What guitar is this?

[sunjamr]

This guitar belongs to a friend of mine. It was bought in Germany in the early 80s. Do you know what kind of guitar it is?

Here’s what he says about it:

You can switch from humbuckers in parallel to in series, can have single coil or even out if phase and a rotary switch lets you choose various condensers. It has a built-in pre amp and is in stereo (great if you plug it into two amps at once, one clear, the other distorted for example). It has an aluminium neck.

Sunjamr Steve

[Billy]

The telecaster?, thats a classic vibe 50’s butter scotch blonde telecaster..

..Billy..

[JoLa]

Interesting…
I see 3 pictures here, the first one is obviously a Squire Butterscotch Telecaster, the second one shows a happy … Meelis (Lights) at a festival?? … a third one – well, that’s probably a part of the guitar you are referring to 🙂

🎸JoLa

[sunjamr]

Wow, have no idea what’s going on here. I posted 3 guitar photos, and these other 3 weird photos came up instead. I don’t know where they came from. Anyway, I had another try at it and hopefully the right photos will appear.

Sunjamr Steve

[JohnStrat]

Steve My guess is its a home build. It has an 1980 series Schaller 456 micro tune hard tail bridge but some more pictures might help reveal more.
JohnStrat

[JohnStrat]

I think its a Kramer Steve i will check it out

[Billy]

Looks like a Kramer to me, the Aluminium neck is possibly Kramer specifically from about 77..

..Billy..

[sunjamr]

I had a look at Kramers. They have some similar body shapes and the aluminum necks, but none of them have the weird split head like this one. It is possible that it’s a German-built guitar inspired by Kramers.

Sunjamr Steve

[Billy]

sunjamr wrote:

Wow, have no idea what’s going on here. I posted 3 guitar photos, and these other 3 weird photos came up instead. I don’t know where they came from. Anyway, I had another try at it and hopefully the right photos will appear.

Secret passion for a Squier and Meelis, think they call it a Freudian slip..hahahaha

..Billy..

[JohnStrat]

Steve its a Kramer XL7

[sunjamr]

Aha – that is indeed the guitar. Worth about $3000 these days.

Sunjamr Steve

[Billy]

There is one on Reverb for £1,500+, not sure what the exchange rate is from Gbp to American but i dont think its anywhere near $2 to the £… a collectors item I suppose?..

..Billy..

[JohnStrat]

Don’t seem to be many about you can still get the bridge assembly like new but they are no longer made I think. So a good clean and polish the headstock aluminum and she could look a lot happier. It looks as if it may be on a boat bulkhead so perhaps the salt might have got at it and there could be electrolytic action having a go somewhere but that is speculation. Are you thinking of buying it its certainly a cool one?

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