FORMERLY OWNED GUITAR
1986 Kramer Focus 1000



---purchased: new from Guitar Center, San Diego (1986)
---owned: 1986-2000
---disposition: parted out (2000)
---disposition reason: no good explanation
---part(s) kept: nothing
---related picture(s): with my collection (2nd from left), circa 1987 - the black Focus 1000 (center), with other Kramers, circa 1987 - white Duncan installed (right), circa 1987 - white Kramer Focus 1000 with original black Focus neck, circa 1987
---related guitar(s): Kramer Baretta
---notes: My second Kramer, purchased in the summer of 1986 (also my third Floyd Rose). For $299, these were great deals. After a year or two, I replaced the stock Schaller pickup with a white Seymour Duncan Distortion humbucker and took off the stock neck and put it on my white Focus 1000, since the black Focus had the Kramer logo, and the white one had the large Focus 1000 featured prominently. (I later sold that neck and replaced it with a real Baretta neck and the white Focus 1000 became my Kramer Baretta.) I sold/gave the white neck to my friend (Mike Peterson), who stripped it and put a guitar together with it, along with gold Floyd Rose. I then purchased a maple neck with a banana, tilt-back headstock with a Floyd route from Zolla Guitars in Pacific Beach. In 2000, I took the guitar apart and sold the Zolla's neck, black body, Floyd Rose, and white Duncan pickup - ugh!


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