Yet another EVH Pickup speculation

[JohnnyGuitarCA]

I will reveal another secret about the magical EVH bridge pickup: the pole pieces and screws are made of unobtainium.

[BloodRose]

Everyone says the neck single coil in the original Frankie WAS NOT wired up. How can we be soo sure? I mean, obviously Eddie Van Halen will never say. Maybe it WAS actually wired up, and thats how he got some of that famous VH-1 sound? eh? Maybe he screwd around wiring up in series or something. Maybe it WASN'T all the bridge 'bucker.

Actually, it was EDDIE that was Wired!! Dimed marshall and cranked to the nines on malt liquor!!
Man is gifted as all get out and the first disks were just vibe...

[Reckless Abandon]

A source from the Van Halen camp has confided that the original VH guitar was wired by Amelia Earhart. The pickup was made with the wire from the generator of her last airplane.....her whereabouts still remain unknown.

[jeremy]

seymour copied that pup when they did the frankie thing, still isnt wired up on those i believe, but it could be and would work fine

[idsnowdog]

I heard it was potted with Ernest Borgnine's ear-wax.

[rumbleinbriton]

but when he originally recorded the album, didn't it(frankenstrat) still have the original pickguard(white) with neck and middle strat style pickups and a black paint job?

Ding, ding, we have a winner!

Half of the first VH album was recorded on a stock Ibanez Destroyer, and the other half with this:



That picture was taken about 2 1/2 mos before they started recording the album in August 1977.