Kramer Striker Resurrection!
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- Bringing a Kramer Striker 500ST Voyager back from the grave!
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Dane, that’s a “Floyd Rose II” bridge, not a Speedloader. The Speedloader used special strings and the headstock had no tuners. The FR-II came in two variants; the string-through one you have (non locking) and the more traditional locking style. Both were made by Schaller in the 80’s and the string-through ones were seen predominantly on Kramer’s like this.
As for refinishing this, 100% you should repair the points with body shop filler, sand the whole thing (not down to wood, just enough to scuff it up) and repaint it matte black (then sand the neck with 400 and 600 to get it silky smooth). It would look amazing and truly be “Stealth” in that finish!
Yea your right.
@@ZIMMSGUITARS It is Floyd Rose II bridge...and it was not designed for guys who complained about using an allen key to tighten the locking blocks...It was just designed as low cost bridge (less parts and cast iron as opposed to steel and fulcrum points are metal inserts as opposed to being hardened and part of the actual trem metal itself ) for cheap Korean Striker guitars with plywood bodies...If you are still wondering why there is a thick shim under the neck...It is there to allow for the height of the bridge instead of recessed cavities in the body as plywood does not like to have recessed cavities due to chipping...
@@ZIMMSGUITARS oh and it's not a Kramer Voyager....It's a Kramer Striker ST500....and you can wish all you want but Kramer Voyagers were only made in the American Series...therefor not in Korea...If you are serious about making vids to help people work on their guitars...it would really be nice if you had your facts straight...just saying....
@@mark006868 He doesn't claim to be an expert, he's just fixing up an old forgotten beater, check your ego at the door, nobody comes to this channel for precise documenting information on budget 80's guitars, if you're looking for that, this channel isn't for you.
@@FretLevelMidnight I don't really care if he '' claims to be an expert'' or not...The fact remains that what he says has to factual...If it's not a speedloader don't call it that...if it was not designed for guys who complained about using an allen key to tighten the locking blocks...then don't say that...and if it's not a Kramer Voyager then don't call it that when it's a Kramer Striker ST500...It's really that simple...It has nothing to do with ego...It has to do with the truth...I'm sorry that the truth offends you...Oh who am I kidding?...I'm not sorry at all...
Nice to see an old guitar usable again!
Indeed it is!
Great video Zimms, put 2 Seymour Duncan invaders in it and call it a day , It turned out great I’d play it no problem.
Wow a US Bombs shirt! Didn’t know you rocked out like that! When I was just a little kid they slept on the floor in my house while they were on tour.
Nice work Dane. I’m sure some newbie kid starting up a garage band will love that guitar. It sound great. 🎸👍
From a past life I had a singer / rhythm guitarist that had all Krammer (pacer/striker/baretta). In the garage and basements (north county freezing). I wanted to be that kid again in the garage but I remembered we live in Arizona. Have to get you a new paint person or start looking into wraps. As always, great job giving it new life.
Korea for sure. Should call that one the Phoenix because you pulled that 'ol piece of plywood from the ashes and created a cool little '80s player!
Cool. Bring it to a car painting place? Make it a dimebag tribute??
I swear I seen that guitar in dimbags vault yesterday!
Wow!! AMAZING JOB!!! Well done man, love your work, love the guitar too!!
Glad you enjoy it!
That neck cleaned up nice. I hope you can repair that chunk missing in the body.
Showing off those silky fretboard skills Dane. Another worthy rescue. Nice!
Thanks 👍
Lol, Wood Laminate Dane. It should be warming you via the fire pit. the body anyway. For nostalgia's sake eh? I cannot think of another reason. Thanks for uploading and sharing.
Awesome job Dane. It really turned out great and is ready to be loved again.
Straiten the springs up pronto. LOL
Wait... FR did a speedloader type bridge TWICE?? I have one of the BC Rich Warlocks that have the double bullet ends and the packs of strings I had for it were totally rusted and useless. Not really into the idea of doing the Fender Bullet mods so I guess I'd have to drill holes for the headstock and get a new nut and bridge to convert it to a double locking trem... I feel like this would have been a much better design if they had the foresight to insert something into the ball-end to keep them from popping out... either something that would thread in or otherwise. Oh well!!
That's from WMIC, Korea.
The W0 or WO beginning of the serial number is a dead giveaway - that's been reused with several brands. That's always a WMIC built instrument, that I've seen. Even if the "made in korea" sticker was gone, the serial number would have told us it was made by WMIC, who is in Korea.
Sounds Great! Awesome Job Man!
It’s giving some Dean ML AND Jackson Warrior Vibes that body shape.
wow really brings back memories,i used to have a kramer striker voyager back in the day when i was 15 (back in 1986) a cool red version i should’ve kept it
I have the same guitar! In black and gutted, even. Lol. Got it on Reverb a few years ago and was totally unplayable. Been wanting to restore it but was at a loss where to even start. Lol. Thanks for the video, man.
I love the 80s guitars
awesome job Dane.
Thanks!
Sweet Guitar For Only $50 Sound Great!
I remember these guitars. I had a Focus version once. Great job man! See you Tuesday!
Great video, guitar looks and sounds awesome! Really like your restoration, congrats on the beautiful guitar!!
Glad you enjoy it!
This is a rare guitar there's nothing on reverb except a wiring harness!😮
I stand corrected, as soon as you said, "Kramer voyager" I found similar guitars most of them in the $600- $800 range
Awesome Dane, Great Video
Thanks 👍
Hey i used guitarheads pickup before the maple rosewood bobins wood tops are killer cool vibes on that Kramer Dane good job man.
Great find! What threw me off was the 250k pot. Why not a 500k?
Finding that thick shim is a large red flag.
Not really. Soon as that bridge was removed you can see it originally had a 6-screw Strat bridge in it and it was upgraded to that FR-II bridge, which sits a lot higher than the original bridge. As a result you need to shim the neck to a) close the gap between the fretboard and the strings, and b) get the correct break angle on the neck. Now that particular shim looks too thick to me, because the bridge was sitting far too high off the body (I guess the original owner set it really high so you could pull back a good amount).
I just did this same conversion on a Warlock that had a strat bridge on it, and I replace it with a Schaller FR (pretty much the same size as that FR-II). I cut my own neck shim, and it needed a full pocket shim, not just half a playing card under the back edge. I floated my bridge only 1.5mm off the body, so my shim was a lot thinner that one (and the shim should be wedge shaped ideally too, to get that break angle)
@@ThrushCZX Totally on man, agreed. All floating non recessed Floyds neck a steep neck angle to allow any pull up. My ESP Japan built 80s Kramer focus with OFR has a crazy steep pocket. I learned this in reverse when I was young when I took a chisel to a Japanese charvel (same thing) to accommodate a hard tail (decked a fender bridge) in place of a kahler fulcrum unit. Good job Dale, do more of these dead axe resurrections!
The strikers might have been the cheaper guitars but to me the best looking of the bunch for most of them.
I have to say, there was a time when the tech bench was kind of an 'invisible kung fu power' thing. 'Leave the guitar here, come back in a week and pay no attention to the man behind the curtain'. it's really great to see this kind of video that pulls the curtain back and shows what goes on, bravo.
Thanks for sharing!
Only 50 bucks for the one Striker that Eddie could adore, then they'd go to buy 15 figures EVH replicas at Sweetwater, beautiful people, I guess...
loving that
Zimm the super shim is in there due to the large bolt screw are so big.If the shim was not in place the screw would crack into the actual fretboard I've actually had that happen to me.
Zimm you did it no shim needed good job man i guess the last owner just likes crazy action Zimm on yhe 23rd where in LA what club are you doing man.
Agh! if i owned her id put an original floyd in there and some EMG hz's probably with logarithmic pots. Would look killer and sound DANK!
I would love to get that
Maybe I missed the part where you used the fret rocker before leveling frets.
🤟😁👍Great work Dane, you now have a $60 guitar. Just kidding. Nice job.👍
Rock on!
I have a BC String loader they have brass clasp instead of ball ends that's something else
Shim was added to give the neck a different angle and to give the Floyd Rose II some space to pull up. It's possible they just routed the neck pocket too deep. These guitars were probably made by Samick, or perhaps Cortec.
Ditto, shim for Floyd, no shim for string thru back.
This is what I was going to comment, shim is probably bringing the string height up for more trem room.
If you could show the guitar Lets say Monday if gives the people watching a chance to make suggestions over the week. Also just for fun, on one of your Zimm's Guitar t-shirts put the phase " I might have something for that." Every video I wait for you to say it as you go into the spare parts.
Great suggestion!
I wonder if the Floyd Rose is of Schaller quality and standard design where you could install standard Floyd Rose saddles\Lock secrews.
Word to the wise: If you find a used Striker for under 300 bucks, PICK IT UP. It’ll be the best feeling neck you can find for the price.
That bitching guitar is made in Korea Josh you got it for fifty bucks that's a nice snack to those next play nice volume toggle toggle you need to put some rail pickups in it I haven't finished watching the video yet I just started
Phones a piece of shit I'm jealous you got it for fifty bucks love what you do rock on brother
That was a Korea thing. I had a Korean squier II precision bass with a plywood body, but the neck on it was really nice, nicer than the Mexican fenders
@@k.h.1587 Korea makes lovely guitars. Even my MIK Epiphone LP Custom from 2002ish was really nice.
Korea was the king of plywood bodies back then
I 2nd it is a floyd rose 2 bridge.
Do you ship guitars and how much do you charge for shipping?
That shim is weird, it looks factory made and installed, may be the required routing would land on a glue layer or something like that, some of the cheap plywood of that era had some soft and hardwood sandwiches, they could have been using this and did not want to leave a softwood surface in the neck pocket, there has to be a reason why such a large shim was used.
guitar fetish make a version of the speed loader that actually works pretty well. the design was upgraded a little.
i want one
That's a nice riff at the end of the video. Can someone teach me?
For sure made in Korea.
😎👊🎸
I paint guitars as a hobby!
I’m in Pennsylvania. If you were willing to ship them to me to be painted and shipped back, I would be down! I can show some of my work if you’re interested.
Big fan of the channel! Cheers 🎸
why does this striker look like voyager?
Made in Korea.
Still using 70s porn music for ur videos dane 🤣
Dane doesn't watch porn,so he wouldn't know that...
@@mikecooper8465 OK it was a joke.... But how do u know this information 🤔
@@paulslack4303 remote viewing.
We just called them single locking floyds
My first guitar! Only in white…..I still have it 😂