Jeez, and I thought my Further was expensive.

Have you seen the Eddie Van Halen Frankenstrat replicas by Fender?    WOW ... a beat to crap butt ugly Strat with bare wires hanging out of where the middle pickup should be and a quarter nailed down into the body to keep the bridge in the right place .. but at least it's the SAME YEAR QUARTER as the one on Eddie's guitar!!!!!!!!  And only $25,000!!!!!!  Such a deal!
 
Bill, tgo

Hadn't seen the EVH one Bill -  every cigarette burn lovingly reproduced.

I saw a review of the Lenny repro's in an issue of Premier Guitar magazine.  Seemed pretty cool until I saw the price, and how many they are producing.  Ack!  Gimme another Futher for sure.  Spending that kinda money on a relic strat is unfathomable to me.  
 
However, if money was no longer an object I'm sure this and thousands of other guitars would be in my collection to look at, but only my Alembics would get played.  

Here's an EVH Strat on Ebay with a BIN that saves you $5000 off the list price!  The race is ON!  lol
 
Bill, tgo

I'd like to know what the cleaning instructions on that guitar are, so it can be kept in like new condition.  
 
Unfathomable.  Thanks Bill da TGO!  Wanna split that one?

Edie Halen must be a player because he is certainly not a craftsmen.  Is this for real or did one of you post it for laughs?
 
-Eric

Absolutely for real.  I even saw one in the flesh (wood?) at Gary Brawer's shop several months ago.  A couple of kids were drooling over it, if you can believe that.  $25,000 MSRP brand new.  As P.T. Barnum noted, There's one born every minute.
 
Bill, tgo

OK I looked it up. This is a real guitar from Fender.  Apparently this is a copy of a guitar he cobbled together when he could not afford to buy a good used guitar.  
 
Eddie Halen's claim to fame is that he was married to Valerie Bertinelli. Given what I read about his marriage; Ed was definately of a player and I understand why he is her Ex. He definately has stage-presence though.  
 
-E

Um, just for reference, Eddie Van Halen does have some notoriety as a guitar player, in addition to the aforementioned ex-wife.
 
i.e.: http://youtube.com/watch?v=ULEBSxP725w
 
Bradley

Oh who really gives a S*#T, especially since shIddie fired the bass player/voice of Van Halen. His guitar is an amalgam of parts, his amp is a Soldano and I've been listening to more and more Tom Waits over VH. Heck I did not even click on the you tube link, I'm so pissed at Ed.

Fender craftsmen scoured the land for '71 quarters.
 
Presumably leaving non-craftsmen to build the guitars!

71 quarters = $17.75
sounds like a fair price....

Well said Grateful!
 
Bradley; if any of us obtain notoriety as a musicans I hope that it will be for playing something more note-worthy than the guy in that YouTube video.

I'm not sure I'd pay $200 for the guitar, let alone $20K, but when it comes to playing, Eddie's a monster.  Let's give the devil his due.
 
Rick