Eddie Van Halen RELIC Stratocaster Frankenstrat SET

Inspired by Mr. Van Halen´s 1982 “Frankenstrat” guitar.
RELIC / AGED SET – Humbucker bridge and Strat sized neck.

Vintage correct PAF style pickup in the bridge position:

– black BUTYRATE bobbins with 49,2mm spacing. The pickup has to be installed at a slight angle to compensate for the differing string spacings of the Fender tremolo and the Gibson humbucker(49,2mm).

– AWG42 PLAIN ENAMEL WIRE ( HOT / overwound – 8,5kOhm @ 20°C)

– LONG LEGS on the nickel silver base plate. These long legs are too long for your regular strat – you need deeper bridge pickup cavity to install this pickup. Total height of this pickup with LONG LEGS is approx. 27mm. If you want SHORT LEGS and/or F-SPACED bridge pickup send us a message and we will work it out. Each pickup is built to order.

Eddies`s humbucker bridge pickup was mounted directly to the wood/body of the guitar. To install this pickup to the wood you will have to re-drill the mounting holes on the baseplate so they can accept wood screws. We can do that for you – you can leave a note at the checkout page or send us a message.

– rough cast AlNiCo 2 magnet bar
– maple spacer
– machined humbucker bar
– Nickel plated slugs and screws
– vintage style braided output wire

Eddie installed a red single-coil pickup in the neck position, but it wasn’t connected to the circuit.

Stratocaster sized neck pickup:

– 13kOhm DC resistance @20°C

– hand wound Elektrisola AWG 43 gauge wire

– red vulcanized fiber bobbin flatwork with brass eyelets

– Alnico 5 polepieces

– cloth covered push-back wire, wax potted(paraffin and bee`s wax).

– the coil is protected with black cloth pickup tape.

Scatter wound, fully charged magnets.