Hehe.įor some close-up photos of this guitar, check out my Facebook page. Two videos in two days! That's what happens when I get a little free time.
diminishing in size from the K to the R and,there is a script 'American' decal. In 1993, a structure was developed where the number (or pair of numbers) following the all caps 'KRAMER', it is a 1984-1986 USA Made/American Series Kramer Guitar. It has phosphor bronze strings on it and I'm inclined to stick with that alloy rather than the brighter 80/20 mixture that I normally use on my acoustics. The serial number will be located on the neck plate on the back of the bass. It's an active piezo pickup under the bridge and it has a three-band EQ (lo-mid-hi) along with gain on the side panel. It's a solid spruce top with laminate maple back and sides, a bound maple neck with rosewood fingerboard and "beak" inlays (that's what I call them, though I think officially they're called "tooth" inlays). A week later this showed up in a beat-up Washburn case. There was a problem with their computers, but we got it straightened out pretty quickly. I immediately called the store and tried to buy it. Yo!! What's up, dudes?!?! So I was trolling the used sites a couple of weeks ago when this pile of total awesomeness appeared one afternoon. ( he was some kind of consultant regarding old instruments used in the film )Īny images or references that i see to him lately seem to be about his ukuleles and other acoustic instruments. Here's a curious little clip i just found from 1982 :Īnd if you can find a copy of the dvd of the coen brothers film 'the lady killers' there is an interesting little 'dvd extra' doco about ferrington and his workshop. I haven't laid eyes on it for 20 years, but i guess it was just a picture book of his instruments. it was amazing to see a book ( down at my local public library ) about a single luthier and, well it was a pretty interesting looking book that literally jumped off the shelf due to it's parallelogram (?) shape. Like a lot of folks i guess - i found out about ferrington from the spectacular book that came out in 1992 ( just looked it up! ) from the pre web days when the only books i could find about guitarmakers/making were instructional things like cumpiano & sloane. I too associate him with richard thompson, now that the shiny, pointy kramer ferrington acoustics that used to be in every music video have seemingly disappeared - i hope he got some good 'points' in that deal. He seems like a really interesting character.
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