1984 Kramer

1984/1985 Kramer Guitars

 In a particular time of 84, the headstock was changed to angled banana design, due to the fact a lot of manufacturers involved, the guitar body and neck had been also modified conrespondingly. In the starting, Sport crafted this angled banana neck, which was notorious for the "luthier joint" matter, several of the neck even dropped when transported to the facility. Some might be utilized, others can't. At that time, Kramer sought about for the neck, such as Canada produced LaSiDo. LaSiDo was believed of having the same issue, hence the argument about extended neck still existed. Everybody stated, these necks had been the most comfortable neck in the kramer series, which include R2,R3,R4 and R5 structures, the back figure is a lot more thin than the traditional "beak" neck. Moreover, you will find red, white, creamy colors matching with headstock color. Maple fretboard design is not common.

In 1984 and 85, kramer changed to use Duncan pickups, and the baretta was also correspondingly adjusted. Seymour Duncan JB pickups started to be the standard pick-ups, continuously employing the design attributes in the zebra colors. The main products of Barettas displayed reversed zebra, however some Schallers and Ducans had been still set up routinely, therefore the milky white coil is quite close to floyd.

 

Left Handed Dragon Telecaster

ESP MX 250 Description

Before the cooperation between ESP and Hetfield, Hetfield’s explorer style guitars belonged to Navigator band. In the late 1980s, ESP made many explorer guitars for Hetfield, including many famous guitars as raised middle finger inlayed "EET FUK" explorer, dots inlayed explorer bearing words " A Year and A Half In the Life of Metallica; pt. 1". These guitars were called EX at the beginning and later called MX-220ii.

 Meaning of this name:
M- Metallica
X- Explorer
220- a typical price tag
II- 2 pickups

 MX-220II is a little shorter than the length (from the strap button at bottom to the tip of the headstock), the angular is smoother a little, the distance between the toggle a switch to the knob is a little nearer than the current explorer guitars. And it has a unique truss rod cover which is parallel to the nut and has two screws. The structure of this guitar concerning the conjunction of the body and the neck is set-in.

 The further adjustment to MX-220II is using a metal plate with 4 screws to fix the jacks. The truss rod cover still has 2 screws, but is not parallel to nut any more. No change is made for the rest parts.

 Later, in the evolution of the MX-220II, the ESP changed the structure back to bolt-on structure.

 The following MX-220II is very similar to Hetfield’s first explorer. This guitar is owned by EXPCustom with old fashioned body shape and no serial number. It’s said that there is no serial number and round trademark on the headstock back of the MX-220II guitar.