Hand Striped... and Gigged

We all are aware that one year ago today, Eddie Van Halen turned up at NAMM, to play his new Frankenstrat™ guitar live. There are only 300 instruments (or 301, if you include the one Eddie plays on tour). For more info, go to:http://www.evhgear.com/news/index.php?display_article=5 ... but this is not the only reason that EVH is a marketing genius... he is now playing (from what I can tell) 2 or maybe 3 hand-striped (yes... by Eddie) guitars during each concert performance. He then has someone market them on EBay. (go to: http://www.evh-guitars.com/). So some people are saying... why own an EXACT Fender replica, that Eddie probably never touched...when for less money, I can own something Eddie helped to build...and actually played... (even if for just one song...maybe two)? Tough call....right? A friend rightly pointed out that EVH has always been marketing various versions of his guitars, and this is nothing necessarily new... we should probably expect something else soon... actually... bingo... the EVH 5150 amp...