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Roadhouse USA:
1986 Vintage Kramer American Paul Dean Signature Guitar in Flip Flop Red W/OHSC.
Man, its been quite a few years since I have had a Paul Dean model Kramer in stock!
Such a cool guitar, these were a great design for a great guitar player. Most may not remember Paul Dean these days, which is a shame as he was excellent, especially if you ever saw him live. Loverboy was quite big at the time and Paul Dean was one of the few players who warranted getting a Signature model from Kramer.
American made, this guitar is in excellent condition.
The pictures show the finish to be mostly red, but it’s not. The Flip Flop finishes that Kramer did at this time were super cool, and this one changes color depending on the angle and the lighting. Kind of a translucent type color.
Excellent condition all the way around, you won’t find one much nicer than this example.
All original of course.
Comes as pictured with original hard case and trem bar.
Excellent example of a rare USA Kramer from a bygone era.
From Vintage Kramer:
“The Paul Dean signature was one of Kramer’s early neck-through models with a dual-cutaway Honduras mahogany body. The horns were slightly more jagged or “squareish” shaped than conventional with the bass bouts being more rounded than the typical Strat shape. Pickup configuration was hum/single/single all by Seymour Duncan, the bridge being a JB model, the singles Vintage Staggered Single Coils. Controls included 1 volume, 1 tone and 3 on/off switches for the pickups.”
“Sources say the headstock began as a banana shape but the majority found will have the pointy droopy variety with either the small block logo or the large diminishing logo. Paul actually used a banana head shaped early version with a single humbucker, in the spirit of sort of a Kramer Baretta style (see pictures below). Additionally, there are three variations of the Paul Dean headstock (shown below) with the block logo and a signature after the logo, a block logo with American Script, and a pyramid logo with no script (all with Paul Dean truss rod covers). The signature after the logo were seen on earlier models. Included on the 22 fret neck was black hardware including Floyd Rose trem, Schaller tuners, and the fretboard was rosewood with pearl dots.”
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