Author Topic: Bargain Strat? (Read 366 times)

grateful · « **on:** May 05, 2008, 06:50:45 AM »

Jeez, and I thought my Further was expensive.

lbpesq · « **Reply #1 on:** May 05, 2008, 07:12:06 AM »

Have you seen the Eddie Van Halen Frankenstrat replicas by Fender? WOW ... a beat to crap butt ugly Strat with bare wires hanging out of where the middle pickup should be and a quarter nailed down into the body to keep the bridge in the right place .. but at least it's the SAME YEAR QUARTER as the one on Eddie's guitar!!!!!!!! And only $25,000!!!!!! Such a deal!

Bill, tgo

grateful · « **Reply #2 on:** May 06, 2008, 12:40:19 AM »

Hadn't seen the EVH one Bill - every cigarette burn lovingly reproduced.

paulman · « **Reply #3 on:** May 06, 2008, 05:25:13 AM »

I saw a review of the Lenny repro's in an issue of Premier Guitar magazine. Seemed pretty cool until I saw the price, and how many they are producing. Ack! Gimme another Futher for sure. Spending that kinda money on a relic strat is unfathomable to me.

However, if money was no longer an object I'm sure this and thousands of other guitars would be in my collection to look at, but only my Alembics would get played.

lbpesq · « **Reply #4 on:** May 06, 2008, 07:30:09 AM »

Here's an EVH Strat on Ebay with a BIN that saves you $5000 off the list price! The race is ON! lol

Bill, tgo

paulman · « **Reply #5 on:** May 06, 2008, 01:55:16 PM »

I'd like to know what the cleaning instructions on that guitar are, so it can be kept in like new condition.

Unfathomable. Thanks Bill da TGO! Wanna split that one?

u14steelgtr · « **Reply #6 on:** May 06, 2008, 02:50:53 PM »

Edie Halen must be a player because he is certainly not a craftsmen. Is this for real or did one of you post it for laughs?

-Eric

lbpesq · « **Reply #7 on:** May 06, 2008, 03:08:39 PM »

Absolutely for real. I even saw one in the flesh (wood?) at Gary Brawer's shop several months ago. A couple of kids were drooling over it, if you can believe that. $25,000 MSRP brand new. As P.T. Barnum noted, There's one born every minute.

Bill, tgo

u14steelgtr · « **Reply #8 on:** May 06, 2008, 03:12:32 PM »

OK I looked it up. This is a real guitar from Fender. Apparently this is a copy of a guitar he cobbled together when he could not afford to buy a good used guitar.

Eddie Halen's claim to fame is that he was married to Valerie Bertinelli. Given what I read about his marriage; Ed was definately of a player and I understand why he is her Ex. He definately has stage-presence though.

-E

Bradley Young · « **Reply #9 on:** May 06, 2008, 11:31:10 PM »

Um, just for reference, Eddie Van Halen does have some notoriety as a guitar player, in addition to the aforementioned ex-wife.

i.e.: http://youtube.com/watch?v=ULEBSxP725w

Bradley

2400wattman · « **Reply #10 on:** May 07, 2008, 12:40:43 AM »

Oh who really gives a S*#T, especially since shIddie fired the bass player/voice of Van Halen. His guitar is an amalgam of parts, his amp is a Soldano and I've been listening to more and more Tom Waits over VH. Heck I did not even click on the you tube link, I'm so pissed at Ed.

grateful · « **Reply #11 on:** May 07, 2008, 02:16:54 AM »

Fender craftsmen scoured the land for '71 quarters.

Presumably leaving non-craftsmen to build the guitars!

dadabass2001 · « **Reply #12 on:** May 07, 2008, 05:39:28 AM »

71 quarters = $17.75
sounds like a fair price....

u14steelgtr · « **Reply #13 on:** May 07, 2008, 12:08:31 PM »

Well said Grateful!

Bradley; if any of us obtain notoriety as a musicans I hope that it will be for playing something more note-worthy than the guy in that YouTube video.

hankster · « **Reply #14 on:** May 07, 2008, 08:00:26 PM »

I'm not sure I'd pay $200 for the guitar, let alone $20K, but when it comes to playing, Eddie's a monster. Let's give the devil his due.

Rick