Kramer Guitars SM-1 BK Seymour Duncan B-Ware/Demo

The guitar itself is a winner. Sleek black looks can’t go wrong, the binding and finish is excellent. The pickups are superb, the tonal options cover everything with eight different settings including in between cleans and a very thick screaming hum bucker sound so it does everything I could want. The high fret access is brilliant with the trough neck build. It feels heavy enough that it’s not a toy but is slim and comfortable enough to be considered ergonomic and not too heavy.
The bad points I would say are all down to the supplier and not the manufacturer, they were as follows:
It arrived with no whammy bar, I am in the process of waiting to hear from dv247 to let me know if they will send it to me or offer some kind of compensation.
The set up was quite bad, I would assume it came straight from a factory and not a tech. The neck was overly tight and the low frets all buzzed quite badly, I loosened the truss rod a fair bit and the buzzing completely went away. The fret board was dry, so I oiled it. The frets were a bit dirty so I polished them. Now it plays like a dream and to be fair it still has the same strings it arrived with so it’s not all bad. I personally feel that £700 is not a small amount to part with for a fiddle so I would expect it to have been a bit more nicely set up on arrival, that’s not a fault of Kramer though and the guitar is an excellent bit of wood in my opinion, it feels very solid and professional, the floyd stays in tune to the point where I am actually quite baffled after playing for two hours in a hot room. A five star guitar with a three star customer experience if you ask me, I recommend the SM-1 to any serious guitar player looking for a solid bit of kit.