barney115 Posted June 25, 2004 Report Share Posted June 25, 2004 Pugs_himself@hotmail.com I've recently bought a floyd sutainer pickup and was wondering if anyone has had any experience installing/removing them and whether they need any special circuitry to make them operational if the active circuitary is contained within the pickup. Any diagrams etc. can be emailed to me or posted many thanks.matt. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soapbarstrat Posted June 25, 2004 Report Share Posted June 25, 2004 is that off a Kramer sustainer guitar ? I have a Kramer sustainer guitar, but don't have the sustainer pickup. Are they easy to get ? I want to get rid of the guitar one of these days. Would be cool to get the sustainer in it. Then I'll be asking the same thing you are. The sustainer guitar I have has a bunch of mini-toggle switch holes . I think one hole might be for an LED. I plugged them up, but they still show (Black body, hard as hell to hide flaws on it) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darren wilson Posted June 25, 2004 Report Share Posted June 25, 2004 The whole system includes the pickup/driver and a battery-driven preamp in the control cavity of the guitar. If you don't have both parts, you don't have a Sustainer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barney115 Posted July 4, 2004 Author Report Share Posted July 4, 2004 how much would you want for your kramer or would you be interested in the pick up there supposed to be hard to come by especially the embossed logo version i've got. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soapbarstrat Posted July 4, 2004 Report Share Posted July 4, 2004 I guess I wouldn't like selling it for less than $250.00 .And it's a project guitar. It doesn't have any pickups or electronics in it at all. Just Kramer Sustainer body, Kramer American neck, Black original floyd, black tuners. I made the neck plate, and the neck has never been off since the screw holes were drilled. I put this guitar together, it's from parts left at the Kramer factory after they closed down. It doesn't even have holes drilled for pickup rings, or the little screw holes for the tuners, yet. The neck fits nicely in the body neck rout, better than the neck/body fit on my Fenders. ESP supposedly made the bodies for Kramer, and it does seem very ESP like in quality. I'm away from the USA until October. Someone tell me if I'm breaking the rules here discussing the price of something like this. I was planning on putting it up for sale on the Kramer site someday. Keep putting it off cuz I wanted to keep trying to hide those toggle holes in the body. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soapbarstrat Posted July 5, 2004 Report Share Posted July 5, 2004 found some good info about the sustainer guitars : http://www.vintagekramer.com/sustainer.htm Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barney115 Posted July 8, 2004 Author Report Share Posted July 8, 2004 no worries i live in england anyway cheers for the info though Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barney115 Posted July 15, 2004 Author Report Share Posted July 15, 2004 any ideas where i could get hold of the battery driven pre-amp if possible or whether one could be wired up? If its just basic parts like caps or resistors and such i might be able to wire one any ideas??? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lovekraft Posted July 15, 2004 Report Share Posted July 15, 2004 http://projectguitar.ibforums.com/index.php?showtopic=9469 http://projectguitar.ibforums.com/index.php?showtopic=7512 http://projectguitar.ibforums.com/index.php?showtopic=5396 http://projectguitar.ibforums.com/index.php?showtopic=9091 http://projectguitar.ibforums.com/index.php?showtopic=5281 http://projectguitar.ibforums.com/index.php?showtopic=5073 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt Posted July 16, 2004 Report Share Posted July 16, 2004 Hey were those useful? the 'little gem' thing was soppose to not have any hum or EMI Matt Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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