To those of you who feel offended that this guitar is not exactlyyyyy identical to the original - I made this when I was 15,. for about £100, out of spare parts from a local music shop and anything I could find at home. I'm not a Van Halen enthusiast and it doesn't bother me that I didnt put reflectors on the back, didnt put scratches/cigarette burns, coin screwd by the bridge, original floyd rose, gibson PAF modified pickup or whatever.. You shouldn't let any of this bother you either! Thanks
@tobibarnet Good job...The front looks great..I like the headstock on yours..It's actually reminisent to an early Krammer classic headstock...
EVH was known to swap headstocks just like his pick ups...He used Krammer, fender headstocks with all kinds of ends on them...He had his favorites depending on what he was doing...In the studio he preffered a stock fender trem and NOT a floyed. He was always changing his stuff so the guitar companies couldn't keep up with cloning his gear.
@aerztefanmatthi it doesnt really matter though does it? :) I mean, the pickup was free, and the neck cost £25.. the whole guitar cost about £110 including £30 of spray paint. Thanks anyway though
@aerztefanmatthi Yeah.. well the 'licensed under F. R.' type. I think it was about £30.. as the full set.. locking nut/bridge posts etc. It's actually the most in tune trem system I have on any of my guitars :) whether it's the way I fixed it to the guitar/set it up, I dont know.. but it holds it's tuning veryyy well. Not a lot of upbend though - only about a semi tone on the B string. Tempted to record another little demo of it tbh!
@skylineXpert ahh i could think of so many other things to get for that amount of money though :P haha.. this guitar only cost about £120 soo I'll pass on the 10k fender replicas :) hehe
@81298jmw ..but that would cost more than the actual guitar :( I've since coloured the BC-Rich logo with black marker pen, so no one need know it's identity! :D haha
@81298jmw yeah I guess :) I made the guitar when I was 15.. n thats like, 4 years ago now :( I've kinda moved on, and the EVH phase that I went through, ended a long time ago :) I know what you mean though - different pickups can make a huge difference to the sound of a guitar :)
nice nice!! 2 things i would do differently/ Eddie actually has on his. one, i would put in a suspended tremelo. Eddie also has that on his. and add some age to it...it looks brand new and it looks even better with some fade and dings in it
great job. missing a few things i would have put: 71' quarter, sanding on back/ front, cigarette burns, reflectors, hide the bc rich logo, and a few other small details. great replica. i hope you like it.
@aneyekay1 it should do, however, the intonation may cause problems. I got the neck before i drilled holes the bridge mounting studs, so i was able to compensate for the variation in neck length.
The 22 fret neck seems to have a slight overhang of wood, compared to all the 21fret necks i've seen - the scale length is the same.
It's important to get it right when drilling the holes (if this is neccessary) and then the bridge saddles can be adjusted to fine tune the intonation :)
@tobibarnet There won't be itonation problems as the scale length is the same 25.5 in. The holes may not line up, but you can always fill em and re-drill.
i makeing the evh red white and black but i have a neck that is a vintage fender neck. i cant route it or im going to wreck it so im going to use it for when i make the black + white evh. i wanted the kramer beack neck but i cant find it. so im probably going to end up getting a banana neck for it.
@muddypuddlerules ahh right, yea I see what you mean. I've just looked at my fender strat and my vh guitar and tbh, if you had a cheap neck with the fender headstock, there's enough wood for it to be cut/carved to the beak shape. any of the 3 neck types will look great on the red-white-black vh guitar, I think. If its easier to get the banana style neckj, then that should be fine. just go with whatever works best, and good luck :)
@tobibarnet ok so the greatest thing happened yesterday. ifound a fender strat at my local music shop with a mighty mite maple fretboard 22 fret i can put a locking nut on it and it has shaller mini chrome tuners that were used on the guitar. and they headstock is unmarked and aged. its perfect!
@muddypuddlerules um what is that, sorry? hmm are you doing the black+white version, cz this didnt have a floyd rose on it (if that's what you're making) but the later red+white+black like mine, went through various neck changes - its had the kramer 'beak', fender neck and the banana shaped headstock,. so its up to you really, just check that it has enough space so that a locking nut can be securely mounted, without falling of the end of the fingerboard!
@muddypuddlerules Hi, I got it off an eBay seller years ago when I made the guitar. I searched for something like 'maple guitar neck' and this was the cheapest! It's made by Harley Benton, but I dnno if these are available on their own. By vh1, do you mean the early black+white striped guitar? I would have thought a large fender style neck would be ideal for this? - I kinda wish I'd gone for that large headstock design when I did this!
@tobibarnet well it doesnt have a spot for a locking nut and i would route a place for it but its to high up from where the tuners go were the nut is. so i was looking for this neck.
@muddypuddlerules Ok - I see.. well the neck I used came with a standard non-locking nut. I removed this nut and cut away the wood (on the tuner side of the nut) to create a space for a locking nut. I had to drill two holes to screw the nut onto the neck and there is a slight overhang where the nut goes off the edge - nothing that affects the tuning or playability though. If you need any more help, Ill try n assist you :)
@tobibarnet well for a week ive been looking for this neck. i found one on all of ebay and its 12.99 but its only a bid. im tempted to just buy a banana neck but idk. i just want a neck for my frankie. ive been trying to get it done for a year.
@995sunglasses ..no scratches, no quarter screwed to the body, no fender style headstock, trem springs are in the wrong order, no seymour duncan pickup, no offset string retainer? It's a pretty crap replica then really - probably more 5 or 10% close :-/ Maybe you were trying to be helpful, I don't know, but I was aware of these things I 'failed' to include. I'd say they're some of the least significant things. If I wanted to spend more than £100 making a more 'accurate' replica, then I would..
@JOWMXN Hi, its from an encore strat copy. It feels pretty solid + substantial for a cheap copy. The pickup cavity routing was just one large hole so I cut+fitted little blocks of wood to make it look like 3 separate pickup cavities.The jack socket, scratch plate + electronics and the red single coil p/up were salvaged from the original body - the body was just £25 :)
@LTLfilms not sure if I answered this before, maybe not.. anyway, I just did it by looking at several photos of the fender replica. The black stripes were easier (only one width of tape needed!). But the white ones had several stripe thicknesses from about 7mm to 20mm. The trick is to imagine the black and white areas (on the guide photo) are one kind of stripe, and just look for where they are and what thickness to use. How accurate it turns out is pretty much up to how much patience you have..
@LTLfilms ..for instance, some people have made up their own patterns (a bit less time consuming) while others (me included!) will spend much more time copying the original pattern. Just looked at mine - the stripes are mostly 6mm, 13mm and a few 25mm ones. Also some fiddly bits that need to be cut out with a craft knife. The guitar picture i used was on the downloads page on the evhgear.com/frankenstein/ site - its the one showing the guitar front + back
@1961gibson i just guessed while I was in the shop getting the paints and compared the colours on the lid, to the white and black n just decided it was good enough ! The paints were from the automotive accessories shop, Halfords, and if i remember rightly, the red was called 'farrari red'
@evhfrankie Yah! And were are the cigarette burns on the headstock and the truck lights on the back? This is a great replica but it hasent been 100% replicated =p I'm messin, it's great! Brilliant job on the paint man!
@gunraykilla i know, i know haha :P it was free though, and at the time i was building it, all i was concerned about was getting a cheap black humbucker :P i might put a better one in at some point, or just paint over the bc rich logo :D
Good job. You're one of the few people that I've seen who went for the vintage Kramer "chicken beak" head stock versus the traditional Strat style.. That's a nice touch. If you don't mind my asking, what company did you purchase the neck from?
Thanks! tbh I got that neck because it was the cheapest I could find (only £30 ), and it was only afterwards that I realized it looked kind of like the early Kramer neck. I did think about possibly changing it to a strat style neck, but this one feels nice to play so there isn't much point, other than for the look! I got it off ebay, but the manufacturer is Harley Benton. I think they do mostly beginner guitars and maybe this was a spare/replacement part
its nice to see some one that made a franky and didn't distress it. i'm going to be making one and i'm not distressing mine. i mean seriously when ed made it it didn't look distressed thats the battle scars. it feels better to get it worn in from playing the guitar
yea i agree, it would seem pretty pointless just to buy a shiny new fender strat.. then smash it up a bit n scrape half the paint off it! so why do it to this?! ive had all the comments saying ive 'forgotten' the scratches, reflectors, coin, cigarette burns etc, but i was just happy to get the paint work and similar hardware to look right :) hope yours turns out well!
Hi, I didnt route the body. I have set it up similar to the fender floating trems n prs tremolos. It still has the two bridge posts fixed into the body, but the tremolo itself, floats around 3 or 4mm above the guitar body. As this made it higher than a normal floating tremolo or fender bridge, i had to shim the neck withe a coin in the neck joint, to give it a slight angle so that the guitar would still have a low action. hope this answers your question :)
i used several cans of acrylic based gloss lacquer over the paintwork. had a nasty experience with some cellulose lacquer which reacted with the previous coats and nearly wrecked the paint work on the front side! did the best i could to neaten it up, re lacquered. but its still left a slightly lumpy uneven finish on the front though. nothing too disgusting though! aha
thanks! yeah i couldnt get hold of a quarter (UK currency over here :-D )
Couldnt find the right reflecors - not without diggin out £20 or so for them n for drop D tunings, i leave enough room on the low E fine tuner so that, with a few quick twists on the finetuner, can go from E to D :P as for the BC rich .. it was free! haha if i decide to make a really authentic replica then i will do it properly i think - scratches, original floyd rose, seymour duncan etc.. thanks
It does now, but evh didn't add it until late 80's - when he finally figured it out, and patented it. As for the original floyd rose, he does, and the d-tuna attaches to most floyds and licenced floyds.
On a side note, it is very help, and a wonderful device.
I think it was an interview ed did about a year ago with GW about his new amp, and he was holding his original on the cover - and it had a d tuna. He doesn't use it anymore tho, he uses his custom wolfgangs: with d tuna's too.
yes it should be fine - i dont think i changed any of the components like volume pots etc, you should be able to wire in a humbucker no problem (might neeed to route out a bigger space for it, but thats about it. it can give you a different range of possible tones ^^
yeah, well i think so.. its probably crap compared to a £400 guitar. but it looks good n plays well :D check some of my other videos out where i play it
seriously...painting ur guitar is something very original...specially if u do it by urself...if i were to paint my guitar like this...i wouldnt pay someone to do it...id do it myself..yea itll take some time...just like it took 26 days for tcherassi1 to paint his guitar but it came out awsome!!!!!! and he was original enough to paint his neck too!!!! check out his video for his guitar....
to make a guitar its actually alot simpler, you can just buy the body neck and bridge, paint the body assemble the stuff. and soldering you could if need be have dont by a guitar shop near you
warmouth a good place to start as they tell you what fits and stuff if its your first guitar build. id say £250 but that youd have a guitar sounding better than a shop guitar for £350
maybe. If its done right. But i would honestly rather someone else do it for me, cause if you screw up, you have a really terrible sounding guitar when you could have spent a little more money to get a good one. But I have built my own drums so i guess its sort of the same thing
hey, i went as cheap as i could go. prices vary though, but more expensive usually means better quality. the body and neck for mine were £25 each.. theyr pretty good though. £100 for a neck or body is probably good for quality
Very nice guitar, its almost exact, its just doesn't have the little dings like the old one, which I like yours A LOT, but just one question...did you put a floyd rose on a normal strap bridge and if so, how and the locking nut, how did you put that on?
hey, thanks! the body is from an encore guitar, in the typical strat shape. i removed the original fender style bridge and after measuring everything, drilled two 10mm holes for the bridge's pivot posts. the bridge hinges on these two points at once the springs on the back are adjusted, the whole thing should balance with the strings. the locking nut is screwed onto the neck in the place the original nut was - i had to widen the space for it slightly, hope that helps :)
thank you! im sure there are people out there with much more 'authentic' replicas.. however.. i feel that mine's slightly different - like how i decided not to put all the scratches etc.. on it :P it cost about £115 and thats including paint.. i really tried to go as cheap as possible with it! some things i made or got for free though, like the humbucker pickup and the 5 way switch (made out of the lid off a cat food tin!!) :D
ha, well some of the people on here made it old, but none the less, I like yours better, and thats very creative...a cat food tin, lol, good job, and thanks, Im thinking of making one, so I thought I would ask...xD, but good job.
haha i understand :P i know its not the prettiest looking neck, but i was going for the cheapest option and this was about £25 so I wasn't goin to complain! in retrospect, it would look alot better with the 'fender' style headstock.. maybe ill upgrade it at some point if somethin cheap comes up on ebay! whole guitar was about £115 to build, so not bad really :D
thanks, yeah i know what you mean.. this pickup didnt cost me anything though, but i guess its worth spending something if it means getting a better tone :D does the job though and it doesnt sound too bad, check my other videos out where i play this guitar ^^
thats the effect i was going for! thought id add a bit more of the 'eddie van halen' vibe, n put a joint between the strings. its actually hand crafted from wood shavings & PVA glue, rolled up in some paper! I dont actually smoke, so thats the reason for not using a real one haha :P
thanks mate! the 5 way switch is also made by me :P the one that was in the guitar originally, was in this plastic casing and didnt look right. i used the metal lid of a tin of beans (or was ist a cat food tin?!) and jst bent it into the right shape, and added some other details made out of metal - like the wire contacts/ the nut and bolt through the middle. then i just used a glue gun to glue the whole thing in the cavity and arranged some wires round it to finish it!
once i had all the parts, it took about a day to fit all the parts n check the guitar worked,. the painting took about 3 or four days (longest part was doing the stripes with masking tape!) An issue with the lacquer set me back almost a week, but excluding that, it took about one and a half weeks to build/paint
noo :P i chose not to put those kinda details on, anyways dont get quarters in the UK soo it wd av cost even more to find one on ebay/ship it over etc.. besides most people wont ever be bothered/or notice, if theres no quarter, cigarette burns, scratches dents etc.. haha
actually most of people do and real van halen fans know about the quarter,and its not a replica if you dont have some details like the burns or the quarter and reflectors
burns brian may "replicas" have some major design changes, the charvel EVH guitars also have quite a few things that have been changed. Theyre still called replicas though. It really isnt the end of the world, if it doesnt look exactly the same right down to the last detail :P
well your entitled to your opinion then. have you made a pefect evh replica? at the end of the day, i wasnt out to try and create a "perfect" copy of eddie van halen's guitar.. besides what else would you expect for £85 ?!
haha possibly :P i doubt i'd get that kinda price for it though. the parts ive used are relatively cheap - hence why i managed to build it for under £100.. tbh i think the fenders are wellll over priced. even if you take the cost of materials and labour put into it, i doubt it could be worth £12,500 :P
its a stock pickup from an encore strat. it was white plastic, but i jst painted it red with modelling paints n dry-brushed some black to make it look all beaten up ^^ nothing special, and its not wired up anyway
i know :P it was the cheapest neck with a maple fingerboard, i could find. was just £25 haha i ddnt really wana spend hundreds of pounds on one,. this one does the job ^^
I made one myself and when it came down to put in the locking nut i just cut away the menainder of the wood on the neck. The one above the original nut... There should be enough space there
its a locking nut. Its only really ment for floyd rose tremolos/or ones with fine tuners, as once u lock the strings down, you cant use the main tuners. if youve got a floyd rose trem. thats a good start, try looking for a Locking Nut, i think thats what your after?
i suppose. this guitar is one i built myself, so it has no link to the actual company of harley benton,. only the fact that i used the neck for this guitar. its actually a very good guitar and nice to play
So does it sound good? Ill get into eletronics. Save up alot of money and make one of these, as Im not spending thousands of dollars, when I can make my own, Personalized one!
right, i am aware im "missing" the 1971 quarter, the reflectors, the cigarette burns, the fender headstock, the scratches etc..blablabla the guitar in this video, is how I wanted to make it. As im from the UK, we dont have 'quarters' in our currency.. tbh im not bothered if ive 'forgotten' to put some of these little details on. it just makes my guitar a bit more unique! XD
it was abour £5 for a can. i got primer, white, black, red n lacquer.. so that was £25,. i think i got another can of lacquer cz i ran out! n thanks =]
yeh the yellow and black one is pretty good,. you dont see many people with them !
To those of you who feel offended that this guitar is not exactlyyyyy identical to the original - I made this when I was 15,. for about £100, out of spare parts from a local music shop and anything I could find at home. I'm not a Van Halen enthusiast and it doesn't bother me that I didnt put reflectors on the back, didnt put scratches/cigarette burns, coin screwd by the bridge, original floyd rose, gibson PAF modified pickup or whatever.. You shouldn't let any of this bother you either! Thanks
tobibarnet 6 months ago
@tobibarnet Good job...The front looks great..I like the headstock on yours..It's actually reminisent to an early Krammer classic headstock...
EVH was known to swap headstocks just like his pick ups...He used Krammer, fender headstocks with all kinds of ends on them...He had his favorites depending on what he was doing...In the studio he preffered a stock fender trem and NOT a floyed. He was always changing his stuff so the guitar companies couldn't keep up with cloning his gear.
JBL8863 5 months ago
Its looks great but the Bc Rich humbucker and the Harley Benton are crap.
aerztefanmatthi 6 months ago
@aerztefanmatthi it doesnt really matter though does it? :) I mean, the pickup was free, and the neck cost £25.. the whole guitar cost about £110 including £30 of spray paint. Thanks anyway though
tobibarnet 6 months ago
@tobibarnet
So thats a China Copi from the Floyd Rose!?! How much you pay for it?
Its always in tune or not?
aerztefanmatthi 6 months ago
@aerztefanmatthi Yeah.. well the 'licensed under F. R.' type. I think it was about £30.. as the full set.. locking nut/bridge posts etc. It's actually the most in tune trem system I have on any of my guitars :) whether it's the way I fixed it to the guitar/set it up, I dont know.. but it holds it's tuning veryyy well. Not a lot of upbend though - only about a semi tone on the B string. Tempted to record another little demo of it tbh!
tobibarnet 6 months ago
dont forget its a fender relic issued replica now theese days you can get one for under 10 grands
skylineXpert 8 months ago
@skylineXpert ahh i could think of so many other things to get for that amount of money though :P haha.. this guitar only cost about £120 soo I'll pass on the 10k fender replicas :) hehe
tobibarnet 8 months ago
a bc rich pickup haha dude get a seymour duncan
81298jmw 11 months ago
@81298jmw ..but that would cost more than the actual guitar :( I've since coloured the BC-Rich logo with black marker pen, so no one need know it's identity! :D haha
tobibarnet 11 months ago
@tobibarnet haha yea dude trust me its worth it tho i have blackouts and when i got them i pooped my pants they were soo amazing
81298jmw 11 months ago
@81298jmw yeah I guess :) I made the guitar when I was 15.. n thats like, 4 years ago now :( I've kinda moved on, and the EVH phase that I went through, ended a long time ago :) I know what you mean though - different pickups can make a huge difference to the sound of a guitar :)
tobibarnet 11 months ago
@tobibarnet get a GFS or dragonfire pickup. only $30 max, great tone.
ShredWithEd 9 months ago
Cool dude!!!im going to do my own evh guitar too!
seventhsonof7sonfin 11 months ago
@seventhsonof7sonfin Thanks :) n cool! Good luck with it :D
tobibarnet 11 months ago
A little Vintage would be nicee! :D
OranjeBoven21 1 year ago
hmm reminds me of my EVH Frank....before i did a hella lot of relicing lol
bcrichjageraxe 1 year ago
nice nice!! 2 things i would do differently/ Eddie actually has on his. one, i would put in a suspended tremelo. Eddie also has that on his. and add some age to it...it looks brand new and it looks even better with some fade and dings in it
theguitarguymike 1 year ago
great job. missing a few things i would have put: 71' quarter, sanding on back/ front, cigarette burns, reflectors, hide the bc rich logo, and a few other small details. great replica. i hope you like it.
mickthomsonify 1 year ago
does a 22 fret neck (from a different company) fit the encore body?
aneyekay1 1 year ago
@aneyekay1 it should do, however, the intonation may cause problems. I got the neck before i drilled holes the bridge mounting studs, so i was able to compensate for the variation in neck length.
The 22 fret neck seems to have a slight overhang of wood, compared to all the 21fret necks i've seen - the scale length is the same.
It's important to get it right when drilling the holes (if this is neccessary) and then the bridge saddles can be adjusted to fine tune the intonation :)
tobibarnet 1 year ago
@tobibarnet There won't be itonation problems as the scale length is the same 25.5 in. The holes may not line up, but you can always fill em and re-drill.
TheMadMusicMan 1 year ago
i makeing the evh red white and black but i have a neck that is a vintage fender neck. i cant route it or im going to wreck it so im going to use it for when i make the black + white evh. i wanted the kramer beack neck but i cant find it. so im probably going to end up getting a banana neck for it.
muddypuddlerules 1 year ago
@muddypuddlerules ahh right, yea I see what you mean. I've just looked at my fender strat and my vh guitar and tbh, if you had a cheap neck with the fender headstock, there's enough wood for it to be cut/carved to the beak shape. any of the 3 neck types will look great on the red-white-black vh guitar, I think. If its easier to get the banana style neckj, then that should be fine. just go with whatever works best, and good luck :)
tobibarnet 1 year ago
@tobibarnet Thank YOU. HAHA :)
muddypuddlerules 1 year ago
@tobibarnet ok so the greatest thing happened yesterday. ifound a fender strat at my local music shop with a mighty mite maple fretboard 22 fret i can put a locking nut on it and it has shaller mini chrome tuners that were used on the guitar. and they headstock is unmarked and aged. its perfect!
muddypuddlerules 1 year ago
o and u got a mighty mite on that?
muddypuddlerules 1 year ago
@muddypuddlerules um what is that, sorry? hmm are you doing the black+white version, cz this didnt have a floyd rose on it (if that's what you're making) but the later red+white+black like mine, went through various neck changes - its had the kramer 'beak', fender neck and the banana shaped headstock,. so its up to you really, just check that it has enough space so that a locking nut can be securely mounted, without falling of the end of the fingerboard!
tobibarnet 1 year ago
where did u get the neck? i want it because my neck is a fender but it is fir the vh1
muddypuddlerules 1 year ago
@muddypuddlerules Hi, I got it off an eBay seller years ago when I made the guitar. I searched for something like 'maple guitar neck' and this was the cheapest! It's made by Harley Benton, but I dnno if these are available on their own. By vh1, do you mean the early black+white striped guitar? I would have thought a large fender style neck would be ideal for this? - I kinda wish I'd gone for that large headstock design when I did this!
tobibarnet 1 year ago
@tobibarnet well it doesnt have a spot for a locking nut and i would route a place for it but its to high up from where the tuners go were the nut is. so i was looking for this neck.
muddypuddlerules 1 year ago
@muddypuddlerules Ok - I see.. well the neck I used came with a standard non-locking nut. I removed this nut and cut away the wood (on the tuner side of the nut) to create a space for a locking nut. I had to drill two holes to screw the nut onto the neck and there is a slight overhang where the nut goes off the edge - nothing that affects the tuning or playability though. If you need any more help, Ill try n assist you :)
tobibarnet 1 year ago
@tobibarnet well for a week ive been looking for this neck. i found one on all of ebay and its 12.99 but its only a bid. im tempted to just buy a banana neck but idk. i just want a neck for my frankie. ive been trying to get it done for a year.
muddypuddlerules 1 year ago
no reflectors on the back.. no burns on the head stock. 20% close.
995sunglasses 1 year ago
@995sunglasses ..no scratches, no quarter screwed to the body, no fender style headstock, trem springs are in the wrong order, no seymour duncan pickup, no offset string retainer? It's a pretty crap replica then really - probably more 5 or 10% close :-/ Maybe you were trying to be helpful, I don't know, but I was aware of these things I 'failed' to include. I'd say they're some of the least significant things. If I wanted to spend more than £100 making a more 'accurate' replica, then I would..
tobibarnet 1 year ago
@JOWMXN Hi, its from an encore strat copy. It feels pretty solid + substantial for a cheap copy. The pickup cavity routing was just one large hole so I cut+fitted little blocks of wood to make it look like 3 separate pickup cavities.The jack socket, scratch plate + electronics and the red single coil p/up were salvaged from the original body - the body was just £25 :)
tobibarnet 1 year ago
perfect!!!!!
Eggdude16 1 year ago
@Eggdude16 Thank you!
tobibarnet 1 year ago
who painted that
it is better tan i thought it would be from the picture when i saw it on my recommendations list
robertchrismedd 1 year ago
@robertchrismedd Thanks! I made + painted it myself :)
tobibarnet 1 year ago
@tobibarnet i think it looks just the same as the real one and better than the fender ones that i seen
robertchrismedd 1 year ago
hey man how do you make the white stripes so acurate?? ive seen like 3 other guitars that have the same exact stripes
LTLfilms 1 year ago
@LTLfilms not sure if I answered this before, maybe not.. anyway, I just did it by looking at several photos of the fender replica. The black stripes were easier (only one width of tape needed!). But the white ones had several stripe thicknesses from about 7mm to 20mm. The trick is to imagine the black and white areas (on the guide photo) are one kind of stripe, and just look for where they are and what thickness to use. How accurate it turns out is pretty much up to how much patience you have..
tobibarnet 1 year ago
@LTLfilms ..for instance, some people have made up their own patterns (a bit less time consuming) while others (me included!) will spend much more time copying the original pattern. Just looked at mine - the stripes are mostly 6mm, 13mm and a few 25mm ones. Also some fiddly bits that need to be cut out with a craft knife. The guitar picture i used was on the downloads page on the evhgear.com/frankenstein/ site - its the one showing the guitar front + back
tobibarnet 1 year ago
what shade of red did u use?
1961gibson 1 year ago
@1961gibson i just guessed while I was in the shop getting the paints and compared the colours on the lid, to the white and black n just decided it was good enough ! The paints were from the automotive accessories shop, Halfords, and if i remember rightly, the red was called 'farrari red'
tobibarnet 1 year ago
@evhfrankie Yah! And were are the cigarette burns on the headstock and the truck lights on the back? This is a great replica but it hasent been 100% replicated =p I'm messin, it's great! Brilliant job on the paint man!
CaptainOats124 1 year ago
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danophile07 1 year ago
yeah the clearcoat turned out really shiny. nice job
stringbender11672 1 year ago
Good job. This is the spirit in wich the original was built.
KevinFL 1 year ago
how do u make the floyd rose rest on the body?
2346 1 year ago
wheres the quarter?
evhfrankie 1 year ago
that paint job is better than the origanal.
salamonetalton 1 year ago
looks great but really man, a B.C. Rich pickup
gunraykilla 1 year ago
@gunraykilla i know, i know haha :P it was free though, and at the time i was building it, all i was concerned about was getting a cheap black humbucker :P i might put a better one in at some point, or just paint over the bc rich logo :D
tobibarnet 1 year ago
can you send me some pics?
evhfrankie 1 year ago
Good job. You're one of the few people that I've seen who went for the vintage Kramer "chicken beak" head stock versus the traditional Strat style.. That's a nice touch. If you don't mind my asking, what company did you purchase the neck from?
foreveralive 1 year ago
Thanks! tbh I got that neck because it was the cheapest I could find (only £30 ), and it was only afterwards that I realized it looked kind of like the early Kramer neck. I did think about possibly changing it to a strat style neck, but this one feels nice to play so there isn't much point, other than for the look! I got it off ebay, but the manufacturer is Harley Benton. I think they do mostly beginner guitars and maybe this was a spare/replacement part
tobibarnet 1 year ago
its nice to see some one that made a franky and didn't distress it. i'm going to be making one and i'm not distressing mine. i mean seriously when ed made it it didn't look distressed thats the battle scars. it feels better to get it worn in from playing the guitar
aerodynamicband 2 years ago
yea i agree, it would seem pretty pointless just to buy a shiny new fender strat.. then smash it up a bit n scrape half the paint off it! so why do it to this?! ive had all the comments saying ive 'forgotten' the scratches, reflectors, coin, cigarette burns etc, but i was just happy to get the paint work and similar hardware to look right :) hope yours turns out well!
tobibarnet 2 years ago
Yeah! I know what you mean...Like my father says..."I'll put my own dings in it-thank you".
Guitfiddlejase 2 years ago
did you have to route for the floyd rose if not how?
kasseyify 2 years ago
Hi, I didnt route the body. I have set it up similar to the fender floating trems n prs tremolos. It still has the two bridge posts fixed into the body, but the tremolo itself, floats around 3 or 4mm above the guitar body. As this made it higher than a normal floating tremolo or fender bridge, i had to shim the neck withe a coin in the neck joint, to give it a slight angle so that the guitar would still have a low action. hope this answers your question :)
tobibarnet 2 years ago
how did you gloss it? or is that just a few coats of clear paint? how many coats if it's clear?
trunk102 2 years ago
i used several cans of acrylic based gloss lacquer over the paintwork. had a nasty experience with some cellulose lacquer which reacted with the previous coats and nearly wrecked the paint work on the front side! did the best i could to neaten it up, re lacquered. but its still left a slightly lumpy uneven finish on the front though. nothing too disgusting though! aha
tobibarnet 2 years ago
ohhh, I see, okay. wow, several cans?? haha
trunk102 2 years ago
hey man! congrats! it looks amazing!
slashthebestone 2 years ago 3
thanks :-)
tobibarnet 2 years ago
may i also add the springs on the back are in the wrong possition
it goes | | \ not / | \
guitargodattheheart 2 years ago 4
did you make ti out of Guitar fetish parts?
great job by the way
EJG5150 2 years ago
are harley bentons good i might buy one
studds2008 2 years ago
Excellent paint job...really accurate. Now you just need to beat it up :)
william1014yt 2 years ago
phenom paint job, but ur missing 3 things.
the quarter under the floyd bridge
the evh d tuna
those little light reflectors on the back.
And may i ask why a bc rich pickup?
ozzy4pres 2 years ago
thanks! yeah i couldnt get hold of a quarter (UK currency over here :-D )
Couldnt find the right reflecors - not without diggin out £20 or so for them n for drop D tunings, i leave enough room on the low E fine tuner so that, with a few quick twists on the finetuner, can go from E to D :P as for the BC rich .. it was free! haha if i decide to make a really authentic replica then i will do it properly i think - scratches, original floyd rose, seymour duncan etc.. thanks
tobibarnet 2 years ago
Does Eddie's franky have a D-tuna? I always thought it was an original Floyd Rose...and that the D-tuna thing came later.
william1014yt 2 years ago
It does now, but evh didn't add it until late 80's - when he finally figured it out, and patented it. As for the original floyd rose, he does, and the d-tuna attaches to most floyds and licenced floyds.
On a side note, it is very help, and a wonderful device.
ozzy4pres 2 years ago
the frankenstrat doesnt have a d tuna. well the replica doesnt. so im guessing the original doesnt.
darthhull85 2 years ago
I think it was an interview ed did about a year ago with GW about his new amp, and he was holding his original on the cover - and it had a d tuna. He doesn't use it anymore tho, he uses his custom wolfgangs: with d tuna's too.
ozzy4pres 2 years ago
@darthhull85
ya the replica or the original doesnt
pretty much since the replica is EXACTLY the same as the original....down to the very last dent
if the replcia doesnt have it the orig doesnt have it
redghost105 2 years ago
thought so.
darthhull85 2 years ago
I have a strat with single coils.. But can i replace my single coils with a humbucker.. And will it work
MasterCamz 2 years ago
yes it should be fine - i dont think i changed any of the components like volume pots etc, you should be able to wire in a humbucker no problem (might neeed to route out a bigger space for it, but thats about it. it can give you a different range of possible tones ^^
tobibarnet 2 years ago
thanks
MasterCamz 2 years ago
looks gud.
Shame about using an encore body though... nasty nasty wood.
YonOtto 2 years ago
cheers :) whats your experiance with encores? it seems pretty sturdy n a lot heavier than most strat copies i thought
tobibarnet 2 years ago
Its still not finished yet,you need to throw it from your house roof.Then its done.
julianistkrieg 2 years ago
haha yeah might look a bit more authentic then :D
tobibarnet 2 years ago
fucking killer looks exact
ganjaking187 2 years ago
for a home made one it's really good!
MrBrownstonee 2 years ago
my husband and i are doing an evh replica as well, come check our video out great job on yours
halieluvstroy 2 years ago
finished mine today. lol
devon2576 2 years ago
Grass.......
Santaslave666 2 years ago
why is there a bc rich pickup in it?
XxxdethhammerxxX 2 years ago
pretty damn good
hypocycloid29 2 years ago
thanks ^^
tobibarnet 2 years ago
does it sounds good?
Philippe55JS 2 years ago
yeah, well i think so.. its probably crap compared to a £400 guitar. but it looks good n plays well :D check some of my other videos out where i play it
tobibarnet 2 years ago
seriously...painting ur guitar is something very original...specially if u do it by urself...if i were to paint my guitar like this...i wouldnt pay someone to do it...id do it myself..yea itll take some time...just like it took 26 days for tcherassi1 to paint his guitar but it came out awsome!!!!!! and he was original enough to paint his neck too!!!! check out his video for his guitar....
jonicontraelmundo 2 years ago
let's heeear it!
ekserchina 2 years ago
not bad
Olpaj 2 years ago
thats a beast man! great job =)
jonnyjonnyjonyy 2 years ago
i think its a rip off for the actual replica. $25,000!!! I wish I could make a guitar.
thrashmetal1029 2 years ago
You can, i can tell u how
Philippe55JS 2 years ago
you can? just lettin you know I'm not good with cutting things and wiring things. It would be sweet if I could make a guitar though.
thrashmetal1029 2 years ago
to make a guitar its actually alot simpler, you can just buy the body neck and bridge, paint the body assemble the stuff. and soldering you could if need be have dont by a guitar shop near you
razzanator06 2 years ago
I dont have a good guitar shoop near me. How much would it take to buy all the parts?
thrashmetal1029 2 years ago
warmouth a good place to start as they tell you what fits and stuff if its your first guitar build. id say £250 but that youd have a guitar sounding better than a shop guitar for £350
razzanator06 2 years ago
maybe. If its done right. But i would honestly rather someone else do it for me, cause if you screw up, you have a really terrible sounding guitar when you could have spent a little more money to get a good one. But I have built my own drums so i guess its sort of the same thing
buckeyeboyh5 2 years ago
hey, i went as cheap as i could go. prices vary though, but more expensive usually means better quality. the body and neck for mine were £25 each.. theyr pretty good though. £100 for a neck or body is probably good for quality
hard to say though, unless you can see it first
tobibarnet 2 years ago
Very nice guitar, its almost exact, its just doesn't have the little dings like the old one, which I like yours A LOT, but just one question...did you put a floyd rose on a normal strap bridge and if so, how and the locking nut, how did you put that on?
GuitarTube11 2 years ago
hey, thanks! the body is from an encore guitar, in the typical strat shape. i removed the original fender style bridge and after measuring everything, drilled two 10mm holes for the bridge's pivot posts. the bridge hinges on these two points at once the springs on the back are adjusted, the whole thing should balance with the strings. the locking nut is screwed onto the neck in the place the original nut was - i had to widen the space for it slightly, hope that helps :)
tobibarnet 2 years ago
Thanks again, ya, yours is brobably the best Ive seen on youtube, just one more question...how much did it all cost?
GuitarTube11 2 years ago
thank you! im sure there are people out there with much more 'authentic' replicas.. however.. i feel that mine's slightly different - like how i decided not to put all the scratches etc.. on it :P it cost about £115 and thats including paint.. i really tried to go as cheap as possible with it! some things i made or got for free though, like the humbucker pickup and the 5 way switch (made out of the lid off a cat food tin!!) :D
tobibarnet 2 years ago
ha, well some of the people on here made it old, but none the less, I like yours better, and thats very creative...a cat food tin, lol, good job, and thanks, Im thinking of making one, so I thought I would ask...xD, but good job.
GuitarTube11 2 years ago
Duh.
WickedSickMetal 2 years ago
Cool copy. Hows it sound?
toyoubecritic1 2 years ago
haha i understand :P i know its not the prettiest looking neck, but i was going for the cheapest option and this was about £25 so I wasn't goin to complain! in retrospect, it would look alot better with the 'fender' style headstock.. maybe ill upgrade it at some point if somethin cheap comes up on ebay! whole guitar was about £115 to build, so not bad really :D
tobibarnet 2 years ago
Wow. Close to how much Eddie paid for it.
333SlayerCFH 2 years ago
is that a joint
cobraopts7 2 years ago
yea its ment to be :P
tobibarnet 2 years ago
dude if i were u i would get a better pickup then a bc rich but the guitar looks great
EddieRocks5150 2 years ago
thanks, yeah i know what you mean.. this pickup didnt cost me anything though, but i guess its worth spending something if it means getting a better tone :D does the job though and it doesnt sound too bad, check my other videos out where i play this guitar ^^
tobibarnet 2 years ago
is that weed??
doesnt look lik a cigaret
lmaooo
chez117 2 years ago
thats the effect i was going for! thought id add a bit more of the 'eddie van halen' vibe, n put a joint between the strings. its actually hand crafted from wood shavings & PVA glue, rolled up in some paper! I dont actually smoke, so thats the reason for not using a real one haha :P
tobibarnet 2 years ago
hahaha thats hilarious dude good job.. 2 thumbs up lmao
and nice guitar by the way
where did you get the five way switch??
chez117 2 years ago
thanks mate! the 5 way switch is also made by me :P the one that was in the guitar originally, was in this plastic casing and didnt look right. i used the metal lid of a tin of beans (or was ist a cat food tin?!) and jst bent it into the right shape, and added some other details made out of metal - like the wire contacts/ the nut and bolt through the middle. then i just used a glue gun to glue the whole thing in the cavity and arranged some wires round it to finish it!
tobibarnet 2 years ago
hey also where did you get the pics to do the painting?
chez117 2 years ago
AMAZING looks exactly like it great job how long did it take you
ac19dc73 2 years ago
once i had all the parts, it took about a day to fit all the parts n check the guitar worked,. the painting took about 3 or four days (longest part was doing the stripes with masking tape!) An issue with the lacquer set me back almost a week, but excluding that, it took about one and a half weeks to build/paint
tobibarnet 2 years ago
180
12345678ix 2 years ago
you forgot the 1971 quarter
lennonfanKL 2 years ago
noo :P i chose not to put those kinda details on, anyways dont get quarters in the UK soo it wd av cost even more to find one on ebay/ship it over etc.. besides most people wont ever be bothered/or notice, if theres no quarter, cigarette burns, scratches dents etc.. haha
tobibarnet 2 years ago
actually most of people do and real van halen fans know about the quarter,and its not a replica if you dont have some details like the burns or the quarter and reflectors
lennonfanKL 2 years ago
burns brian may "replicas" have some major design changes, the charvel EVH guitars also have quite a few things that have been changed. Theyre still called replicas though. It really isnt the end of the world, if it doesnt look exactly the same right down to the last detail :P
tobibarnet 2 years ago
the quarter and the burns are details its not a replica if you just put thesame paint and the floyd rose and other stuff
lennonfanKL 2 years ago
well your entitled to your opinion then. have you made a pefect evh replica? at the end of the day, i wasnt out to try and create a "perfect" copy of eddie van halen's guitar.. besides what else would you expect for £85 ?!
tobibarnet 2 years ago
i have made a replica and sold but true you cant expect from tht kind of money
lennonfanKL 2 years ago
u could sell this to someone for the price of the fender replica,and with the money you could buy the fender replica XD
sgvslp 2 years ago
haha possibly :P i doubt i'd get that kinda price for it though. the parts ive used are relatively cheap - hence why i managed to build it for under £100.. tbh i think the fenders are wellll over priced. even if you take the cost of materials and labour put into it, i doubt it could be worth £12,500 :P
tobibarnet 2 years ago
may i also ask where you got the red pickup?
TheRockNRollFan 2 years ago
You can always buy a red pickup cover.
nobbbaaa 2 years ago
its a stock pickup from an encore strat. it was white plastic, but i jst painted it red with modelling paints n dry-brushed some black to make it look all beaten up ^^ nothing special, and its not wired up anyway
tobibarnet 2 years ago
great job, just.....harley benton neck? oh no!!!
samborac46 2 years ago
i know :P it was the cheapest neck with a maple fingerboard, i could find. was just £25 haha i ddnt really wana spend hundreds of pounds on one,. this one does the job ^^
tobibarnet 2 years ago
amazing i will buy it
12345678ix 3 years ago
to 1234568ix,
if this guy was smart, he would NEVER sell this guitar
invadernaruto313 3 years ago
your right :P i have no plans to sell it ^^
tobibarnet 2 years ago
haha dont really wana sell it tbh just out of interest, how much would you pay for something like this? :P
tobibarnet 2 years ago
hey how did you install the locking nut?
watdabell 3 years ago
I made one myself and when it came down to put in the locking nut i just cut away the menainder of the wood on the neck. The one above the original nut... There should be enough space there
ACDCangus101 3 years ago
wat brand of paint did you use. do ya know? if not thats ok
TheRockNRollFan 3 years ago
any car/bike spray paint will do as long as you do a lot of EXTREMELY light coats and finish it with a clear laquer (i used a spray laquer
i got most of the things i needed to paint and solder from an autoparts shop
stef0307 2 years ago
Thank you so much
Kworley44 3 years ago
what is the thing on the end of the neck called, thats all i need to complete me relic. the thing with 3 little circles on it.
Kworley44 3 years ago
its a locking nut. Its only really ment for floyd rose tremolos/or ones with fine tuners, as once u lock the strings down, you cant use the main tuners. if youve got a floyd rose trem. thats a good start, try looking for a Locking Nut, i think thats what your after?
tobibarnet 3 years ago
harley benton is very good for beginers
athamanas 3 years ago
i suppose. this guitar is one i built myself, so it has no link to the actual company of harley benton,. only the fact that i used the neck for this guitar. its actually a very good guitar and nice to play
tobibarnet 3 years ago
Hey this was put on my birthday :)
So does it sound good? Ill get into eletronics. Save up alot of money and make one of these, as Im not spending thousands of dollars, when I can make my own, Personalized one!
And nice job!!
Van292 3 years ago
Started laughin when I saw the "Harley Benton" -logo.
crosslander1 3 years ago
haha yeah, but exept for that, that thing is absolutely drop-dead-gorgeous!! :)
froddy92 3 years ago
thanks =D
tobibarnet 3 years ago
sorry about the last comment,. just wanted to clear it up, as lots of the comments are telling me ive missed stuff off the guitar (Y) XD
tobibarnet 3 years ago
right, i am aware im "missing" the 1971 quarter, the reflectors, the cigarette burns, the fender headstock, the scratches etc..blablabla the guitar in this video, is how I wanted to make it. As im from the UK, we dont have 'quarters' in our currency.. tbh im not bothered if ive 'forgotten' to put some of these little details on. it just makes my guitar a bit more unique! XD
tobibarnet 3 years ago
so thomann actually works??
burliufo 3 years ago
whats that?
tobibarnet 3 years ago
your neck is harley benton and harley benton is sold only from thomann |(a big musicstore from germany)
burliufo 3 years ago
ah i see. i just bought the neck on its own from ebay, dont really know anything about harley benton/thomann though.
thanks
tobibarnet 3 years ago
ur missing the 1971 quarter
rossycee08 3 years ago
i know =]
tobibarnet 3 years ago
Also...need to to put some burn marks into it...
Newfieguy89 3 years ago
VERY nice work. however, eddie smoked cigaretts, not cigars... and yes, you do need a quarter, and some reflectors, but MAN what a nice paintjob!
VacTrooper 3 years ago
weed on the neck lol
12345678ix 3 years ago
wow thats impressive..
but your are missing the reflectors on the back and the quarter screwed in by the brdge
blunttip45 3 years ago
is hat a ffreaking bc rich pick up!?!
Songsremainthesame 3 years ago
yea im afraid so =P =D
tobibarnet 3 years ago
those sucks man
rukulathegamer 3 years ago
u should add chips and fades on it to make it the real shit! lol
ThisRandomBoy 3 years ago
how did paint and lacquer cost that much money, nice job by the way it looks cool. I'm gonna start making a yellow and black frankie next week.
Decker695 3 years ago
it was abour £5 for a can. i got primer, white, black, red n lacquer.. so that was £25,. i think i got another can of lacquer cz i ran out! n thanks =]
yeh the yellow and black one is pretty good,. you dont see many people with them !
tobibarnet 3 years ago
oh i thought you said it cost in between 30 and 85 euros
Decker695 3 years ago