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How To Build Your Own EVH Guitar

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Here's a page we've set aside, always under construction, that we can use to host useful information, links or photographs of people's DIY replica Eddie Van Halen guitars.

 

 

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Van Halen 1 Frankenstrat

Body: Stratocaster
Body Wood: Hard (northern) Ash
Body Finish: Unfinished
Body Routing: Top Routed
Pickup Routing: Single, Single, Humbucker (chiselled from single rout)
Bridge Routing: Fender vintage tremolo

Neck: Standard
Headstock: CBS
Neck Wood: Birdseye Maple
Finger Board Wood: Birdseye Maple
Neck Finish: Satin (his was unfinished but finishing is recommended)
Fret Size: Gibson Jumbo Frets 6150
Key Holes: Schaller
Inlay: Black Dots
String Nut: Fender vintage tremolo

Bridge Type: Fender vintage tremolo
Pickguard: Stratocaster
Pickguard Configuration: x , x, Humbucker
Pickguard Bridge Routing: Fender vintage tremolo
Pickguard Color: Black Solid Matte (.060)
Pickguard Control Setup: x, Volume, Volume      No Pickup selector
Tuners: Schaller Mini Locking Tuners (Left, Chrome)
Pickups: Seymour Duncan EVH ('78 model) Humbucker

Copper Shielding: 2 feet
Output Jack: Switchcraft Brand Mono Jack
Jack Plate: Stratocaster (Chrome)
Knobs: 1 Vintage Stratocaster Tone Knob (White)
Neck Plate: Chrome
Potentiometers: 1 CTS Brand 500K pot
String Retainer: Brass nut

Tape Type: 3/4 Inch (Big Black Stripes) 1/8 Inch (Smaller Stripes) 

 

Kramer 5150

Body:
Body Wood:
Body Finish: red/white/black stripes
Body Routing: Top routed for pickup, rear for electronics
Pickup Routing: 1 bridge Humbucker (body mounted)
Bridge Routing: Floyd Rose
FRT-100

Neck: Standard
Headstock: Hockey stick type
Neck Wood:
Maple
Finger Board Wood: Maple
Neck Finish: Satin (his was unfinished but finishing is recommended)
Fret Size:
Key Holes: Schaller M6L Chrome (mini's)
Inlay: Black Dots
String Nut: Floyd Rose R2

Bridge Type: Floyd Rose (original)
Pickguard: None
Control Setup: Volume, No Pickup selector
Tuners: Schaller Mini Locking Tuners (Left, Chrome)
Pickup: Seymour Duncan SH-11 Custom Custom (no logo)

Copper Shielding: 2 feet
Output Jack: Switchcraft Brand Mono Jack
Jack Plate:
Knobs: 1 MXR knob
Neck Plate:
Potentiometers: 1 CTS Brand 500K pot audio taper

Tape Type:

 

 paint a frankenstrat

Useful Links
 

EddieVanHalen.com dedicated section on their forum for building a replica of any of Ed's guitars
 
Guitar Attack
 
excellent tutorial for building a VH1 frankenstrat
 
5150 Project Guitar
 
excellent tutorial for building a 5150
 
Warmoth.com
 
excellent custom parts
 
VintageKramer.com
 
vintage Kramer guitars, great resources for reference
 
SpaceTape.com
 
get the authentic space tape "5150" writing for your 5150 replicas
 
Painting Guitars
 
our guide for painting / re-spraying, with info on making a Frankie
 
Legendary Tones
 
how to get the brown sound from your equipment
 
Seymour Duncan
 
SD custom shop for '78 (E.V.H.) humbucker to get it tone perfect
 
AmpTone
 
info on using a Variac
Witnesses of EVH's Marshall

detailed information on the magic marshall's components
 

Mean Street Guitars
 
guitars built like Eddie's that you can paint to make a good replica
 
Kramer
 
here you can buy a new Kramer 1984 (5150 replica), and paint it like a 5150
 
Brown Sound Tribute
 
fan site with lots of useful information
 
eBay items UK
 
a dedicated page for finding EVH items from the UK eBay site
 
Van Halen Guitars
 
Scott Smith's incredible collection of replica's of Ed's guitars
 
PaintYourOwnGuitar.com
 
make a replica finish of a Frankie or 5150 with spray cans
 
RockStarGuitars.com
 
the neck Ed used on his Frankie n the Jump video is for sale
 
Vintage Strat Trem
 
bridge routing diagram for a vintage fender strat tremelo for VH1 frankie
 
Mr. 5150
 
useful page with information on EVH's setup
 
Jfrocks.com
 
now you've built the Frankie, this site will teach you how to rock out on it!
 
Project Guitar
 
a great resource of information for building a guitar, all aspects

 

Pictures

Finished bulding your own replica? Send us the pictures and we'll post them here!

 

Russ Cudney

Russ Cudney

Russ Cudney

Russ Cudney

 
Jason King 5150

Jason King

Jason King 5150

Jason King

Jason King 5150

Jason King

Jason King 5150

Jason King

Jason King 5150

Jason King


Videos

 

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