October Guitar of the Month

[wokkaboy]

awesome entry Gav and will be tough to top this. Love the video you nailed it bro and the stance is perfect.
what was the clear coat you used was it acrylic through the air gun ?

[gavinturner]

Thanks Wokka - yeah it's acrylic clear through the gun as espoused by the prophet Jarrod.

cheers,
Gav.

[BenWA]

haha so nice, wokkas right the stance was perfect too hahaha

[west0288]

Lovin' these builds so far, lads.

@Micah: What did you use for the yellow finish on your build? Looks sick, might have to check it some time.

[trevor.rawlings@raywhite.com]

Hi fellow builders !
My entry for GOTM ........ Its a reproduction of one of my favorite artists guitars and probably the most iconic looking one ever built. FRANKENSTRAT !!! I have tried to replicate it as close to the original as possible right down to the wear marks and stripes , 1971 quarter as a tremolo block, cigarette burns on the head-stock, rusted selector switch in the middle cavity,re-positioned tone knob for a volume knob and loads of other quirky things that this guitar had done to it over the years.It was probably one of the most tedious builds I have done except for the Mirror Iceman..... and to look at the the original ( with a price tag of $25k) and my copy it would be pretty hard to tell them apart in my opinion - The crazy thing is it plays and sounds amazing !!!! I have a youtube clip of me building it plus a short clip of me giving it a demo that i will post on the other forum.
Cheers Guys !

[trevor.rawlings@raywhite.com]

More Pics !

[wokkaboy]

wow Trevor what an awesome tribute to EVH. The detail looks very close to the original. So with no pickup switch is the front single pup there for asthetics ?
So presume this was orignally an ST-1 kit ? can't wait to see the youtube vid of the build!

[trevor.rawlings@raywhite.com]

Thats right Wokkaboy - Ed originally wanted a front pickup to work but didnt know how to wire it in so it just sat there , as for the pickup selector he placed it in there to basically throw people of the scent about how the guitar was set up ... in actual fact all he did was a Humbucker straight to Volume to input Jack !

[wokkaboy]

nice work on your research Trevor. I think I remember seeing a YT vid on this build a while ago ?
I reckon you could sell this on ebay for a heap. Problem is you need your papers proving it. Didn't they release a few Frankenstien replicas ?

[trevor.rawlings@raywhite.com]

They only released 300 of them .... and the $$ was a bit............. no alot...... out of my budget ( plus the wife would have killed me !!!) Lol