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Posted: **Mon Apr 23, 2007 9:28 am**

I got a '76 Kramer 650G from a pawn shop in Wicker Park

Cool. That's a good one!
The Herman guitar.

and it is really comfortable

...for a boat anchor.

Posted: **Mon Apr 23, 2007 1:13 pm**

good lord, 31 people. and i know some of them own more than one aluminum instrument.

i just blew my mind imagining them all at once.

Posted: **Mon Apr 23, 2007 1:40 pm**

I have two Kramers:

They're both made of 100% pure Rock.

Posted: **Mon Apr 23, 2007 1:58 pm**

Peripatetic wrote:I have two Kramers:

Isn't that an ESP?

Posted: **Mon Apr 23, 2007 2:04 pm**

Steve V. wrote:
Peripatetic wrote:I have two Kramers:

Isn't that an ESP?

I thought it might be since George Lynch always played ESPs (I thought?), but it's from www.vintagekramer.com and the picture was too good to pass up. Apparently he tore up a Kramer or two.

Posted: **Mon Apr 23, 2007 3:31 pm**

blackmarket wrote:
bergmann disney wrote:i dont think pickups would change anything to what i hope : i really like the "metalic" aspect of sound that metalneck guitars can make*. i would like my basse sound to be as metalic as possible and i would like to make my mind up on wether i can get this kind of sound coloration metalnecks produce on guitare frequency range or not, but with a bass.

(* and that is not a projection i make because i know that this or that guitare player uses metalneck guitare : i heard this phenomena before knowing that metalnecks exist)

I dunno...my aluminum-necked is not very "metallic" sounding. It's really warm and punchy, yet still articulate with a slight "chorus" effect. I describe the tone as "powerful" and "big" sounding.

it may also depend on where are placed the pickups... any advice about it?

Posted: **Mon Apr 23, 2007 3:35 pm**

bergmann disney wrote:

it may also depend on where are placed the pickups... any advice about it?

Directly under the "strings" for best results.

Posted: **Mon Apr 23, 2007 4:36 pm**

bergmann disney wrote:
blackmarket wrote:
bergmann disney wrote:i dont think pickups would change anything to what i hope : i really like the "metalic" aspect of sound that metalneck guitars can make*. i would like my basse sound to be as metalic as possible and i would like to make my mind up on wether i can get this kind of sound coloration metalnecks produce on guitare frequency range or not, but with a bass.

(* and that is not a projection i make because i know that this or that guitare player uses metalneck guitare : i heard this phenomena before knowing that metalnecks exist)

I dunno...my aluminum-necked is not very "metallic" sounding. It's really warm and punchy, yet still articulate with a slight "chorus" effect. I describe the tone as "powerful" and "big" sounding.

it may also depend on where are placed the pickups... any advice about it?

I like to stick with the traditional pickup placement myself, having them set right below the harmonic nodes. I'm a simple man with simple needs and not a lot of dough to blow. The bridge and neck positions tried and true...I know they work. There are others more educated here who could chime in about "off" placements.

All aluminum-necked guitars are not the same. The differences between a Bean, an Electrical, a Kramer, a Veleno, etc. are huge. A Bean and an Electrical may be built using the same basic design/idea, but the materials used and the way they fit together are very different. Even the difference in the neck insert is bound to have a huge effect on the overall tone of the instrument. The aluminum fretboard an even bigger factor.

Perhaps an all-aluminum guitar with P-90 single coils is what you are looking for. From your description, it sounds like you want an Electrical Standard like Agostino's...meaty single coil pickups, hollow, all aluminum. Don't discount the role of the amplifier either. My aluminum-necked guitar sounds nothing like that, however.

Posted: **Mon Apr 23, 2007 4:38 pm**

Peripatetic wrote:I have two Kramers:

Man, you are one hot-t-t-t-t chick.

-A

Posted: **Sun Sep 02, 2007 11:32 am**

HEY
This may be covered elsewhere (if so, sorry for doubling) but how do you keep your Electrical standards clean? I imagine just cotton cloth. No solution of any sort, right?

Suggestions would be helpful, because apparently I sweat a lot.
Ike

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do you own an aluminum guitar or bass?

do you own an aluminum guitar or bass?

do you own an aluminum guitar or bass?

do you own an aluminum guitar or bass?

do you own an aluminum guitar or bass?

do you own an aluminum guitar or bass?

do you own an aluminum guitar or bass?

do you own an aluminum guitar or bass?

do you own an aluminum guitar or bass?

do you own an aluminum guitar or bass?

do you own an aluminum guitar or bass?