I had left a nice white/cream spot for it by the tremolo. I peeled off the tape again and then applied the Starbucks decal. I peeled off the tape and applied some more lines and triangles and sprayed it brown – a nice chocolate brown. I taped some lines and some shapes on it, and then sprayed it cream. I first gave it a coat of white primer and then sprayed it white. I decided on four colors – white, cream, brown, and black – in that order. Can't tell by looking at it.Īnyway, so now it was time for painting. A little piece chipped off the treble side hole, but I glued it back in and strengthened it with a tiny screw. The Floyd Rose pivot screw holes were drilled for the old-style screws, so I re-drilled them for the modern posts/bushings. Very good quality and I'm impressed with KnE a lot. Anyway, the body came and the first thing I noticed (and I still notice!) is how HEAVY it is – wow! It's basically a typical top-routed, two-piece Strat body, but for a Floyd Rose and the middle single-coil route is whacked to mimic EVH's route. I did, and then ordered an ash Frankenstein body from KnE guitars. It was a terrible experience and I had to fight to get my money back. Over the summer, I bought a body off eBay that never came. My idea was to stick it on the body face behind the tremolo, in the same place where EVH put his 5150 decal on his famous Kramer 5150. I found a guy on eBay who could make a Starbucks vinyl decal (Exotic Coffee For Men) in any size or color, so I ordered on in brown. I then had the idea of putting a Starbucks decal on the body. Besides, I thought it would match the stained neck. I hadn't really done anything in the brown/cream color scheme, so I went with that. I decided that I would do something similar to the EVH Frankenstein, but not in those colors. It looks nice and smells even better! I then tracked down an old-school Kramer vinyl decal and it was ready – but for what? Around this same time, my parents were in town visiting and I had some coffee in the house for them, so one evening I made a very strong cup, dipped a rag in it, and used the coffee to stain the neck.
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(And Jerry even included a chrome neck plate, serial number 61071, which is the serial number on EVH's original Frankenstein.) The solid maple neck was totally unfinished and very lightly colored, so I thought I would stain it a bit before sealing it. It came with a 21-fret maple Warmoth neck that I used for my D4 project, along with another maple neck – a Custom Woods 22-fret, Kramer classic-style neck. This project started in March 2008 when I bought my EVH 81 -Bye Later See Ya- guitar from Jerry Lica. Where do these ideas come from? And to think I don't even drink coffee.
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