By 1975 he had hooked up with a friend from New York, Dennis Berardi and the two founded BK International, which engaged luthier Phil Petillo to make prototypes for them. Kramer's improvement consisted of two wooden inserts in the back of the neck. Kramer then founded the company that still bears his name, improving on the Bean design-Bean's necks were heavy and the material felt cold to the touch. Bean and Gary Kramer started the Travis Bean guitar company in 1974, in Sun Valley, and while their guitars did well, Bean lost interest and left most of the business aspects to Kramer and so the two parted ways. There is some dispute over the company's early history but it begins with Travis Bean, a California luthier who was building guitars with aluminum necks.
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