Following up a legacy of crafting shred-ready guitars, we have the Kramer Volante HHFR. This striking new piece from everyone's favorite '80s thrash guitar makers comes together with a suite 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 shredders and virtuosos. The Volante HHFR starts with a classic contoured, double-cutaway body primed for speed and mobility. Kramer utilizes alder for this particular body, making for a sleek and resonant profile. Reshaped for the modern era, this body works as an excellent base off which the rest of a new Kramer experience can fly. This solid base matches with a three-piece laminated maple neck. Thermally aged and taking an Elliptical C profile for comfort and speed, this neck offers great transfer of motion with a sculpted, five-bolt, neck-to-body joint.

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

Sonically, this Volante HHFR drops in with two American-made pickups. These Kramer USA Neptune humbucking pickups offer up a vast and varied sonic palette with which to create. Going clean, driven, or dirty are well within these electronics' reach to play how you need. 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 excited about. Onboard, a Floyd Rose 1000 Series bridge aligns with a matching 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 traveling 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.

• Alder body in Kramer Volante shape
• Thermally aged 3-piece laminated maple neck with Elliptical C profile
• Maple fingerboard with 24 jumbo frets and black dot inlays
• Floyd Rose R3 rear-mounted locking nut
• Kramer USA Neptune T humbucker (bridge) and Neptune R humbucker (neck)
• Master volume and master tone controls with 5-way blade pickup selector switch
• Recessed Floyd Rose 1000 Series tremolo bridge
• Mini die-cast tuners with black hardware
• Includes premium gig bag