Kramer Volante HHFR Left-Handed Electric Guitar, Intruder Black w/ Premium Gig Bag

Continuing in a legacy of crafting tasty, shred-ready guitars, we have the Kramer Volante HHFR. This strikingly fresh piece from everyone's favorite '80s thrash guitar maker comes together with a set of player-forward features designed to balance both Kramer's long history of quality guitarwork and their vision for the future of shredding.

The Volante HHFR follows in Kramer's long tradition of making guitars for virtuosos and shredders. This left-handed Volante HHFR starts with a contoured double-cutaway body primed for mobility and speed. Kramer picks alder for this particular body, making for a sleek and resonant profile from the get-go. Reformatted for a modern era, this body works as an excellent base off which the rest of this Kramer experience can fly. This solid base matches with a three-piece laminated maple neck. Thermally aged and taking an Elliptical C profile for speed and comfort, this neck offers great transfer of motion with a sculpted, five-bolt, neck-to-body joint.

In addition to the Volante's quick neck, a maple fingerboard appears with twenty-four Jumbo frets and a compound radius. These two features inspire lightning-fast riffs across the entire scale length. The board's compound radius measurement enables easy soloing as its flattens from the nut to the body while its Jumbo-sized frets leave plenty of space to land expressive riffs. Quick travel across all frets is the name of the game for the Volante, simple as that.

Sonically, the Volante HHFR drops in with two American-made pickups. These Kramer USA Neptune humbucking pickups offer up a varied and vast sonic palette with which to create. Going clean, driven, or dirty are well within these electronics' reach to play how you decide. The five-way pickup selector on the Volante features five unique pickup positions with available choices including individual in-series humbucker, single-coil, regular humbucker, and parallel humbucker. What makes these pickups an even greater addition is their hum-cancelling design across all positions.

The hardware setup of this Volante also offers plenty to get into. Onboard, a Floyd Rose 1000 Series bridge matches with an R3 Locking nut. Enabling players to work bold vibrato pitch bends in their playing, these two elements retain intonation splendidly for chaotic riffage. Mini die cast tuning machines align at the headstock to ensure stability in tuning and ease in stringing. In essence, the Volante is a thoroughly sturdy piece of equipment ready for whatever you throw at it. It also travels with an included premium gig bag for moving from place to place.

As a new addition to the Kramer canon, the Volante HHFR is a bold instrument to carry on in Kramer's boundary-pushing legacy.