Shop Keyboard Deals, Financing, and More

Sorry, all demos of this item have been sold.

Since demo items are such a great deal, they often sell within hours of showing up on our web site. Order a new one below, or browse every currently available demo item here.

Kramer Assault Plus Electric Guitar - Trans Purple

Solidbody Electric Guitar with Mahogany Body, Maple Top, Mahogany Neck, Maple Fingerboard, 2 Humbucking Pickups, and Floyd Rose Tremolo - Trans Purple
3 Write review Item ID: KASSTPBF
$829.00

Earn $42 back in Bonus Bucks† OR pay $35/month with 24 month financing*

55-point
Inspection

Free
Shipping
Tech Support

Free Sweetwater
Support

Free 2-year
Warranty
Backordered - More On The Way!

We expect more from Kramer soon. Order today to reserve yours now, risk-free.

Notify me when in stock
Add to Cart
Notify me about deals

Ask An Expert

Our expertly trained Sales Engineers are ready to help!

(800) 222-4700
What is a Sales Engineer?
Sweetwater Gear Exchange

Have one to sell?
Check out Sweetwater's Gear Exchange!
Learn More

Most Popular Accessories & Related Items

Kramer Assault Plus Electric Guitar - Trans Purple
Backordered - More On The Way! – Notify me
$829.00
Add to Cart
Add to list
Back to navigation

Written By

Our Product Research Team

Get to know them!

A Full-blown Shredder with Vintage Style

The Kramer Assault Plus is a full-blown shredder with vintage style to spare. It boasts a familiar single-cut maple-topped mahogany body, but that’s where the similarities end. Its mahogany neck features an easy-playing K-Speed SlimTaper “C” profile, and its lightning-fast 12"-radius fingerboard sports a 25.5" scale and 24 medium-jumbo frets. Plug into your favorite high-gain stack, and you’ll experience high-octane humbucker tones, courtesy of a set of hot-rodded Seymour Duncan pickups. And true to its shredder heritage, the Assault Plus includes a Floyd Rose double-locking tremolo. The Assault Plus features easy-access hex wrenches, rock-solid die-cast tuners, and an eye-grabbing Kramer trademark reverse headstock.

High-performance shred machine with classic style

While its single-cut, maple-topped mahogany body suggests something more on the vintage side, the Assault Plus is a modern high-performance shred machine. Its mahogany neck features an easy-playing K-Speed SlimTaper “C” profile, while its lightning-fast 12"-radius fingerboard features a 25.5" scale and 24 medium-jumbo frets. The Assault Plus sports two hex wrenches fastened to the back of its headstock for easy adjustments and a Kramer trademark reverse headstock.

Seymour Duncan hot-rodded humbuckers — built to rock hard

Kramer’s Assault Plus was built for hard rock. And it rocks hard, thanks to its zebra-colored Seymour Duncan humbuckers. Its JB bridge pickup is one of the most popular in the world, serving up the classic sound of a hot-rodded humbucker. You know, that sound — the one we've all loved for the last 30 years. This guitar’s JN neck pickup makes a perfect complement to the JB, yielding traditional warm humbucker tones for full, yet clear, rhythms and silky-smooth leads. From bluesy crunch to harmonic-laden grind, these humbuckers deliver the goods. The Assault Plus includes a standard 3-way toggle switch, a volume knob for each pickup with a push/pull pot for series/parallel operation, and a master tone control.

Floyd Rose tremolo for twisting, bending, and dive-bombing

Do you dive-bomb? Shriek? Squeal? Flutter? Of course you do! Otherwise, you wouldn’t be on Sweetwater.com looking at shred machines like the Assault Plus. Similar to other high-performance solidbody electric guitars, the Assault Plus comes equipped with a rock-solid Floyd Rose double-locking trem. It can be used for subtle vibrato or full-blown dive bombs — the choice is yours. Either way, you’ll experience the same response and tuning stability that you'd expect from a Floyd Rose. Whether you use it or abuse it, you'll have trouble knocking the Assault Plus out of tune.

Kramer Assault Plus Features:

  • Vintage-style single-cut, maple-topped mahogany body
  • Mahogany neck features an easy-playing K-Speed SlimTaper “C” profile
  • Lightning-fast 12"-radius fingerboard features a 25.5" scale and 24 medium-jumbo frets
  • Zebra-colored Seymour Duncan JB bridge humbucker boasts plenty of output without sacrificing tone
  • Zebra-colored Seymour Duncan JN neck humbucker yields traditional warm humbucker tones
  • Standard 3-way toggle switch, a volume knob for each pickup with a push/pull pot for series/parallel operation, and a master tone control
  • Floyd Rose 1000 Series double-locking trem for dive-bombing, shrieking, squealing, and fluttering
  • 2 hex wrenches fastened to the back of the headstock for easy adjustments
  • Rock-solid mini die-cast machine heads with a 14:1 turning ratio
  • Eye-grabbing Kramer trademark reverse headstock

Why Buy Your Guitar from Sweetwater?

See how Sweetwater goes to great lengths to give you the very best online guitar buying experience. From our online Guitar Gallery that allows you to see and select the exact instrument you want to our 55-point Inspection process and our in-house guitar techs, we take the guesswork out of buying your next guitar online.

Additional Media

Electric Guitar Buying Guide

Warranty Info

Sweetwater's FREE 2-Year Total Confidence Coverage Warranty

Extra peace of mind at no extra cost.

  • Save money with FREE parts and labor
  • Get back to making music with the industry's fastest turnaround time
  • Fix it the first time with our award-winning, factory-certified Service Department
Learn More about Total Confidence Coverage
2 Year Total Confidence Coverage
$82.00
FREE!

Free 2-year Warranty

Sweetwater's 2-year Total Confidence Coverage™ Warranty gives you extra peace of mind at no extra cost.

Learn More about Total Confidence Coverage
Tools Icon

Save money with free parts & labor!

Fast Icon

Get back to making music with the industry's fastest turnaround time.

Award Icon

Fix it the first time with our award-winning, factory-certified Service Department.

Back to navigation

Tech Specs

  • General
  • Number of Strings 6
  • Left-/Right-handed Right-handed
  • Body
  • Body Type Solidbody
  • Body Shape Assault Plus
  • Body Material Mahogany
  • Top Material Flamed Maple veneer
  • Body Finish Gloss
  • Color Trans Purple
  • Neck
  • Neck Material Mahogany
  • Neck Shape K-Speed SlimTaper C
  • Neck Joint Set Neck
  • Radius 12"
  • Fingerboard Material Maple
  • Fingerboard Inlay Black Dots
  • Number of Frets 24, Medium Jumbo
  • Scale Length 25.5"
  • Nut Width 1.625"
  • Nut Material Floyd Rose R2 Locking
  • Hardware
  • Bridge/Tailpiece Floyd Rose 1000 Locking Tremolo
  • Tuners Kramer Black Die-cast minis, 14:1 ratio
  • Electronics
  • Neck Pickup Seymour Duncan JN Zebra Coil Humbucker
  • Bridge Pickup Seymour Duncan JB Zebra Coil Humbucker
  • Controls 2 x volume (push/pull series/parallel), 1 x master tone
  • Switching 3-way toggle pickup switch
  • Miscellaneous
  • Strings .009-.042
  • Case/Gig Bag Sold Separately
  • Manufacturer Part Number: KASSTPBF1

What Makes Our Sales Engineers Great?

Sweetwater Sales Engineers are a world-class team of experts dedicated to you. Hand selected from across the globe, each brings a wealth of experience and expertise in the world of music gear to provide you with unparalleled service completely free of charge. Friendly relationships, real trust, and the right gear are only a call or a click away!

(800) 222-4700
Contact Your Sales Engineer
Back to navigation

Customer Reviews

3.5 out of 5

Customer Added Media

This product doesn't have any review media yet!

Write your review

Kramer Assault Plus Electric Guitar - Trans Purple

Very well-made guitar. The materials used are found on high-end guitars. The finish is excellent. The Floyd Rose tremolo is stable with only the usual nuances that come with it. The fine tuners were gritty so they were disassembled, cleaned, and lubed. The guitar is balanced and has a great tone without electronic mods. The action was a bit high for my liking and I lowered it without issues during my setup. I gave it a fret polish because that was all the frets needed. All the items I did were for my playing preferences and should not be considered manufacturing flaws. If I didn't have the skill sets to do it this guitar would have been played anyway and added to the rotation. Excellent guitar at this price point. I just made it mine and yes, only mine.
by Randall Buchholz from Columbus, WI on
Music background: Play, record, collect.. I have issues....

All the things I was looking for within budget

I'm a very casual bedroom guitar player, and I'm totally self-aware that if I spent even half the time I spend "window shopping" guitars and gear actually practicing my playing, I'd be a LOT better. I've always got G.A.S. but can rarely justify buying a new guitar. Enter the Kramer assault plus, a mashup of all the features I'd wanted but never had in a guitar, all in one affordable package: Seymour Duncan pickups, a maple fretboard, a flame maple (veneer) top, and the good quality but affordable Floyd Rose 1000 series. Also, it's PURPLE! It's a fun twist on the classic single-cut design, but really stands out while staying classy.

Pros: it's very comfortable in weight and feel. The neck feels great, and it has slightly rounded fretboard edges and great fretwork. This is my first guitar with a any sort of tremolo system, so I was anxious about the Floyd Rose, but it's worked out great and given me no problems--it's smooth and easy to operate with no tuning stability issues. When I ordered it and received it 7 months ago, the specs did not mention a couple of the hidden extras that I was pleased to find. It has push-pull pots on the volume knobs to independently switch each pickup from series to parallel to provide extra tonal options, and the volume pots also sport treble-bleed circuits to keep you from losing high end when rolling off the volume.

Personal Preference: the headstock is controversial to some internet denizens, but I personally love hockey stick headstocks--and since my other guitar is an Epiphone Explorer, this looks great beside it--and I prefer the the straight string pull over the the tuning problems that come with a traditional 3x3 headstock (although I know the locking nut makes that a moot point). People seem divided on the Jazz/JB set, but this was my first experience with name brand pickups and I think they sound great; however, they are very bright, so might not be to everyone's taste; someday I might swap the neck Jazz for a warmer pickup. Setup out of the box from Sweetwater was great, but I lowered the action quite a bit (several incremental adjustments over a few months) before getting it to my preferred string height. The action is very low now and it sounds and plays great. It's a 25.5 inch scale length, but with it being 24 frets, it feels almost more like a Gibson scale without the squished together feel I've experienced on guitars with 24 frets and a 24.75 inch scale length. If you like the feel of Epiphones, you'll probably like this. Gibson owns Kramer, and this feels like a nicer Epiphone, where they can get away from the traditional expectations associated with Gibson/Epiphone.

Cons: getting a lot of bang for your buck means they cut corners somewhere. Minus the pickukps, the electronics are cheap. They are the same parts you find on Epiphones prior to the switch to CTS pots. The toggle switch is the Epiphone-branded switch, for example. I don't have a problem with this, aside from my specific guitar having a defective bridge pot. I initially thought it was just dirty and contact cleaner helped for a while, but after a few months of owning the guitar, my bridge pot totally died. I was able to fix it myself by swapping out the pot, and considering it was my first soldering experience in about 18 years, it wasn't too bad. The extensive wiring diagrams on Seymour Duncan's website and their soldering tutorial videos made it a lot easier. The other pots have held up fine, so it was clearly just a bad individual part but was frustrating nonetheless. The tuners are also very cheap, unbranded tuners. They are knockoff "Grover style," and I had to tighten all the peg heads on mine before they were even usable; this shouldn't matter too much on a double-locking guitar, but string changes would be a lot better with better tuners, especially that terrifying first Floyd Rose string change I had (it all went fine, but was stressful). Lastly, when it comes to cheap parts, don't trust the strap buttons. I was replacing mine with straplocks anyway, but when I took the original buttons off, I found they had very short and thin screws that certainly did not scream "security." I swapped for the newer style Schallers and they are perfect. The final con is that the originality of the design makes finding a case or even a gigbag very difficult. There is no case designed to fit the thickness of the body, the overall length (with the longer scale and extended headstock), and the angle of the headstock, so you have to get creative. This was a big headache for me for a few weeks after getting the guitar, but I found a creative solution. I went with a bass case (deeper than most bases cases) and modified it to be a perfect fit using furniture foam and crushed velvet from the craft store. I like having a craft project, so it ended up being fun and rewarding to me, and it came out pretty good (though I would do things differently next time), but most people might not like the extra effort of customizing a case.
All in all, I really LOVE this guitar. It feels different from what everyone else has, and has a lot of features that give you a ton of versatility in one package. It's not perfect, but for $, there aren't many guitars out there that can compete with it. I was looking at Ibanez for a long time, but I couldn't spend $1000+, so this guitar gave me all the features I was looking for without me *needing* to make modifications. That said, there are a lot of places where I could modify or upgrade down the road, if I want to. Most of the cons were expected/not that big of a deal, so I think it's a really solid guitar, and if you are considering buying it, I highly recommend.
by TK from the midwest on
Music background: Bedroom player - sloppily playing the same Coheed and Cambria riffs for the past 15 years

This Guitar Sucks

It sucks out loud.
This guitar feels like a $300 one.

Out of the box the paint job did not hold up remotely to the photos. The highlight portion might as well be the base wood color shining through.
The tuners are low quality in hand, they are really banking on the locking nut.
Tone pots feel loose and cheap.

A guitar in this price range should not require so much setting up.

But even after a lengthy set up this guitar still sucks. Sustain is meh, harmonics are dull. It DOES NOT SHRED.

At this price range it's absolutely unacceptable to have this level of quality.

I was absolutely smitten with this guitar on paper what a tremendous let down. I imagine this is how my father feels about me.
by Steven Nunes from Lodi, CA on
See also: Solid Body Guitars, Kramer, Kramer Solidbody Guitars
Close Close $2,000 Pick Your PRS Giveaway -- input your email address below to enter or click here to learn more.

See giveaway details & rules or check out our past winners!

Enter Now

Success!

Your email, has been entered to win this giveaway. Good Luck!