Like an idiot, though, I sold the 15-year-old black JB on eBay I definitely should have held on to that one. I didn't like the look of the all-black JB pickup, so I went out and bought a new zebra JB.
#KRAMER FERRINGTON PREAMP INSTALL#
The install was painless and I ended up selling the Focus 1000 neck - the neck which originally came from my 1986 black Kramer Focus 1000 - on eBay. This neck had minimal fret wear and and 1 3/4" nut, which I thought was cool. A perfect match for this Focus 1000, as it had yellowed over the years. Less than five years later, in April 2000, I was surfing eBay and saw an off-white Kramer Baretta USA neck for sale. This guitar remained virtually unchanged then from late 1986 to the summer of 1995 when I decided to paint the headstock. Kramer Focus 1000s and my Kramer Ferrington (1987)īack to the white Focus 1000. Kramer Focus 1000s and my Kramer Pacer (1987) I parted it out and sold in on eBay in 2000. Whew! Since we're talking about that black Focus 1000, I ended up putting in a Seymour Duncan Distortion and calling it a Baretta. I then sold the rosewood Focus 1000 neck from my white Focus to my bud, Mike Petersen, who ended up building a cool natural-looking axe with it. I decided to put this neck on my black Focus 1000, and I took the rosewood neck from that guitar and installed it on my white Focus 1000. Around the same time, I was hanging out at Zolla's Guitars and I picked up a maple neck with a Baretta-type headstock.
#KRAMER FERRINGTON PREAMP MOD#
The next major mod occurred later that year when I picked up another Kramer Focus 1000, this one in black. One great pickup! I added some Schaller straplocks (which came stock on the USA Barettas) and I was ready to go!
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I went to Guitar Trader and Dan Astor turned me on to the new (at the time) Seymour Duncan JB pickup. The first mod I made was to replace the stock Schaller humbucker. For $299, these Focus guitars with real Floyds were a steal. I guess you could say that this is where my collection got its start.
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I purchased this guitar, a white 1985 Japanese Kramer Focus 1000, from the Guitar Center in San Diego back in early 1986, as a backup for my Red Devil II. Anyway, let me explain how a Focus becomes a Baretta. But it is the first Kramer I have ever owned and I'll always hold on to it. Well, OK - it's only half of a real Baretta.