Outstanding job, love how you made it look like it did on day one with no relic…so ironic I also used parchment paper to make my Frankenstrat, I used airplay on my iPhone and sent the image of the guitar to my tv and expanded the photo to the correct size…again great job and thanks for the video 👍🏼
That's awesome! Yeah, blowing it up full size and tracing the stripes is a great way to confirm the correct placement! Thanks for watching and commenting! I appreciate it very much.
Dude! I put together a 5150 body and neck about 8 years ago. KNE is the bomb! Neck pocket fit nice and snug, and string alignment wasn't an issue. I was disappointed though that they don't offer necks any more. My neck is probably the best I've ever played! Edit: I see now where they're offering necks again. Hmm..... Another project is coming to mind..... Maybe a black and white frankie.......
Blown away...my all time favorite vid on YT. Beautiful build & incredible tone & masterful playing by Casey! I'm determined to build this exact guitar sometime, I absolutely LOVE IT! Congrats Brian 🤘🏻
@@BubbaZanetti_375 Well, it depends on which side of the argument you believe...but most people think the original was made with Swamp Ash. The first 5150 I built in a previous video series, I used basswood...and after feeling, playing, and hearing both the swamp ash is a much more resonant wood...at least for this application.
@@BubbaZanetti_375 Yeah, it’s honestly made me consider rebuilding my first 5150 with a new swamp ash body. I built this particular guitar for a very close friend…so it’s not mine. But, the one I built for my own collection is basswood…and now I’m jealous!!! 😆😆
this video is absolutely magical as a proud Gen Zer, i've got a very low attention span lol but you got me hooked throughout the entire video! i love seeing all the steps of you building it and then the guy testing it at the end, absolutely awesome! GREAT sounding guitar!
Brian, thank you for posting this excellent video! Although I didn't use it for a Kramer Tribute build, I used it for my EVH homage bass (black w/grey stripes). I've never done guitar painting before, so all the processes and details you showed really helped me out...more than any other YT guitar painting video. Thank you, thank you, THANK YOU! The build looks and sounds amazing, by the way! You NAILED IT!
@@MichaelGuy I traced it out by hand. I projected the image of the actual 5150 guitar onto the wall in 1:1 scale, then traced the pattern on this paper.
That's very interesting to know. I'm a huge fan of Jackson. Yeah, this small paint jig only cost a few bucks in hardware store parts. Easy to make, and very effective. Thanks for watching!
Seriously though. Definitely one of the best EVH replica builds I've ever seen. There EVH replicas are crap compared to this KNE kit. I'm tempted to get one myself. Cheers.
Awesome build, video shows how meticulous you are which shines through in this build. This is the standard I’m gonna set to my next project. Props for not relicing this beauty. 🤘🏼✌🏼
My dear friend! You inspired me to build an EVH Star tribute. You connected me to KnE and Jeremy D connected my to Butala for the neck. I won't strip mine, but will honer Ed with the Diver Down motif!
Yes, I agree. The swamp ash is probably the best choice for a 5150. I have my original 5150 made from basswood and it's nowhere near as resonant as this one!
@@CoffeeDrinker71 I will never understand why they would use a wood as soft as basswood for a trem guitar. I believe the Wolfgang is made of it, but with a maple cap.
@@qua7771 Exactly!!! That is why I didn't use the wood-screw posts on my basswood 5150. Instead, I installed the modern threaded Floyd bushings. I didn't want any problems with the posts later down the road. A lot of people don't understand that this is a huge risk...but will do it anyway for the sake of being "accurate" on their replica.
@@CoffeeDrinker71 I can understand the accuracy thing in terms of having a piece of wall art. As far as having a player that is a tone monster I don't care about accuracy. Who knows what Ed used in the studio on any given part of a song unless you were there. Probably over a dozen guitars. On stage it doesn't matter so much. I have built a 59 LP historically correct just for the sake of it, but that is a tried and true design, for the most part anyway. I'm thinking of a frankenstrat build with an ash body. I really like the hockey stick neck you used. I might try one of Seymour Duncan's early design pickups. Anyway, thanks for taking the time to make this video. It's an amazing guitar.
AWESOME JOB...just wish i could finish my dream guitar build but cant due to terminal cancer!!!THIS IS SO FREAKIN RAD BRO!!!!GREAT JOB!!!Just a hint...if You didn't already ...if you want you can also apply a couple coats of Birchwood Casey's Gun Stock Wax to the neck and fretboard...it's a bit tedious due to having to completely dry the coats before 0000 steel wool and old t-shirt buff between coats ..but trust me...your neck and fingerboard will feel more like butter with every coat...Best thing I ever did to every neck I own after playing the EBMM EVH Sig series in the early nineties...the best feeling and playing necks I ever had the privilege to play...never went back to reg finished necks after that..even to the point of stripping the painted ones and refinishing with this technique....once again great job...if you ever want to help a fellow EVH / 5150 freak out with a paint job please lmk...just don't have the strength to do it anymore...that guitar and neck are a thing of beauty...the 5150 is my all time dream guitar since it came out in mid 83..but more so after my Pops got me the 5150 album and my first guitar a month before he passed away way too early at only 39 yrs old ..I was 13 in 86...so its a very sentimental issue for me...ya..if you ever could entertain that notion please get in touch with me..my FB is just my name..Randy Vertrees...throw me a friend invite ....once again BEST 5150 BUILD IVE SEEN ON UA-cam...IM IN AWE!!!
@@CoffeeDrinker71 I just subbed and I'm planning on watching that one later. I love the "Live Without a Net" era 5150 Kramer. It's the perfect balance of patina before it started getting really rough in the later years.
Ed was a maniac, we are all just crazy. My theory is he started with black again, and just left some tape on until the end. The black stripes always bothered me. Nice job, I didn't even take the strings off when I did my stripe job, just thought 'what would ed do'.
Man! Another incredible build! And your painting skills are awesome. Casey is a fantastic player! Now I want a swamp ash guitar. I used to own a very heavy hard Ash 70 strat. That was a different animal. It was bright. I had to put high output pickups in it to tame it.
@@1DerekMiracle The headstock decal was purchased on ebay. The 5150 decals and star decals were purchased from the EVH store. Hope that helps. Good luck.
Every Jedi must build their own lightsaber. Every Van Halen guitarist must build their own Kramer 5150 clone. It's funny to see the meticulous care you took in painting and finish when Edward was painting his in his garage, smoking and buzzed and then had his guitar tech drag the Kramer 5150 behind his truck in the driveway to "wear it up" since Edward hated playing pristine guitars. lol The dragging behind the truck was probaby around 1985 or early '86 since the 5150 guitar was in pretty good condition during the 1984 tour, but looked much more worn for the 5150 tour.
Nice! Getting ready to start painting mine have an alder strat body routed right, Kramer style neck, Floyd Rose and EVH pickups but I’m going to do mine a bit different since Eddys bridge pickup never actually worked and put in a 3 way switch instead so I can have neck, bridge, and both.
Thank you for this video even though I am not there yet with doing my own version of an Eddie van Halen build you helped me figure out that I can use deft sanding sealer first then use my duplicolor perfect match spray cans for color then use minwax clear laquar for the clear as I can get quart cans at Lowes for under 25 dollars I may even end up tinting my own deft laquar sanding sealer for the Grey primer coats and base coats but for now I will do the deft sanding sealer to seal my guitar from the boiled linseed oil I like to use to condition my wood then deft sanding sealer. So I can sand out the grain and promote adhesion then use duplicolor perfect match grey filler primer then perfect match base coat then either use duplicolor clear or the minwax quarr can of gloss brushing laquar for clear but make it sprayable if needed or just brush it on. You have no idea I have been watching a ton of you tube videos on everything from using watco laquars to mohawk laquars to cystalaq and hearing nitrocelulose laquar to acrylic laquar which is what duplicolor is and combatabilty but from what you have shown just like Eddie I can get what I want with 3 simple brands without having to get into all the technical jargon like precatylized laquar vinly sanding sealer use this use that just to get the color I want so maybe that's how I am bit like Eddie I just want what I want and like what I like remember Eddie did it on the original Frankie with cans of enamel bicycle paint and cans of enamel krylon but ohh wait you can't mix enamel with laquar or polyurathane. So I guess I have had enough with all these complications over a, simple paint color I want without paying out the wazoo
Yep...go with the paint system that makes you feel most confident. Whether it's a brand you favor or a type of paint...and always, spray a test sample on a piece of scrap before beginning on your project. That will help uncover any compatibility issues up front. Take care.
@@CoffeeDrinker71 I think the issue partly is with the paint reformulations especially with laquar I did just get lucky again I can get the old pre 2017 watco clear brushing laquar that you can make sprayable even if the can says not too. Per epa regulations my local Walmart had it on my shelf and watco is rustoleum which is under sherwyn Williams as is minwax. Too the new formulation watco on Amazon is 30 dollars at Walmart they had a 2017 watco can so I am trying to figure out how many times there have been reformulations. As I was reading on Amazon that the minwax quart cans some were having issues with hardening and drying when brushing on. And called custumer service and they said not enough hardener in the can. But it could also be the person did not stir the can properly too. But due to reformulations that also can effect performance too. Where brands that were always reliable become unreliable even in spray cans. That's why I need to get out of spray cans and use quart cans, reducers. And a spray gun and learn how to use them and figure out what chemicals to use and get in case I get a bad batch that might not have enough hardener or whatever. Who knows I might end up making my own shellac and tinting that too if I get mad enough at the paint companies or the quality control gets bad.
@@gabrielstern4992 Yeah I know what you mean. Every time I turn around the paint formulations have changed with the spray can stuff. Not only that but I've purchased 2 cans of the same Perfect Match color before and have totally different results. It's frustrating. It's definitely more beneficial to switch to hvlp spraying equipment if it's feasible. Like you said, at least that way you can control the ratios yourself.
@@CoffeeDrinker71 well for me and for your next build with duplicolor you should add the duplicolor perfect match scratch filler primer into the mix then wet sand right now I am still assembling my materials I have 2 diferent guitar bodies I ordered from Amazon that one I was going to mod to match my old taiwan yamaha rgx 110 guitar. Which recently replaced the one I ruined years ago. And which I had that my dad bought for me when I was 9 years old because I wanted a guitar with a whammy like Eddie had. Years later I tore it apart pulled the original red paint off removed the stock pickup out then had a neck pickup cavity routed out and modified it with a 3 way switch and 2 volumes and tones with an emg Zac wylde pickup set. And this was 2004 2005. And guess what I. The bridge pickup emg 81 it sounded way more Eddie like and had his 5150 guitar tone then the original stock pickup. And I thought the body was a mohagany body but it was actaully a basswood body with a brown Honduran mahogany neck and a bubinga fretboard not rosewood even though it looked like rosewood 24 3 quarter scale length with 24 frets and 4 bolt fender strat pattern with no fretboard overlap which is unique to the taiwan made model as the japanese version the fretboard overlaps and the 4 bolt pattern is more like the Ibanez guitars which I don't like. Anyway I have had a Jackson king v since that time that was made in India with string through but it was never done right and I have never been able to get it to intonate properly I love the super jumbo frets of the neck but regardless it just will not intonate or give me crystal clear sounding notes so I have decided after doing a babics which helped a little and putting the tail piece on that I am chucking that body and going to move that neck to one of my strat bodies test it with getting it intonated on a stock fender type trem first and move my emgs and convert to solderless and see how I like the tone if I like it then I may have the neck modified to a skinny c profile and change the fretboard to my ebony fretboard blank and match the frets to what I have now which is Jim Dunlop 6110 super jumbo frets so I will see how my African mahogany body sounds with a maple neck on it but from what I understand African mahogany sounds simalar to basswood. But eventually I will get a basswood blank and exactly profile and cut my yamaha rgx body out with the exact mods I did in 2005. Eventually all my guitars will have Floyd's. Anyway add duplicolor scratch primer perfect match into the mix on your next Eddie build and yes the duplicolor clear should work. Too but hey if the minwax worked great. And don't forget Eddie's steinberger had emg pickups in it
Casey was using my Line 6 Helix rig. In the jam session at the end (with room audio) we were using my WDW preset with 2 studio monitors and a Friedman ASM-10 on the floor. For the direct recordings we were using a stereo preset that I purchased from 3 Sigma Audio for the classic VH era of tone!
It looks and sounds awesome! Great job done building it! Big shoutout to the player as well! He knows how to make this guitar come to life. Right guy for the job. Sound is just huge!!
what a fantastic video and excellent craftamschip!!! needless to say that ... at 13:39 you can hear the "hot for teacher drum intro" by that spray can!!!! Yeah I'm nuts, I know that!!!
I have the exact same KNE body and neck I built in 2013. Your sound is huge and I'm surprised because it doesn't look like you did anything to raise the pickup height. 🤔
A tip - should begin the painting process with an automotive high filler / primer, then wet sand it back using a sanding block and 600 - 800 grit before applying the white coat. That way, the wood grain will be all filled in and not show.
Great tip! That’s good advice for any “normal” paint job. However most 5150 replicas are painted without primer since it is widely understood that the original guitar didn’t have a primer coat either. It is desirable to have some amount of grain showing. This particular body had deep grain though…so that’s why I attempted to fill it in. Thanks for watching!
Thank you for all the info you provide. If you did it again would you do grain filler, then sanding sealer, then Wimbledon White, Torch Red, Black, then Minwax Clear Lacquer? It seems like all the lacquer products are the easiest products to work with as a beginner.
Thank you! Yes, that would be a proper order for the steps if you felt like it needed the grain filler. In the case of most basswood bodies, they are very smooth and have a very closed grain pattern (usually) so that's the reason why I didn't include that step here.
You know what works the best as grain filler when painting a body,I found out when I built my first guitar drywall mud does a perfect job...fills grain..sands smooth and effortless..and won't cause a paint reaction when painted over..
Looks like KNE got the neck pocket depth right as well which most of these don’t. The fret hang of the neck should be very close to the body , like the old Kramer’s. I’m assuming the neck cavity in the body has a slight angle? Nice job! I’m sure it sounded a bit more punchy after the paint as well. Some paint in my experience is needed.
Sir, I know you probably don’t, but you should do this for a living. I would buy one of your hand made guitars. I’m floored by your work. I may have missed it but what pick up are you using? Thanks for posting this.. my jaw is still dropped
Thank you so much for the kind words! I really appreciate it! You’re right, I only do this for a hobby. ;) The pickup that I used in this project was an import Wolfgang pickup! I thought it sounded great with the ash body combination as well! Thanks again for watching and commenting!
I love when I see other people make replicas of Ed's guitars with stripes, and you're one of them!
Thank you so much! :)
@@CoffeeDrinker71 You're welcome.
If I bought the kit and sent it to you and paid you would you build this?
Outstanding job, love how you made it look like it did on day one with no relic…so ironic I also used parchment paper to make my Frankenstrat, I used airplay on my iPhone and sent the image of the guitar to my tv and expanded the photo to the correct size…again great job and thanks for the video 👍🏼
That's awesome! Yeah, blowing it up full size and tracing the stripes is a great way to confirm the correct placement! Thanks for watching and commenting! I appreciate it very much.
@CoffeeDrinker71 great build 👏 and it sounded just Awesome! Can you tell me which modeling unit and assuming you were using an FRFR speaker?
That came out beautiful. Cool going with a factory finish. Thanks for sharing.
Thanks for watching! I'm glad you like this version!
Man I have watched this video about 30 times. Not only does this guitar look good it sounds phenomenal ✊🏼 Great job
Thank you very much! ;)
right back at you this is the best looking and sounding kits iv'e ever seen on youtube great job man🤘🤘🤘🙂🙂🙂
@@judequinnell3631 Thank you very much!!! I appreciate i!
Nice seeing you here sir!
Dude!
I put together a 5150 body and neck about 8 years ago.
KNE is the bomb!
Neck pocket fit nice and snug, and string alignment wasn't an issue.
I was disappointed though that they don't offer necks any more.
My neck is probably the best I've ever played!
Edit:
I see now where they're offering necks again.
Hmm.....
Another project is coming to mind.....
Maybe a black and white frankie.......
I agree, but I also think they are still making necks??? I would email Mitch to find out. They are still listed on the website.
This makes me wanna finish mine after 10 years of having it in base white.
Outstanding build and playing.
Such a great sound!
Thank you so much. Good luck with your project as well.
I love that he is playing Van Halen esq sounding riffs, but they're his own. Sounds great!
I've been watching this video over and over again recently as I am currently building my own guitar which has similar specs to the 5150.
That is very cool! Thanks for watching! Good luck with your project as well! Cheers!
That is awesome!
I’ve been thinking of building one for some time. This may have pushed me over the edge.
Go for it!!! You will not regret building one!!!
Great Build! Always Loved the "Kramer " Hockey Stick headstock! EVH 5150
Thank you!
I'm on my 8th guitar build! I've did 5 strats,1 tele,2prs style guitars! Lots of fun and headaches! But very rewarding when job turns out nice!
Epic build!!! I want to build one like that! You did an amazing job man! I could listen to Casey jam all day.
Thanks so much! I agree...Casey makes it look so easy! Check out his band "The Warrior Kings" or search his name on UA-cam for more videos of him. ;)
Blown away...my all time favorite vid on YT. Beautiful build & incredible tone & masterful playing by Casey! I'm determined to build this exact guitar sometime, I absolutely LOVE IT! Congrats Brian 🤘🏻
Ah, thanks brother! I appreciate that very much!!! Yeah, Casey is an INCREDIBLE player! I'm so glad he dropped by to give this a test drive!!! ;)
@@CoffeeDrinker71 one question, why the decision to go w/ swamp ash over say, poplar? Regardless, the tone is monster.
@@BubbaZanetti_375 Well, it depends on which side of the argument you believe...but most people think the original was made with Swamp Ash. The first 5150 I built in a previous video series, I used basswood...and after feeling, playing, and hearing both the swamp ash is a much more resonant wood...at least for this application.
@@CoffeeDrinker71 agree w/ you, the swamp ash sounds incredible. Even better in the room I'm sure! Thanks brother!
@@BubbaZanetti_375 Yeah, it’s honestly made me consider rebuilding my first 5150 with a new swamp ash body. I built this particular guitar for a very close friend…so it’s not mine. But, the one I built for my own collection is basswood…and now I’m jealous!!! 😆😆
Cool, that looks like a labor of love. I repainted my first guitar to look like Frankie when i was about 16-17. Many years ago now
That is awesome to hear! :) Yeah, it's totally a labor of love....indeed.
I just ordered a Locke body, I’ll be building one over the summer
Awesome!!!!
Absolutely ( SWeeeeeeeeetttt!) !!!🙏 Great work, I really appreciate you sharing your build with us...
Thank you so much!
this video is absolutely magical
as a proud Gen Zer, i've got a very low attention span lol but you got me hooked throughout the entire video! i love seeing all the steps of you building it and then the guy testing it at the end, absolutely awesome! GREAT sounding guitar!
Thank you very much for the kind words! I'm glad you enjoyed it. 😎 Cheers!
Great job! It would've looked killer being all natural!
Thanks! Yes I agree! It had a beautiful grain pattern!
Brian, thank you for posting this excellent video! Although I didn't use it for a Kramer Tribute build, I used it for my EVH homage bass (black w/grey stripes). I've never done guitar painting before, so all the processes and details you showed really helped me out...more than any other YT guitar painting video. Thank you, thank you, THANK YOU!
The build looks and sounds amazing, by the way! You NAILED IT!
Ah, thank you so much for the kind words! I’m glad the video helped with your project as well!!! Cheers!
You are an outstanding human being showing us how to make our dream guitars. God bless you for sharing. WOW!
Thank you brother!
@@CoffeeDrinker71 where do you get the tracer template?
@@MichaelGuy I traced it out by hand. I projected the image of the actual 5150 guitar onto the wall in 1:1 scale, then traced the pattern on this paper.
Absolutely brilliant
Thank you so much!
@@CoffeeDrinker71 just subbed too
Sounds absolutely killer, ed would be proud. that pickup has the perfect amount of breakup.
Thanks!!!!!!
I really dig the "paint holder"..while working for Jackson the body was just held up by a pipe flattered at the end and rotated by hand then hung up
That's very interesting to know. I'm a huge fan of Jackson. Yeah, this small paint jig only cost a few bucks in hardware store parts. Easy to make, and very effective. Thanks for watching!
That tone is so cool
Thank you!!!
Seriously though. Definitely one of the best EVH replica builds I've ever seen. There EVH replicas are crap compared to this KNE kit. I'm tempted to get one myself. Cheers.
Thanks again for watching and commenting! Cheers!
I could listen to this guy noodle all day. Sounds spot on.
Same here man! :) Casey is phenomenal!
Awesome build, video shows how meticulous you are which shines through in this build. This is the standard I’m gonna set to my next project. Props for not relicing this beauty. 🤘🏼✌🏼
Thank you for the comments! I really appreciate it. Good luck with your project!!!!
My goodness love the fullness of tone the humbucker has along side that swamp ash body wood!
Thank you! Yeah, it was a GREAT pickup combination with that ash wood! Such a great tone!!!!
jesus christ . that the best sounding guitar i have ever heard and you made it yourself
Thank you very much!!!!
My dear friend! You inspired me to build an EVH Star tribute. You connected me to KnE and Jeremy D connected my to Butala for the neck. I won't strip mine, but will honer Ed with the Diver Down motif!
Awesome!!! :)
Great Job Man!
Thanks!!!
I have noticed that swamp ash is incredibly resonant as well. You have me wanting to do another build. This really sounded amazing.
Yes, I agree. The swamp ash is probably the best choice for a 5150. I have my original 5150 made from basswood and it's nowhere near as resonant as this one!
@@CoffeeDrinker71 I will never understand why they would use a wood as soft as basswood for a trem guitar. I believe the Wolfgang is made of it, but with a maple cap.
@@qua7771 Exactly!!! That is why I didn't use the wood-screw posts on my basswood 5150. Instead, I installed the modern threaded Floyd bushings. I didn't want any problems with the posts later down the road. A lot of people don't understand that this is a huge risk...but will do it anyway for the sake of being "accurate" on their replica.
@@CoffeeDrinker71 I can understand the accuracy thing in terms of having a piece of wall art. As far as having a player that is a tone monster I don't care about accuracy. Who knows what Ed used in the studio on any given part of a song unless you were there. Probably over a dozen guitars. On stage it doesn't matter so much. I have built a 59 LP historically correct just for the sake of it, but that is a tried and true design, for the most part anyway.
I'm thinking of a frankenstrat build with an ash body. I really like the hockey stick neck you used. I might try one of Seymour Duncan's early design pickups.
Anyway, thanks for taking the time to make this video. It's an amazing guitar.
@@qua7771 Thanks again for the compliments. Yes, I agree...just build it the way you want it to perform in the end!!!
Excellent video. I've never seen a German Floyd say "Original". New to me.
Thanks for watching! Yeah I agree...I had to do some research when I found the Floyd! It's just an older variation of the "Original". Good eye! ;)
Heck yeah, I thought he looked familiar, Great player, I saw the Warrior kings play this summer. Kudos for a great build too.
Thanks!!! Yeah, Casey is a phenomenal player!!! ;)
AWESOME JOB...just wish i could finish my dream guitar build but cant due to terminal cancer!!!THIS IS SO FREAKIN RAD BRO!!!!GREAT JOB!!!Just a hint...if You didn't already ...if you want you can also apply a couple coats of Birchwood Casey's Gun Stock Wax to the neck and fretboard...it's a bit tedious due to having to completely dry the coats before 0000 steel wool and old t-shirt buff between coats ..but trust me...your neck and fingerboard will feel more like butter with every coat...Best thing I ever did to every neck I own after playing the EBMM EVH Sig series in the early nineties...the best feeling and playing necks I ever had the privilege to play...never went back to reg finished necks after that..even to the point of stripping the painted ones and refinishing with this technique....once again great job...if you ever want to help a fellow EVH / 5150 freak out with a paint job please lmk...just don't have the strength to do it anymore...that guitar and neck are a thing of beauty...the 5150 is my all time dream guitar since it came out in mid 83..but more so after my Pops got me the 5150 album and my first guitar a month before he passed away way too early at only 39 yrs old ..I was 13 in 86...so its a very sentimental issue for me...ya..if you ever could entertain that notion please get in touch with me..my FB is just my name..Randy Vertrees...throw me a friend invite ....once again BEST 5150 BUILD IVE SEEN ON UA-cam...IM IN AWE!!!
Thank you so much for the compliments brother. Yep, I love using the Birchwood Casey wax after the Tru-oil treatment. It makes a world of difference!
great looking and sounding guitar! and man that guy can really play!!!
Thanks!!! Yeah, Casey is a phenomenal player!!! :)
Killer job ,King Edward would be happy to play that bad boy.
Thank you so much!!!
Excellent!! Fabulous playing!!
MUCH love for that relic'ed 5150 hanging your wall with the pick tape and forearm wear...
Thanks man! I have another video series on my channel from a few years ago when I built that one.
@@CoffeeDrinker71 I just subbed and I'm planning on watching that one later. I love the "Live Without a Net" era 5150 Kramer. It's the perfect balance of patina before it started getting really rough in the later years.
@@swordmonkey6635 Thanks man!!!
Fantastic video as always, Brian. It‘s always a pleasure to watch your videos. Thanks 👍🏼
Thank you Peter! I appreciate it very much!!!
Beautiful guitar! and superb guitar playing!
Thank you so much!
Dude the sound of that gutar is wicked it looks great too
Id love to have one like that
Thank you so much! I agree, that swamp ash body really sounded amazing!
That tone is sooooooooooooo good I can feel my brain tingling!
Thanks!!! :)
Ed was a maniac, we are all just crazy. My theory is he started with black again, and just left some tape on until the end. The black stripes always bothered me.
Nice job, I didn't even take the strings off when I did my stripe job, just thought 'what would ed do'.
As always, you deliver the goods!
Thank you!!!! ;)
That guitar is badass for sure but I would love to see a video about your cool little spray booth!
Thanks...and that's a good idea!
This video is making me wanna do a build project with a kne kit! Very well done, sir!
Thank you very much!
Absolute fantastic playing !
Thanks!! Casey is an amazing player!!!
Man! Another incredible build! And your painting skills are awesome. Casey is a fantastic player! Now I want a swamp ash guitar. I used to own a very heavy hard Ash 70 strat. That was a different animal. It was bright. I had to put high output pickups in it to tame it.
Thanks!!!!! I really appreciate the compliments!! Yes, Casey is a phenomenal player. It was great to have him stop by and jam for a few minutes.
Wow That Is One Of Best Kits Out There Today I’m Definitely Going To Get One Like That
You won't be disappointed with any of KNE's products!!
I’ve been wanting to recycle some salvaged vintage Kramer hardware and one of the KnE “kits” might be the way to go. Awesome project.
Amazing and amazing attention to detail a true craftsman
Thank you very much!
Incredible, I truly envy you. A job well done!
Thank you so much!
Did you buy the decals? Or did you make them? I’d love any advice you could give me on this build. I’m going to make my own very soon.
@@1DerekMiracle The headstock decal was purchased on ebay. The 5150 decals and star decals were purchased from the EVH store. Hope that helps. Good luck.
Thank you for the info!
That’s a Friggin Beautiful Build, you sound Godly playing it buddy. Love that you played Drop Dead Legs. God bless and Amazing job.
Thank you so much! Cheers!
thanks, i am building a flying v with tath pattern but i prefer blue instead of red
Wow , amazing !
Thank you!!!
Beautiful build man...that thing sounds awesome. Love the swamp ash. Great playing and great tone.
Thank you so much! :)
Awesome job and MAN that guy RIPS. Great playing.
Thank you so much!!!!!
beautiful! thanks for making this!
Thank you very much! Cheers!
Great Build and greaaat playing guys!!!! Killer sounds 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽🤩🤩🤩
Thank you very much!!
Every Jedi must build their own lightsaber. Every Van Halen guitarist must build their own Kramer 5150 clone.
It's funny to see the meticulous care you took in painting and finish when Edward was painting his in his garage, smoking and buzzed and then had his guitar tech drag the Kramer 5150 behind his truck in the driveway to "wear it up" since Edward hated playing pristine guitars. lol The dragging behind the truck was probaby around 1985 or early '86 since the 5150 guitar was in pretty good condition during the 1984 tour, but looked much more worn for the 5150 tour.
Thanks for watching!
Nice! Getting ready to start painting mine have an alder strat body routed right, Kramer style neck, Floyd Rose and EVH pickups but I’m going to do mine a bit different since Eddys bridge pickup never actually worked and put in a 3 way switch instead so I can have neck, bridge, and both.
This was sick I’m saving up to just buy one because I don’t have the tools to build one
that riff at 48:44 is genius!
I agree!! Casey is a PHENOMENAL player. He plays in a band called "The Warrior Kings" in Indianapolis.
Thank you for this video even though I am not there yet with doing my own version of an Eddie van Halen build you helped me figure out that I can use deft sanding sealer first then use my duplicolor perfect match spray cans for color then use minwax clear laquar for the clear as I can get quart cans at Lowes for under 25 dollars I may even end up tinting my own deft laquar sanding sealer for the Grey primer coats and base coats but for now I will do the deft sanding sealer to seal my guitar from the boiled linseed oil I like to use to condition my wood then deft sanding sealer. So I can sand out the grain and promote adhesion then use duplicolor perfect match grey filler primer then perfect match base coat then either use duplicolor clear or the minwax quarr can of gloss brushing laquar for clear but make it sprayable if needed or just brush it on. You have no idea I have been watching a ton of you tube videos on everything from using watco laquars to mohawk laquars to cystalaq and hearing nitrocelulose laquar to acrylic laquar which is what duplicolor is and combatabilty but from what you have shown just like Eddie I can get what I want with 3 simple brands without having to get into all the technical jargon like precatylized laquar vinly sanding sealer use this use that just to get the color I want so maybe that's how I am bit like Eddie I just want what I want and like what I like remember Eddie did it on the original Frankie with cans of enamel bicycle paint and cans of enamel krylon but ohh wait you can't mix enamel with laquar or polyurathane.
So I guess I have had enough with all these complications over a, simple paint color I want without paying out the wazoo
Yep...go with the paint system that makes you feel most confident. Whether it's a brand you favor or a type of paint...and always, spray a test sample on a piece of scrap before beginning on your project. That will help uncover any compatibility issues up front. Take care.
@@CoffeeDrinker71 I think the issue partly is with the paint reformulations especially with laquar I did just get lucky again I can get the old pre 2017 watco clear brushing laquar that you can make sprayable even if the can says not too. Per epa regulations my local Walmart had it on my shelf and watco is rustoleum which is under sherwyn Williams as is minwax. Too the new formulation watco on Amazon is 30 dollars at Walmart they had a 2017 watco can so I am trying to figure out how many times there have been reformulations. As I was reading on Amazon that the minwax quart cans some were having issues with hardening and drying when brushing on. And called custumer service and they said not enough hardener in the can. But it could also be the person did not stir the can properly too.
But due to reformulations that also can effect performance too.
Where brands that were always reliable become unreliable even in spray cans. That's why I need to get out of spray cans and use quart cans, reducers. And a spray gun and learn how to use them and figure out what chemicals to use and get in case I get a bad batch that might not have enough hardener or whatever.
Who knows I might end up making my own shellac and tinting that too if I get mad enough at the paint companies or the quality control gets bad.
@@gabrielstern4992 Yeah I know what you mean. Every time I turn around the paint formulations have changed with the spray can stuff. Not only that but I've purchased 2 cans of the same Perfect Match color before and have totally different results. It's frustrating. It's definitely more beneficial to switch to hvlp spraying equipment if it's feasible. Like you said, at least that way you can control the ratios yourself.
@@CoffeeDrinker71 well for me and for your next build with duplicolor you should add the duplicolor perfect match scratch filler primer into the mix then wet sand right now I am still assembling my materials I have 2 diferent guitar bodies I ordered from Amazon that one I was going to mod to match my old taiwan yamaha rgx 110 guitar. Which recently replaced the one I ruined years ago. And which I had that my dad bought for me when I was 9 years old because I wanted a guitar with a whammy like Eddie had. Years later I tore it apart pulled the original red paint off removed the stock pickup out then had a neck pickup cavity routed out and modified it with a 3 way switch and 2 volumes and tones with an emg Zac wylde pickup set. And this was 2004 2005.
And guess what I. The bridge pickup emg 81 it sounded way more Eddie like and had his 5150 guitar tone then the original stock pickup.
And I thought the body was a mohagany body but it was actaully a basswood body with a brown Honduran mahogany neck and a bubinga fretboard not rosewood even though it looked like rosewood 24 3 quarter scale length with 24 frets and 4 bolt fender strat pattern with no fretboard overlap which is unique to the taiwan made model as the japanese version the fretboard overlaps and the 4 bolt pattern is more like the Ibanez guitars which I don't like. Anyway I have had a Jackson king v since that time that was made in India with string through but it was never done right and I have never been able to get it to intonate properly I love the super jumbo frets of the neck but regardless it just will not intonate or give me crystal clear sounding notes so I have decided after doing a babics which helped a little and putting the tail piece on that I am chucking that body and going to move that neck to one of my strat bodies test it with getting it intonated on a stock fender type trem first and move my emgs and convert to solderless and see how I like the tone if I like it then I may have the neck modified to a skinny c profile and change the fretboard to my ebony fretboard blank and match the frets to what I have now which is Jim Dunlop 6110 super jumbo frets so I will see how my African mahogany body sounds with a maple neck on it but from what I understand African mahogany sounds simalar to basswood. But eventually I will get a basswood blank and exactly profile and cut my yamaha rgx body out with the exact mods I did in 2005. Eventually all my guitars will have Floyd's.
Anyway add duplicolor scratch primer perfect match into the mix on your next Eddie build and yes the duplicolor clear should work. Too but hey if the minwax worked great.
And don't forget Eddie's steinberger had emg pickups in it
KNE makes good parts!!
Love to see what the rig set up he is playing through!
Casey was using my Line 6 Helix rig. In the jam session at the end (with room audio) we were using my WDW preset with 2 studio monitors and a Friedman ASM-10 on the floor. For the direct recordings we were using a stereo preset that I purchased from 3 Sigma Audio for the classic VH era of tone!
Id love to hear that 5150 coming out of a 6505+🤘🤘🤘
It looks and sounds awesome! Great job done building it! Big shoutout to the player as well! He knows how to make this guitar come to life. Right guy for the job. Sound is just huge!!
Thank you so much! Yeah, I agree, Casey really brought this thing to life!!! He's a monster player!!! ;)
Hell of a job brother hell of a job 🤘🤘 looks and sounds fantastic
Thank you so much! I appreciate it!!!
Wow.... Just frick'n wow!
Top notch vid!!!
Thanks for watching Jesse! :) I really appreciate the compliments!
Awesome 👏🏼 very impressive build. 😮
Thank you very much!!
Looks absolutely stunning... Wow
Thank you!!!
what a fantastic video and excellent craftamschip!!! needless to say that ... at 13:39 you can hear the "hot for teacher drum intro" by that spray can!!!! Yeah I'm nuts, I know that!!!
Hahaha!!! That is so cool!!!! :) Thanks for pointing that out!! Cheers!!
Looks and sounds awesome. Great playing as well.
Thanks!!!
I have the exact same KNE body and neck I built in 2013. Your sound is huge and I'm surprised because it doesn't look like you did anything to raise the pickup height. 🤔
Thanks! You are correct, the pickup is just mounted to the floor of the cavity as it was designed to do.
A tip - should begin the painting process with an automotive high filler / primer, then wet sand it back using a sanding block and 600 - 800 grit before applying the white coat. That way, the wood grain will be all filled in and not show.
Great tip! That’s good advice for any “normal” paint job. However most 5150 replicas are painted without primer since it is widely understood that the original guitar didn’t have a primer coat either. It is desirable to have some amount of grain showing. This particular body had deep grain though…so that’s why I attempted to fill it in. Thanks for watching!
Damn, that sounds awesome. Well done!
Thank you very much!!!
Sr you did great job
Thank you!
This is awesome! I thought the same way, swamp ash with wolfgang pup 👌
I'm totally sold on this combo now. That swamp ash is really resonant!
@@CoffeeDrinker71 any experience with the custom custom pup?
@@cheesewesil18 No I have never had my hands on one of them...would like to try one though.
@@CoffeeDrinker71 same here, dude I just looked theu the comments, you’re in fishers? I’m from Lafayette 🤙
@@cheesewesil18 Cool!
Fantastic looking guitar, Great job
Thank you!
Man I finally got my swamp ash body and the grain and everything is identical to this one
That is so cool! Good luck with your project!!
Now that's a tribute .nice axe work sir.
Thank you very much!!!
Thank you for all the info you provide.
If you did it again would you do grain filler, then sanding sealer, then Wimbledon White, Torch Red, Black, then Minwax Clear Lacquer?
It seems like all the lacquer products are the easiest products to work with as a beginner.
Thank you! Yes, that would be a proper order for the steps if you felt like it needed the grain filler. In the case of most basswood bodies, they are very smooth and have a very closed grain pattern (usually) so that's the reason why I didn't include that step here.
Great build. Really nice work.
Thank you!!
You know what works the best as grain filler when painting a body,I found out when I built my first guitar drywall mud does a perfect job...fills grain..sands smooth and effortless..and won't cause a paint reaction when painted over..
That's interesting!! Good tip! Thanks for sharing!!
Wow speechless! This is amazing job :)
Thank you so much!! I appreciate it. Cheers!
This is the best channel on UA-cam
You are too kind!!!! Thank you! I'm glad you enjoy my channel!!! :)
Killed that one!
Thanks!!! ;)
Really enjoyed this
Thanks for watching!!
Excellent work.
Thank you!
Can you make it again and sell it? The Sound is GREAT!!! I Love it, Thanks for The Video, Cause we can see it and hear it All The Time..
Thanks for watching! I typically only build these for personal projects.
Lovely job. I wish I had the skills.
Thank you so much!!
i never knew you had to paint the whole thing red then remove the tape😊
Outstanding
Great job on this
Thank you very much!
Looks like KNE got the neck pocket depth right as well which most of these don’t. The fret hang of the neck should be very close to the body , like the old Kramer’s.
I’m assuming the neck cavity in the body has a slight angle?
Nice job!
I’m sure it sounded a bit more punchy after the paint as well. Some paint in my experience is needed.
Yes, KNE does a fantastic job on these "KPAC" kits. Yes, there was a slight angle in the pocket. I appreciate you watching and commenting! Cheers!
Great video...very nice build, very nice
Thank you so much!
Sir, I know you probably don’t, but you should do this for a living. I would buy one of your hand made guitars. I’m floored by your work. I may have missed it but what pick up are you using? Thanks for posting this.. my jaw is still dropped
Thank you so much for the kind words! I really appreciate it! You’re right, I only do this for a hobby. ;) The pickup that I used in this project was an import Wolfgang pickup! I thought it sounded great with the ash body combination as well! Thanks again for watching and commenting!
Nice watching
Thank you!!!!