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Our Most Popular Unfinished Kit Guitar Costs Only $239.00
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Kit 02 is Our Best Selling Do It Yourself Kit
Kits 01 - 05 Come with a Paddle Shaped Headstock Ready for Your Custom Shaping
Images Below are Shown as Examples of Finished Headstocks
Kit # | Kit Guitar Description | Image | Price |
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Double-Cut Archtop, PRS / Quicksilver Style, Paddle Headstock Ready for Your Custom Shape, Our Best Selling Low Cost Kit | $239.00 | ||
Stratus Kit, 3 Single Coil Pickups, Tremolo Tailpiece, Paddle Headstock Ready for Your Custom Shape | $149.00 | ||
Telus Kit, 2 Single Coil Pickups, Paddle Headstock Ready for Your Custom Shape | $149.00 | ||
Bass Kit, Paddle Headstock Ready for Your Custom Shape | $199.00 |
Options For Kits 01 thru 05
= Recommended By Ed RomanOption | Description | Price |
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Headstock Carve | We'll custom cut the headstock to your specifications. | $100.00 |
Upgraded Tuners | Not all tuners line up exactly, please be aware. | POR |
TonePros Bridge | Please be aware that the TonePros Bridge will require doweling the bridge posts on the body and then redrilling to fit the superior TonePros Bridge. This bridge is a superior bridge and will not lose intonation like most other bridges. | $100.00 |
250K Pots | The pots Ed Roman supplies are smoother and will last years before they crackle. | $8.00 |
500K Pots | The pots Ed Roman supplies are smoother and will last years before they crackle. | $9.00 |
Pickup Choices Available | Price Depends on Pickups | POR |
Schaller Straplocks | High quality | $25.00 |
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High Quality Custom Guitar Kits
These Kits Have Many Custom Design Features
Kit # | Kit Guitar Description | Image | Price |
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5150 Kit USA Duncan Pickups & Original Floyd Rose, High Quality Parts, USA Made Body & Neck
Please note that these are not sold painted |
$899.00 | ||
Frankenstrat Kit
Please note that these are not sold painted |
$999.00 | ||
CBGB Kit, 100% USA Made Johnny Ramone Style Kit | $999.00 | ||
J. Frog Kit, Original Floyd Rose Bridge, Switches, Wiring, Duncan Pickup & Grover Tuners, Choice of Maple Or Rosewood Fingerboard | $899.00 |
Options For Kits C10 through C13
Reverse Hockey Stick Headstock | $50.00 |
Swamp Ash Body | $150.00 |
Black Korina Body | $550.00 |
White Korina Body | $250.00 |
Mahogany Body | $200.00 |
Basswood Body | $80.00 |
Poplar Body | $90.00 |
Rosewood Fingerboard | $50.00 |
Ebony Fingerboard | $180.00 |
Frankenstrat Broken Pickguard with VH Style Humbucker Route | $60.00 |
Schaller Tuners | $60.00 |
Custom Headstock Shaping | $100.00 |
Other Head Stock Shapes | POR |
Seymour Duncan Proprietary Black/Back Pickup (Same pickup we installed in EVH's Guitar) | $125.00 |
Custom Pickup Routing | $50.00 |
1500 G Neck Mod (Makes Your Guitar Play Like The Devil On Hot Oil) | $250.00 |
Kramer Decal Original Limited Quantity | $50.00 |
Kramer USA Neckplate Original Limited Quantity | $100.00 |
Reflector Set For Van Halen Style Gtr | $35.00 |
Black Hardware all Screws included | $150.00 |
Gold Hardware all Screws Included | $185.00 |
Stutter Switch | $18.00 |
Straplocks | $25.00 |
Install Floyd Studs Set Neck Geometry | $50.00 |
Direct Couple Neck Kit | $25.00 |
Install & Align Brass Inserts In Neck for Direct Couple Kit | $60.00 |
Left Handed | $100.00 |
Pre-Build Assembly | $150.00 |
Dis-Assemble Pre-Build | $25.00 |
Fret Level & Polish (REquire Pre-Build) | $150.00 |
Red Covered Single Coil Pickup (Frankenstrat) | POR |
5-Way Blade (Frankenstrat) | POR |
Skunk Stripe on Back of Neck | $100.00 |
KIT #5150 Our Most Popular Bolt On Kit
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Please note that these are not sold painted
Black Hardware Is Additional
Here's What You Get 100% American Made High Quality
There are no cheap second rate parts on this guitar
Parts List 5150 Guitar Kit
Neck | Hockey Stick, or Fender Style Maple Fretboard |
Body | Alder |
Tremolo | Original case hardened Floyd Rose Trem, springs, studs, screws etc |
Pickup | Seymour Duncan Premium 59 Pickup (substitutions can be extra) |
Tuners | Grover Mini 6 In Line, Chrome, all mounting screws |
Locknut | Floyd Rose original shelf mount & mounting screws |
Potentiometer | 500 K |
Knob | Correct Knob MXR style |
Neck bolts | 4 Stainless Bolts |
Neck Plate | Chrome Plated |
Cavity Cover | Parallelogram with 4 screws |
Jackplate | Oblong Or Fender Style including jack |
Options For Upgrading Any Kit Guitar
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All Options Pertaining To any EVH Kit Highlighted in Purple
Items Highlighted Are Not Necessary To Build The Kit !!!! They Are Upgrades
Be Super Careful of eBay 5150 Kramers
99% of the people who are building The EVH 5150 paint job guitars ( there are lots these days) are using cheap Korean Kramer's as the core for the job. In fact Kramer never made a non tilt headstock in the USA. The only ones that came with the non tilt headstock are the Korean made Strikers & 1 model Japanese Focus. I have seen some of these guitars and they are far from acceptable. So be careful if you are considering buying one of those.
Eddie's Original guitar came with a non tilt Banana type headstock. The Kramer headstocks that Music Yo is peddling has a thinner profile and a slight hook on the end. The angle the picture is taken can effectively camouflage the thinner and different looking headstock.
Photo Taken In Ed's Office Las Vegas The Axology of Edward Van Halen By Michael McGuire 2007
Eddie’s most famous guitars & the albums Obviously the guitar best well known for this album is the original Black and White Frankenstrat. This heavily valued guitar started out life as a $130.00, factory second, fire wood, neck and body which Eddie bought from a company called Boogie Bodies. He took it home and immediately sprayed it black with a can of Schwinn bicycle paint. He also made a pickguard for it. Eddie loved the sound of an old PAF. humbucker, so he chiseled a hunk of wood out of the body so the pickup could fit. He also liked the strat tremolo but had trouble keeping it in tune. He installed a brass nut, had to keep it lubricated, and turned the ball end of the string in sync with the turning of the machine head as he tuned the instrument. The guitar ended up getting the stripe pattern as he masked off the guitar and sprayed white, keeping only what he wanted to be black. Today's Pickup manufacturers all offer some type of pickup that they call their EVH Clone. Ed Roman has done extensive research on this and offers several different versions with his kits. Interesting Footnote: The CBS strat headstock has a Gibson logo, and the very fine black stripes are actually electrical tape. Today Eddie's pickups are custom wound. Contact Ed Roman for Custom Wound duplicates or get the special Tom Holmes pickups that emulate the 50's PAF. Van Halen II This guitar was featured in the artwork of the second album. It was finished and delivered just in time for the photo shoot. Although Eddie used this guitar live during the tour, he never really used it again unlike most of the other guitars. Not venturing far from the first guitar, it features a single humbucker pickup, one volume control, maple neck and a tremolo. This guitar did have one new feature, the locking tremolo which was developed by Floyd Rose. Soon, almost every guitar he had will use this system.
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Women & Children First 'The Shark' click for more details
This guitar was used on many of the recordings of the first three albums. Anytime you don’t hear a dive-bomb or tremolo, chances are that Eddie was using this guitar. He loved it. The guitar was originally an Ibanez Destroyer which was only made for a few years. Our sue happy corporate friends at Gibson Sued for design infringements. Features include two humbuckers, two volumes, and a selector switch which Eddie used for another little trick. Just listen to “You Really Got Me” and you’ll know what I’m talking about. As you can probably assume, Eddie couldn’t leave this one alone either. Armed with a saw, he transformed the original shape into something resembling a shark’s jaw. Hence the nickname, “Shark”. He then proceeded to stripe and paint the guitar with silver and red metallic colors. Many people assume it is white & red. It is actually silver.
Interesting footnote:
Ed Roman has made several copies of this and 'The Shark' in neck through body versions
Fair Warning (Unchained)
Eddie only used this guitar live for the song Unchained. He needed a guitar that was already tuned to “Drop D” since it is difficult to do so live with a locking tremolo. The alluring features of this guitar are the various circles and the fact that it has not been well photographed. I guess Eddie was getting tired of just the stripes so he decided to go with a rather bizarre look for this one. Otherwise it is a pretty standard Eddie guitar with all of the right ingredients. This guitar is available Contact Ed Roman. Interesting Footnote: Eddie has patented a device that instantly drops the low E string to a D for locking tremolos aptly name the “D tuna. 1984 Normal people look at this thing and have to think it is the ugliest thing they have ever seen. Guitarists look at it and think the exact opposite. Eddie has played this on every tour & it has the battle scars to prove it. Eddie broke the original neck which led him to replace it a handful of times.
Kits are available for any version you like
Why?? Because he thought it looked cool. Ed Roman just purchased 1000 of these reflectors, They are available in any of the kits. Interesting Footnote: At one point the guitar had a Hockey stick or “Banana” headstock neck which was originally designed by J. Frog. Kramer made it famous. Gibson tried to sue for rights to the headstock but J Frog had a 24 year head start at the time. 5150 Probably the second most well known of Eddie’s guitars is the 5150. This became his main stage guitar after he retired the Frankenstrat. The guitar was actually a backup on the 1984 tour. Eddie seemed to demote and promote guitars regularly, but never lost interest in what was suitable for him. Built much like the other guitars, the 5150 was made by a little known company called Kramer. Eddie and Kramer built many 5150 style guitars that were either used by Eddie, or given away to friends or contests. The only really interesting features on the guitar are the “Space Tape” numbers and stars. Interesting Footnote: Eddie split the headstock at the sixth tuner and had Ernie Ball fix it. Then Ernie Ball company put a Music Man logo over the Kramer logo. 'I don't think that is very Kosher' Note From Ed That was a really slimy thing to do. Honorable mention: The “1984” guitar has all of the same features with a slightly different stripe pattern. This was used as a backup to the 5150. OU812 Definitely, one of Eddie’s most bizarre guitars. Eddie always likes new and interesting things. The Steinberger caught his attention. The features on this guitar were very futuristic; Active EMG humbuckers, Fiberglass neck and body, no headstock, and a tremolo that seemed nearly impossible to comprehend. The Trans Trem system is unique in that it transposes and locks the strings so that it is still in tune. Eddie loved it. But there was still something missing. The Red, White & Black stripes.
Eddie was a huge fan of headless guitars, during that era the band was traveling a lot and the headless guitars are known for better stability and control when the weather & climate affect the tuning and the neck.
Eddie favored the small ones although he told Ed Roman that he would have preferred a wooden body. Ed made a beautiful LSR headless guitar for Eddie and delivered it to him personally in 1998. Interesting Footnote: Note from Ed This of course is nowhere near all of Eddie's Guitars, He has lots of really cool and interesting guitars. some old 79 Dean V's a lot of Steinbergers, He has LSR number 2, I built it for him in the mid nineties. The guitars in this article are the signature guitars that made him famous. I personally have a copy of every one of them in my collection. And I know where some of the original high quality copies are. Contact me directly if you are looking for any particular model. I have a line on most of them. Eddie's Most Famous Guitars
Interesting Footnote: The OU812 Steinberger was used on 5150, You can hear the trans trem. A custom made Korina Tone Wood body made to retrofit on Albert May's Ibanez Petrucci Guitar. When Albert rebuilt his Petrucci guitar he used his original neck and my shop made him this wonderfully resonant Korina body. The tonal difference was so incredible that a even a beginner could immediately hear the difference. These are currently in stock. Notice the step routed pickup cavity. This allows the replacement pickups to mount directly to the body instead of floating on springs. This factor makes the pickups and guitar resonate together. More gain before feedback and significantly clearer highs and tighter lows. We compared the original Dimarzio pickups (Stock) against the Seymour Duncan Black/Backs TM and we were astounded by the difference. The Dimarzio's distorted horribly on the low end compared to the Duncan's. The other comparison of note was the Tremolo. We compared the Stock Ibanez Tremolo against the real Original Floyd Rose The tonal difference was again immediately apparent. The original Floyd Rose is made to extremely close tolerances. The steel is hardened to 60 Rockwell. Not only did the guitar hold tune better it sounded better and was much more responsive than the original Ibanez model. The Ibanez Original performed adequately however. |
You can now have a kit for absolutely any guitar you want to recreate!
To remain within the bounds of legality Ed Roman will make certain headstocks slightly different.
usually these headstock might have a lump or bump on them to make them legal.
Ed Roman accepts no responsibility if the buyer shaves the bump off the headstock!!!
We offer most shapes for most popular & hard to find guitars.
We also can custom hand make any extremely oddball body shape,
OriginalLes Paul Necks Break like crazy.
We offer a replacement aftermarket neck in almost any wood combination with or without a volute.
We can make exact replacement San Dimas Necks & Bodies, Van Halen Shark guitars,
However We can legally custom build any shape you want as long as it is a one time custom job
We can also repair any neck body or bodycore that you send us !!!! Frankenstrat Kit Finished
Please note that these are not sold painted
Shark Kit Finished
Be Careful of E-Bay 5150 Kramers & Other Van Halen Parts Suppliers 99% of the people who are building The EVH 5150 paint job guitars (and there are lots these days) are using cheap Korean & Chinese Kramers as the core for the job. In fact Kramer never made a non tilt headstock in the USA. The only ones that came with the non tilt headstock are the Korean made Strikers & 1 model Imported Focus. I have seen some of these guitars and they are far from accurate. So be careful if you are considering buying one of those. Most of Eddie's original guitars came with a non tilt Banana type headstock. |
All These Guitars Are Available In Kit Form
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Here are some of the more FAQ's about our kits:
Ed Roman Responds !!!!
Q: How do you get all these new parts when the manufacturers like PRS, Jackson, Fender or Ibanez refuse to sell them? A: Simple, I disassemble brand new & used guitars and sell them for parts. Q: If these companies don't want parts sold, Why don't they refuse to sell to you because you are disassembling. What would you do then? A: Simple, I will two step the product from other dealers, I will do whatever is necessary to buy the product. Be assured I will always have most of the hard to find parts I take apart every Ernie Ball guitar that I get because parts are actually worth more. Consequently I don't do any business directly with them. Q: Why is it that these companies don't want parts sold? A: Some of them say they are afraid that someone might make forgeries but I suspect the truth is they want to sell you a new guitar. Q: Why do you make aftermarket parts for these companies? A: In the case of Gibson, Ibanez, ESP or other Asian companies I can make a much better looking & sounding product, In the case of companies like PRS I can offer different variations of hardware than the originals. I can also offer 42 variations in Tonewood that none of these companies are willing to provide. |
Original Bodies & Neck Also
BC Rich, Jackson, Paul Reed Smith, Fender, Hamer, Steinberger,
Ibanez, Kramer, Charvel, ESP, Gibson, J Frog, and more!
Licensed by Fender maple and rosewood necks available
Quicksilver Necks 100% interchangeable with PRS necks.
Graphite and Exotic wood necks available!
Korina Wood Body Made To Retrofit on Albert May's IbanezPetrucci Guitar.
When Albert rebuilt his Petrucci guitar he used his original neck and my shop made him this wonderfully resonant Korina Body. The tonal difference wasso incredible that a even a beginner could immediately hear the difference. These bodies are currently in stock. Notice the step routed pickup cavity. This allows the replacement pickups to mount directly to the body instead of floating on springs. |
We compared the original Dimarzio pickups (stock) against the Seymour Duncan Black/Backs TM and we were astounded by the difference. The Dimarzio's distorted horribly on the low end compared to the Duncan's. The other comparison of note was the Tremolo. We compared the stock Ibanez tremolo against the real Original Floyd Rose The tonal difference was again immediately apparent. The original Floyd Rose is made to extremely close tolerances. The steel is hardened to 60 Rockwell. Not only did the guitar hold tune better it sounded better and was much more responsive than the original Ibanez model. See Scorpion Guitars |
Ed Roman can build absolutely any body shape you can think of in a 7-String design
Famous Kiss Guitars All Available Call Ed Roman
Chris Holmes Model Available
Eddie Van Halen Available
Chris Holmes Available
Vito Bratta Available As A Kit Save $1,500.00
Paul Stanley Available
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Average Prices $1,100.00 Below The Normal Cost Of The Guitar
Read This First.. Before You Call Us For A Kit
Ed Roman Guitars will sell you a kit for almost any guitar that you can find on this website.
These kits are just as custom as when we build them !!! The price that we sell the kits for averages savings of 1,100.00 Cheaper than if you bought the guitar.
On an expensive guitar like the Symbol Or The Kingpin you could save as much as $3,000.00 by buying it in kit form.
Call Our Custom Shop 702.875.4552 We will be glad to sell you all the components for a custom guitar in kit form. Have your local luthier build it for you or do it yourself.
Don't email us about kits. Currently we get about 6 requests for kit quotes a day by Email. I can't remember ever actually selling one from an Email quote. If you must do an email quote we require a $50.00 nonrefundable deposit on the kit !!!! (Sorry but time is money)You got paint on the body! Congrats on reaching an exciting milestone in your new creation: applying color!
5. Sand to a shine
But first things first! Let's get that primer coat smooth!
After the primer coat has had time to completely dry, you will want to get a piece of 1200 grit sand paper and LIGHTLY sand over the body to ensure that you have a smooth finish. I stress lightly because the paint will sand off easily, especially around the edges and corners. This is your last chance to make sure the body is smooth to ensure the rest of the coats go on smoothly. IF YOU HAVE ANY DOUBT THAT THE BODY ISN'T SMOOTH, TAKE THE TIME NOW TO EITHER SAND THE BODY FLAT OR BUILD UP A COUPLE MORE LAYERS OF PRIMER AND SAND AGAIN! Don't be afraid or too impatient! You can buildup as many layers as you like and sand down until you get that perfect flatness.
Once you are satisfied and any buildup layers of primer you may have added have had the time to dry, take a damp cloth and wipe over the entire surface to remove any and all dust and debris, especially focusing in areas such as the pockets and cavities.
Let the guitar dry off for a few minutes, and ADD SOME PAINT, MAN! YEEAAHH!!
This process will be exactly the same as the process for applying the primer coat. Start off the guitar and start your spray. Move the spray in an even motion towards the other edge of the guitar and continue off the edge to ensure you don't buildup a 'spot' of heavy paint. Continue back and forth, up and down, alternating directions with each layer. Revert back to Step 4: Applying a Primer Base Coat to see the painting process and tips. When you are finished with that, your guitar should look like this!
Let this layer dry for and cure for at least 48 hours and move on to Step 6: Applying the White!
-Overview
-Step 1: Materials
-Step 2: Stripping the Paint
-Step 3: Filling Holes and Dings
-Step 4: Primer Base Coat
-Step 5: Applying First Color Coat