![]() ![]() Like many players that dabble with guitar pickups, I have a box full of them in various states and different sizes. Remember to check your trem block is the correct way around! Humbucker This is what happens when you get too engrossed in the music and forget to check the basics.īuilding. First time I put it together, I looked at it and realised I’d f**ked up and put the trem block on backwards, so I had to do it all over again. I also had Van Halen blasting out the stereo, and was distracted by Eddie’s incendiary guitar for most of the time and had to keep stopping to smile. This took me the best part of an hour, as I had to guess roughly were the intonation for each string should be set for each string. If you’ve ever put a Floyd Rose trem together, then you know it can be an awkward job. All I had to do was get out my hex wrenches and put it all together into one, cohesive unit. ![]() Each had been taken from various different guitars. I grabbed my box full of parts and found the top half of an old Floyd Rose locking trem system, a Schaller Floyd arm, and a big oversized titanium trem block. The only thing new on this Frankenstein guitar would be the strings. In the spirit of the original guitar that EVH built using a chisel and basic tools, I, too, would not buy anything new for this build. After hearing the sad news of Eddie’s passing, I decided to break out my spares and parts box to see if I had enough to build a Frankie-style guitar of my own.
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