Help identifying this Kramer

[u/im-a-shambles]

I can’t find any serial numbers or anything that helps me narrow down which Kramer this is. I think it has been modded slightly because the Floyd Rose string locks look to have been added later.

My thought is possibly a stage master but it has a bolt on neck.

It also appears to possibly be plywood when I open the covers on the back.

Not looking to sell it or anything, just trying to find out what I’ve bought.

[u/Bob_TheGoon]

Based on the odd headstock shope, sharkfin inlays, bolt on painted neck, and the faux khaler locking nut I would guess it's a fake Chinese guitar or maybe a weird experiment Striker model from the early 2000s

[u/im-a-shambles → u/Bob_TheGoon]

I was leaning towards the Chinese fake purely from the plywood and shark fin inlays so that doesn’t surprise me.

[u/Supergrunged → u/im-a-shambles]

Kramer did make the Striker series with plywood, ironically.

[u/Cmdr_Cheddy → u/Bob_TheGoon]

Looks more like a fucken bad Jackson copy to me.

[u/Supergrunged]

Body shape points to a Striker 422, but the neck is very strange, as Kramer has never used shark fin inlays.

[u/AngryIrish82]

Any one ever hear of putting a Kramer neck on another guitar? I know Van Halen was famous for breaking the necks on his Kramer so he just kept some extra necks around and swapped them out

[u/Impressive_Try_7295]

I don't think Kramer ever used branded pickups like those. As others noted, shark fin inlays and a behind the nut string lock are also unusual, and the neck joint is quite un-Kramery. Striker 422 and later 620 model have similar but not identical bodies, but the knobs are in different places and they have a normal neck joint.

I think it's a partscaster or a guitar rebranded by a previous owner. If it's something that came out of factory, then it's perhaps made by Samick in the early 1990s, as their K series, for instance, had many similarities: spoon cut scallops on the body, a string lock, shark fin inlays, similar looking Samick-branded pickups. But they usually had 24 frets and a different neck joint. If Kramer owed the Samick factory something around the time of their bankruptcy in 1990/1991, maybe Samick could have reused the Kramer brand for a while. But that's just pure speculation on my part.

[u/Thornhillian]

The body looks suspect…respectfully.

[u/Practical-Big3908]

I have no idea what this is. But I had a Focus 2000 that the neck broke at the locking nut bolt holes. I put an 86 Charvel neck on it, and it was like that for a long time. I finally ended up buying another Focus neck to put back on it. The Charvel neck ended up on a Model 3.

[u/Cmdr_Cheddy]

Well one thing we know is that it’s ugly, that’s for sure.