Old VH pics

[rgorke]

The best pics of it are in a Guitar Player where he gives a lesson with the checkered shirt on. The red frank has a white pickguard.

Here is one of those pics...


...as you can see, it's the same black p/u as in this shot...

Those look like two different guitars. Look at the black stripes on the upper horn and the squiggly stripes above the pickguard. One has more black than the other.

[Bore Em at the Forum]

Looks like maybe he hit the guitar with red a 2nd time between photo 1 and photo 2?

You gotta dig the "Square Pegs" era shirt, though.

[garbeaj]

Looks like maybe he hit the guitar with red a 2nd time between photo 1 and photo 2?

You gotta dig the "Square Pegs" era shirt, though.

Allright Johnny Slash! Are you going to see The Motels at the dance? Totally.

[Bore Em at the Forum]

What a minute? Are The Waitresses playing at our dance?

[vanhalen5150]

Wasn't he killed by a Klingon?

[jimi22812]

The best pics of it are in a Guitar Player where he gives a lesson with the checkered shirt on. The red frank has a white pickguard.

Here is one of those pics...


...as you can see, it's the same black p/u as in this shot...

Those look like two different guitars. Look at the black stripes on the upper horn and the squiggly stripes above the pickguard. One has more black than the other.

Everybody on here is a little nuts, but you in particular, have really lost it ... that is 100% the same exact guitar.

[vanhalen5150]

Hey, that b/w photo shows a second pot.

[Rich_D]

I stand corrected, was going on memory. Jimi, give us a shot of the red frank with hex pole pieces.

[rgorke]

Here is one of those pics...


...as you can see, it's the same black p/u as in this shot...

Those look like two different guitars. Look at the black stripes on the upper horn and the squiggly stripes above the pickguard. One has more black than the other.

Everybody on here is a little nuts, but you in particular, have really lost it ... that is 100% the same exact guitar.

Hey man, I have a teenage boy and one that just turned 5, yes, I have totally lost it.

The top picture has three black stripes and the bottom has two on the upper horn. Probably just more paint.

[jimi22812]

Hey man, I have a teenage boy and one that just turned 5, yes, I have totally lost it.

You have my sympathy. Just don't ever say that you think the BW Franky was professionally painted ever again!

The top picture has three black stripes and the bottom has two on the upper horn. Probably just more paint.

Negative. Look again closely, there in fact is a third stripe there, but it's underneath the red... as it always was.

[jimi22812]

I stand corrected, was going on memory. Jimi, give us a shot of the red frank with hex pole pieces.

I have never seen one, Rich. He may have used hex pole pick ups on most of these guitars...

...but not on the Franky.

[Rich_D]

Jimi, you're the authority. I believe I'm convoluting the memory of the black headstock red frank period with the white pickup and assuming white = hex. Interesting that hex pole pieces never made it to the frank even when everything else had them.

[Bore Em at the Forum]

Hey man, I have a teenage boy and one that just turned 5, yes, I have totally lost it.

You have my sympathy. Just don't ever say that you think the BW Franky was professionally painted ever again!

The top picture has three black stripes and the bottom has two on the upper horn. Probably just more paint.

Negative. Look again closely, there in fact is a third stripe there, but it's underneath the red... as it always was.

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rgorke, I was seeing the same thing you saw. I actually had to tilt my laptop screen forward and backward to see the pattern "change" a little to where you can distinguish between the black and red in that area.

I think it's a combo of a black and white picture, some "shade" on that area in the photo, and the picture being scanned. But it DOES look like a 3rd black stripe if you don't look carefully.

But there is a 2nd pot there, no knob, for sure.

[rdodson]

Same guitar, optical illusion. No change in paint.

Whether or not he used the hex p/u's in the Frank, I don't know. For sure in the Bee, but he was continually tone chasing in that guitar, because Ed always thought the Frank was a POS, even though he finally realized it was special. He thought the Bee would replace it because he loved the look of it. It never sounded right, though.

Ron

[rgorke]

So, at the risk of being chastised again, here is another picture of the Frankenstein with a white pickup. The only thing I will say is this is Ed's best Brian May look.