Product Overview
Widely regarded as the most recognizable electric guitar ever, Eddie Van Halen's iconic and revered Frankenstein guitar now comes your way with a price tag the everyday musician can afford in the form of the EVH Striped Series Frankie.
Sporting Eddie's famed red with white-and-black-striped paint job and a worn-in reliced look, the all-new Frankie features a basswood Stratocaster-style body paired to a graphite-reinforced quartersawn maple neck. An oiled finish on the back of the neck allows for hours of playing comfort, while the 12"-16" compound radius maple fingerboard with 22 jumbo frets was designed for fast and furious playing styles.
Routed for an HSS pickup configuration just like Eddie's original, Frankie features an EVH Wolfgang humbucking bridge pickup with a dummy Strat neck pickup and a dummy five-way blade housed in the middle position.
A sturdy and dependable EVH-branded Floyd Rose locking trem and Floyd Rose locking nut work in tandem for precise tuning even with extreme changes in pitch, while the EVH D-Tuna retunes to drop-D and back with strict accuracy at the flick of a finger.
Other unique features include a white skirted Strat-style single volume control knob (labeled "tone"), custom black pickguard, reliced chrome hardware, standard strap buttons and EVH neck plate.
- Body: Basswood
- Body Finish: Satin Lacquer
- Body Shape: Stratocaster
- Control Knobs: Parchment Stratocaster-Style Skirt (Labeled "Tone")
- Fingerboard: Maple
- Hardware Finish: Chrome Relic
- Pickguard: Black Custom Frankie
- Position Inlays: Black Dot
- Neck Finish: Oiled
- Neck Construction: Bolt-On with Graphite Reinforcement
- Neck Shape: EVH Modified "C" Backshape
- Neck Pickup: Dummy Strat Pickup
- Headstock: Licensed Fender Stratocaster
- Orientation: Right-Hand
- Configuration: HSS
- Scale Length: 25.5" (64.77 cm)
- Number of Frets: 22
- Fret Size: Jumbo
- String Nut: Floyd Rose R3 Locking
- Nut Width: 1.6875" (42.86 mm)
- Truss Rod Wrench: 2.5 mm Hex
- Bridge Pickup: Direct Mount EVH Wolfgang Humbucking
- Middle Pickup: N/A
- Controls: Volume
- Pickup Switching: Dummy Five-Way Blade
- Pickup Configuration: HSS
- Bridge: EVH-Branded Floyd Rose Locking Tremolo with EVH D-Tuna
- Tuning Machines: EVH-Branded Gotoh
- Strings: EVH Nickel Plated Steel (.009-.042 Gauges)
- Included Accessories: Tremolo Arm, Hex Keys & User Manual
- Case/Gig Bag: Optional EVH Striped Hardshell (p/n 022-6100-506); Optional EVH Black Gig Bag (p/n 022-1512-006)
- Fingerboard Radius: 12"-16" Compound Radius (304.8 mm to 406.4 mm)
- Refinement Fingerboard Radius: Compound
- Neck Material: Quartersawn Maple
- Refinement Neck Material: Maple
- Nut Material: Floyd Rose R3 Locking
- Truss Rod: Two-Way Adjustable
- Truss Rod Nut: Heel-Mount Truss Rod Adjustment Wheel
- Neck Thickness: .790" at 3rd fret & .825" at 12th fret
