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Buyer Beware

Caveat Emptor

Be extremely careful when buying a Kramer guitar, many of the new ones are extremely low quality Korean made guitars. It is not always easy to spot an original from a new one. An experienced guitarist can feel the difference immediately just by picking up the instrument and feeling the stability, neck feel and overall vibe.

The Original BKL Kramers were Aluminum neck collector type guitars. They weren't the greatest guitars ever made either but I think they were much a much better value than the Travis Bean guitars from which the company sprang from.

The 1983 through 1990 Pacer's, Baretta's, American's, Nightswan's and Signature models are all very high quality. They were made much like the J. Frog guitars that are built today. If you have a hard time locating one of them Ed Roman Guitars can usually help you or better yet sell you a J. Frog which is like a blueprinted Kramer on steroids.

Today Gibson owns the rights to the Kramer name. Gibson in their infinite wisdom has chosen to use the Kramer good name as a way to sell extremely cheaply made Korean guitars through their Music Yo website. Gibson has similarly done the same thing with the Steinberger name which they acquired some years ago.

Gibson spent tons of money advertising the Epiphone line which was one of their earlier acquisitions and due to the advertising dollars spent they are enjoying a measure of success. Personally I believe the Epiphone guitars are extremely overpriced and over rated. They are actually considered as decent guitars in some circles based on the fact that they are so overpriced. Typical consumer mentality will assign a quality stamp to an expensive item. That's what I call a double scam!!!!

A double scam is to overprice a cheap item so that the consumers will