A Tribute to EVH’s Revered Proto-superstrat The EVH Frankenstein Series Relic pays tribute to Edward Van Halen’s revered proto-superstrat platform, but drapes it in a road-punished, solid-colored finish and updates it with modern hardware and electronics. This electric guitar is built from a solid chunk of basswood, yielding growling acoustics with razor-sharp mids that can cut through a manic rhythm section with ease. A direct-mount Wolfgang humbucker nails Eddie’s classic tone, especially when you use it to push a British-voiced amp. The Frankenstein Series Relic includes a comfortable quarter-sawn maple neck and fast-playing compound-radius fingerboard, and its dive-bomb-only D-Tuna-equipped Floyd Rose lets you mimic Eddie’s signature trem work with ease, along with giving you instant access to Drop D tuning. This solidbody electric guitar is armed to the teeth with classic Van Halen aesthetics, including a dummy single-coil neck pickup, a 5-way blade selector switch wedged into the middle position,