I put the pieces in tupperware and then floated that in acid. I used muriatic acid, which is nasty stuff. Below is the body ready for its black coat.ĭuring the process of staining and sealing, I got to work aging some of the metal parts. After the stain, I applied a couple coats of lacquer sanding sealer, which helps the top coats adhere to the body. Since I planned to age the guitar there are some places where bare wood shows through, so I stained it golden oak to give it a more aged look. Here it is with the routing complete.Īfter routing, I sanded down the body and then applied three coats of wood grain filler, sanding after each coat. He couldn’t figure out the wiring so the phenolic pickup never worked. He did it to make room for the humbucker and the switch, which he moved to the cavity where the middle pickup was. I started with reproducing Eddie’s router pattern, which is pretty haphazard…great guitar player, marginal woodworker. Duncan custom clone PAF Alnico 5 humbucker.Chrome Floyd Rose Special with OFR 42mm Big Brass Block.Maple 22 fret neck with Gotoh tuners and R3 nut.There was some blue paint on the back body and some of the reflectors from Eddie leaning the guitar against a freshly painted Van Halen banner.The body had a significant amount of road wear and one of the oval reflectors on the back had snapped off during the Fair Warning tour.The neck had been swapped for a more modern strat headstock and there were cigarette burns on the headstock from Eddie placing cigarettes under the strings.Eddie kept the quarter but added another screw to keep it out of the way. This eliminated the need for the 1971 quarter, which had been screwed to the body so it swiveled under the tremolo to help with intonation. Eddie had replaced the original Floyd Rose with a newer model that intoned correctly.By then it had become what I think of as the “classic” Frankenstrat. As it turned out, this guitar is probably more of a tribute than a replica, though it does have some accurate details.īecause the guitar went through numerous configurations, I decided to try to recreate the guitar as it was in 1982. But, I already felt like I was teetering on the edge of obsession at times, so I limited myself on just how exact I was going to get. With this project, one can go pretty deep reproducing every last nick and scratch and some people do. Here’s the real deal at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 2019.įor this guitar, my goal was to make a reasonable replica that was also playable. In April 2019 the original red, black and white Frankenstrat guitar was put on display at The New York Metropolitan Museum of Art as part of the Play It Loud – Instruments of Rock and Roll exhibit.” – Wikipedia “ The Frankenstrat was Van Halen’s attempt to combine the sound of a classic Gibson guitar with the physical attributes and tremolo bar functionality of a Fender Stratocaster.
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