PurpleSport
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The Charvel site has been updated and, as predicted by some here, has this news:
This may seem like old news, considering the recent thread about his hand painted "art guitars" - but the site now shows pics of what will be from a line of not-customized-by-Ed regular production instruments, which are painted EXACTLY like his original black/white, black/yellow, and red/white/black ones. Apparently these go into production after the NAMM show in Nashville is over.
And, in the "big guitar company with a Custom Shop (a/k/a contracted ghost builders from outside the factory)" tradition, there will be a limited run of sure to be even more overpriced 100 red/white/black Frankenstrats which will duplicate the original's scratches, nicks, burns, etc...(my question is, will they duplicate the Kramer headstock it was last seen with? <hah!> )...
A press release with more gory details is here: http://www.charvel.com/models/evh/press_release.html
Anyone want to get their bets in early on how long THIS association will last?
"The wait is over! Legendary guitarist, Edward Van Halen, is back in the fold and is once again working with Charvel® to create hand built replicas of his original striped guitar designs. EVH Art Series guitars feature custom-striped basswood bodies, a special-wound humbucking pickup, Original Floyd Rose® tremolo and a compound-radius, maple neck carved from his original specs. Even the volume pot has been replaced with a “Tone” knob just like Eddie's"!
This may seem like old news, considering the recent thread about his hand painted "art guitars" - but the site now shows pics of what will be from a line of not-customized-by-Ed regular production instruments, which are painted EXACTLY like his original black/white, black/yellow, and red/white/black ones. Apparently these go into production after the NAMM show in Nashville is over.
And, in the "big guitar company with a Custom Shop (a/k/a contracted ghost builders from outside the factory)" tradition, there will be a limited run of sure to be even more overpriced 100 red/white/black Frankenstrats which will duplicate the original's scratches, nicks, burns, etc...(my question is, will they duplicate the Kramer headstock it was last seen with? <hah!> )...
A press release with more gory details is here: http://www.charvel.com/models/evh/press_release.html
Anyone want to get their bets in early on how long THIS association will last?
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