Guitar Porn

When I was in high school in the 80s, you couldn’t get an EVH guitar; you had to, like him, build it yourself. But fortunately Ed Van Halen had alerted kids like me looking for a guitar like his: Charvel was also a mail-order replacement parts supplier. I started on this senior year (1984) buying parts out of ads in the back of Guitar Player and Guitar World. It seemingly took forever w a minimum wage gig, but eventually I got everything I needed. A friend painted it with a mix of Krylon and automotive lacquer. It has a Garbage Pail Kids “Beth Deth” sticker on the front and a WV Poison Control “Mr. Yuck” sticker on the back that have been there since day one. The only luthier in town took me under his wing and helped me with the assembly and setup.

It finally made its onstage debut in ‘86. It was then used on every single gig I played, from then until 2008. It still gets used for recording and knocking around the house. The finish has a crazy amount of checking all these years later but it still looks cool IMO for a decades-old guerrilla DIY paint job.

It’s a northern ash body that judging from the rear cavity routing was likely cut for them by DiMarzio back in the day. The neck has that old-school Charvel feel that’s the reason why the brand is legendary. The Fender iterations are close but no cigar.

It’s now on its 3rd set of bridge saddles, but the only modernizations have been FU-Tone hardware upgrades including a D-tuna on the original Floyd, the pickup is now PMS-mounted, and it got an Bourns/EVH low-friction 500K volume pot and an Analysis Plus QiJack. It still plays and sounds great.

Another from Quebec luthier Lacello Guitars

25.5 Scale

Black limba body

Flamed maple top

Roasted birdeye maple fretboard

Wenge/maple neck

Lundgren m6 pickup set

Hipshot fixed bridge

Hipshot open gear locking tuners

Blacktusq nut

Hipshot knobs

Cts pots

Xjumbo stainless steel frets

Ive been playing for six years and these are my guitars so far. I want to put a bigsby trem on the Gretsch and take the stickers off the strat. I also accidentally asked this in a shitpost subreddit first and got really sad when everyone was being incredibly mean lol.

I’ve enjoyed the look of these guitars online for a while now but this was the first time I had spent any real time with one - very nice indeed!

Tempered pine body - Fralin P90s and a Mastery bridge

I like this in a fully non-anthropomorphic way - tempered pine body, Fralin P90s and Maestro wiggle stick with extra bend - lots of fun

Cheap GFS pickups sound insanely good. Nut, strap pins, pots and wiring, and pickup rings about the only original parts remaining.

Was laying on my sofa and looked up. Been owning her for 2 years now - damn she's a beauty.

Epiphone Les Paul Custom Purple Widow, SG Custom Purple Sparkle, Les Paul Custom Silverburst. I've had a thing for the Custom's lately.