The Ultimate Retro-shredder for Modern Players
The Kramer Volante Quilt HHFR retools the company’s iconic retro-shred style for contemporary players who crave high-velocity fretboard pyrotechnics. This sleek, aerodynamic solidbody electric guitar is crafted from solid alder, featuring forearm and body comfort carves for enhanced playability, and capped with a spotlight-ready AAAA quilt maple veneer. Its 3-piece, satin-finished, thermally aged maple neck boasts a streamlined Kramer Elliptical C shape and a 5-bolt sculpted heel, ensuring effortless access to the upper frets. The compound-radius ebony fingerboard spans 24 frets, offering two full octaves of playable real estate. In terms of tone, the Volante Quilt HHFR is equipped with Kramer USA Neptune Alnico-II-loaded humbuckers that conquer clean passages, aggressive crunch tones, and scorching leads with equal prowess. No self-respecting shred guitar would be complete without a double-locking tremolo, and the Volante Quilt HHFR includes the gold standard — a Floyd Rose — allowing for a wide range of pitch-bending pyrotechnics. This axe also features a Kramer Key Lock neck stabilizer, an easy-access truss rod, and rock-solid mini die-cast tuners. For modern players seeking a high-performance guitar with an unapologetically rock-hard attitude, the Volante Quilt HHFR ticks all the right boxes.
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High-performance machine
Kramer has a long-standing reputation for catering to technical players — shredders and virtuosos alike. The Volante Quilt HHFR honors this legacy while enhancing classic design elements with high-end upgrades that modern players will appreciate. This guitar features a 3-piece, satin-finished maple neck with a sleek Kramer Elliptical C profile, thermally aged for reduced weight and increased stability. Its fingerboard is extended and enhanced with a compound radius, providing you with 24 frets of expanded playability. Additionally, the Volante Quilt HHFR boasts an HH pickup configuration with modern switching, enabling coil-splitting and other advanced wiring options for greater sonic versatility.
Kramer USA Neptune humbuckers
Kramer’s Volante Quilt HHFR is built for hard rock, and it delivers with its Kramer USA Neptune humbuckers. The bridge pickup is a high-output unit with a round, aggressively hot tone perfect for scorching lead work. The neck pickup, on the other hand, is a moderate-output humbucker with a mellow tone and clean, clear dynamics that complement the hotter bridge pickup beautifully. Both pickups feature Alnico II magnets and are wax-potted for squeal-free operation. The Volante Quilt HHFR is equipped with a 5-way blade-style selector switch, offering maximum tonal versatility. Position one selects the bridge humbucker wired in series, position two selects both pickups in split-coil mode, position three selects both pickups in series-humbucker mode, position four selects the neck humbucker wired in parallel, and position five selects the neck humbucker wired in series. Additionally, the pickups are hum-canceling in all positions.
Pitch-twisting Floyd Rose tremolo
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 Volante Quilt HHFR. Similar to other high-performance solidbody electric guitars, The Volante Quilt HHFR comes equipped with a rock-solid Floyd Rose 1000 double-locking trem, along with a rear-mounted R3 locking nut. 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 or abuse it, you’ll have trouble knocking this axe out of tune.
Kramer Volante Quilt HHFR Features:
- Retools Kramer’s classic retro-shred formula for modern players
- Lightweight alder body with forearm and body comfort carves for enhanced playability
- Topped with a spotlight-ready AAAA quilt maple veneer
- 3-piece, satin-finished, thermally aged maple neck features an easy-playing Kramer Elliptical C profile
- Lightning-fast compound-radius ebony fingerboard features a 25.5-in. scale and 24 jumbo frets
- Kramer USA Neptune humbuckers conquer clean passages, aggressive crunch tones, and scorching leads with equal prowess
- Modern switching enables coil-splitting and other advanced wiring options for greater sonic versatility
- Floyd Rose 1000 Series double-locking trem with a rear-mounted R3 locking nut
- Kramer Key Lock neck stabilizer, easy-access truss rod, and rock-solid mini die-cast tuners
- Eye-grabbing ebony headstock with a classic Kramer logo
