How to build a Frankenstrat Replica Guitar for under $300!!!
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With news of his passing, it brought me back to this video. R.I.P. EVH.
same!
@@droid1008 Me two!!!
Same 😢
The fact that it was built for under $300 is nuts. That looks better than 98% of the clones I've seen. I had my doubts in the beginning but it is an awesome build.
Thats because its closer to the real thing the real thing was supposed to be a beater
Eddie was build the guitar around $200 so no suprise if it sound good
@@elang7961 well yeah that was $200 in 1974 when he built it. That’s about $1,140 today. Also it was back in a time when custom guitars weren’t a big thing yet so spare parts were a rare find. I mean he found a northern ash body for $50 and a birdseye maple neck for $80. Both of those are already expensive and semi hard to find parts. If it weren’t for the fact he cannibalized other guitars for pickups, tuners and a bridge it would of cost him around $500 to build it which would be almost $2,800 today! And damn I just realized the inflation rate has curved high in recent years.
@@gameroftheyear1000 I know, I mean there is no way ashbody and neck with big fret cost $120 in today currency
@@gameroftheyear1000 great post and bang on. sure maybe you have some parts on hand but if you start from scratch you are probably 200 in the body, 50? in paint, 200 maybe on the neck, 200? on a real floyd and then you have the rest.. the cheapest you can probably go with decent parts now is around 850$.
He's not telling us but the cat did most of the work
Crying here
He's the boss and will supervise for Meow mix.
You could tell right away the cat was the boss of the situation.
The look and the meow at the beginning marked the start of the shift
💀
Maybe only $275 in money spent, but sir, your skills made this project much more expensive! Great job
If I ever made a guitar, I would call it, " Did you just assume my fender!?!?"
Absolutely amazing 😂😂😂
…. This is the most unfunny joke I’ve ever heard
@@edennn10367 probably cause it was made 6 years ago
you should sell it for $25,000.000 like fender did
pechincha kkk
MrSandydillon hahaha
MrSandydillon yeah, then you hear from Eds lawyer or something asking for some $🤣
I think he did a better job then fender
Rob Zombie *than
You should try to make the randy Rhoads pika dot Flying V
would be stunning
oh yasssssssssssss
HELL yes!!! LOVE Randy Rhoads and I've wanted a polka dot V to go with my ivory Les Paul Custom for years. I considered building it myself rather than pay $2500 for a GMW. I don't know which way I'd be better off.
Yassssss
Charlie Harper or you can go to the guy who originally created randy’s guitar his name is karl sandoval he can make you the guitar for a fraction of what gmw makes and its original and directly from the dude who build the OG randy rhoads polka dot v
$300 in parts, $500 in time! haha interesting vid. I always wondered if his orig was paint or if it was just tape all over it. I guess it was paint or the tape would prob have come off.
clearly you do not love music,youd put a thousand hours in if need be,credit the guy with the ingenuity he clearly has,also check out the pink one on his wall,also looks a build too & a good one
mcfcguvnors I've got more time in playing guitar than you have being alive. I've done luthier work and customized guitars. I've played on OTHER people's albums. Go fuck yourself.
Not to mention that wood router!
Hi
I chacked at first your chanal before to do a shitstorm :-)
Your are a awsome and incredeble good player, musician and singer.
And i think you are both right.
Ones is the fun to build and styl a Guitar.
The other thing ist that any guy can get a good Guitar for les Mony and Time of Work :-)
@@alexanderkollenda6189 ty
I rewatch this video all the time it's just so good.
Just finished my own replica. I did the 1983 US Festival Version (Kramer Beak neck) and I used the most accurate parts, including many vintage parts and total price for everything even down to tape and paint was just shy or $1,250. Very happy with how it turned out. This video was the reason I decided to give it a go
Just to think, Eddie made his so hastily and with minimal building experience, and people are breaking their asses trying to replicate it.
Prob the best rep build I've seen, kit arrived, now to do it. I can't wait, it's going to be hard work, but lotsa fun, thanks for sharing, watched this vid about 5,150 times!
That's nothing other than a work of art. And a very good one at that. Congratulations.
Nice playing. Parts didn't cost much, but the skill and work put into this make it much, much more valuable. Especially with the passing of EVH.
you don't even need to get a tube of graphite powder, I've used a pencil and a blade to shave the tip down and that works just as well. nice vid :)
Some white paints turn yellow extremely quick, I've found that Duplicolor white turns yellow pretty quick. Rustoleum enamel stays white, I've got guitars that are a few years old and still look nice and crisp white with that stuff. As for the running paint, it sounds like you have tape-bleed. Make sure you're using blue 3M painters tape, the regular stuff. Don't get green frog tape or 3M edge lock, it's all crap. And make sure you press it down good.
Eddie used gaffer's tape, so that's what you'd use if you were truly hard-core about replicating the finish.
I am building another one non-relic'd with stewmac tape
How'd the build go? @@skylineXpert
Absolutely amazing job! It looks incredibly authentic and I wouldn't be able to really tell it apart from the real deal! Good work
eddie's a coke guy not a pepsi guy
Ba dum tshhh
@KING Ain't talkin about love
I thought he was a meth guy and not a coke guy.......
Lucky13 he was both!
Didnt they do a pepsi commercial?
Sadly most people won't know or care about the significance or time and effort. Badass none the less.
I'm sending this back to Dec. 16 2012. Sweet build. Love that guitar. The spirit of how Eddie did it was captured in how you did it.
I love the editing in the video as well. the video and audio blend really well.
I personally prefer stop when it comes to black and white only. But the originality you chased is perfect...thanks.
AMAZING JOB CONSIDERING I CAN'T DRAW LINE WITH A RULER.
Thank you for this video. I’ve wanted a Van Halen guitar for so many years. Now that he’s no longer with us I have to do this project. God speed Edward. You will never be forgotten.
I'm already pricing parts and putting my old spare parts aside. Your video took time and guts to help people out, we appreciate it. This (to me) is what utube is all about.
I'm gonna make this as a tribute to Eddie
Did you make it?
+4:27 that Pepsi can logo looks like the version from the 80s.
he is a time traveler
+Tufticles prolly why his frankenstrat is so accurate.
Time4rock that's a Pepsi Throwback can. Made with real sugar. That's way it's got the old design.
@@Mario_Gillette pretty sure hes a time traveler but whatever sis go off
Panama!
Great work, You should start churning those out and making 300% profit on them!
My only amends would be to put the tuners in some water hooked up to a little 9v battery to oxidize them a bit!
Great video!
I've been a luthier since 1980, I apprenticed in NYC in '78. We went to see Van Halen open for Black Sabbath at the Garden, and Ed used the Black & White Frankenstein with a Strat 6 hole trem and a brass nut. They were amazing, I never hear music like that. The bug bit me hard.
I love what you're doing here. These are the types of guitars I made for myself when I was 16. I got wood and cut out the body and neck on the band saw in shop class. I did the finish work at home. It's what made me pick luthiery as a career. You have that bug too, I can hear it in your voice. Showing others how to do it is really cool too. You don't need to spend $1500 on a Charvel to get a great guitar.
I don't know how this video showed up on my suggestion list, but I just had to leave a positive comment after watching this and say this was phenomenal.
Where the hell did you find a Floyd Rose for$35???
It's licensed, costs less
you have to watch out for the Chinese Copys on ebay some of them are shit quality and don't stay in tune, you can find real ones inside old guitars for cheap on eBay that are better
+Mike Ripley www.thomann.de/de/harley_benton_eguitar_kit.htm
+GFG Nickname_not_chosen I can't read the page and google won't translate. is that a Floyd Rose Tremolo included, or a copy of one or soemthing else?
You can't get an original FR for $35, they are all knock offs, even if it has the Floyd license, it's still a copy. The original is about $200 for new.
4:51 do we need a pepsi to help build it too?
Yes! For sustain and tonal purposes.
+V10 FSI ok!
ALL THINGS HORROR Dont forget it! Your sustain will go to ****
Yes, it's a crucial step.
Hey man. How can I get in touch with you? I'm interested in having you build me a guitar.
Its been 4 years man where are you
Just google Mills Custom Guitars and a ton of stuff comes up. X
@@hanreality.7266 milfs guitars? Mm
You are GOD, plain and simple. Not only you made a perfect replica with less than 300, you can also play exactly like him...you make it all seem so easy while I am a complete noob at playing and I wouldn't even know where to drill...thank you so much
This was absolutely better than all fender's replicas! Nice work!
U get a haircut in the middle of doing this??
How do you know?
The hair was part of the hat
Awesome video man. Looks great, I bet you had a lot of time into it
Floyd rose for 35$ ? Is it the guitar stays in tune?
I have two "Licensed by Floyd Rose" bridges that were very cheap knock-offs and to be honest with you, as long as you have the saddles really tight on the strings and the nut at the top of the neck really tight, there's no tuning issues! I have two different kinds though. There's one bridge with the part you connect the whammy to seeming to be welded to the bridge itself, and there's one that you thread together with two pieces. I recommend the first one because the part where you connect the whammy bar on the second one gets loose after heavy use, but other than that the guitars both stay in tune. Just expect the strings to need to stretch a little bit like with any other guitar. Hope this helps!
Unbelievable job, better than the current evh frankie relic which sells for $3k. You’re attention to detail is nothing short of amazing. 🤘🏻
Can't stop watching this, hands down my favorite video on youtube!
dude, you are a god
Holy shitting shit fuck. Amazing, bro. Absolutely brilliant.
What a great fucking video is love to make one of these . I might do it sometime
Love moddin cheap strats into something fun!
This is seriously an awesome video, I watch it all the time for inspiration
R.I.P. Eddie van Halen , you've always been a great influence for guitarist
Dimebags, dean from hell please
Nice work. Cool cat, :)
try making a David Gilmour one for cheap
+Greyson Does he play in Justin Beiber's band?
+mwg1968 ?
+mwg1968 he plays in pink floyd
+Greyson Myers Just buy a Strat =)
+Greyson Myers ...."try making a David Gilmour one for cheap" Why-the-hell would you want to??!!
A truly impressive bit of work.
I wouldn’t be able to tell the difference.
Sounds great too.
Best Frank build video I built one too from cheap parts like Eddie after watching this.
Whats the purpose of the reflectors? Or did EVH just have those on for decoration?
During concerts he’d flash the reflectors on the stage lights and reflect it and it looked cool
I'll pay you to build me one!!!! REALLY I MEAN IT!!!
How much? I've done a couple like this, the Bumblebee, the 5150, the black and white with a pick guard, and the Unchained/Circles guitar. Do you want me to put my email so I can send you some pictures and we can talk business?
+John Smith email me at treywanvigfilms@gmail.com
WOW unbelievably awesome! Jesus. How great is this.
Hey man, can you provide a link for the parts? or atleast specifically that basswood body I cant find one that is routed the correct way, all the ones i see are boxy. Thanks and awesome job!
www.thomann.de/gb/harley_benton_eguitar_kit.htm
Josh -O its not the same pickguard as he used though...
where can i get one like his?
aliexpress
Josh -O i coudn't find it on aliexpress...
do u have a link?
Thomann.de in Germany . They have other kits too . Or Thomann.uk, there all over Europe and sending it to US i guess .. is really cheap .
make a billie joe (green day) Blue replica!!!!!!
Just why?
daan oudhuizen step 1:get cheap strat. step 2: put a shit tone of stickers on
Not even close. If you were to actually make a Blue replica, there are a lot of eras of the guitar so find the stickers corresponding to that era first. Then disconnect the middle and neck single coil pickups and add an angled Seymour Duncan SH-4 JB in the bridge/treble position. A Daphne Blue body, maple neck and fingerboard and an unmarked 60's Strat headstock shape are essential to getting really close.
Lee Whitworth yoo what up ;D
Where did you get a Floyd Rose for $35? o_o
Ebay haha
I don't know where he got the body and neck, but the Floyd Rose was from Dragonfire (OFR). They still sell it for $35.
Thanks!
Awesome I hope Edward got to watch this vid...I would love to see a reaction video. I was hypnotized watching this video.
Do the fine tuning screws on the bridge work still when they're against the body or do you have it floating above the body
Did you cut all your hair off half way through the video?
i laughed way to hard at the randomness at the cat at the end of the video
I’m currently building my own guitar, it’s gonna be a tribute not exactly evh copy, I just found some super cheap parts on amazon and ebay and I thought I’d tell y’all that’s possible to get super cheap with your build. First thing was a body for 35 dollars shipped I got a SUPER cheap black Floyd Rose copy for 25 dollars cheap that didn’t come with a string retainer bar. I ordered a banana headstock neck for 40 bucks and I’m still waiting on that to be delivered. I haven’t ordered the rest yet. I order parts one by one to make sure I spend enough time on each individual part and make sure I put my best into it. I’ve been seeing some nice used pickups for sale and an EVH 500k low friction volume pots for 10 dollars. It’s super fun so far and I recommend everyone builds a guitar at least once.
If you ever get to spend more money for it, definitely invest in a better Floyd Rose, the bad ones are just an absolute pain in the arse 😂
Emilio Lee Yeah, my birthday is coming up in November, I’m really hoping to get a nice Floyd Rose that I can put in the place of the cheap one!
LOTlUM thebeast24 nice dude, advanced happy bday btw lol. I’ve heard gotoh makes some pretty good Floyd roses that are way cheaper than actual Floyd roses. Make sure that it can fit , though.
Emilio Lee Thank you, ill be sure to check the gotoh tremolo out.
hey can you tell me where you got that $35 body from. I’m trying to build my own
How could 75 people dislike this video, this kid took a couple hundred bucks and made a guitar that fender charges $25,000.00 for haha and this one looks and sounds better. I've played the one Fendef put out of there so called custom shop and it was overpriced junk. This is the right way to get one of these guitars, it's the way Eddie did it and if you don't do it yourself you will never get the mojo. If you put those crappy components together and built a normal guitar it would sound and play like shit but something about the love and attention to detail gives you the results you see and here in this video. Great fucking job dude, I build custom guitars and I see a talent in you I don't like to tell people what to do with there lives but you could have a successful career in custom guitar building if that is something you are into. It's all about the details, patience and love of what you are doing. Please keep building.
Sorry if this information was already given somewhere, could you let me know what neck you used? if there is a link to buy It online?
+Luc Herrmann Really want to know this too
dragonfireguitars.com
This is the strat DIY kit from Thomann.uk !! NOT DRAGONFIRE . Floyd from Ebay and others from Dragonfire.
if i wanted to make one of these, how much knowledge do i need of guitar building in order to do this.
If it helps: i just built one with the knowledge of soldering and guitar disassembly
Just a basic understanding, most of the stuff he's doing here is cosmetic.
Daniel Popov you make sound easy. That was alot of work. You make one yerself. Have fun
What is the quarter for?
Back when Eddie was messing around with building his guitars, he put a floyd rose on it. He realized when he would place his hand on the bridge, the weight of his hand would cause the bridge to push back since it wasn't flush with the guitar body. The quarter was used as a shim between the body and the bridge so that he wouldn't have that problem anymore.
rangeles69 that was when he had the original strat trem on it. After he swapped to the Floyd he kept the quarter as a decoration lol
You've made me rethink my position on "relicing" - killer work.
This is awesome! I want to build my own… Doesn't have to play… I just wast it hanging on my office wall. Great Job!
I understood the first two paint jobs but don't understand how the 3rd worked without ruining the previous coats? Surely you'd have to PERFECTLY tape over ALL the black stripes and lay new sections to make white stripes but I didn't see this happen. (And even if it did, how do you ensure you tape the black perfectly without over or underlap?
+Kathryn Love I'm not sure what you asking. Laying a piece of tape over both the white and black sections of paint masks off that area in the shape of the tape. The faint black lines that are seen through the red paint are visible because I didn't apply enough red paint to completely cover them. This is done intentionally in order to copy the look of the original. If you're asking about the paint bleeding through the tape and overlapping tape being an issue, it's not that difficult to avoid. Spray paint comes out rather thick so it doesn't run or bleed very easily and if you press the tape down nice and smooth and evenly, you don't really get any bleed at all. Is that what you were asking?
Sorry for the confusion. I'll try again and hopefully make more sense!
I understand how you get black stripes - you lay out tape, spray white and then remove the tape to show the black paint underneath. So far so good. I also understand that to make white stripes you mask off certain sections and then spray the body red.
But....
Surely, in order to preserve the black stripes as well you have to cover up the black stripes too. I can't be sure as the film was sped up but it didn't look to me like you taped over every single black stripe and in which case they would be covered up by the red paint.
And whilst you taped off several strips to make the black stripes I didn't see you do the same to create the white stripes (or did I miss something?).
Finally, in regard to the black stripes, it seems to me you would have to retape them perfectly so as to get a seamless finish at the end. Otherwise you cover up the stripe to some degree and get a narrowing/widening stripe or even worse - a thin strip of white paint inbetween the black stripe an the red paint (because the tape covered up a section of white paint and prevented the red from coating it.
Thanks in advance
+Kathryn Love Well if I'm being frank, it sounds like you're overthinking the taping process a lot. I didn't tape up any of the white sections or the black sections separately. When Eddie applied the second set of tape on the guitar it was pretty abstract and went over both the white and black sections of paint basically ignoring the original stripe scheme entirely. It may seem complicated and very thought-out, and replicating it is, but the original guitar was likely taped up and painted in about half an hour flat with hardly any thought to where the stripes were going. When I replicate it, I have to get the tape in the exact same places, but aside from that I'm doing it the same way Eddie did. He never taped over the black lines to preserve them, he just placed random strips of tape over the whole body and whatever happened, happened. Is that making any sense?
I get that Eddie was being random and that you can't be but what I am struggling with is it didn't seem to me that you retaped up all the black areas - in which case how did you preserve them? And if you did, how did you tape them up perfectly so as not to cover up any white? And did you or did you not tape out any white sections?
Thanks
+Kathryn Love Wow, logical thinking isn't your strongsuit, is it?
Look at the video and look at the guitar. It's three layers of paint: Black, then white, then red. There are gaps in the white to show the black (the black stripes) and gaps in the red that show the black and white pattern.
no eruption???
he lost his hair midway through the video
Man this is a completely different kind of Rock and Roll. Bang on Bro.
This is fucking incredible along with the rest of your videos. I'm completely blown away by your work brother
You're only as metal as your cutest guitar, and aint nothin mo' demonic then hello kitty XD
Why ruin a perfectly good guitar and "relic" it? I hate this fad.
Its a replica. It wont look like the original if you don't scratch it up.
Also how is it ruined Spencer? It's still a brand spanking new guitar. If it were shiny and new it wouldn't play or sound any better.
In other industries like home reno and antique replicas they call it "distressing" which always makes me laugh a little. Sounds cruel :)
Also it's just the paint that he's affecting.
Why? Because it's fun! :D
Spencer Jacob At a later date, the pickguard can be changed to a new, whole one, etc. Personally, I think it would be AWESOME to have a guitar that played, sounded, and looked like Eddie Van Halen's guitar. Why? Because he is a rock legend and is one of the BEST players in the world.
I would love to do this! It would be fun to do with my dad because he was a huge van halen fan back in the day
This was very impressive. I was thinking why not just relic it yourself then when I saw it at the end assembled it wouldn't have looked correct. Awesome job!
Dude. You are my hero. Eddie would be so proud.
Sweeeet awesome ridiculous! Great mix of music. Thanks for your work of putting this vid together.
That is absolutely awesome! I bought the Bumblebee EVH striped series earlier this year and want the other 2 as well. Now I'm tempted to buy at least one of them (the red/white/black specifically) from you! Great job man!
Dear God.. The last video i thought you were really cocky... You have all right to be.. You're my hero.
I don't know why you thought I was cocky, but thanks. lol
HOLY HAIRCUT!
Also, guitar came out perfectly. I'm amazed by all your building videos
In case it hasn't already been mentioned in the comments. I think the "mystery goop" at 10:37 may be glue residue from when Eddie taped that section as seen on the November 1982 Guitar World cover. Or it may be residue from something he was covering up with that tape.
Thx for this video, I used an old body and neck of a Sterling Axis, and painted it in black and white, then loaded it with Dimarzio super distortion dp100. Cheers!!
I didn't think you would top the SRV model. You did! Excellent work, sir!
Awesome guitar, my first album was van Halen in the seventies and was hooked I am so glad you used van Halen music and not van hagar in your video lol
It's so awesome to see the rock I grew up with Still inspiring people....
Keep up the awesome work .
P.S.
I agree with the previous comment of Building Randy rhoads guitar
Amazing! With the labor not included on all of the costs, that can easily be over $1,000. God bless! Amazing!
Am I the only one who thinks a black white and blue "Frankenstrat" paint job would look badass? BTW, the guitar sounds amazing!
Bravo dude! You are a master craftsman Eddie would have been proud!
that's a really good job you done, awesome playing too. I tried to do a simple relic job on my squier strat, neck came out pretty good, but I dropped the body on the ground, and it actually split almost completely in half, wasn't able to re-glue the split
You did an awesome job building it, my friend
Very Cool Build ! Was Worth Every Second to watch ! AWESOME JOB !
This is the best video on TH-cam in my opinion.
That is just too painstakingly good of a replica lol, fantastic work. Never actually knew what the things on the back were till watching this.
I'm late to finding this vid...but better late than never. Awesome job. Big Thumbs Up and Like.
I made my frankenstrat last year from your video thanks. It turned out just fine
You should work for Gibson custom or Fender custom. Your eye for detail has blown me away.
Laughing so hard when you made the cigarettes burns. I bet you were getting really excited making this thing as the process went on. I plan to make one now. Thanks for doing it!
I think you've done a unbelievable job with great Craftsmanship!
Wow, the detail replica work you did alone is worth far more than the parts you put in. Very nice job!
Wow. How many people wish they had the skill to do this? Awesome.