Van halen frankenstrat

"Eddie Van Halen's Frankenstrat Guitar - Front & Back !"

If you haven't seen Part I: The Painting yet, go ahead and check that out first: if you have, now's the time to check out how this fantastic Frankenstrat turned out for only about $100. As you saw before, here's the body just after painting. It needed a few hours to dry and a few days to cure, then I took it in for relic'ing and sanding. Scrub a dub dub, time to abuse this body like it was gigged for two decades. After relic'ing again and smoothing out all the paint. It doesn't have a…

Eddie acquired this guitar sometime around 1975 after his Ibanez Flying V was allegedly stolen. According to Doug Anderson, he bought the guitar at the

My latest project guitar has been hugely interesting, trying to recreate a 10 year journey of one of the most famous guitars of all time. Eddie Van Halen's Frankenstrat is famous for its complex and semi random design, but isn't too terribly difficult to make if you know what to do. I started out with a 1978 Harmony body, a cheap Strat clone made in Japan. It's a very lightweight and resonant body, but really any Stratocaster style body will do. This one, being so old, had some cracks in the…