Still playing daily my 85’ 100ST. The pickup is now a 79’ EMG 58 which completely rocks. Plywood body and all…I love this guitar…and as you stated….that neck is unbelievable!!!!
Dagan...that intro may be your most epic yet...As far as the Kramer's, they keep giving us fun stuff to like. Glad they are back in business. The guitar world missed them.
Thank you Dagan for a very complete and thorough review. After watching you shred the floyd rose version I'm definitely going to order one of these sweet guitars. Being a lefty, usually my options are limited but it's nice to hear that Kramer didn't forget about us on their new Striker models. Thank you again and keep on rockin' 😎🤘🎸
I was lucky enough to own a real 1985 Kramer Baretta and a 87 Baretta and both were kick ass ! 3 years ago I bought one of the newer Barettas and its an awesome guitar...now I want one of these ! Excellent video and playing.
Great playing mate and nice guitars too. I have similar early 90's Aria Pro II... I guess they were copies of the Kramers! BTW surprised we didn't see you at HRH Sleaze couple of weeks ago in Sheffield. (Pretty Boy Floyd/Crash Diet/Confess) It was awesome!
Not really sure who Aria was trying to copy back then. If you look at the cassette liner on Dokken's Tooth and Nail (circa 1984) you'll see George holding a Strat body Aria Pro II. I subsequently bought an Aria Pro II ZZ Deluxe lol (the Explorer body style). The necks were fantastic. I ended up dropping in my own Floyd Rose. The only guitar I wore out frets on.
My first electric guitar was an early 1980's striker with a Floyd Rose with a rosewood fretboard but the headstock was the one that appears on the new pacers. It was in blue.
I have an 86-87 striker with fr. Very heavy lump of a guitar but I like that A 2007 hard tail 424 striker. Great fun guitars.Very happy to see Kramer bring them back Great review again.
I just got the purple on with the stop tail and it rocks! I owned several kramers back in the early 90's but sold them off as I was getting away from playing guitars with floyd roses but I always wanted a kramer with a stop tail on it and when these came out I jumped on the chance to own a great kramer again! they are great sounding and playing guitars hands down worth the money!!
@@ethanrichard6883 I will say mine looks a tad darker with the one I own but that could be just the lighting. I will say that this video is a good representation of what the guitar looks like and sounds like if that helps.
I had a few early 2000s Strikers. A Candy Apple Red with H-S-S, a Black & White Crackle with H-S-H and still have the White with Red & Black "Splatter" paint, with a H-S-H. All had the Floyd with the EVH D-Tuna. My Splatter has DiMarzio Breed (bridge), Tone Zone (middle) and PAF PRO (neck) pickups with coil split. I also still have the Kramer Baretta w/ sustainer system. Best $400 I ever spent. The Strikers were around $180 I believe. I also bought (and regret selling) a White Steinberger Spirit GU Deluxe for $229. Man I miss MusicYo.
Bought a Pacer 2 years ago, turned me into a Kramer nut as well! Now after one of these, as I'd like to also have access to some out of phase strat style clea s
I also have a Kramer striker HSS red with a maple neck and it has a floyd with the much thinner body and it is a joy to play,,, so insanely comfortable....Kramer rules!!!
Ok man, I'm gonna have to save up a month without my woman knowing I'm getting it. I've owned Jacksons, Ibanez, Gibsons, Fenders, Charvels, ESP's, but always wanted a Kramer.
Nice frankenstrat in the background With the kramer Neck Heheh. the most versatile guitar on the planet Northern ashwood fender body with the iconic Kramer neck. the true floyd rose original took guitar to the next level Ahhh good stuff. Jackson and Kramer Two of my Fav old birds other then ESP and BC Rich Nice Demo Bro
@@evolgenius1150 the headstock was broken on arrival so I returned it. I kept it for a couple days and from that short experience it felt very cheap (which it is). But I didn’t have the chance to try it for longer
Nice playing. Good looking and sounding guitars. Tried 12s at first on my Strat, seemed to want to bow the neck, then 11s but they were breaking, 10s worked OK. I've read a lot of pro players use 9s but they seem easy to pull out of tune and easy to break and almost like they want to cut my fingers.
What do you guys suggest, I’m looking at this FR one vs the Squier contemporary strat HH with FR. We all know Dagan can make anything sound incredible!
Tough choice because Squier are really making great guitars these days too. It just depends what you are after. Personally I wanted an HSS setup so that I can put those Seymour Duncan SSL4 Quarter Pounders in the neck and mid position. But if you just want a hard rock guitar then the Squier HH Strat is great. The big advantage with the Strat is that it has an arm contour, which the Striker sadly does not. However, the HH Kramer Pacer series are quite cheap and DO have a nicely contoured body. It may be worth taking a look at the Kramer Pacers!
@@Molotov_Milkshake thanks for the feedback! I noticed the Pacers along with some of the higher end Kramers all use Seymour Duncan JB SH-4’s in the bridge. Would you recommend those for the bridge vs the other SD’s? I’ve done a few listening tests and I’m a bit stuck. I like the crunch and distorted sounds on the SH- 4’s but I’m not so sure about the cleans. I want lush cleans and crazy heavy distortion. Right now my dirt pedal is Angry Charlie V3. Thanks again!
@@brandonhamilton370 No problem! I own a Striker with the Floyd Rose, and it's a near-perfect hard rock guitar. As I said, the only real downside is the lack of the arm contour. I don't own, and have never played, a Pacer...but I'd probably have bought one (with the Floyd Rose) if it wasn't for my specific desire for an HSS strat-like guitar. I don't know for sure, but I suspect it's probably cheaper to buy the Seymour Duncans and install them yourself (or even have an electrician/luthier do it for you). I think one of the big advantages of the modern Pacer and Striker guitars are simply the very low prices combined with the very high level of quality. I am way beyond impressed with the Floyd Rose Striker. It ticks all my boxes, aside from that arm contour! Had the Pacer been an HSS setup, I'd have probs gotten one of those, but they seem limited to HH. Nothing wrong with that, but I have an SG and Explorer already which are both HH, so it offered little utility for me. If you want a combination of heavy crunch AND lush clean tones, HSS is the only way, and the Striker has you covered for that. The price is so low that it makes upgrading easy too, especially since there's no pickguard to slow down the process of switching pickups. Can't rate the Pacer, as I've never had one (though they seem awesome, honestly), but the Striker I can comfortably say is a solid 8/10 guitar, if not higher. The lack of an arm contour is actually kinda forgiveable once you start creating mad noise with it. It almost feels like a Floyd Rose with a guitar attached, but the guitar attached is actually really good too. I'm very impressed with it.
@@brandonhamilton370 Also, if you are after a nice HH guitar, I strongly recommend the Epiphone SG Muse. It is a stunning guitar (every finish is beautiful and there are about 7 different choices), very affordable, very upgradeable (no pickguard, I assume to show off the stunning finishes this range has), slim body with the output jack on the outside rim (unlike most SGs), and it has options for coil splitting on both humbuckers, as well as a third 'phase shift' effect when enabled in the mid pickup mix. I picked one up last year for £249 and it has since become my main recording guitar. You can hear the sounds on my channel as most of my electric music is recorded using it. That said, I am recording my next EP on a mixture of my Fender SSS Mex Strat and this new Kramer Striker because it's insanely cool. Having SSS, HH and HSS feels like complete sonic versatility to me, and the Floyd Rose (I've never had one before I recently got the Striker) just takes everything to new levels
I’m looking forward to buy this guitar!!! Is it worth buying it? Because it’s really an economic price for a kramer and I’d love to have a floyd rose guitar 80s style.
Great review nice production work. I purchased a Striker this week it will be delivered in a day or two. It's to scratch that shredder itch and to riff on for fun. I purchased the Kramer case that's sold separately. I think it's a cool guitar. They need a USA custom shop for Kramer's however. Gibson hint hint.
Ooooh. I had an 87 American series Pacer Custom II, damn I miss it. The pinch harmonics were worth the price alone. Being a lefty I might have to get one of these.
First Kramer was a 110ST in flip flop purple. Still have it but it’s seen better days and now unplayable. That guitar gave me the Kramer bug though and now I own vintage Barettas, pacer custom 2, stagemaster, sustainer and so on. It’s a terrible yet hugely fun disease too have 😎 Those new strikers look a big improvement over the old strikers and ST series guitars
It’s awesome kramer is offering more than one model left-handed now, the striker along with the Beretta now come in a left-handed version along with the nightswan and pacer I wish they offer these back in the 80s when I start playing I would’ve bought one, who knows maybe I’ll add one to my collection one of these days fender needs to take notes from kramer and offer a couple more different models left-handed and in different pick up configurations instead of the same crap they have right now
I always find it funny that Gibson and the brands they own cater to us lefties more than Fender, the company who has Jimi Hendrix and Kurt Cobain under their belts. Hope that changes though.
@@mcshootydotjpeg that’s true it’s crazy that Gibson and Kramer offer more lefty’s and in different pickup configuration’s than Fender currently dose and almost as many as schector dose,i gave up on Fender a long time ago
Awesome!!! I have been looking at the Kramer barettas and these and now I am torn between them because they all look like so much fun. On the otherhand though this guitar looks like it offers that tone that I love from the 80s but also provides more tonal varieties than the baretta!!!!
This should be my next guitar ^^ In a couple of months! Already have one Kramer from late 80s but these looks stunning and with maple fretboard yeah!! First floyd guitar tho ^
I have an original Kramer Pacer from back in the day. It's got a Dimarzio Fred in the bridge so it's not original. It's the silver body and all the pickups are green. I have one of the acrylic Strikers from years ago, It has all twinblade pickups. Even the bridge humbucker is two twinblade pickups wired together. The thing is heavy as a bus and sounds gnarly with those pickups. I used it live for one or two songs but it's too heavy to play all night. It make my 83 LP custom (that weighs 13lbs) feel like a strat in comparison weight wise.
I had a 100st. PPL thought I was stupid for purchasing a Korean guitar. Bullshit....I had tones coming outta it that made them same ppl jaws drop. AND! I was plugged in using a Peavey 65 Bandit. LOL!! Gad I loved the 80's. Oh...I snagged a Striker Figured HSS Transparent Red w/Floyd Rose Special for only $280.00 usd a couple of days ago. \m/\m/
Haha “half hour” to re tune and tension the Floyd! This is why I have like 5 different fiddles with Floyd rose on them. 😂 Just picked this up for some pedals in a trade! Came here to check out the review.
Dunno about the comparison to a Jackson, but I have fairly small hands and the Kramer Striker is amazing. The neck is very slim and clearly built for speed. I've got a range of guitars, and this one is great. It's also very affordable. The only downside is that it has no arm contour. You would not suspect this guitar retails at £250ish, given that it has a legit Floyd Rose and the electrics are all solid. I do plan on upgrading the pickups at some point though...but potentially not the humbucker because it sounds amazing.
I had st-300 when I was young. Assume floyd version on this video is st-600 revisited. Remember there was 1000-series too but I think they had original floydrose.
I was a bit skeptical about buying it in the first place because it was made in China, but oh my God the built quality is great and it sounded great straight out of the box. My only issue is with the tuning (common issue with all Floyd rose guitars) where it won't stay in tune after doing dive bombs. Other than that this is one amazing shred machine at an affordable price.
You do realise that he's a guitar salesman and makes everything sound awesome, right? The fact that he mains Kramer guitars in his own music shows he legit does love this brand tho, that's when you know it's legit. The Striker is awesome btw, in case you wondering. I have one and it kicks ass. The only criticism I have is that it has no arm contour.
I had a 1984 Striker that made me fall in love with Kramer, one of the best necks I’ve ever played.
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I had one as well. I can concur they were amazing.
Still playing daily my 85’ 100ST.
The pickup is now a 79’ EMG 58 which completely rocks.
Plywood body and all…I love this guitar…and as you stated….that neck is unbelievable!!!!
@@chrisharris7205 85s are my favorite, the Floyd is definitely a step up from the trem on my 84.
@@TylerJohnstonGuitar I’m not sure which trem was on the 84’s…mine has the original no fine tuner Floyd.
Holy crap, it’s like Kramer heard my cry for a 24 fret version of the Barretta special! 🤩
Oh yeah! ⚡
I`m sold just on pure enthusiasm.
Absolutely loving the Too Fast for Love shoutouts
Dagan...that intro may be your most epic yet...As far as the Kramer's, they keep giving us fun stuff to like. Glad they are back in business. The guitar world missed them.
The 80s called, they want you back Dagan!
I’m a lefty now maple neck only
9:08 “I can’t wait to hear your shred tonight”. Spectacular Dagan, I just love your personality and take on Eddie Van Halen
Thank you Dagan for a very complete and thorough review. After watching you shred the floyd rose version I'm definitely going to order one of these sweet guitars. Being a lefty, usually my options are limited but it's nice to hear that Kramer didn't forget about us on their new Striker models. Thank you again and keep on rockin' 😎🤘🎸
I never thought much about Kramers before I started watching Dagan, but he has inspired me to consider getting one. That purple looks quite nice!
its beautiful! I've got it in blue and its my favourite guitar to play. could only be topped if it was 24 frets
Kramers are great guitars, if you can find one from the 80s, pick it up and you’ll be blown away. The new ones are great too.
ATTN: Kramer/Gibson... PLEASE make an American Kramer again!!!
Bring back the American Sustainer to compete with the Schecter Sun Valley Super Shredder!
@@tomaslopez2940 schecter is 👑
@@ILLRICARDO It would be if you didn’t need batteries for it like a toy
@@tomaslopez2940 as far as I know, they sun valley range have passive pickups.
@@ILLRICARDO I checked their specs and they’re called “retroactive”, and they still require batteries
I was lucky enough to own a real 1985 Kramer Baretta and a 87 Baretta and both were kick ass ! 3 years ago I bought one of the newer Barettas and its an awesome guitar...now I want one of these ! Excellent video and playing.
Those guitars look awesome but I'd love to see the plain finish ones with maple fingerboards...
I just bought my son that red floyd rose last week for his birthday. He loves it.
Great to hear!
You must be one helluva a dad like mine is. He still loving it?
Great playing mate and nice guitars too. I have similar early 90's Aria Pro II... I guess they were copies of the Kramers! BTW surprised we didn't see you at HRH Sleaze couple of weeks ago in Sheffield. (Pretty Boy Floyd/Crash Diet/Confess) It was awesome!
Not really sure who Aria was trying to copy back then. If you look at the cassette liner on Dokken's Tooth and Nail (circa 1984) you'll see George holding a Strat body Aria Pro II. I subsequently bought an Aria Pro II ZZ Deluxe lol (the Explorer body style). The necks were fantastic. I ended up dropping in my own Floyd Rose. The only guitar I wore out frets on.
Gotta luv it! FMIC/Jackson and Kramer going Tooth and Nail at it with HSS versions! We, the consumers are the beneficiaries.
Finally, been asking about this for awhile. Getting the red one for Christmas.
that was so smooth at 5:53
My first electric guitar was an early 1980's striker with a Floyd Rose with a rosewood fretboard but the headstock was the one that appears on the new pacers. It was in blue.
Was on the verge of buying a Kramer……this tipped me over the edge see you tomorrow Kramer! You beautiful beautiful beast!
You won't regret it. I've got the purple FR Striker and it's great. Got it for £222 as well, which is an absurd bargain.
Very Cool Demo/Review, Thankyou. Stunning Guitars
you have way to much fun , great to know we have lefty choices i have the pacer classic in purple passion but for sure gota have one of these as well.
Totally wanting one of these now. I dont need another floyd but I need those two extra frets. LOVE that Kramer makes stock purple guitars.
Love the look of the Red Beast. Tone is Perfect.
I have an 86-87 striker with fr. Very heavy lump of a guitar but I like that A 2007 hard tail 424 striker. Great fun guitars.Very happy to see Kramer bring them back Great review again.
It's awesome to see how far this channel has come!
I just got the purple on with the stop tail and it rocks! I owned several kramers back in the early 90's but sold them off as I was getting away from playing guitars with floyd roses but I always wanted a kramer with a stop tail on it and when these came out I jumped on the chance to own a great kramer again! they are great sounding and playing guitars hands down worth the money!!
Is the purple as vibrant as the rest of the Kramers and as the video shows? I would hope for it to be a tad darker.
@@ethanrichard6883 I will say mine looks a tad darker with the one I own but that could be just the lighting. I will say that this video is a good representation of what the guitar looks like and sounds like if that helps.
I had a few early 2000s Strikers. A Candy Apple Red with H-S-S, a Black & White Crackle with H-S-H and still have the White with Red & Black "Splatter" paint, with a H-S-H. All had the Floyd with the EVH D-Tuna. My Splatter has DiMarzio Breed (bridge), Tone Zone (middle) and PAF PRO (neck) pickups with coil split. I also still have the Kramer Baretta w/ sustainer system. Best $400 I ever spent. The Strikers were around $180 I believe. I also bought (and regret selling) a White Steinberger Spirit GU Deluxe for $229. Man I miss MusicYo.
Kramer has been killing it lately.
Look great
My jumper Red is on the way .to daddy awesome Kool videos my axe man dagen . Keep on rocking.
Your playing skills are amazing good boy 👍🙏
Great guitars...
Bought a Pacer 2 years ago, turned me into a Kramer nut as well! Now after one of these, as I'd like to also have access to some out of phase strat style clea s
What do you think is better the Pacer or this Striker?
I got the Kramer Barretta Special and it is my go to !!! love the tones .. Kramer rules
I also have a Kramer striker HSS red with a maple neck and it has a floyd with the much thinner body and it is a joy to play,,, so insanely comfortable....Kramer rules!!!
They are fantastic. I just wish they had an arm contour on the body, then it'd be a perfect guitar.
Glad they did a stop tail!
Ok man, I'm gonna have to save up a month without my woman knowing I'm getting it. I've owned Jacksons, Ibanez, Gibsons, Fenders, Charvels, ESP's, but always wanted a Kramer.
Just bought the red one and your vid was right on the money. You earned both a like and a subscriber. Thank you 🤘🎸🤘
Thanks! 🤘⚡️
Hearing you play is the best part.
That tapped note in slow motion was nicely edited :D
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86 kramer striker 300st here
13:26 a surprise indeed, but a welcome one. Long live Dimebag and pantera ❤️
Classic, these look super cool!
Love that lizzy hale signature explorer bird in the background
I own am Kramer Richie Sambora from the 80s. And I am the first owner.... awesome axe! And I will totally check these Kramer's out!
But never been able to buy one because I'm just am occupational therapist and we aren't very well payed in Germany
I love your videos
So much energy and passion
And I need that floyd rose one.
Nice frankenstrat in the background With the kramer Neck Heheh. the most versatile guitar on the planet Northern ashwood fender body with the iconic Kramer neck. the true floyd rose original took guitar to the next level Ahhh good stuff. Jackson and Kramer Two of my Fav old birds other then ESP and BC Rich Nice Demo Bro
Just ordered a red one. They look so cool on video, hopefully it won’t disappoint
How is it 👀
@@evolgenius1150 the headstock was broken on arrival so I returned it. I kept it for a couple days and from that short experience it felt very cheap (which it is). But I didn’t have the chance to try it for longer
thanks for this video.
Went and bought one bc of this. 😁 same one, figured red. Minimal setup needed.
Landed here for the review. Stayed for the music treat.
Nice playing. Good looking and sounding guitars. Tried 12s at first on my Strat, seemed to want to bow the neck, then 11s but they were breaking, 10s worked OK. I've read a lot of pro players use 9s but they seem easy to pull out of tune and easy to break and almost like they want to cut my fingers.
Well I know it's hard to please everyone but I really wish they made the stoptail with maple fingerboard. Gonna go with the Ibanez RG421 I guess.
What do you guys suggest, I’m looking at this FR one vs the Squier contemporary strat HH with FR. We all know Dagan can make anything sound incredible!
I’ve played both of them and they have very similar necks. I think the Kramers have better colors, but the Strats have more consistent construction
Tough choice because Squier are really making great guitars these days too. It just depends what you are after. Personally I wanted an HSS setup so that I can put those Seymour Duncan SSL4 Quarter Pounders in the neck and mid position. But if you just want a hard rock guitar then the Squier HH Strat is great. The big advantage with the Strat is that it has an arm contour, which the Striker sadly does not. However, the HH Kramer Pacer series are quite cheap and DO have a nicely contoured body. It may be worth taking a look at the Kramer Pacers!
@@Molotov_Milkshake thanks for the feedback! I noticed the Pacers along with some of the higher end Kramers all use Seymour Duncan JB SH-4’s in the bridge. Would you recommend those for the bridge vs the other SD’s? I’ve done a few listening tests and I’m a bit stuck. I like the crunch and distorted sounds on the SH- 4’s but I’m not so sure about the cleans. I want lush cleans and crazy heavy distortion. Right now my dirt pedal is Angry Charlie V3. Thanks again!
@@brandonhamilton370 No problem! I own a Striker with the Floyd Rose, and it's a near-perfect hard rock guitar. As I said, the only real downside is the lack of the arm contour. I don't own, and have never played, a Pacer...but I'd probably have bought one (with the Floyd Rose) if it wasn't for my specific desire for an HSS strat-like guitar.
I don't know for sure, but I suspect it's probably cheaper to buy the Seymour Duncans and install them yourself (or even have an electrician/luthier do it for you). I think one of the big advantages of the modern Pacer and Striker guitars are simply the very low prices combined with the very high level of quality. I am way beyond impressed with the Floyd Rose Striker. It ticks all my boxes, aside from that arm contour! Had the Pacer been an HSS setup, I'd have probs gotten one of those, but they seem limited to HH. Nothing wrong with that, but I have an SG and Explorer already which are both HH, so it offered little utility for me.
If you want a combination of heavy crunch AND lush clean tones, HSS is the only way, and the Striker has you covered for that. The price is so low that it makes upgrading easy too, especially since there's no pickguard to slow down the process of switching pickups.
Can't rate the Pacer, as I've never had one (though they seem awesome, honestly), but the Striker I can comfortably say is a solid 8/10 guitar, if not higher. The lack of an arm contour is actually kinda forgiveable once you start creating mad noise with it. It almost feels like a Floyd Rose with a guitar attached, but the guitar attached is actually really good too. I'm very impressed with it.
@@brandonhamilton370 Also, if you are after a nice HH guitar, I strongly recommend the Epiphone SG Muse. It is a stunning guitar (every finish is beautiful and there are about 7 different choices), very affordable, very upgradeable (no pickguard, I assume to show off the stunning finishes this range has), slim body with the output jack on the outside rim (unlike most SGs), and it has options for coil splitting on both humbuckers, as well as a third 'phase shift' effect when enabled in the mid pickup mix.
I picked one up last year for £249 and it has since become my main recording guitar. You can hear the sounds on my channel as most of my electric music is recorded using it.
That said, I am recording my next EP on a mixture of my Fender SSS Mex Strat and this new Kramer Striker because it's insanely cool. Having SSS, HH and HSS feels like complete sonic versatility to me, and the Floyd Rose (I've never had one before I recently got the Striker) just takes everything to new levels
I am going to get a summer job to get the jumper red and I am going to pair it with the evh d tuna
I’m looking forward to buy this guitar!!! Is it worth buying it? Because it’s really an economic price for a kramer and I’d love to have a floyd rose guitar 80s style.
Great review nice production work. I purchased a Striker this week it will be delivered in a day or two. It's to scratch that shredder itch and to riff on for fun. I purchased the Kramer case that's sold separately. I think it's a cool guitar. They need a USA custom shop for Kramer's however. Gibson hint hint.
THE QUEEN😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭 Mrs. Elizabeth will forever have a special place in my lego castle
Just got one at guitar center yesterday. It was on sale
Ooooh. I had an 87 American series Pacer Custom II, damn I miss it. The pinch harmonics were worth the price alone. Being a lefty I might have to get one of these.
haha! thanks for the review, i've been waiting for it since it got released
I had a 1986 Fluro pink kramer striker 300st I regret getting rid of that guitar the best neck of any guitar I have owned.
Sorry to say that i just picked up one of these used a local guitar and i grab it instead of my Prs core. Awesome guitar.
First Kramer was a 110ST in flip flop purple. Still have it but it’s seen better days and now unplayable. That guitar gave me the Kramer bug though and now I own vintage Barettas, pacer custom 2, stagemaster, sustainer and so on. It’s a terrible yet hugely fun disease too have 😎
Those new strikers look a big improvement over the old strikers and ST series guitars
What is your effect pedal
It’s awesome kramer is offering more than one model left-handed now, the striker along with the Beretta now come in a left-handed version along with the nightswan and pacer I wish they offer these back in the 80s when I start playing I would’ve bought one, who knows maybe I’ll add one to my collection one of these days fender needs to take notes from kramer and offer a couple more different models left-handed and in different pick up configurations instead of the same crap they have right now
I always find it funny that Gibson and the brands they own cater to us lefties more than Fender, the company who has Jimi Hendrix and Kurt Cobain under their belts. Hope that changes though.
@@mcshootydotjpeg that’s true it’s crazy that Gibson and Kramer offer more lefty’s and in different pickup configuration’s than Fender currently dose and almost as many as schector dose,i gave up on Fender a long time ago
Awesome!!! I have been looking at the Kramer barettas and these and now I am torn between them because they all look like so much fun. On the otherhand though this guitar looks like it offers that tone that I love from the 80s but also provides more tonal varieties than the baretta!!!!
Buy one of each!
Thunderkiss F yeah!
Are those Kramers have paint shielded cavities?
Awesome video. Dagan review the fender champion 100 it's a really good amp that I've heard
This should be my next guitar ^^ In a couple of months! Already have one Kramer from late 80s but these looks stunning and with maple fretboard yeah!! First floyd guitar tho ^
Can I exchange in my Kramer focus for the striker
Wow dude I may just buy cuz of this review
Dagan any chance of demoing the Vox distortion pedal cutting edge, silk drive
Be good to hear them through humbuckers
Thanks 👍
What is the differences between floyd rose n hardtail?
Dagan, you sound like me when I've had too much coffee to drink. LOL Keep On Rocking, love your videos.
When will the lefty models be in stock?
F-ing amazing intro!!!!!!! HOLY!!
I really want one!!
The biggest deal about this guitar to me is that you get a Mahogany body for under $400.
Just a note... the PMT website doesn't allow me (or many others) to visit... I guess you are worried about people from outside the UK?
Jolly good show
I have an original Kramer Pacer from back in the day. It's got a Dimarzio Fred in the bridge so it's not original. It's the silver body and all the pickups are green. I have one of the acrylic Strikers from years ago, It has all twinblade pickups. Even the bridge humbucker is two twinblade pickups wired together. The thing is heavy as a bus and sounds gnarly with those pickups. I used it live for one or two songs but it's too heavy to play all night. It make my 83 LP custom (that weighs 13lbs) feel like a strat in comparison weight wise.
odd question but what camera and lense were used for that intro??
AWESOME!!!💯🌎
I had a 100st. PPL thought I was stupid for purchasing a Korean guitar. Bullshit....I had tones coming outta it that made them same ppl jaws drop. AND! I was plugged in using a Peavey 65 Bandit. LOL!! Gad I loved the 80's. Oh...I snagged a Striker Figured HSS Transparent Red w/Floyd Rose Special for only $280.00 usd a couple of days ago. \m/\m/
You played several Crue riffs from their first album
Love what Dean , KEEP ON ROCKIN!!!😆🤩
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You do that's what I forgot to put in there.
Kramer guitar look cool
Haha “half hour” to re tune and tension the Floyd! This is why I have like 5 different fiddles with Floyd rose on them. 😂
Just picked this up for some pedals in a trade! Came here to check out the review.
Kramer guitars look like you could win them for enough tickets at dave and busters
how would this neck compare to a jackson js32? I have small hands :( in fact what cheap floyd would any of you recommend for small hand shredders?
Dunno about the comparison to a Jackson, but I have fairly small hands and the Kramer Striker is amazing. The neck is very slim and clearly built for speed. I've got a range of guitars, and this one is great. It's also very affordable. The only downside is that it has no arm contour. You would not suspect this guitar retails at £250ish, given that it has a legit Floyd Rose and the electrics are all solid. I do plan on upgrading the pickups at some point though...but potentially not the humbucker because it sounds amazing.
Luther - Never too much 😁😉
I had st-300 when I was young. Assume floyd version on this video is st-600 revisited. Remember there was 1000-series too but I think they had original floydrose.
remember that Nightswan and Richie Sambora Kramer :D
Anyone know if they’re using those terrible linear volume pots?
I buy one to night 🙌😁🤘🤘
I was a bit skeptical about buying it in the first place because it was made in China, but oh my God the built quality is great and it sounded great straight out of the box. My only issue is with the tuning (common issue with all Floyd rose guitars) where it won't stay in tune after doing dive bombs. Other than that this is one amazing shred machine at an affordable price.
the 2010-2015 series had a real flame maple cap, this isn't the case anymore, its veneer.
I’ve come to realize that I’ll never buy a guitar unless this dude reviews it first.
You do realise that he's a guitar salesman and makes everything sound awesome, right? The fact that he mains Kramer guitars in his own music shows he legit does love this brand tho, that's when you know it's legit.
The Striker is awesome btw, in case you wondering. I have one and it kicks ass. The only criticism I have is that it has no arm contour.