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Thread: The Franky - A Pictorial History
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03.30.11, 09:49 AM #16
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Superb Jimmi !! Very interesting read .
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100% certain. Look closely at the photographs...
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...if you use the stripes as reference points you'll see that the quarter does not move from it's position.
Yeah, I agree. LOL! That's why the task a was given to Tom Anderson who is probably one of the best in the business.
There's actually four different types Floyds that are pictured.
Here's three of them:
Ed owned quite a few of them so who knows how many have been on the Franky!WGAF?!!
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I read somewhere years ago, I think in one of the international guitar mags, the interviewer asked Ed what made him stop using the Frankie, and favoring the Kramers. (This was before he officially endorsed them)
I don't have the article in front of me, but it was something quoted like:
"There were a number of reasons, but I just really like their guitars. They made a replica of my guitar, I call it phase two, and were working on new things. One of the main reasons was the necks wouldn't stay on properly. I'd broken a couple of them off with all the crazy stuff I do, and I tried a bunch of new necks and things, but they'd always slide around in the pocket" (Note, I think he's referring to the side routs of the neck pocket cracking at the heel, allowing the neck to shift. This was a problem on one of mine that fell off a stand and onto the floor off the stage.)
The second thing is that the wood under the bridge was getting soft from all the sweat and grime over the years, so the bridge isn't sitting right. it's basically falling apart!"
As far as what he says about the bridge, this makes sense because it had numerous open holes under it. He once stated about the Floyd Rose that he thought they sounded too bright, so when he was in the studio he'd put the old Fender bridge back on, and live the Floyd would go on for tuning stability.
So sweat which is pretty acidic gets down in the holes and attacks the wood. This was actually a very common problem on Ibanez guitars which used real soft woods like basswood until they started preventing the problem with different inserts for the studs. The wood would actually get spongey.
Just a little old info FWIW.Last edited by we die young; 03.30.11 at 10:47 AM.
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Right. Well, the conjecture and debates continue, but the proof still has not been produced. I was going to include a section on the Sunburst Strat...
..and the Black Strat...
..but until I see the absloute proof,we are in the realm of the "second shooter on the grassy knoll"...WGAF?!!
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Doesnt the B/W Franky have some kind of brass mightymite bridge on the cover of VH1 ?
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Really cool, thamks for sharing.
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Cool thread!
Curious about the cream colored pickup that was once in the franky.
Any idea what it is? Think maybe it's a super 70 taken from the shark/Ibanez Destroyer?
Saw a cream colored one on the bumblebee for a time too.
The bumblebee. not sure, seemed to originally come with a black humbucker from Charvel?
and later a cream colored..
but the shark, snake/dragon and a bunch of his guitars had a cream colored pickup for a time as well....lol
You don't need the pictorial examples but tossing them up anyways. Any idea what the cream pickup was in the franky during 1980 ish?
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I thought it was the Diamrzio Super Distortion that was in the Bumblebee that Ed said never sounded good.
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The bridge cam with the intonation off from the start. Whoever installed the Floyd, just placed it over the original tremolo location. Ed had been making some amazing music, by then, so I guess they went with "if it ain't broke, don't fix it". Anothet possibility is that the bridge screw holes came off from Ellsworth, and that may had been the cause for the body to be a second.
In deed, Ed took his baby to whoever would be capable of making his main tool reach its peak. Here is Peter Baranet, AKA MAX (who built a certain famous Les Paul replica for Slash, arguably/possibly used in Apetite For Destruction) messing with Franky.
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Jimi has provided the date of this picture, with is usual hability to unveil the darkest secrets of Ed's guitars! Please observe the master in action and see how he managed to actually discover the real date of the picture!
I hope you don't mind me sharing this piece of info here, Jimi, with due and deserved merit, since the original location of the post is... well, you know.
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03.31.11, 12:43 AM #30
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I don't know what kind of humbucker it was...
... but I doubt it was taken from the Shark.
I plan on putting a Charvel VH II (I refuse to call it the "Bumble Bee" LOL!)thread together very shortly. Many of your questions will be answered there!Last edited by jimi11580; 03.31.11 at 12:56 AM.
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