Kramer Striker Resurrection! 

Yea your right.

@@ZIMMSGUITARS It is Floyd Rose II bridge...and it was not designed for guys who complained about using an allen key to tighten the locking blocks...It was just designed as low cost bridge (less parts and cast iron as opposed to steel and fulcrum points are metal inserts as opposed to being hardened and part of the actual trem metal itself ) for cheap Korean Striker guitars with plywood bodies...If you are still wondering why there is a thick shim under the neck...It is there to allow for the height of the bridge instead of recessed cavities in the body as plywood does not like to have recessed cavities due to chipping...

@@ZIMMSGUITARS oh and it's not a Kramer Voyager....It's a Kramer Striker ST500....and you can wish all you want but Kramer Voyagers were only made in the American Series...therefor not in Korea...If you are serious about making vids to help people work on their guitars...it would really be nice if you had your facts straight...just saying....

@@mark006868 He doesn't claim to be an expert, he's just fixing up an old forgotten beater, check your ego at the door, nobody comes to this channel for precise documenting information on budget 80's guitars, if you're looking for that, this channel isn't for you.

@@FretLevelMidnight I don't really care if he '' claims to be an expert'' or not...The fact remains that what he says has to factual...If it's not a speedloader don't call it that...if it was not designed for guys who complained about using an allen key to tighten the locking blocks...then don't say that...and if it's not a Kramer Voyager then don't call it that when it's a Kramer Striker ST500...It's really that simple...It has nothing to do with ego...It has to do with the truth...I'm sorry that the truth offends you...Oh who am I kidding?...I'm not sorry at all...

Indeed it is!

Glad you enjoy it!

From a past life I had a singer / rhythm guitarist that had all Krammer (pacer/striker/baretta). In the garage and basements (north county freezing). I wanted to be that kid again in the garage but I remembered we live in Arizona. Have to get you a new paint person or start looking into wraps. As always, great job giving it new life.

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Not really. Soon as that bridge was removed you can see it originally had a 6-screw Strat bridge in it and it was upgraded to that FR-II bridge, which sits a lot higher than the original bridge. As a result you need to shim the neck to a) close the gap between the fretboard and the strings, and b) get the correct break angle on the neck. Now that particular shim looks too thick to me, because the bridge was sitting far too high off the body (I guess the original owner set it really high so you could pull back a good amount). I just did this same conversion on a Warlock that had a strat bridge on it, and I replace it with a Schaller FR (pretty much the same size as that FR-II). I cut my own neck shim, and it needed a full pocket shim, not just half a playing card under the back edge. I floated my bridge only 1.5mm off the body, so my shim was a lot thinner that one (and the shim should be wedge shaped ideally too, to get that break angle)

@@ThrushCZX Totally on man, agreed. All floating non recessed Floyds neck a steep neck angle to allow any pull up. My ESP Japan built 80s Kramer focus with OFR has a crazy steep pocket. I learned this in reverse when I was young when I took a chisel to a Japanese charvel (same thing) to accommodate a hard tail (decked a fender bridge) in place of a kahler fulcrum unit. Good job Dale, do more of these dead axe resurrections!

Thanks!

Glad you enjoy it!

Thanks for sharing!

Thanks 👍

Ditto, shim for Floyd, no shim for string thru back.

This is what I was going to comment, shim is probably bringing the string height up for more trem room.

Great suggestion!

Rock on!

That bitching guitar is made in Korea Josh you got it for fifty bucks that's a nice snack to those next play nice volume toggle toggle you need to put some rail pickups in it I haven't finished watching the video yet I just started

Phones a piece of shit I'm jealous you got it for fifty bucks love what you do rock on brother

That was a Korea thing. I had a Korean squier II precision bass with a plywood body, but the neck on it was really nice, nicer than the Mexican fenders

@@k.h.1587 Korea makes lovely guitars. Even my MIK Epiphone LP Custom from 2002ish was really nice.

Dane doesn't watch porn,so he wouldn't know that...

@@mikecooper8465 OK it was a joke.... But how do u know this information 🤔

@@paulslack4303 remote viewing.