![]() To keep people from copying him and his style, Ed took his Frankenstrat, by this time beat up, worn, with paint scratched off, and wrapped it again in more masking tape. ![]() Ed noticed that everyone seemed to be painting their guitars white with black stripes, and even had to issue a cease and desist to a company that made guitars identical to the Frankenstrat and sold them to the unsuspecting populace. Since Van Halen I had taken off into the stratosphere and Ed was quickly becoming the most popular guitarist in the world, copycats began to pop up. Once he removed the masking tape, he was left with the famous white and black strat that can be seen on the cover of Van Halen I.ġ979 saw a couple of changes to Ed’s trusty Frankenstrat. He painted the body black, then wrapped masking tape randomly around the body and painted it white. To finish the project, Ed found Schwinn bicycle paint in spray cans. The volume pot was famously topped by a white “Tone” knob. Ed removed all the tone controls also, opting to instead wire the pickup directly to one volume pot. It was an ugly solution, but as the guitar was covered by a black, one pickup pickguard, the messy woodwork didn’t show. ![]() Therefore, He took a hammer and chisel and started chunking away at the bridge position rout until it fit the bigger pickup. Eddie only liked the sound that a humbucker could give him, and he quickly determined that the body wasn’t routed large enough to accommodate the Gibson PAF pickup he intended on installing. The neck had a CBS-Style Fender Strat headstock, and a Birdseye maple neck, with maple fingerboard. Eddie paid $50 for the body, and $80 for the neck. Eddie bought a Strat replacement body and a Strat replacement neck from Boogie Bodies, a guitar shop owned and operated by Wayne Charvel. But that’s not when this guitar was born.ġ978 was the year that the original Frankenstrat was first seen by the world. The guitar I will be constructing will be a replica of the Frankenstrat, circa 1982. Also, it’s important to pinpoint the time line of the build. Since this project is a complete build of Eddie’s Frankenstrat guitar, and everything on the guitar was there for form and not function, it’s important to realize why things happened, and when. ![]()
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