Eddie Van Halen Frankenstrat Miniature Guitar Replica By Axman

When the first Van Halen album was launched on an unsuspecting Rock world in 1979 it created a wave of excitement among guitar players the like of which hadn't been 'experienced' since a young Jimi Hendrix had emerged in the late 60s.

Edward Lodewijk Van Halen was born to Dutch-American parents in January 1955 and, with his brother Alex on drums, Mark Stone on bass, (later replaced by Michael Anthony), and David Lee Roth on vocals, he founded the seminal band Van Halen.

Edward (Eddie) Van Halen's explosive guitar playing was the most earth shattering development in Rock guitar in well over a decade and his style spawned a million clones and copyists. One of the essential ingredients in Van Halen's sound was his unique guitar.The unique finish of the Guitar was created by painting over strips of masking tape that had been applied to the body, removing them and repeating the process with different colours until the criss-cross striped effect had been achieved. Later versions of the Guitar had different coloured stripes, but the original guitar was the red and white coloured design.

For a guitarist who has topped every guitar playing poll there is and was voted Number 1 in the Top 100 Guitarists Of All Time, it's safe to say that he has earned back the meagre construction costs of the guitar, and then some!