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Phil Weller

“Shred-ready guitars begging to be played fast and mean”: Kramer revives a cult classic “vault find” from the 1980s – and issues a “modern and sleeker” LP-style design – as part of extensive range overhaul

Kramer Guitars 2024.

Kramer has dropped five new electric guitars, including a revised modern take on the traditional Les Paul-style design and a reimagined version of a long-lost cult classic.

The New Jersey-based luthier was a trailblazer in the ’80s – hence why many of its current builds hark back to hairspray and spandex shred era aesthetics – but, now part of the Gibson family of brands, it has been on a fair hot streak since 2018.

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