Frankenstrat guitar

[TWSguitarist]

So Eddie Van Halen is the reason I play guitar. Well I don't want to play some gay stupid guitar. I want to play the best looking and sounding guitar ever created the Frankenstrat! Or atleast a replica of it. Here is the replica I made a few months ago.

[ELVIS]

It stinks...

[dazzlindino]

So Eddie Van Halen is the reason I play guitar. Well I don't want to play some gay stupid guitar. I want to play the best looking and sounding guitar ever created the Frankenstrat! Or atleast a replica of it. Here is the replica I made a few months ago.

damn good job...dont mind elvis.....he is too busy reading the bible to ever say something nice.....

[Zing!]

I dig it. What's the story? Where'd you cobble together the bits and pieces?

[Von Halen]

He just turned 16.

His Dad (Dickhead) is the one that helped me build my buggy. He is an incredible fabricator, and has the patience and attention to detail that I don't have.

This kid is trying to get every detail right on this guitar. He has been busting his ass on it for awhile. He has done it, and redone it, several times. Improving it every time.

I'm going to let him do my Kramer replica. I"m not going for the relic look though.

[TWSguitarist]

I dig it. What's the story? Where'd you cobble together the bits and pieces?

It was originally a crappy franky I painted kit guitar. So I bought it for $200 and painted it. Then a few months ago repainted it an added a real Floyd Rose. Going to ge right reflectors and EVH pickup soon. As well as Shaller tuners. I actually am possibly going to re paint it again because two stripe are slightly off. As for Von's guitar I'm doing that as soon as he brings it over.

[Kristy]

It stinks...

Spoken like the failed musician you truly are.

[Zing!]

So what's the final tab on a project like this? I have an interest in doing something similar (god knows I love frankenstriping shit) but I'm also an eternal cheapskate. I seem to recall a similar thread a while back but I don't recall the builder.

[Zing!]

As for Von's guitar I'm doing that as soon as he brings it over.

How's 2015 looking for ya? That might be the next time he gets up off his ass (assuming =VH= gets off theirs that is...)

[DONNIEP]

Von's guitar is gonna have a rainbow paint scheme!! Hahahaha!

[DONNIEP]

Sweet looking Frankie, TWS!

[ELVIS]

Spoken like the failed musician you truly are.

Shaddup...

[PETE'S BROTHER]

It was originally a crappy franky I painted kit guitar. So I bought it for $200 and painted it. Then a few months ago repainted it an added a real Floyd Rose. Going to ge right reflectors and EVH pickup soon. As well as Shaller tuners. I actually am possibly going to re paint it again because two stripe are slightly off. As for Von's guitar I'm doing that as soon as he brings it over.

[Mushroom]

Impressive, good job

[TWSguitarist]

So what's the final tab on a project like this? I have an interest in doing something similar (god knows I love frankenstriping shit) but I'm also an eternal cheapskate. I seem to recall a similar thread a while back but I don't recall the builder.

In my crappy one with in correct parts right now about $300 has been put into this guitar. When I'm done it will be about $500. I sell replicas for like $900. There's this one guy that I'm building one for now. Frankenstriping everything I can. It's like smoking... Once you start it's hard to quit.

[VAiN]

In my crappy one with in correct parts right now about $300 has been put into this guitar. When I'm done it will be about $500. I sell replicas for like $900. There's this one guy that I'm building one for now. Frankenstriping everything I can. It's like smoking... Once you start it's hard to quit.

$900 is a very fair price for something like this. I have a 'Roly' 5150 Kramer that I purchased about 10 years ago for $1250.

[VAiN]

It was originally a crappy franky I painted kit guitar. So I bought it for $200 and painted it. Then a few months ago repainted it an added a real Floyd Rose. Going to ge right reflectors and EVH pickup soon. As well as Shaller tuners. I actually am possibly going to re paint it again because two stripe are slightly off. As for Von's guitar I'm doing that as soon as he brings it over.

Great job, it really looks good! You'll LOVE the EVH pickup. I put one in my Kramer and it sounds amazing.

[TWSguitarist]

Great job, it really looks good! You'll LOVE the EVH pickup. I put one in my Kramer and it sounds amazing.

Yeah I heard its like a $300 pickup for like $150. Where's you get that Kramer? Mean street guitars? I hate his frankenstrat. He has too many inaccuracies for his price.

[VAiN]

Yeah I heard its like a $300 pickup for like $150. Where's you get that Kramer? Mean street guitars? I hate his frankenstrat. He has too many inaccuracies for his price.

Got it from a guy named Roly who used to make them and did a pretty good job. He was somewhere in the SW - Phoenix, I think.. Can't remember anymore. I heard he was told to stop by Eddie's people so I think I have one of his last ones.

[TWSguitarist]

Got it from a guy named Roly who used to make them and did a pretty good job. He was somewhere in the SW - Phoenix, I think.. Can't remember anymore. I heard he was told to stop by Eddie's people so I think I have one of his last ones.

That sucks. I advertise over YouTube (TWSguitarist) and do business over email and PayPal. No website for me. Looks like he did a decent job. Some relicing is off. I'm OCD with inaccuracies especially on franky replicas. Mine isn't perfect in one spot. The little red triangle under the # looking symbol is off. The black stripe is too high up and as a result the # is shifted farther up and the red triangle under it is too big. But other than that mine looks amazing or terrible depending on how you look at it.

[twonabomber]

Pay no attention to Elvis. He'd rather see homemade Malmsteen guitars.

[Von Halen]

There is nothing original about Malmsteen's playing, or his guitars. Malmsteen is a legend in his own mind, and Elvis's. The greatest form of flattery is imitation. Malmsteen has never had his playing, or his shitty guitars, copied.

[Satan]

Pay no attention to Elvis. He'd rather see homemade Malmsteen guitars.

Would that look like a doughnut or something like that?

[twonabomber]

Not exactly like a donut, but with glazed donut fingerprints under the finish and a sticky fingerboard.

[DLR Bridge]

$900 is a very fair price for something like this. I have a 'Roly' 5150 Kramer that I purchased about 10 years ago for $1250.

That's awesome VAiN. Did the guy distress the frets or is that from actual play?

[jacksmar]

Pay no attention to Elvis. He'd rather see homemade Malmsteen guitars.

Wasn't there a Fender Malmsteen?

Anyway, it looks great. I tried to Frankenstein a BC Rich about a year ago. It plays great but looks like dirt. Anyone that was really influenced by Eddie should try this at least once. It's a real eye opener.

Roth on.

[VAiN]

That's awesome VAiN. Did the guy distress the frets or is that from actual play?

Thanks man.. I recently had the frets dressed and the guitar set-up. What you're seeing there is actual staining of the fretboard from the build and years of my grimy mitts on it. It's a fun guitar to play and a good conversation piece.

[VAiN]

Some relicing is off. I'm OCD with inaccuracies especially on franky replicas.

Yeah, it's close enough for me.. I hear what you're saying though and definitely respect attention to detail.

[So this is love]

$900 is a very fair price for something like this. I have a 'Roly' 5150 Kramer that I purchased about 10 years ago for $1250.

Nice! I am going to get myself one of these franks and a wolfgang for my 50th birthday...I have been dreaming of this all of my life...

[VAiN]

Nice! I am going to get myself one of these franks and a wolfgang for my 50th birthday...I have been dreaming of this all of my life...

Fuck yeah! Do it, you'll thank yourself everyday! I love my guitars and will never part with them. The Wolfgangs are nice instruments.. I have a couple of the Peavey ones and love them. I REALLY want a new Stealth, but the 3k price-point keeps it out if reach for me at the moment.

Here are my wolfs:

2001 Standard


1999 Special

[vandeleur]

Very nice

[TWSguitarist]

Fuck yeah! Do it, you'll thank yourself everyday! I love my guitars and will never part with them. The Wolfgangs are nice instruments.. I have a couple of the Peavey ones and love them. I REALLY want a new Stealth, but the 3k price-point keeps it out if reach for me at the moment.

Here are my wolfs:

2001 Standard


1999 Special

I love the new Wolfgangs. I found two at guitar center and spent there. I'm probably giving for a Wolfgang Special because I'm a cheap ass. That's why my franky sounds terrible because its some random humbucker.

[cadaverdog]

I never had the patience of the left hand coordination to learn to play the guitar but I bought one in 89 after I found out it was worth alot more than the owner thought it was. It was a late fifties Gibson Les Paul . I thought it was a fake because it said Japan on the neck. The neck was Japanese but the guitar was the real deal. I sold it for a grand or fifteen hundred but I only paid two hundred for it.

[ELVIS]

That's bull...

No Gibson Les Paul has a Japanese neck...

[cadaverdog]

That's bull...

No Gibson Les Paul has a Japanese neck...

Try reading before you post. Sometime in the past some bastard put a fucking Japanese neck on a real Les Paul. Who knows why or when. I didn't ask her how it got like that. She might have gotten it that way. I've never asked you how you got that way. I just assumed you were inbred like the rest of the "Coon Asses".

[ELVIS]

You're a liar, dude...

You make crap up and expect people to believe it...

[cadaverdog]

You're a liar, dude...

You make crap up and expect people to believe it...

Fuck off douchebag. I don't care if you beleive it or not. I don't believe the bullshit that spews forth from your pie hole either. Judging people? I thought you were a good Christian. I guess you lied about that too.

[ELVIS]

Whatever you say, Mr Les Paul with a Japanese neck...

[cadaverdog]

Whatever you say, Mr Les Paul with a Japanese neck...

I'd say blow me but I know you'd jump on the opportunity in a second. I know you'd rather we call each other liars for the next hundred pages but I'll take a raincheck.

[VAiN]

Try reading before you post. Sometime in the past some bastard put a fucking Japanese neck on a real Les Paul. Who knows why or when. .

I'm calling BS on this one as well... LP necks are glued on - it would be more time, effort & cost involved to replace the neck, especially with a cheapie, than it would be worth.. It just doesn't make sense.