Since this is a bolted on neck, Kurt removed the original Kramer Ferrington Neck, and added either a Fender or Ferrington neck to the body before cutting it with a saw and smashing it against the floor. The original Schaller neck pickup is dated 3-86-4. This guitar is just a bit souped up as it has the very popular Jackson USA J-90C bridge pickup, Grover machine heads, and the gold Liscenced by Floyed Rose tremelo has Guild stamped on it and has been on the guitar for over 25 years. See the Ferrington Catalogs for more information. That wasn’t a Fender Acoustic (Stratacoustic) it was a 1986 Kramer Ferrington KFT-1 Acoustic-Electric Thin Body. Here we have a really fine 1986 Kramer Imperial Pacer. (see the ad below)A few months later, the heads, like the USA Kramer lines, were changed to the pointy/droopy variety and diamond inlays in the fretboard. Colors were black, white, red and cherry sunburst. These sported thin bound front and back bodies, off-round sound hole, bolt on maple necks, banana headstocks, rosewood fretboards, and a passive transducer pickup mounted on the bridge with a volume and tone control on the upper horn of the body. These guitars were heavily advertised by big names such as EVH and Dweezil Zappa.The 1st batch of Ferringtons were offered in 1986, the KFS-1(Strat shape and the KFT-1(Tele shape). The idea was to have an acoustic with the feel of an electric. Ferrington designed all of the models of the Kramer Ferrington lines and Kramer had the majority of them made in Korea. Chipboard case included$ 400.In 1985-86, Kramer began it's relationship with Danny Ferrington, the Nashville-based luthier who built several guitars for celebrities and, himself had became a reputable reputation for new designs of electric/acoustic guitars. Plays and sounds amazing plugged in or acoustic. Guess I'll break down the old KFT2 & see what's what.1986 Kramer Ferrington guitar for sale. Rather, it was the last name of Danny Ferrington, somewhat of a celebrity luthier living in Nashville at the time who’d built guitars for a number of stars. Alas, like you, there are no wiring schematics for a single active pickup, V-T-T control, & preamp. Vintage 1986 Kramer Ferrington KFT-1 Acoustic-Electric Guitar Ferrington was not a made up marketing name. ), & am ordering a Redeemer preamp (have used them before & they're Nashville's best kept secret!). Vintage 1986 Kramer Ferrington KFT-1 Acoustic-Electric Guitar. Bought a deluxe (with binding) neck on the website we won't mention here, bought a under bridge saddle pickup, a thick piece of nut bone from GC, cut n shaped the base & hand shaped the base from that, ordered in a battery clip (from the auction site who will not be mentioned here), tuners (from the auction site.), three 500k mini pots (from the. Had tried to turn into a lefty, buggered up the bridge, gutted the wiring (& lost all the parts). The 1/2 is a KST2 body that some ***** totally "*****'d" out. KRAMER FERRINGTON ACOUSTIC 1985 1986 / Electric Guitar Parts/project - 253.63. They were all IN the pawn shops in the late 90's. A guy pleaded me into selling it to him for $175. Some elmers construction glue, a handmade wooden jig, drill, & two 1/8" wooden dowels, almost like new. Had owned a KFS2 I got for $50 cause the axe had slipped out of the guitar hanger n broken the headstock between the e & b strings. I, myself, have 1 and 1/2 Kramer Ferringtons. EDDIE EDWARD VAN Helen 1986 Ad- Kramer-Ferrington guitars Advertisement - 6.29. Hey sparky thanks for the reply,thats alot of work to do,I've got the preamp to was a total mess,there were wires everywhere jumped off each other,I'm surprised the thing still works & the previous owner is still alive.he/she probably didn't know that the saddles are part of the mix,& had wires come off?.I bought this for $50.00,it was in bad shape,I've resurfaced & refretted the neck,I'm in the process of sanding down the top of the bridge to accept the new transducer & bone saddle I made(original saddles are on mars or venus),so it can be intonated,the heel of the neck was sanded down lowering the neck in the pocket,combined with the resurface I had to do(there's a hole drilled right through the fretboard where a neck screw hole was drilled,I think this guitar had better chances in vietnam,than with whoever owned it before.the preamp is only supposed to have 5 wires & the saddle plug,this had about 10-11 ?amazing so I was just trying to go the easy way,but I've got to use the peanut sometime ? ,but don't worry guy's & gals,this won't be like mike tyson playing sqwuabble,ah sqwuapple yeah dats id Itink,everybody have fun & keep playing,I will attach a pic when the warlords finished holy smokes what a poor axe,soon to sparkle again