It's definitely a Kramer. Kramer worked with Travis Bean before branching off with his own designs.
The Travis Bean head-stock is enclosed with a hollow "T" shape in the middle. The Kramer head-stock is two prongs, not connected on top.
The most significant difference is in the neck design. Travis Bean used an all aluminum neck. Kramer, instead, employed a "T" shape with the flat fret-board area and a perpendicular extension running down the middle of the back of the neck. The sides were then completed with wood inserts, so from the back it looked like a wood neck with an aluminum spine running down the middle, like a Fender skunk stripe. This created a nicer feeling neck. The Travis necks were cold to the touch, especially for outdoor gigs, and never warmed up. The Kramer neck felt more like wood and was more comfortable in cooler weather.
Additionally, the Travis Bean neck ran 2/3 through the body. The pickups and bridge were mounted in the same piece of aluminum, not unlike Alembic's neck-thru design. Kramer necks didn't extend into the body.
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