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The Kramer Baretta was the flagship of the Kramer line and helped popularize the single-pickup 1980s superstrat guitar design. By late 1985, Kramer began installing Seymour Duncan pickups in its guitars, in preference to the more vintage-sounding Schaller pickups. When the sales figures came in, Kramer was the best-selling guitar brand of 1985 ...
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Petillo designed the guitar with a forked headstock. When La Placa and investor Henry Vaccaro joined forces to open a plant in Neptune, New Jersey , they needed Petillo. The first four prototypes of Kramer Guitars were hand made in 1976 at the 1206 Herbert Ave. Ocean, NJ Studio Workshop by Phil Petillo.
The classic head was like the Strat head but it had the ball shape at the top cut off. This was made from 1982–84 and is often referred to as the "chicken" or "beak" headstock. In 1984, Kramer changed to the banana head or hockey-stick head. Later, the headstock took on a "pointy" profile, similar to that of the competitors of the day.
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The banana headstock was copied from his "custom shark" Ibanez Destroyer. The single diagonal pickup was taken from his Frankenstrat guitar and was set diagonally to compensate for the wider string spacing of the tremolo bridge compared with the narrower pole spacing on the humbucker pickup. A reissue of the Baretta is currently available.
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The best-known Kramer owned by Van Halen was the 5150, which he built in the Kramer factory. Although it was thought that the guitar was made from a Kramer Baretta body, it had a prototype Pacer body. The guitar, used from the 1984 tour through the OU812 tour, was last used to record "Judgement Day" for the album For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge (1991