Official post your frankenstrat thread - LET's See THem!

[garbeaj]

Love it all flex!

[ams1aw]

Heres Mine! RG body, Kramer Striker neck, HUGE fretwire, EVH Frankenstein pickup and volume pot, Floyd. SCREAMS!!!!!

[garbeaj]

That is cool, but it seems more of a Steve Vai type guitar than a Frankenstrat per se...

[azazael]

Heres Mine! RG body, Kramer Striker neck, HUGE fretwire, EVH Frankenstein pickup and volume pot, Floyd. SCREAMS!!!!!

Wrong thread mate...


That sure as hell ain't a franky...

[flex5150]

I like the Soldano sticker...

[azazael]

Armed with photoshop and inspired by Flex's case candy I decided to make my own. Although I will maybe need to get some parchment or similar to print on the letter. Just for fun case candy to go with my franky. Need to get a bored surround or something for the photograph. Had to recreate the DVD and the letter from scratch all the images I used as reference were horrible low resolution. Had to squint to get some of the information lol

[vanhalen5150]

Any of you guys ever get a body from these guys? Nice 5150 version. I've been trying for 3 weeks to get an email response and nothing.

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[T.J.Fuller]

someone brought up southeast guitars on another forum I belong to and his prices jumped a bit. he was even cheaper?!

check out the Kramer Forum, they all like his work but, like everyone else..he is probably slammed with biz and backed up.

[flex5150]

Nice Job AZA, I must have your DVD!!!

[azazael]

Just a little update, just need to find an appropriate cardboard satin finished gift box and some EVH picks.

[spcv]

This topic has been too quiet, so...
I just felt like tossing these together, a couple days ago, for a family pic.



The Frankies are a KnE body with a Divebomb neck (fully mounted) and a Divebomb body and a Musikraft neck (needing some - most - parts). I swaped necks yesterday - in EVH fashion - so now it's a KnE+MK and a DB+DB.
The 5150 is a KnE poplar body with an AllParts padle neck that I shaped manually!!!

There is another Franky (all AllParts), my very first one, which is with a friend.

In a week or so, I'll receive the remaining parts for the DB Franky, and - hopefully - my SIN pickups will arrive. Thsese are taking too long, the tales about Chris Carter are true...

[cary chilton]

Hey OP has some questions.

Of you Franky Builders, I realize to make a REPLICA it has to be a 21 fret guitar.... But that kinda sucks balls when you used to 22 fret guitars right? Do you actually get used to extra wide spacing down at the 1-5 frets and the missing fret? I'd probably make my replica with 21 fret's to keep it authentic, but I don't think I'd really enjoy playing all that much.

What about the width and thickness of the replica necks? Identical to musicman or wolfgang guitars? OR wider and or fatter?


Thanks!

[cary chilton]

Divebomb body, neck and pickguard... with a sacrilegious Floyd installed!


And just in case you believe a Floyd "neuters a whole lot of tone"...

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLew8RqsV3Q[/youtube]

Dood, are you in Asia? Yes the tone was pretty good, youtube messes shit up. I am sure it is better in-person. What amp?

[spcv]

Replica necks are wider at the nut. 1 3/4. R2 nut. Still, Ed had the Kreamer beack - one piece maple neck - 1 3/4 nut width, R2 nut, which had 22 frets. So did his Strat-headstock Kramer neck, the one that ended up on Charvel VH-II Bumblebee. So, you can make a replica of the original with 22 frets.

Edit: there is also the Tom Anderson neck, 22 frets.

[spcv]

Dood, are you in Asia? Yes the tone was pretty good, youtube messes shit up. I am sure it is better in-person. What amp?

You may not believe it, Cary, but, as I recall, Jimi uses a Peavey Vypyr. 30W I think...