Seymour Duncan Custom Shop Limited EVH Frankenstein Custom Humbucker Red, White and black

Seymour Duncan and Eddie Van Halen share a collaboration stretching back to the late 1970s. After years of tone exploration together, in early 2000’s the Seymour Duncan Custom Shop meticulously reproduced the pickup in Eddie's iconic Frankenstein guitar, then developed two additional variations representing distinct eras of Eddie's tone progression. All three were approved by Eddie himself and have been available for years in a range of options through the Seymour Duncan Custom Shop as the Frankenstein pickup collection.

Seymour Duncan is now introducing awesome new looks to our Custom Shop Frankenstein™ Pickups inspired by the iconic striped designs of Eddie Van Halen’s early instruments. The Seymour Duncan Custom Shop now offers four new striking versions: Red, Black & White; Grey & Black; Black & White; and Bumble Bee. The new designs are available for all three versions of the Seymour Duncan Custom Shop Frankenstein pickup. The Frankenstein Custom is a faithful reproduction of the pickup in Eddie’s legendary Frankenstein guitar from 2006. The Frankenstein Plus is a hot-rodded version of the original, developed and approved by Eddie in 2013, offering heightened output with increased harmonics and sustain. And the Frankenstein Classic, also developed and approved by Eddie in later years, draws its inspiration from his early P.A.F. pickup tone that characterized the first six Van Halen records.

Frankenstein Custom
The Seymour Duncan Custom Shop Frankenstein Custom pickup is designed to provide the punch, power, harmonics, and dynamics that fueled some of the most exciting and memorable guitar riffs of all time. As unique as Eddie, the Frankenstein Custom Humbucker is perfect for rhythm, lead, and everything in between. In the mid-2000s, Eddie Van Halen and his team turned to the expertise of Seymour Duncan's Custom Shop to meticulously craft an exacting reproduction of the Frankenstein's famous pickup, that existed at that moment in time, capturing its character and specifications. This wasn't new territory. Seymour Duncan had long earned a reputation for remarkable precision in reproducing the tone of unique pickups from specific vintage guitars, through careful analysis and engineering. The resulting Frankenstein pickup was approved by Eddie himself, and it's available directly from the Seymour Duncan Custom Shop.

There are good tones, there are great tones, and then there are tones that change the world forever. Edward Van Halen's sound—with its punch, dimension, aggression, and detail—defined an era, launched a tsunami of imitators, and inspired a generation. Now you can get your hands on a pickup that can deliver those VH tones, with all the harmonics, complexity, and power associated with his iconic guitar parts. Massive power chords and soaring single-note lines are all at your fingertips. And because of its incredible clarity and depth, the Frankenstein Custom is also perfect for those VH style riffs that combine chords, melody, and technical nuance all at once, maintaining definition and speaking with a loud, clear voice. Another hallmark of Eddie’s style is his brilliant use of dynamics. Whether by altering his attack or rolling down his volume knob, the Frankenstein Custom is supremely responsive, making it easy to seamlessly morph from clean to dirty, for a range of tones few humbuckers can match. This is a pickup packed with inspiration.

• The articulate highs, aggressive midrange, and punchy lows of the classic VH Sound.
• Dynamic enough to clean up even with very high gain.
• A pickup so dimensional and wide-range that it gets the seal of approval from one of the all-time greats, Mr. Edward Van Halen.
• Features Black Nickel Screws and Slugs
• The Frankenstein Custom Humbucker is proudly made by the Seymour Duncan Custom Shop in Santa Barbara, California