Our Custom Made Fender Frankenstrat Copy

I played the $25,000 Frankenstrat replica at Guitar Center through a EVH 5150 III stack. Through that setup, it nailed EVH's tone, but I think it had more to do with the brighter ash Fender Frankenstrat Copy body. However this pickup came to be (it's a copy of the pickup currently in the Frankenstrat, not the same one that was there in '78), it seems like it was wound to give a warmer, darker sound to the ash bodied/Floyd equipped Frankenstrat, and may be better served in my Jackson Soloist. It is not EVH in a box- not that I expected it to be, but it didn't seem to be in the ballpark

One swaps out parts to achieve Eddie Van Halen guitar some specific purpose. You get an idea for what you want in a project guitar and then decide what needs to be changed to accomplish that idea. You need to decide on what exactly you want to achieve. Then others can give you some advice on how to deal with the particular issues as you come across them. Right now, you don't have the project well thought out (or at least cannot explain what it is you really want). Just making a Strat that is iindividualizedis too vague to act upon.