The Kramer Nightswan Electric Guitar is a stylish and versatile instrument with a black body adorned with blue polka dots. This model, KNSBBPBF1, comes in a set that includes picks, making it a complete package for guitar enthusiasts. With the trusted Kramer brand behind it, this electric guitar is sure to deliver high-quality sound and performance for musicians looking to add a unique and eye-catching piece to their collection.
Great if you've always wanted a Nightswan. Not so great if you just want a plug and play guitar
I've always wanted Nightswan but had no desire to spend 5k on a beat up one. The finish is nice, design is what it's supposed to be. But Gibson is over-pricing these. With the quality, I'd say it's more like a $600 guitar and not a $900 guitar. The hardware is cheap, soft metal, including screws, one of which twisted right off as I removed the locking nut, since it was so high, I needed to file the wood below it to lower it. The neck radius is 16" but the floyd bridge and nut were 10" radius, so the outside strings were too low and inside too high. I shimmed the bridge to 17" radius and replaced the nut with a 12" radius Kahler and all was well. Extremely low action at this point with no buzzes, though the frets were not polished so they are really scratchy when doing vibrato. Some steel wool will take care of that. The JB in the middle position actually works surprisingly well for not having a neck pickup. It has that smooth compression of a neck pickup, but with a stringy, single coil out of phase tone that's nice. JB in the bridge is not like the original Full Shred bridge pickup but it sounds good so no need to replace for me. So the guitar itself is fine with a little setup, hardware isn't great but can be replaced, but if you want a Nightswan, it's a great chance to get one with a little work involved. I'm glad Gibson reintroduced these under the Kramer brand.