Guitar World: Guitars of the Rich and Famous

I did some research on the quarters when I built my own replica and found that 1971 happened to be a year when the least number of quarters were minted in several years. I had friends who bartended and waited tables checking their change for me for a month or more before I finally scored a couple 1971 quarters.

Cut2TheCrash: I believe you had been looking at a completefake or someone had taken the quarter off and replaced it with something else http://www.evhgear.com/frankenstein/ click on the quarter in the picture

No, it wasn’t a fake. It came with all of the accessories. The store is an authorized dealer and I talked to the sales rep from EVH when I was there buying my EVH black and yellow.

I remember reading about a few people who preordered the guitars and said they didn’t have real quarters on them, too.

Maybe the replicas for Ed had real quarters & the ones for sale have fake quarters…(?)

Here is the real deal on Ebay http://www.ebay.com/itm/EVH-Frankenstein-Replica-1-of-300-for-the-world-Eddie-Van-Halen-Guitar-/231106503653?pt=Guitar&hash=item35cf0563e5

The quickest way to spot the difference between the limited run replicas is the fine tuners on Ed’s where brass in material and colour …all the replicas are black in colour. In fact you’ll see a lot of home builds black too . Contrary to what that (rip off) divebomb guy says, you can actually rub down a real FR trem tuner to the brass finish, just takes a long time (I’ve done it).

Damn, I never heard that some had fake quarters. Shit for $25000 you would think that Fender could have done the leg work to find 300 of them. Hell, when my son was building his we came up with 4 of them.