Serial number E 5918. Red lacquered body in basswood. Neck in maple with a fingerboard in Indian rosewood (Dalbergia latifolia). "Shark headstock." Black hardware with "Schaller" tuning machines and "Floyd Rose" bridge. 1 x humbucker Bartolini pickup. Built-in "distortion/clean/blend" 3-way switch. 6 x controls for panning. A Ripley "stereo splitter box" and hard case included. Length approx. 96.5, width 33, height 4.5 cm.
Minor wear. The whammy bar is missing. Not tested for functionality. Not fully examined.
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The guitar is built like a Kramer "Baretta".
Steve Ripley, musician, sound engineer, and producer from Boise, Idaho. He worked with artists such as Bob Dylan, J.J. Cale, and more. He built his guitars between 1982-1987. He made guitars for Eddie Van Halen, J.J. Cale, Ry Cooder, and John Hiatt. Steve Ripley's "Stereo guitars" have a stereo output where you can pan the signal from the 6-pole pickup separately for each string through a Sterobox to 2 amplifiers. Steve Ripley later made guitars for Kramer Guitars.
