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The KFB-2 were simpler in design, offered with dot Inlay only. The KFB-1 was the deluxe model, offered with a bound body, neck & headstock & diamond Inlays with a Kramer Inlay also included on the Fret Board at the 21st fret. New for late 87 was the KFB-1& KFB2 Basses. It’s in excellent condition very little wear. Ferrington designed all of the models of the Kramer Ferrington lines.
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The price is $400 cash, I will not take less. I just put new strings on it so it is ready to go. The guitar plays and sounds great and comes with a non original chip board case. This guitar is in near pristine condition.
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If however I dont like the sound it also came with 2 different 1/4" barrel jacks to connect to, so I could potentially remove the original ferrington 1/4" output and install one of these barrel jacks to plug into and use an acoustic preamp pedal or whatever other kind of preamp I want. It also came with the correct plug to simply plug into the ferrington preamp, so to the naked eye it will look and hopefully perform like an original ferrington.
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It was reasonably priced, the clips I heard online were to my liking and it can be stuck under the bridge inside the soundhole. Around the same time, early 89, I bought a Kramer Striker and a Focus. The neck plays really well but Ive made 3 string cigar box guitars that sounded more acoustically rich. I need to dig it back out and take some decent pictures of it. What I ended up with is a "Journey Instruments" 3 transducer piezo system. I still have a Kramer Ferrington I bought in 1988. I was looking at the I Beam units and such but I dont think they would work due to the guitars bracing. I really dont want to see a pickup across the soundhole and I dont want to make any permanent cuts or holes that I dont need. I did some looking around at different options that would fit the bracing thats inside the body cavity that would be hidden. I contacted Shadow but they're incommunicado likely due to the Rona or just because I was a small fry customer. I wanted to use the original preamp so afaik (I've never had an electric acousic or piezo) I had to use another piezo of some sort, but as we all know the under saddle ones you can buy are too narrow. I will be carving a new saddle for the bridge out of a block of cocobolo that I have, and I just received a replacement pickup set. Gluing the bridge will be easy, and thanks to this place I got an original pre-amp, however the piezo and saddle bits that I got were ruined and I dont think its worth trying to salvage them. In this case I got a decent condition white tele ferrington with no electronics and the bridge removed. As I tend to do I pick up project guitars to save a little money and then spend the savings either refurbishing them if they're worth it or making them more custom to my liking if they're too far gone or not a particularly special piece.