EVH Frankenstein!

mr.death · #1 11-20-2007, 10:22 PM

I was at my local guitar store today and as I walked in I noticed one of the salesman playing what looked like the EVH Frankenstein by Fender. I stopped dead in my tracks and went on to ask him if indeed it was the 20,000 dollar EVH model. He said nope, its the 25,000 EVH model. We laughed then I asked him if I could fiddle with it for a minute. He was cool enough to let me take her for a spin while the boss was out. This guitar looked like it was through a war and played like an "old" guitar which was fine with me cause I like my guitARS broken in. This was one nice playing instument and the attention to detail was mind blowing. Right down to the authentic cigarette burns on the head stock and well worn neck. If I had the cash it would have been mine for sure. I'll post my cell phone pics up later tonight.

mr.death · #2 11-21-2007, 02:18 PM

Here she is.

scotte_za · #3 11-21-2007, 03:26 PM

lol, typical response: how many beers can u get for $25,000?? but thats pretty cool that you got to play it

bpd111 · #4 11-21-2007, 03:52 PM

My local store has one. I didn't ask to play it, 'cause my wife was with me, and we were just passing. I was surprised how relic-ed it looked as opposed really being old and worn. It actually looked kinda crappy I thought, and had to laugh when I realized it cost more than my minivan!

540s · #5 11-21-2007, 04:13 PM

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Originally Posted by bpd111

. It actually looked kinda crappy I thought, and had to laugh when I realized it cost more than my minivan!

Yeah... but nobody is ever going to stop dead in their tracks to give you a bunch of compliments on a minivan

**moebius** · #6 11-21-2007, 04:17 PM

Hey, you have not seen his minivan it may be nice.

540s · #7 11-21-2007, 04:52 PM

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Originally Posted by moebius

Hey, you have not seen his minivan it may be nice.

True .. He could be that pimp my Plymouth Voyager guy

mike80sguy · #8 11-21-2007, 05:40 PM

didnt eddy play a hamer back then?

mr.death · #9 11-21-2007, 06:30 PM

It was a Kramer but that was later on in his career.

steve · #10 11-22-2007, 12:30 AM

I got invited to a local store late off-hours to examine one of these, and detail photograph it, play it, and take shots of my old replica along-side one of these EVH/Fender replicas.
That was quite a day - I put up a thread somewhere about this, I think, including a pic or two, if I remember right...

jb4674 · #11 11-22-2007, 12:30 AM

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Originally Posted by mr.death

I was at my local guitar store today and as I walked in I noticed one of the salesman playing what looked like the EVH Frankenstein by Fender. I stopped dead in my tracks and went on to ask him if indeed it was the 20,000 dollar EVH model. He said nope, its the 25,000 EVH model. We laughed then I asked him if I could fiddle with it for a minute. He was cool enough to let me take her for a spin while the boss was out. This guitar looked like it was through a war and played like an "old" guitar which was fine with me cause I like my guitARS broken in. This was one nice playing instument and the attention to detail was mind blowing. Right down to the authentic cigarette burns on the head stock and well worn neck. If I had the cash it would have been mine for sure. I'll post my cell phone pics up later tonight.

Yep, it's the same overpriced POS guitar Ed has been playing live. You do realize that you could get one made for about a grand?

Jimmy

steve · #12 11-22-2007, 12:35 AM

There's that thread, in this forum area:

Click to jump to that thread - there are pic links...

... in case you want to compare.
(And mine, as I recall, would have come up to something around $1,000 at the time, and that included custom-ordering the Kramer neck, which was period-correct at the time I made it...)

David McCarroll · #13 11-22-2007, 01:31 AM

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Originally Posted by jb4674

Yep, it's the same overpriced POS guitar Ed has been playing live. You do realize that you could get one made for about a grand?

Jimmy

And you could probably make one yourself for well under that! Eddie's guitar is/was not a POS - it was a fully functional, great sounding guitar that contributed significantly to making him and the rest of Van Halen very wealthy people!

It just looked like a piece of sh*t!

bpd111 · #14 11-22-2007, 04:36 AM

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Originally Posted by 540s

True .. He could be that pimp my Plymouth Voyager guy

You've seen my van?!

JJEMMER777 · #15 11-22-2007, 07:26 AM

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Originally Posted by jb4674

You do realize that you could get one made for about a grand?
Jimmy

Lol....less than that

And now the latest is the SRV.

You know.......I'm just wondering if there will ever be a replica available without "cig burns" in the headstock

At first I was a bit annoyed by the "hugely overpriced" replicas that are coming out. But now I have come to realize that the reason I do not like the replicas is because I've never smoked cigarrettes

Just wait till the Vai-Evo replica comes out (complete with giant neck joint cracks

) I suppose I'll sell my house to get that one