly identical? :-)

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3 hours ago, Jeff R said:

Testing my memory really hard now, but IIRC the ghost builder in the case of EEs was not ESP but Tom Anderson Guitarworks. At least EE and TA designed it and TA was the ghost source for the production guitars' necks.

I'm not really sure how rare the left handed ones were but the only couple I have seen for sale were supposed to have been Elliot's and built by Tom so they were well out of my price range. The SFG one had a maple fretboard which I think goes a lot better with SFG.

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6 hours ago, diablo175 said:

Having received and played the early b-day present Caliablo, I was immediately certain that it needs to be modded (shocking). In pondering possible finishes, I happened to also be looking at porn of other shredder axes on FB and saw this beauteous Kramer in striking seafoam green and pretty much decided that's what my next finish on the Caliablo needs to be. Wondering why the late developing of love for seafoam as a hue. It's not like it hasn't been around for a long time...

Any other fans of the hue?

 

 

 

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I'm late to the table too,,, never owned a seafoam green instrument until recently and then I decided "what the heck" and painted the music room the same color. I like the deeper color of the one you pictured,,, nice!

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Seafoam? Here I am! LOVE that color. I bought some fx pedals only for the color (they happened to sound good, too), and I collect some seafoam stuff on my instagram account (not as often updated as I wish, though). Next on my list: A Dean Palomino in Seafoam - if a Monaco III or anything else Hamerish doesn‘t come along my way...

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I kinda wish the topic of Seafoam Green guitars hadn't popped up again here on the HFC, as it made me aware of 'em once more...coincidentally, this Chandler Metro Baritone, probably from the 1990's or early 2000's, showed up on the DGS website today, and got my attention.  It'll arrive at my house sometime next week:

http://davesguitar.com/products/chandler/metro-baritone/

Also coincidentally, there is a red Chandler Metro Baritone that got put up on Reverb about a week ago (which I didn't know about until this evening, after I ordered the Seafoam one and started digging for Chandlers), and the store in California that it's at wants WAY more $ for it.  I think I'll make do with the Seafoam one, thanks very much!

 

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1 hour ago, crunchee said:

I kinda wish the topic of Seafoam Green guitars hadn't popped up again here on the HFC, as it made me aware of 'em once more...coincidentally, this Chandler Metro Baritone, probably from the 1990's or early 2000's, showed up on the DGS website today, and got my attention.  It'll arrive at my house sometime next week:

http://davesguitar.com/products/chandler/metro-baritone/

Also coincidentally, there is a red Chandler Metro Baritone that got put up on Reverb about a week ago (which I didn't know about until this evening, after I ordered the Seafoam one and started digging for Chandlers), and the store in California that it's at wants WAY more $ for it.  I think I'll make do with the Seafoam one, thanks very much!

 

I'd be interested in hearing what you think of it if you don't mind sharing. Lately I've been window shopping baritones and hadn't read anything about Chandlers,,, looks like they're kinda rare.

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1 hour ago, LordsoftheJungle said:

I'd be interested in hearing what you think of it if you don't mind sharing. Lately I've been window shopping baritones and hadn't read anything about Chandlers,,, looks like they're kinda rare.

I'm not sure about rarity, but their guitars were fairly popular from the '80's into the 2000's,  especially in the '90's when they rode the pseudo-vintage-ish design wave that some makers did back then with their guitars, as well as making effects pedals (such as the Tube Driver)...the last I heard, they only make replacement pickguards nowadays though I could be wrong (https://www.pickguardplanet.com/about/) .  IIRC, their guitars were well made, and made mostly in the USA, but they've fallen under most people's radar nowadays (including mine, until I saw the Seafoam Baritone at DGS).  I'll post my impression once it arrives and I've run it through it's paces!

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Love it and surf green.  Hated the color when I was younger.   Now I’m finding I’m in to all kinds of weird guitar finishes.  I feel a need for metal flake lately. 

Here’s a strat I put together recently   Only after finishing did I realize I don’t need it at all, I just wanted a surf green strat  

 

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3 hours ago, Ua D said:

Love it and surf green.  Hated the color when I was younger.   Now I’m finding I’m in to all kinds of weird guitar finishes.  I feel a need for metal flake lately. 

Here’s a strat I put together recently   Only after finishing did I realize I don’t need it at all, I just wanted a surf green strat  

 

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Welcome to my life... 😂

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