This guitar started out as a Kramer Pacer in the mid ’80s, says owner Stefan Lohrer. “I cracked the cheap poplar body by getting carried away on the Floyd, so I replaced it with an alder Warmoth body.” He kept the Seymour Duncan JB and added a Duncan Firebird pickup in the neck position, routed the lower cutaway, and had the Floyd installed. Then he added some laminated comics.

“Years later I found the Charvel neck in a friend’s basement, crusted with pizza sauce,” Lohrer adds. “He kindly gave me the neck and I replaced the Kramer neck with it. Not my prettiest axe, but it plays really nice.”