“ i just go where the guitar takes me. IN TUNE Angus” Young For my dad who has always inspired and encouraged me. 1 2 15 Eddie Van Halen CONTENTS Frankenstrat 1979 Charvel hybrid VH2 EVH Wolfgang BB King Guitar anatomy 19 5 Gibson Memphis ES-355 7 Jimi Hendrix 21 Slash 1967 Flying V Slash Appitite Les Paul 1968 Fender Stratocaster B.C. Rich Mockingbird 1960 Danelectro 1967 Gibson EDS-1275 11 Jimmy Page 25 Details & Backstories 1959 Les Paul Standard 1959 Fender Telecaster Gibson EDS-1275 Index 3 29 4 Cutaway Anatomy Pickgaurd Control knobs Fingerboard Headstock Neck Pickup Bridge Inlay 5 6 1967 Gibson Flying V Handpainted Arrowhead Stringed backwards: E, B, headstock, G, D, A, E. shortened for balance and elegance. Mahogany neck, grade-a rosewood T-Bone PAF-style tones. fingerboard. They are called PAF becuase gibson had applied for a patent but did not recieve the number, hence Patent Applied For. Iconic “v” styling, slimmed down for Two volume optimum playing controls, master comfort. tone, 3-way selector, with JIMI HENDRIX “witch hat” knobs. 7 8 1968 Fender Stratocaster Betty Jean 1960 Danelectro Alder wood headstock. Bottle headstock. Maple wood Rosewood fingerboard in Bolt-on neck with an fingerboard. a“C” Shape with aluminum neck rod a finished Gloss from the peghead to Polyester. the bridge. Alder wood Sleek Body Shape and Contours. Three expressive 2 NOS lipstick American Vintage pickups. ‘65 Gray-Bottom single-coil pickups. 6-Saddle Vintage-Style 5 Poplar wood Synchronized body. 2 stacked tone tremolo bridge. and volume controls. 9 10 ’59 Les Paul Standard Quarter-sawn, lightweight Les Paul headstock mahogany and rosewood is carefully angled at fingerboard. Gibson’s traditional 17 degrees, which increases pressure on the strings Two-piece Eastern and helps them stay in maple top attached the nut slots. to a one-piece, solid, lightweight, genuine mahogany back in an Amber sunburst. Volume and Tone controls carry period correct gold Humbucking pickups, a top-hat knobs. covered Gibson Custom Bucker in the neck. JIMJIMMY PAGE MY PAGE Tune-o-matic bridge that is made from zinc and plated in polished nickel. 11 12 Gibson EDS-1275 Dragon1959 Fender Telecaster Telecaster Ash wood headstock Maple wood neck Maple neck, with removed logo. with a rosewood Rosewood fingerboard. fingerboard with pearloid dot inlays. Custom bucker Mahogany 5000-4730 coil Slab ash wood body- wood body. pickups. blonde in colour, painted by Jimmy. Flat pole single coil pickups. Four knobs for lead and Nickle plated rhythm tones. bridge. Top-loading bridge with Master Volume adjustable knob, Master chrome Tone knob and saddles. 3-position toggle switch. 13 14 HandmadeFrankenstrat Fender Stratocaster The $80 neck had jumbo fret wire, and its truss rod was adjustable at the heel. Maple wood neck with a rosewood fingerboard. PAF pickups removed from a EDS - 1275 are placed in the bridge position, slightly Ash wood body hand sideways to compensate painted by Eddie. for the different string The body was froma spacing between the factory and had a knot Gibson’s pickup and the in the wood costing Fender’s bridge. him $50. EDDIE VAN HALEN Van Halen removed both tone controls, using a vinyl record he carved into a pickguard to cover the controls. 15 16 Bumble-bee EVH Wolfgang ‘79 Charvel hybrid VH2 U.S.A. Custom Mahogany neck with a 22-fret ebony fingerboard. Graphite-reinforced quartersawn maple neck. Mahogany body Wolfgang with solid flame humbucking Basswood maple top. pickups. Stratocaster style body, with a maple A single direct- fingerboard. mount Wolfgang humbucking pickup. Two EVH high-friction tone knobs and two low-friction volume Tune-o-Matic Style knobs, hard-tail bridge A single black Wolfgang, Custom- with fine tuners. volume control Designed Nickel- knob. Covered bridge. 17 18 GibsonLucille Memphis ES-355 Maple wood neck with richlite fingerboard. Maple wood and poplar body without f-holes. 490R and 490T humbucker pickups. BB KING Tune-O-Matic bridge peice. Four knobs for tone and volume. 19 20 Slash Appetite Les Paul The design incorporates Gibson’s lauded 17-degree back-angled A quarter-sawn headstock. mahogany Neck with a rosewood fingerboard. Finished in a Amber burst to replicate the look of an vintage Seymour Duncan Les Paul. The Signature Series back and sides Alnico II Pro Slash are finished humbucking pickups. in a classic satin cherry. This bridge provides a firm seating for the The mahogany strings, it carries a back has been TonePros Tune-o-matic routed with nine (ABR-1) bridge that is holes strategically plated in chrome. SLASH located to relieve weight and enhance tone. The Appitite Les Paul uses an independent Volume and Tone control for each pickup. 21 22 B.C. RICH MOCKING BIRD Gibson EDS-1275 1967 3-to-a-side traditional Mahogany neck with headstock with ebony fingerboard rosewood overlay. with diamond-shaped inlays. Maple wood neck with a rosewood fingerboard. Mahogany body Seymour Duncan with red quilttop. Signature Series Alnico II Pro Slash Mahogany humbucking pickups wood body Floyd Rose Seymour Original Series Duncan Tremolo. Alnico Pro Four knobs Nickle plated 2 pickups. for lead and bridge. rhythm tones. 23 24 Lucille Lucille, an ebony Gibson Memphis ES-355 was named back in 1949 at a B.B. King show. King was playing at a nightclub in Twist, Arkansas. The crowd would fill barrels with kerosene and light them. During the show two men were fighing and knocked a barrel over, lighting the club on fire. King ran from the room only to turn back for his Details & $20 guitar. The next day B.B. King learned that the men were fighting over a woman who worked at Backstories the bar named Lucille. 25 26 1967 Gibson Flying V Frankenstrat Jimi Hendrix attended elementary school during the Eddie Van Halen built the 5150 by hand at the mid-1950s, where he would carry around a broom Kramer factory. The guitar was made from an to emulate a guitar. This caught the attention of the imperfect Kramer Baretta body, which he bought school’s social worker. After she watched him do this for the discounted price of $50 because the body for a year she requested funding for underprivileged had an unattractive knot. He also bought the body kids. She insisted that leaving him with the broom any and $80 neck from Wayne Charvel’s guitar shop. longer will result in psychological damage. Her efforts failed and his father refused to buy him a guitar. Van Halen installed a PAF humbucker pickup in the bridge position on an angle to compensate for At age 15 Hendrix bought his first guitar for $5. the different string ratio. The only control knob Throughout his life he learned to play right-handed labelled ‘tone’ is actually the volume. In 1979 he guitars upside down and to restring for left-handed repainted the black and white guitar with red, playing. This had an effect on the sound of the keeping the black and white showing through. guitar. Because of the slant of the bridge pickup, his He later replaced the guitar ‘bumble bee’ which was lowest string had a brighter sound while his highest placed in Darrel Abbott’s casket in 2004. On the string had a darker sound. This was the opposite of 2004 reunion tour he replaced the neck on the 5150. what Fender had intended for the Stratocaster. Jimi eventually moved onto Gibson, using a Flying V because of the double cutaway that makes it easy to flip the guitar over and play it left-handed. Hendrix owned three different models - a ’67 which he hand- painted himself, a 1968 Tobacco Burst Flying V, and a 1969 custom left-handed Flying V. Jimi debuted the hand-painted Flying V in 1967, and used it extensively for about a year, before the SG Custom took its place. 27 28 Neck Bridge A bridge supports the strings on a guitar to transmit the vibration of the strings from the bridge to the neck/fingerbaord. Truss Rod The truss rod is part of a guitar stabilizes the lengthwise forward curvature of the neck. Usually it is a steel bar or rod that runs inside the neck, Index beneath the fingerboard. Pickups Humbucker Double coiled pickups that are used to cancel noise and interference. The pickups have magnets that are pointed out facing the stings. Single coiled pickups pick up a hum from the magnetic intereference fromt the stings of the guitar or a complex microphone. PAF PAF or “Patent Applied For” is an early model of the humbucker guitar pickup invented in 1955. Gibson began use of the PAF on higher-model guitars in late 1956 and stopped in around 1962. Early Gibson pickup winding machines were manually operated and had no mechanism to automatically cut the wire after a set number of turns. This led to every pickup having a slightly different sound. 29 30 Information gathered from Gibson and Fender sites. 31 32.