Final Assembly!

 

Here is the face of the headstock with matte clear to match the body.

 

 Here you can see that a fat block lets you "block" the Floyd against the body for no pull-up action without the need for a trem stopper etc.

 Here is the neck joint where I got the paint a little too thick and the lines dried hard and nice but sanding knocked off pieces and the lines strayed.

Big day today.

More hardware came in. I am still waiting for a brass block tremolo stop that I got from Musician's Arsenal. I got all my Floyd parts from them, it is back-ordered tho. The Dimarzio pickup ring is for a Les Paul and really tall and I cant use it gonna have to spray paint a cream one I have...

Single Duncan Blackout and new black Schaller strap locks!

So after 3 days the black base coat dried and I spent 6 hours pin-striping the guitar. UGH. I still have some fixes to do here and there to make it perfect then it is off to sanding it to smooth out transition lines and final clear coating.

I am really happy with the result. I dread clear-coating. I have read so much about people having problems. I have tested it on scraps and it works I just need to make sure the paint base colors have dried and I vigorously shake the clear cans for a while before using them.

Here is to watching paint dry and then the clear coats. Wish me luck!

Some new hardware and tools arrived for this Kramer rebuild. mostly to rebuild the Floyd.

Battery holder clip I plan to attach in the electronics cavity with a Velcro square for changing ease. Some new string clamp bolts for the nut and new truss rod nuts. Luckily I wont have to replace the current one as it finally came off but I have backups just in case now.

These tools will make changing strings so much easier as well. They get between the lock block and the bridge and let you get room for the string to be set against the sting block.

Next I disassembled the Floyd and reassembled it with the new block and old style screw on arm!

Finally, I checked out "The Key" tool, cant wait to use it to get perfect intonation without going crazy!

Making progress on the third and hopefully final refinish.

Still need to mask off the black stripes and paint her white. 4 coats of white primer 4 coats of black next is four coats of white finish and then 4 coats of matte clear!

 

 

 I took some steel wool to the face plate to prepare it for a matte finish I will be applying once base coats are finished.

Still have some scraping to do once it dries.

 

Hard lines with 3M 471 pin-striping tape.

 Some new black hardware has arrived. I needed the black jack to be stereo for the Seymour Duncan Blackouts to work.

Decided to refinish to go with the metal themed guitar. Need to do a little touch up and then clear coat. This is before I sanded.

Assembled! I am not diggin the JB. I am going to get a set of white Seymour Duncan Blackouts. The hardware is not complete either. I still have the original black but I am going to change it to gold except for the Floyd bridge. I think this looks cool and balances out the gold Kramer logo on the headstock.

I am also considering white hardware with gold screws in the pickup rings and pickups, but right now I am diggin gold.

I have ordered gold speed knobs(and white speed knobs), gold and white pickup rings and a gold switch. I plan to get a gold old school screw in arm(I hate the collared modern arms they have too much play).

Anyway here she is so I can play her for now. My brother has been busy, it is busy season with photography work, I will get good pictures as soon as he is able and the final pickups and parts are installed.

For now here are cell phone pics!