EVH FRANKENSTEIN RELIC SERIES - I WANTED TO SEND IT BACK! 

👍 yeah a slight adjustment is fine with me. This one was the worst guitar I ever played when I took it out of the box. It infuriated me is an understatement. lol It was hideous. I can’t believe they would send a guitar out like this. It is set up fine now. 👌

Just build one. You could build an All Parts or Warmoth version with US-Wolfgang pups and all premium parts for way less than a MEXICAN Fender and never have to deal with a bad setup.

@@autodidacticprofessor869 I could but I don’t think I could get it to look this good. That’s what initially got me, the look of this thing. It’s just what I wanted and it’s done. 👍 👌 ✌️

👌 ✌️ nice!

Thanks man, much appreciated. I may do some upgrades down the road. We’ll see. I like the one pickup thing though. 👌

Why not just keep the guitar for yourself and gig with other guitars? I can't even imagine selling a guitar I like because choads in the audience act like choads. lol

@@autodidacticprofessor869 Well sometimes we have to sell something to justify having something else. I just bought an R9 so now I need to sell my 335 to justify the purchase.

@@autodidacticprofessor869 this one I have now is much nicer now than the one that I had that was parted together. Evh necks are 👌

@@ThisOldGuy3 that always sucks, I’ve parted with a lot of nice ones I wish I had back again now. 😔

Hey Johnny, he will be truly missed. Thankful we still have his music though. 👍 Played the striped one today, this one’s the exact same guitar minus the Stripes. Now that it’s setup decently, it’s such a fun guitar to play. When I get the chance, I check out your show, great stuff man. Thanks for stopping by. Cheers! 🤘 EVH 🤘

@@JasonHobbsGuitarist Yeah, still can’t believe he’s gone. Luckily I got to meet him and talk with him a little bit about 10 years ago ago. He was just a normal dude. Yeah, I do guitar shows on my channel and if you would like you should jump on sometime and hang out with us and talk Guitars.

@@JohnnyBeane cool! Love to, I have to figure out how to do the live thing. That’s a new gig to me. Thanks. 🙏 by the way, that is awesome. You’re lucky to have met the king of rock guitar. 👌

@@JasonHobbsGuitarist It's easy. All i do is send you a link and you allow your cam/mic. I do shows almost daily.

👌 right on.✌️

I hear ya man, the very minimal they can do is have it set up to where it’s playable. If Eddie was alive and could play one he wouldn’t be happy to have his name attached he’d go something like this, I’m certain. So sad. Check your neck relief first, then check the retainer bar behind the nut to see if it seats the string passing through the locking nut correctly. Lots of info o line about Floyd setups. I had to read up on it myself. I bottomed my mounting studs right down as far as they could go. Your action will determine this. Don’t force them. Take the tension off the strings as well while doing that, if not it’ll potentially destroy your knife edge on the trem. I set the action to 4/64ths I believe at the 12th fret. Like I say, I had to do my own research, I have it dialed in now. 👍

@@JasonHobbsGuitarist Wow! I can’t thank you enough for the quick response. I really really appreciate it. I’m going to try your suggestions. Subscribed! 🙏🤘👍

@@fasteddievh2072 no problem sir, thank you. Much appreciated… 👍 🙏

The Floyd rose mounting studs were raised too high and it Floyd was basically doing a “wheelie” and slamming the back of the Floyd and D-Tuna into the guitar. I lowered the studs until they bottomed out. If you do it, don’t force them down. When the bolt stops, stop. Take the tension off the strings too for it will damage the knife edge on the Floyd if you slam the bolts down under string tension. Just a heads up for you. You need to get that Floyd flush with the body while having zero back pull and only dive on the Floyd. I tightened the two spring at the claw in the back of the guitar to get this. 👌 I think I ended up having 4/64ths action on the 12th fret from the bottom of the string to the top of the 12th fret on both low E and high E. ✌️

@@JasonHobbsGuitarist Thanks, that was super-helpful! I'll see how it goes.

@@leftygtrplr6184 any time 👍 ✌️ good luck.

@@BillLarkinmusic nice! 👍 they wouldn’t let that guitar leave their store set up like crap anyway. They have a good reputation. 👍

@@cmikesmith664 great guitars when you get them dialed in. 👌

@@WickedFesterBand yeah I hear ya, they have to get those guitars setup before they ship them. Once setup, they’re great. It’s a pain in the butt though having to deal with that when you’re buying a fairly expensive guitar. Here Canada 🇨🇦 they are a tad bit over $2G’s ✌️

Exact same thing happened to me with my Bumblebee. Lowered the Floyd and then the first time I used it pulled the posts out of the body. Had to reset them and shim the neck. The Floyd is lowered now but still points back at a slight angle. I think the only way to get it straight with the body would be to put a trem stop in the back.

@@daviddonaldson5908 I put a small block of wood in mine for a while but just sprung for the $17 and installed a trem stop. Of note, when I had mine apart when I first fixed it I noticed 6 little dimples under the bridge. The body was clearly meant to have a 6 screw vintage trem originally.

@@WickedFesterBand I think the dimples are caused by the front of the Floyd touching the body when it is set “too low”.

@@daviddonaldson5908 No. six little pin holes right where the screws would go. Under the Floyd, not in front of it.

Yeah I feel the same way man, it’s a shame. After spending that kind of money. It’s the poorest setup guitar I ever held in my hands to this day. After a hour or more and some help from others online I got it setup real nice now. World of difference. 👍 thanks!

@@Osssssssssssssh thanks! 🙏

That is sad to hear especially at this price point. I am turned off by the idea really and think EVH is way off target for the market here

@@monstrok if you know how to set up a guitar, they are awesome guitars. One of the nicest fun rock guitars I’ve ever owned. Love the look and the neck, it’s all in the setup 👌

@@JasonHobbsGuitarist 30+ years of guitar building, mods, repairs and setups here. Getting a replacement because of the maxed-out truss rod. I really want to give this model a chance.

@@I.am_Groot Luckily I got it new for $799 during the recent sale at Adorama.

@@monstrok That is a lot of guitar for $799! Sucks their quality control is not better the MIM lines have always been good to me. I do my own work also and being able to get it playing right and to my own taste made all the difference.

@@flinto2002 🤘 right on! 👍

Thanks man! I do appreciate it. ✌️

Thanks man. I agree 100%. I pretty much had to adjust everything, clamped down the retainer bar to get it right, lowered the pickup, lowered the bridge mounting studs, neck adjustment, adjust the string tension so that string tension =spring tension, I do like the setup now. 👍 a good string stretching goes a long way too along with a good understanding of how to tune on a Floyd. Like you said though, when they’re dialed in they are killer. ✌️

@@slimsantilli4476 I will. 👍

@@GeorgeZimmermen easy to fix, but a fret dressing file from Stu Mac. 👌 Mine were fine.

@@MMAjunkieXX cool! I thought about doing that as well. I’ve already started modding it. Feels like this guitar was meant to be modded though. 👌 Let me know how that pickup works out for you. ✌️

I’m not a huge huge Van Halen nut but I do enjoy the tone he got. That’s what I like most about the guitar, it’s a Frankie but in disguise. 👌 There is only one Eddie. I’m too Old to start learning that stuff now. Haha

@@AndyK.23 right on. 👍 one of my favourite guitars I own right now. It’s frowned upon on me for sure. Thing is wild!

Yeah I agree man. 👍 nice guitar, I’d love to have an original Floyd Rose on it and better hardware and all as well. Love the neck though. It’s the selling feature of the guitar for me. Might try a pariah pickup again down the road. Awesome pickup. ✌️

Really to me its under $1000 to make any sense and I think other EVH and Fender MIM options are much more enticing

@@I.am_Groot lol dream on. When’s the last time you can get a great guitar for $1000, haha. Those days are long gone!

@@JasonHobbsGuitarist For sure prices are not what they were the last time I bought a great super strat but my San Dimas Pro Mod stacks up to these new EVH models with more tonal options and they can still be found around $1000 and those don't make me want to put on a blindfold so I don't have to look at them while playing lol

@@I.am_Groot I own a san dimas charvel as well. Great guitar. Just like Eddie’s Frankenstein, the Evh Frankenstein relic is crude looking but man that’s the whole cool factor around it, if you’re an Eddie fan. 👌

👍 🤘

👍 yeah the Floyd’s are something to get familiar with. Lots of maintenance and upkeep. Finicky I guess. A good one will be less stressful.

@@robertappleby4891 👌

I lived there in 70s80s Steve was the best

Makes sense, I just sold it, regretting it now. Something we all do I guess. It was a built Frankenstein, not the Evh model. Had all the right hardware too. Original stuff. I’m gonna eventually do this one right as well. The neck and body are 👌. Worth it. ✌️

That’s something else I had to do right away. I filed the tangs on every fret top and bottom to get rid of the fret sprout. Easy Job. Probably due to the fact that all these new guitars still think they are trees. lol

A Floyd rose will not function properly if you do what you said. Not whatsoever. Sorry. It need to be flush with the body. The blades on the Trem should be perpendicular to the mounting studs and only have Dive only and none whatsoever backwards pull. If you did your research you’d know this stuff. ✌️

P.S the the Floyd is not to be higher in the front than the back. It’s suppose to be flush and with no backward pull. Having the mounting studs in the front raised and slamming the back of the Floyd and D-tuna into the body of the guitar so you can’t pull the D-tuna out to activate it is not the right setup. If Eddie Van Halen did this, then I’d like to see it. Every picture of his guitar that I’ve seen the Floyd knife edge is perpendicular to the mounting studs and flush mounted. Zero backwards pull and set up perfectly.

It was the worst set up guitar from factory I ever played. It literally played like crap and felt like junk in my hands. I’m use to playing and having great guitars. I do own a MIM Wolfgang special which was awesome from the factory and a MIM charvel that was superb from the factory but this MIM Frankie was a POS setup the way it was from the factory. Literally unplayable, buzzed everywhere, strings action was hilarious and the Floyd rose was literally doing a wheelie. Ridiculous to say the least. I wasnn by pissed, I’ve since read that they are all pretty much like this from the factory. I’m gonna call em out for what they are stock from the factory, junk! There’s no other way to describe it. Unplayable Junk that you pay Canadian. $2200. Now that I spent the day setting it up and tweaking it, it’s now playable. By far from where it’s eventually gonna be. A work in progress. I’m very picky when it comes ones to guitars. It’s an insult how these guitars come setup from the MIM factory. If Eddie was alive he would 100% agree I’m certain.

@JasonHobbsGuitarist I'm positive Eddie would agree 👍 Seems like you just received a dud. High cost Gibsons & Fenders can be the same way. EVH has good QC, so I'm surprised you ended up receiving it in that bad of shape. The setup on them is simple. Just because a guitar needs setup doesn't make it junk. I've had high-priced vintage guitars that are far from junk but need setup correctly. If it was that bad, you should have exchanged it for a different one, or bitched to them about it, and they may have refunded some of your money and just perform the setup yourself. A junk guitar is still a junk guitar after setup. If it's not a junk guitar after setup, then it wasn't a junk guitar in the first place. That guitar was probably built late on Friday afternoon, and the setup guy called in sick that day, and the shipping guy stuck it in an EVH box and shipped it. Good luck Bro!

@@jeffowens5150 junk to me is “unplayable” just like a tool you buy that doesn’t perform, junk. A car that doesn’t perform, junk. Lol

Sounds good now that I’ve filed the frets that were sprouting, set up the horribly set up and unplayable Floyd rose, adjusted the horribly adjusted nut and string retainer, lowered the pickup, adjusted the springs, set the action, set the intonation, set up the D-tuna, tightened the loose tuners, polished the frets, etc. All the things you’d expect to be decently set up from factory. Like I said, this guitar sounded like shit and played like shit from the factory. Without a good setup from someone who knows what they are doing, these will all be horrible straight from the factory. I’ve since heard many many people say they feel the same. I’m use to playing guitars that are near perfect from the factory. Guitars that are 4 times the cost of this EVH. I guess you get what you pay for. If you strapped this thing on right out of the box and went to play a gig with it, you’d be in some deep shit by the end of the first set. lol Seriously garbage guitar from factory IMHO. ✌️ She’s a beast now that it set up right and playable.

@JasonHobbsGuitarist Makes me thankful that all my EVH gear has been beyond fantastic. I'm glad you're happy with it. There's always a bad apple in the bunch, no matter the make or model. Enjoy! Rock on 😎 👍

@@jeffowens5150 yes sir, yeah I’ve owned and own Evh guitars that came out of the box playing very well. Maybe needed some small slight adjustment like a truss rod adjustment and I was off to the races. This one was just a big disappointment at first like many others have had the exact same experience with these. Sad.. yes. ✌️