This is my next guitar. I was at Sweetwater today and saw this one for the second time. It will be mine.
For you 80s Van Halen fanbois, you may recall this one from the No Bozos ad. My guitar teacher got one for $500 when the execs from Kramer were driving around to all their dealers in NJ around 1983. He had to beg them to sell it to him. I put a lot of hours on it. But Kramer got buried in orders, had to outsource to ESP and then changed a lot of stuff. So very few of these got made before things changed. My teacher later got a DUI and needed cash badly. I was headed to Germany as an exchange student when he offered it to me. I already had a newer one by then and passed. While I was away, his was stolen in a burglary. If you can find a real one of these, they go for north of $5k now. But Gibson is making super accurate reissues now. They're still kind of hard to find, but they're out there. I will buy this guitar when the right deal comes along.