{"id":45912,"date":"2025-11-19T00:22:37","date_gmt":"2025-11-18T23:22:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/clandestineguitars.com\/martins-kramer-5150\/"},"modified":"2025-11-19T00:22:38","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T23:22:38","slug":"martins-kramer-5150","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/clandestineguitars.com\/en\/martins-kramer-5150\/","title":{"rendered":"Martin’s Kramer 5150"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Martin’s Kramer 5150<\/h2>\n\n
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Martin visited us, wanting to expand his guitar collection with an Edward Van Halen Kramer 5150. He knew he wanted to paint and assemble it himself. For this, he used a Kramer 5150 DIY kit as a base, featuring a basswood body routed for a humbucker pickup in the bridge position and for a Floyd Rose bridge, a maple neck with a maple fretboard, the characteristic banana-shaped headstock of this model, and a heel-adjustable dual-action truss rod. He was determined to build a high-quality guitar, so he included a Floyd Rose Special bridge, a CTS potentiometer, and Wilkinson EZ-locking tuners.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Components used for assembly:<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Basswood body routed for a humbucker pickup in the bridge position and for a Floyd Rose bridge.Maple neck with maple fretboard. Banana-shaped headstock. Chrome Floyd Rose Special FRTS1000 bridge. Chrome Wilkinson WJN07-EZ tuners. CTS A500 potentiometer for volume control. Seymour Duncan 50s pickup. Chrome hardware.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Material used for lacquering and finishing<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Classic White nitrocellulose sprayBlack Gloss nitrocellulose sprayHot Red nitrocellulose sprayGloss nitrocellulose sprayTru Oil for finishing maple fretboardsAdhesive tapes of different thicknessesDecals and logos<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here’s a video tutorial of the project and two demos so you can see the final result.<\/p>\n<\/div>

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