The Spirit in Building a Parts Guitar
By Terry Ann
With advancements in computerized technology being able to afford well-crafted guitars made with precision machinery is possible.
Guitars built overseas are made with inexpensive labor, inexpensive hardware, and inexpensive electronics; however, the necks and
bodies are crafted with precision on computerized machinery, then the guitars are quickly assembled and put on the market.
Squier Bullets are popular guitars to modify because of their inexpensive cost, cheaply made hardware, but precision-made bodies
and necks. Many musicians, some famous and many unknown people, have built their own guitars to put the sound they heard in their
heads in their hands.
Brian May’s "Red Special"
Eddie Van Halen’s Frankenstrat was constructed by Eddie using a flawed ash body, an average maple neck, along with Gibson pickups
he gutted from his ES-335. And soon after, the classic Red, white, and black paint job was added. In April of 2023, the guitar
was auctioned for a cool $3.9 million USD.
Brian May’s Red Special was built by May and his father. The Red Special has been used on every Queen album since its beginning.
The neck was made from fireplace mantle wood. The name “Red Special” comes from the fact that it has been repeatedly stained with
many layers of Rustins plastic coating.
Eddie Van Halen’s "Frankenstrat"
In the 1970s, while with the Dominos, Eric Clapton bought six used 1950s Fender Stratocasters from Sho-Bud Music in Nashville.
During that period, Stratocasters were less popular than they are currently, allowing Eric to purchase them for a few hundred
dollars each. Eric Clapton stated that they were cheap enough that he bought six of them and gave one to Steve Winwood, one to
George Harrison, and one to Pete Townshend; and with the remaining three he took a black bodied Stratocaster of one he liked, the
1957 neck of another, and the electronics from another he liked the sound of to create the guitar known affectionately as
"Blackie."
Music is a form of art, and just like an artist uses colors to reflect his or her feelings and what their mind's eye sees at the
time of their work; a musician's sound is the palette they use to reflect what they hear in their heads and the feelings they
have at the time of their work, and their instruments are their brushes in which they construct their art.
Eric Clapton's "Blackie"
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