How to build a Frankenstrat Replica Guitar for under $300!!! 

same!

@@droid1008 Me two!!!

Same 😢

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$.

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

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Absolutely amazing 😂😂😂

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

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

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

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?

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

Did you make it?

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

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.

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.

How do you know?

The hair was part of the hat

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

During concerts he’d flash the reflectors on the stage lights and reflect it and it looked cool

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!

Love moddin cheap strats into something fun!

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 .

+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??!!

+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.

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

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

Look up "pinch harmonics" or "pick squeal". Pretty simple technique once you see how it's done.

Dire Squirrel either that, or have an amp that has feedback, face the guitar towards it, and shake the guitar. thats how i did it

Skylar Fisher Not at all similar. And not was was asked about.

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

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!

+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.

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

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.