Kramer The 84 Electric Guitar - Blue Metallic Reviews
Kramer’s The 84 pays homage to one of the most influential solidbody electric guitars of all time (hint: it was covered with red, black, and white stripes). This built-for-performance axe centers around a Pacer-esque alder body, along with a hard-rock maple neck and fast-playing 12"-radius fingerboard. Plug into your favorite high-gain stack, and you’ll experience classic hot-rodded humbucker tones, courtesy of a Seymour Duncan JB bridge pickup. No self-respecting shred guitar would be complete without a double-locking tremolo, and The 84 includes the gold standard — a Floyd Rose. The 84 features an easy-access truss rod, rock-solid die-cast tuners, and an eye-grabbing matching banana-style headstock.
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Looks great, plays great!
I love my new Kramer! I love the narrow neck, it's great for female hands. I wish I could get the action just a bit lower, but that's life. The delivery was great, even with a couple of holes in the outer box. I had to do some adjustments to it and added the EVH D tuna to it. It stays in tune pretty well when dive bombing the trem. Kyle Malone was great helping me decide between the Baretta and the 84. I'm glad I went with the 84! Thanks Sweetwater for another great experience!
Great Guitar For 80's Flashbacks. Shipping Issues Handled Spectacularly By Sweetwater
I bought this to remember a single pickup/volume MIJ Charvel I had in the 80's in almost the same color, and coincidentally added a Seymour Duncan JB in zebra. I also have an EVH 5150 (which the original 5150 was supposed to have come from the original Kramer 1984) to compare to, along with some Kramer errata.
First, this is about the 3rd or 4th iteration of the 84/1984. The original was in the 80's, then two re-issues as "Kramer 1984", then this "The 84". The differences between "Kramer 1984" and "The 84" appear to be the pickup: 1984 used an all black Gibson 84T, "The 84" used a SD JB in zebra. Not that much difference, they are both hot-wound (16-18K) 80's rock humbuckers. The other difference I could find is the nut. "The 84" is screwed into the neck, and as far as I can tell, "Kramer 1984" screwed the nut on thru the back of the neck. Minor differences. The body is the same, the neck is the same one-piece maple plus walnut skunk stripe. The volume is a 250K push-pull coil tap to try and get single coil sounds. I have like 4 guitars with taps, and none seem to get effectively close to a strat single coil sound, but everybody was rambling on about coil taps / splits in the 80's so it's still a thing. Maybe if you're taking things out of phase I could see more utility, but as it is, I think stuff like this is all about "could have" over "should have". I believe these are made in ESP factories in Indonesia. Finish on the body / headstock was a flawless metallic blue. Neck finish appears to be a light poly satin finish. At some point I will probably take a scotch-brite to the back of the neck and maybe sand some thickness out of it. Neck profile is a typical slim C. Tuners are pretty basic.
Overall, great guitar for 80's rock. I personally don't care for the floating bridge, but there are things you can buy, or popsicle sticks you can glue together and block the bridge in the cavity. Frets seem like medium-jumbo, and I did have one fret that was a bit high. Neck setup was good when I got the guitar. Truss rod is at the body joint using an allen under the fretboard. I haven't had to mess with this.
Weird thing: The allen wrench holder on the back of the headstock. Nothing says "80's" like this. You always have your allen wrenches handy, provided that you have a screwdriver or a dime or some other tool to loosen the set screws that hold the allens in.
Why I gave this 5 stars: At some point on this guitars' journey, the shipment broke open and the inner box came out and bounced around in the truck. The driver neatly crammed everything (except the candy and the foam that would no longer fit) back into the original outside box, quietly left it at my door without getting the signature I requested. Upon unboxing, the bridge was pressed into the body and there were dings or dents in the back of the body. Sweetwater made everything right, and that is why I will continue to get my stuff at Sweetwater, but in the future, I will pay extra for UPS.
Decent for EVH stuff
The finish on this guitar is very nice metal flake, the neck is not wide, it's somewhat narrow. I did not care for the push/pull volume knob, when turned down it had a very weird bass cut sound, I was having trouble overall finding a good sound on my Marshall amp, I replaced with a 500k pot and it sounds great, I think my original pot had some kind of problem, no biggie to replace, but almost sent it back to Sweetwater.
