Kramer Guitars Assault 220 FR Black

This is a great guitar for the price with a few manageable niggles. The Floyd Rose is more or less set for 9/10 slinkys having only three springs to counteract the string load at the bridge - changing to heavier gauge strings (I put an unused set of 12/52 DR Black Beauties on as they were going spare) overwhelms the three springs in concert pitch and I had to add two extra springs to the claw but it balanced out nicely with five. A five spring claw setup should have been standard really. The matt black fretboard and back neck looked dull and somewhat cheap but a heavy coat of wax soon rectified this. Also I could not see the wisdom in coil splitting only the neck humbucker - coil splitting both the neck and bridge humbuckers would seem more sensible and add more sound options. But overall the Kramer Assault 220 FR is great value for the dosh and plays perfectly. I also bought the Thomann Hard case (Item 122213) as the Kramer will not fit in a standard Les Paul hard case but the Thomann fits like a glove.