This one is hard for me to accept, but watch the video for yourself, at about 17 minutes he explains how he conceived of the idea for dipping pickups in wax to stop them from squealing. One little piece of info Edward also shared in this 2017 interview with The Smithsonian's National Museum of American History and Zócalo Public Square: Eddie claims to have INVENTED wax potting pickups! NOT the famous first Floyd that Edward would get at a LATER time. that's a Gibson PAF pickup (totally NOT a "hot" pickup) and a 50's Fender trem. Again, mind blown, head spinning! Listen back to Van Halen 1. and THAT gave him the ability to dive-bomb. he ALSO yanked the vibrato out of a 50's Strat. ![]() “I took a PAF out of an ES-335 and the vibrato out of a Fifties Strat when I made my Frankenstein guitar” or the very fact that that phat, saturated tone came from the lowliest of all buckers! Let's look into this a little more.įrom the January/February 2014 issue of Guitar Aficionado magazine. Are ya ready for this? It was a vintage PAF he yanked out of a vintage Gibson ES-335! Holy crap, I'm not sure what blows my mind the most. yep, the VH-1 guitar that broke sooo much ground tone wise. ![]() ![]() I promised I would bring you this info, so here goes! Today we're talking about the pickup in the first "Frankenstrat". Howdy again fellow guitar tone seekers! Last week, in researching Edward Van Halen's use of a Variac, I stumbled on a couple of OTHER tidbits that caught me unaware. The TRUE Story of Eddie Van Halen's Frankenstrat
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