Benny’s New Bass 1978 Kramer 250B

The New Bass 1978 Kramer 250B

I’ve recently purchased a new bass. I found a rare 1978 Kramer 250B at Baxter Northrup Music in Sherman Oaks, CA. The price and sound were too good to pass up. This has to be one of the heaviest instruments I have ever played. The sound is somewhere between a Fender American P-Bass and a Rickenbacker. I’m pretty sure  one could throw this bass down a set of stairs, use it to slay a legion of zombies, and it would still be in tune.

From Wikipedia:

Introduced in 1976, early models featured the trademark “tuning fork head” aluminum-reinforced necks with a fretboard made of Ebonol–material similar to one used in bowling ball production. Other features of the necks included aluminum dots, and a zero fret made out of Petillo fretwire. Unlike Travis Bean, Kramer went beyond the idea of a neck forged entirely out of aluminum, due to both its weight and its feel. Instead, Kramer opted for wooden inserts in the aluminum necks. The inserts, set in epoxy, were usually Walnut or Maple. The bodies were usually made of high grade Walnut or Maple, with the earliest instruments made of exotic tonewoods including Koa, Afromosia, Swietenia, Shedua, and Bubinga. The hardware was top-notch as well: Schaller tuning keys and bridges; Schaller and DiMarzio pickups; custom-made strap pins; aluminum cavity covers. Kramer’s “alumi-neck” line lasted roughly until 1982.