FrankenStrat • Chip Ellis

[Diamondjimi]

Originally posted by jhale667

Still would kinda rather build one myself...would be more in the [u]spirit[/i] of replicating the original to me, if that makes sense...

Agreed ,Bro.

Spirit is the word here. Inspiration is everything.

[VAN HLN CA]

My son asked him to make him his first axe, Chip smiled in a funny way. My teen has no concept of what request he made.

[ELVIS]

My brother and I held and examined one for about thirty minutes here at the Guitar Center in the New Orleans area...

First of all, it had terrible action...

The neck was extra wide...

The rust was WAY overexaggerated, as was the corrosion on other metal surfaces...

The neck has this odd greasy feel to it that made me want to immediately wash my hands...

But the overall feel of the neck was junk... High action, strings not centered down the neck with the high E string almost touching the edge towards the body...

I was not very impressed to say the least...

[Big Troubles]

Originally posted by ELVIS


The neck has this odd greasy feel to it that made me want to immediately wash my hands...


I was not very impressed to say the least...

Sure it was a guitar you were handling?

IMO there's too many cig burns and scuffs on it for $25.

[cdwillis]

It is the antithesis of what the original guitar represents to me. The original was made of seconds that nobody wanted and slapped together because there was nothing like it. It was painted with spray cans with EVH having no idea what he was doing just to be original. It completely lacks the spirit that lies at the core of why the guitar even exists. Shit, I'm glad they made it $25,000 so rich jackasses can spend a bunch of money and not even know what they are really missing out on. It's more of an art piece than a musical instrument. Guitars are made to be played not displayed and I'd never shell out my hard earned money for some garbage like that.

[EDDIEVRULZ]

i dig mine

[jhale667]

Originally posted by ELVIS
The neck was extra wide...

That's a good thing (especially for someone with hands as large as mine),
but from the rest of your description, not so much...
I found it odd the EVH art series has the girly-man 1 5/8" nut width, when Frankie and all his old ones supposedly were 1 3/4"...which are manly-man width necks, and the only width I'll use...