Introducing the special 300-instrument limted edition run of the Eddie Van Halen Frankenstein File: Description: Guitar Amps and Mods Blue Guitar amp mods: c30scmod.gif Eddie Van Halen - Van Halen. Kramer. ! Call Ed Roman 7. COMPLETE HIGH QUALITY. KITS FROM $6. 99. ED ROMAN IS NOW OFFERING. THE TITANIUM FLOYD ROSE TREMOLONot too much needs to be said about Eddie Van Halen. His influence on the Rock guitar. Ace Frehley in terms of the sheer numbers of. Eddie is in a class by himself, as a player and musical personality. I was in my car driving to a construction site where I was. They were playing an old Ray Davies Kinks tune that. Van Halen Frankenstrat TemplateEconomy Kit Guitars For Sale Our Most Popular Unfinished Kit Guitar Costs Only $239.00. If You Want To Buy A Kit Guitar Please Read Pertinent Facts. BYO takes pride in providing you with a BETTER guitar kit. We have worked with our supplier for many years, making sure we provide our customers with the highest. Electric Guitar Kit - Tele Style - $124.00; Stringed Instrument Lacquer Aerosol - $14.00; Electric Guitar Kit - ST Style - $124.00; Vinyl Sealer Aerosol. How To Build Your Own EVH Guitar Here’s a page we’ve set aside, always under construction, that we can use to host useful information, links or photographs of. Not too much needs to be said about Eddie Van Halen that anyone reading this will not already know. His influence on the Rock guitar world is probably second. V Shaped Guitars Link. Ed Roman has first introduced the Custom Frankenstrat Guitars in 1986 at the NAMM Show At that time the guitars were all made from USA Baretta's. Jimmy Page had played the original lead riffs. Van Halen were playing Judas. Priest covers at backyard parties in Southern California at the same time Randy Rhoads band Quiet. Riot were getting started in the same scene. Gene Simmons was the. Van Halen demoed and signed. A major credit should. Ted Templeman who is responsible for recording the. R& R history. Templeman had set the high water mark for heavy guitar sound 5 years before in. Montrose album (with Sammy Hager. Van Halen singer). He was. good at it and clearly had a vision for where the modern Rock guitar sound. He and Eddie engineered Eddie's famous 'Brown Sound'. The rest. as they say is 'R& R history'.. Ed Roman Guitars. Charvel EVH Limited. Edition candy stripe Models! Call for yours. today! Eddie has been modifying. His guitars are as famous as his music. Edward Lodewijk "Eddie" Van Halen (born January 26, 1955) is a Dutch-American musician, songwriter and producer. He is best known as the lead guitarist, occasional. Not only did Eddie define an era. I have sold more guitar. Van Halen Copy than all the other kits. I sell put together. If you want to read more about. Van Halen 1. Please notate that these are not sold painted. Obviously. the guitar best well known for this album is the original Black and White. Frankenstrat. This heavily valued guitar started out life as a $1. Eddie bought from a company. Boogie Bodies. He took it home and immediately. Schwinn bicycle paint. He also made a. pickguard for it. Eddie loved the sound of an old PAF. He also. liked the strat tremolo but had trouble keeping it in tune. He installed a. brass nut, had to keep it lubricated, and turned the ball end of the string. The. guitar ended up getting the stripe pattern as he masked off the guitar and. Ed Roman has. done extensive research on this and offers several different versions with. Interesting. Footnote: The CBS strat headstock has a. Gibson logo, and the very fine black stripes are actually electrical tape. Contact Ed Roman. Custom Wound duplicates or get the special. Holmes pickups that emulate the 5. PAF. It was finished and. Although Eddie used this guitar. This guitar did have one new feature, the locking. Floyd Rose. Anytime. The guitar was originally an Ibanez. Destroyer which was. Our sue happy corporate friends at Gibson Sued for design infringements. As you can probably. Eddie couldn. He then proceeded to stripe and paint the. It is actually silver. Exact copies of this guitar are rarely available because they are hard to. Ibanez very expensive korina guitar for it to be. Interesting footnote: Three of the tuners are chrome. He needed a guitar. The alluring. features of this guitar are the various circles and the fact that it has not. I guess Eddie was getting. This guitar is. available contact Ed. Roman. What can I say about this guitar. Normal people look at. Eddie has played this on. The selector switch is not. The pickguard is not guarding any picks. Probably the. most useful thing on the guitar is the 1. To top it all off, Eddie put truck. Why?? Because he thought it. Frog, is the designer genius from the early 8. George Lynch's Skull N' Bones guitar. He also built several other. These J Frog Guitars are also available in kits. This became his. main stage guitar after he retired the Frankenstrat. The guitar was actually. Built much like the other guitars. Kramer. Eddie and Kramer built. Eddie, or given away to. The only really interesting features on the guitar are. The company put a Music Man logo over the Kramer logo. I never liked the people at Ernie Ball. Kinda like, what ESP. J Frog for the Dokken Videos. ESP also removed and therefore ruined. George Lynch's original Kramers by taking off the original necks and. ESP Necks. The people at ESP also blatantly. George Lynch Skull N' Bones and to top it off it was probably. ESP guitars I have ever seen. This was used as a backup to the 5. OU8. 12 Please notate that these are not sold painted. Definitely. one of Eddie. Eddie always likes new and interesting. The Steinberger caught. The features on this guitar were very futuristic; Active EMG. Fiberglass neck and body, no headstock, and a tremolo that. The Trans Trem system is. But there was still something missing. The Red, White. & Black stripes. When I saw Eddie the first time he played these (He had several of them). Eddie was a huge fan of headless guitars, during that era the band was. Eddie favored the small ones although he told Ed Roman that he would have. Interesting. Footnote: The OU8. Steinberger was used on 5. You. can hear the trans trem !!! You can own the whole collection for about $2. Frankenstrat from Charvel. Note from Ed. This of course is nowhere near all of Eddie's Guitars, He. The guitars in this article are the signature guitars. I personally have a copy of every one of them in my. Contact me directly if you are looking for any particular model. Don't get me wrong, some of them are pretty good. But they don't. qualify as the real deal. Album Featured On. Name Of Guitar. Identifying. Markings. Van Halen 1 VH- 1. White With Black Stripes. Van Halen IIVH- 2. Black With Yellow Stripes. Women & Children First. The Shark. Silver & Red Cut Up Ibanez Body. Fair Warning. Unchained. White With Circles. Frankenstrat 3 Versions. Red White & Black Broken Pickguard. Red White & Black Space Tape 5. OU8. 12. OU8. 12. Red White & Black Steinberger I am looking for other people who would like to. So I am publishing this short. Mike Mc. Guire. Michael Mc. Guire (Hey Mikey) has been a long time Van. Halen Phreak, He used to come into the store with his dad when he was just a. He would order special parts made up so he could build copies of these. My opinion is that a guitar. People like Mikey, have a real passion for this. Mike studies every scratch. Eddie's guitars and has built numerous awesome. Today he can no longer make these copies due to legal. Kramer, EVH, Charvel, J Frog, Steinberger and anyone. Eddie Van Halen. The Shark &. Unchained. So they are. I hope you liked Mike's article. BTW, there are hundreds of crappie copies out there.
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