My Musikraft 5150 Replica Guitar Project! 

if you dont want the red to bleed the best thing is put the white coat on let it dry really well , tape it up then do another thin coat of white over it, let it dry then do the red coats. This will 'seal' the tape edges and stop the bleeding - nice work

When that paint starts to peel and flake, and it will, it will look even more authentic. Don't forget the cigarette burn. Nice job!

Cool bro, the VH striped guitars are fun to paint! I have done a Frankenstrat, the original B&W one and I also have the Bumblebee one. Just a friendly piece of advice for doing the stripes I learned from my own experience. On my first one I used "Frog Tape"masking tape and they all got those little bleed under edges like you got, no matter how well you burnish down the tape edges. Frog Tape is supposed to be the best masking tape for painting but I was really upset to see my edges were not clean. I am exceptionally picky when doing my paint jobs and ended up stripping off all of the paint and starting over - which REALLY SUCKED! I then tried using vinyl pin striping material you buy at automotive shops and it works AWESOME! You can bend it easier for curves and when you burnish it down, zero paint gets under the edges and when you peel it off, your lines are super crisp! I just wanted to pass this along, as it worked great on all my other guitars. I hope you all find this useful.

I have a kramer that was painted like the 5150 in the 80s, sanded it, ordered a evh humbucker to replace the emg in it. About to start the painting

I think you and your dad did a fantastic job on this and it looks great. I painted a Tele with the similar red paint and it's been fine! No chipping or flaking! I didn't want a factory clear coat look and it's holding up! Only one thing. Not trying to be critical, just trying to help. I have a lot of experience with solder. When you were installing the ground wire, I noticed you dabbing the pencil. You got it backwards. Hold the heat on and dab the solder, till you have enough. The only place you need to be careful of getting too much heat is on the pots. I hold the heat to the back of the pot and quickly dab a blob of solder, heating it just till it spreads out. Remove the heat. Tin your wires with a little solder. Then touch the wire to the solder already on the back of the pot. Heat till solder flows, maybe dabbing a little more solder. Don't heat for too long. I tin all my wires before attatching them to anything. Good luck and I hope this helps!👍😎🎸🎶

As a massive Van Halen fan, this was freaking awesome, dude. The 5150 is one of my favourite guitars Eddie used (alongside his Frankenstein and the Black & White one from the first VH album), and I gotta admit that I'm pretty impressed with how it turned out

Nice job I actually prefer the non super clean tape lines like Ed's original paint jobs. Bet it will look great once it's all dirtied up with hand gunk.

Love that cold solder

So I bought one of these but a cheap Chinese brand off eBay for $225. Out of the box it actually played good, neck was straight, intonation was right on. The only thing that needed to be done was the frets needed to be polished, when bending a string it felt like sandpaper lol but I just used polishing wheels on a dremel with polishing compound from a hardware store it was like a wax compound and the frets were mint afterwards didn’t take long at all. I then took the guitar apart to paint it. When putting it back together I installed a EVH tone pot because I love them. The tuners are crap but since it’s a locking Floyd I didn’t bother replacing them. I had to add a 4th spring for the bridge because 3 were not enough to play in standard tuning because of how the body is routed, you would need to route the body out more if you wanted to use less springs to play in standard tuning. The strap pegs are junk and use very small screws so for sure need some strap locks. It has a cheap Floyd rose but it actually works just fine I’ve used a bunch of cheap Floyd rose bridge’s sometimes they work great like this one and sometimes you just need to do some work to make them work good usually just need to file down rough spots and where the strings lock in the bridge then they work just fine but again this cheap Floyd needed nothing it works great, also don’t be an animal when tightening the bolts down they don’t need to be super super tight just snug so if they strip out don’t blame the manufacturer you over tighten them. The pickup actually sounds really good and doesn’t not squeal when playing loud I figured I would have to replace the pick up no way it would be good for that cheap of a guitar and I am the type of guy that replaces pickups in pretty much every guitar because I’m a tone chaser but I’m leaving this one for now. So bottom line the Chinese eBay Kramer is a great buy. If ur gonna play it at gigs I would replace the tuners, volume pot and strap locks then it’s definitely gig worthy. Because it’s a cheap Chinese guitar maybe they don’t put the same pickup in every guitar or maybe the quality is hit or miss so its possible you might want to change the pickup plus everyone has different taste but again I am all about tone and the pickup I got sounds great! If you go to guitar center to buy a new guitar this one is every bit as good as many new 500-1000 buck guitars. Oh last thing the Harmonics are super loud on this guitar, it’s just a loud guitar over all. If you don’t plug it in it’s super loud compared to almost anything I’ve ever played so the sustain is amazing!

I just got my Kramer kit guitar but I don’t think I can do the standard evh colors I want to but I have a hard time playing somes guitar. I’m either gonna do black or some flashy 80’s colors! I’ve always wanted to do big metal flakes maybe orange like that super 70’s metal flake that was on the jet boats back then.

Love the fact you didn't show how you added the black stripes to the body, we all love a good riddle.

Nice job. My friend did this to a Squier strat 30 years ago, including a scarf jointed "banana" head stock. Then he saw the Dave Lee Roth Goin' Crazy video on MTV and tried to throw it around his neck like Steve Vai. Without strap locks it failed and stuck in the ground and broke the neck in half. His scarf joint was perfect.

Wow, nice job! I built a frankenstrat recently. I actually put a video on my channel if you’re interested. I really wanna build a 5150 next

wow .. very well done that looks fn awesome this is probably my #1 project i wanna do eddies kramer or frankie are my dream guitars and i feel like building it yourself not only brings you closer to the instrument itself but closer to eddie as thats what he did .. and plus 1500+ for a evh isnt crazy but that being said doing it yourself you can put whatever pickup add whatever u want

So awesome! Did you use a template for the tape width to make the stripes? Any tips on that?

just starting to do my own work on guitars after 30 years of playing. its even more satisfying imo.

Looks fantastic. Great job.

The final product looks awesome. Is that headstock a banana or holy grail or hockey stick? Thanks

Rob L ] You done a great job, glad too see that you enjoyed yourself.

Need wetsanding and clear coats matte finish

Adding the Floyd rose without routing that's cool

Your pop's awsome! Good work, sir!

Very very cool!

Very cool.

Super nice. Makes me want one too.

Eddie would be proud.

Dude....great job!...and to everyone who is criticizing this guy remember that Eddie’s original guitar was put together by him using a $80 strat body and a $60 neck...and I bet some morons critiziced him too

Some research indicates that Eddie probably used gaffers tape. This would explain why one edge of the tape is straight and crisp and the other edge is torn.

Went looking on musikraft yesterday and they have overhauled everything, they even sell frankie bodies with northern ash now.

Hey man, great looking guitar. What type of finish was on the neck that you bought, and how did you paint the headstock if there was a finish? Also, how did you finish the neck if there wasn't one on it (if you did finish the neck yourself)?

Hi I'm new to ur channel and I play an epiphone les Paul and I was hoping to build a Frankenstein type guitar cuz I'm a huge fan of van Halen and I was wondering how much did thet things to make the 5150 cost if it has just one pickup and all but thanks for sharing this stay awesome or mainly how much was the body and components

Absolutely awesome 😂👍

Man that looks Awesome!! Great job.

The BYO Lunatic version is vary nice as well... I recomend them if you plan on throwing in the nice expensive upgrades like i did? there worth that for the quality?

Awesome!!!

Hey. Great video. Where did you get the thin tape for the stripes? Did you just cut it on a paper cutter or something? Thanks

Very good, great job!!!!

Nice job Bro!

2 recommendations... Replace the FR special with a Gotoh 1996T, and in the future just by a Bourns Low friction pot whether it be Push Pull or not, They make the EVH one, and you are paying a lot more for packaging and merchandising, for the same Pot.

Nice! Now you just have to play the hell out of it to wear it in!

I did one 18 years ago. There was virtually no where to get a neck with the Hockey stick headstock. I had warmoth attempt it but it was stubby and bad.

No sanding or gloss coat?

Looking good .

i want to do this someday

Did you clearcoat this guitar after all of the white red and black? and if you did how many cans or coats did you use?

I am an electronics engineer but I know nothing abut guitars. I started to do a little research after being given a broken guitar and decided to fix it. One thing I noticed is the common practice of soldering a cable to the claw surface with a big blob of solder. I know noise is often picked up on joints like this so why not drill a small hole in the claw to make a neat connection. Also there is often poor soldering on the pots

nice job.

Great job, dude! How much did you paid for all parts?

Very cool 🤘

Wow. Looks awesome. Still have it? How much did you have in that? Killer job.

Well done. I loved doing mine, but I wished I would have gotten the wood from musicKraft like you did. Much more accurate. If someone is interested in building a 5150, just do it. Screw paying 1000s for one. It stays within the spirit of the actual one just being put together. It's rewarding to create something yourself and rock out to it also. But where did you get your volume knob? Mine is a little smaller than it should be.

Awsome vid man! You should cop the original trem stopper they came with too. I think Khaler made them for the floyd original. I got an original Baretta 86 with the Lady of Liberty paint job and the shark headstock. I wish the original jb pickup didnt age bad on me tho;/

Look man, that's a great job, I just finished mine , mine was BYO, didn't come with the KRAMER sticker or the reflective 5150 and 🌟 star's, do you have any pointers on where I can get them ? That's all I need to finish

Not sure what you were after, but no primer, no sanding, no clear coat and a lot of bleeding on your lines. As long as you’re happy with it, good to go.

So you did not clear coat or polish? Is the paint still on the guitar?

How much did the whole project run you? Meaning how much did it cost for the guitar, paint, and decals? Also what type of paint did you use? Did you use any clear coats?

Were you happy with that shade of red? I've tested apple and strawberry from rustoleum but not the one you used.

Muito bom 👍!

Great work. I did one in pumpkin orange

im just curious and dont mean to correct, question or criticize but why did you end up outside where there is wind bugs pollen debris of all sorts flying around when you had a nice enclosed paint room?

Love the guitar!. But is the bass playing the same song? It doesnt really fit in there

Killer guitar. I really want to do a Musikraft build. Do these come with instructions? How hard is it to do one of these?

Awesome build but me personally i use kustom kolor paints and 2k clear but you did it like eddie. Next time after you tape shoit 2 xoats of ckear to seal the tape to the body for less bleed through but damn thats sexy

Thank you for sharing

how fun! great job! did you get the one piece neck, or 2 piece?

Those paint coats sure look heavy. Steve

Which Neck did you get? The website has 4 different "banana" headstocks... ALso I assume it is the "pacer" body? Thanks

Very nice, You did a great job bro.

You should have colour sanded and smooth root each base coat. It looks like you put the pain on with a paint brush

DId you put sanding sealer on the heastock or just painted it?

How long do you wait to remove the tape? I made a frankenstrat build and I found pulling it off after a day made the paint lift up with it and it looked very jagged. What were your methods ?

How long did you wait after painting the red before you remove the tape?

Looks really cool! No cigarette burn mark at the headstock? Too painful to do it to that nice paint job! Lol☺

Very cool, about to start on one myself. Can you share your source for the the Kramer sticker for the headstock?

Why do you put tooth picks and ear plugs in to fill the holes in headstock? Another question...why did you tape the guts inside the guitar off? Does the paint hurt the tone or something? Great build though!

Did u think it would be hard..... I am thinking too?

108/5000 Hello Rob. I am stefan Republic of Moldova. How can I buy the Kramer 5150 replica kit and at what price. Thank you

He had two guitars ... the main one which had 1star and a backup with had 2 stars.

excuse me, but where can you buy or order the neck of this guitar?

If I could find one company that make these bodies and necks in left handed, I’d have hundreds of them by now.

How long did you wait before pulling the tape off?

That was great to watch. You happy how it sounds?

Very nice!!🤟🤟

Loved the video. I want to assemble a guitar too. I'd like to build an Ash, mahogany, or alder Wolfgang hardtail. And paint it Ferrari red. Does anyone make woldgang bodies? Can't find them. Warmouth had one but they discontinued it.

Holy paint bleed. Next time, after taping, hit the body with white again. This fills the gaps where the red would bleed, but instead those voids fill with white.

A layer of clear coat will help prevent the red bleeding into the stripes

What tuners did you buy, I've never purchased tuners before and it's driving me crazy!

When you bought it, did you select the "all holes" in the pre-drill section?

Good job

Nice

Beautiful job. How much did it cost you in total.

What kind of paint did you use

Is that your own jamming track playing over the video?

What kit do you suggest for a 5150 build, because musikraft is not doing bodies anymore?

Very nice 👍👍

how much money did this run you? Ive been looking into making a 5150 replica for a while and im wondering how much it would normally cost.

How much expensive is Kramer body guitar with the neck

fantastic job! any reason why you went with a fr special versus an original??

Nice job👍🤘

Salur Rob. I am stefan Republic of Moldova. How can I buy the Kramer 5150 replica kit and at what price. Muktumesc