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Ed Roman Guitars will sell you a kit for almost any thing that you can find on this website.
These kits are just as custom as when we build them !!!  The price that we sell the kits for averages about $850.00 to $1,250.00 cheaper than if you actually bought the guitar.

Call Our Custom Shop  702-875-4552.   We will be glad to sell you all the components for a custom guitar in kit form. Have your local luthier build it for you or do it yourself.

Don't email us about kits currently we get about 6 requests for kit quotes a day by Email.  I can't remember ever actually selling one from an Email quote. If you must do an email quote we require a $50.00 nonrefundable deposit !!!!  (Sorry but time is money)

See Bottom Of This Page For Absolute Best Neck Thru Body Kit Deal Ever Offered


KIT #5151  Our Most Popular Bolt On Kit
$999.00
Price has not gone up in 12 years
  Comes With Reverse or Normal Headstock
Yes we will substitute Fender or Ibanez style necks
Yes we will Substitute Frankenstrat style bodies also
  

                 Here's What You Get  100% American Made High Quality

  • Premium Alder, Body      Korina or any other wood optional.

  • Hard rock maple quarter-sawn neck, non-tilt banana headstock as used by Eddie (neck can be substituted for BC Rich neck like the Gunslinger) or you can have most headstocks out there as long as you are willing to wait a little.

  • Specify maple or  rosewood fretboard   ebony fingerboard extra

  • Original Floyd Rose tremolo complete with all necessary hardware (This Floyd is original & made with Hardened Steel...the best one on the market)

  • Original Floyd Rose Locking Nut

  • Pickup Choice of almost any Seymour Duncan or Dimarzio Pickups, (Duncan Black Back is the best pickup I sell - bar none!)

  • Neck plate complete with 4 stainless steel mounting screws or steel ferrules with screws (whichever you prefer)

  • Schaller Mini tuning keys. Top quality, best ones I carry.

  • String retainer - Floyd Rose Original, heavily plated

  • Knob choice of steel or plastic.

  • Cavity Cover Black Plastic (Cut in original EVH style parallelogram)

  • Potentiometer CTS Brand (500K) wiring included (Volume Pot)

  • Switchcraft input jack - made in the USA

  • Heavy plated strap buttons 

  • All screws and fasteners included

  • Or you could go out and spend $25,000.00 or more  for the exact same thing assembled and painted with an incorrect Fender style headstock on it.

Our Economy Kits come with or without painted bodies! !!
This Saves you a bundle over all the other kits on the market

Of course you can specify a better tremolo or better pickups

 Korina Wood Body made to retrofit on Albert May's Ibanez Petrucci Guitar.

When Albert rebuilt his Petrucci guitar he used his original neck and
my shop made him this wonderfully resonant Korina Body. The tonal difference was
so incredible that a even a beginner could immediately hear the difference. These bodies are currently in stock.

Notice the step routed pickup cavity. This allows the replacement pickups to mount directly to the body instead of floating on springs.
This factor makes the pickups and guitar resonate together. More gain before feedback and significantly clearer highs and tighter lows.


We compared the original Dimarzio pickups (Stock) against the Seymour Duncan Black/Backs TM and we were astounded by the difference. The Dimarzio's distorted horribly on the low end compared to the Duncan's.

The other comparison of note was the Tremolo. We compared the stock Ibanez tremolo against the real Original Floyd Rose The tonal difference was again immediately apparent. The original Floyd Rose is made to extremely close tolerances. The steel is hardened to 60 Rockwell. Not only did the guitar hold tune better it sounded better and was much more responsive than the original Ibanez model.

 

 

Ed Roman offers Ibanez replacement bodies made from over 28 different types of wood

They are available finished in any color or style of graphic you want

Naturally Ed Roman also offers incredible custom inlay work


 

Custom made body & neck made for Jason Rosul.
Jason basically threw away his Ibanez stock 7 string.

We built this for him using the Ibanez piezo bridge.

Ed Roman can build absolutely any body shape you can think of in a 7-String design

 

Both of the above kits are available in many different colors.  Call to see what's available.

Also available is an unfinished Alder body that is interchangeable with the above kit parts

$169.00


Be Super Careful of eBay 5150 Kramers

99% of the people who are building The EVH 5150 paint job guitars (and there are lots these days) are using cheap Korean Kramer's as the core for the job. In fact Kramer never made a non tilt headstock in the USA. The only ones that came with the non tilt headstock are the Korean made Strikers and 1 model Japanese Focus. I have seen some of these guitars and they are far from accurate. So be careful if you are considering buying one of those.

Eddie's Original guitar came with a non tilt Banana type headstock. The Kramer headstocks that Music Yo is peddling has a thinner profile and a slight hook on the end. The angle the picture is taken can effectively camouflage the thinner and different looking headstock.  Even the Maggots on Ebay are selling imported guitars as original Kramers (no surprise there).


Lynn Ellsworth made the bodies for Wayne Charvel, J Frog & others.
USA made, top quality guaranteed perfect fit
Bodies are all completely routed and ready to go

Click here for a page on body cores
We Can Make Up Any Body Core You Like

Exact Duplicate of Eddie's 1980 neck

Skunk Stripe, Non Tilt Hockey Stick Headstock
Hard Rock Birdseye Maple, perfect fit every time
$333.00 - 100% USA made
 

Original PRS Necks Available, BC Rich Necks Available,
Ibanez Necks Available, Kramer Necks Available, Jackson Necks Available!


Here are some of the more frequently asked questions about our kits:

Ed Roman Responds !!!!

Q:  How do you get all these new parts when the manufacturers like PRS Jackson, Fender or Ibanez refuse to sell them?

A:  Simple, I disassemble brand new and used guitars and sell them for parts.

Q: If these companies don't want parts sold, Why don't they refuse to sell to you because you are disassembling.  What would you do then?
A: Simple, I will two step the product from other dealers, I will do whatever is necessary to buy the product. Be assured I will always have most of the hard to find parts.

Q: Why is it that these companies don't want parts sold?
A: Some of them say they are afraid that someone might make forgeries but I suspect the truth is they want to sell you a new guitar.

Q: Why do you make aftermarket parts for these companies?
A: In the case of Gibson  Ibanez, ESP or other Asian companies I can make a much better looking & sounding product, In the case of companies like PRS  I can offer different variations of hardware than the originals.  I can also offer 42 variations in Tonewood that none of these companies are willing to provide.


Original Bodies!

BC Rich, Jackson, Paul Reed Smith, Fender, Hamer, Steinberger, Ibanez, Kramer, Charvel, ESP, Gibson, J Frog, and more!
Licensed by Fender maple and rosewood necks available  Quicksilver Necks 100% interchangeable with PRS necks.   Graphite and Exotic wood necks available!

You can now have a kit for absolutely any guitar you want to recreate!
To remain within the bounds of legality Ed Roman Guitars will make certain headstocks slightly different.

However We can legally custom build any shape you want as long as it is a one time custom job
 
(Call for information and full explanation)


In January of 2008 we did an inventory of body cores We had 161 original BC Rich Cores 338 Abstract Cores and about 250 assorted other models. Now that we have downsized the operation we no longer have the room to store these 750 body cores.
Here's The Deal   Serious buyers please call with question's (Don't Email)

With any in stock "Body Core" purchase we will sell you your parts package for an incredibly low price!!!!!   read on    

Normally Neck Thru Body cores can be as low as $600.00 and as much as $2,200.00 most are in the low teens.

Not only will we be discounting the Body Cores lower than we ever have.
We have put together this "Killer Deal" on a parts package for you.

Parts Package List Priced at $650.00 for only   $265.00  read on    

2 Seymour Duncan 59' premium pickups or Dimarzio's 
1 Tun- A matic fully adjustable Bridge (Or Equivalent)
1 Tun- A matic Tailpiece (Or Equivalent)
6 Original Grover or Kluson Tuners
3 Potentiometers
3 Knobs
1 Toggle switch
1 Set of strings
We will also throw in a real nice fully padded $18.00 wide guitar strap for free & a lower cost economy gig bag that we are also overstocked on. We bought 1000 economy gig bags in 2006 for Xmas guitars and we have 400 left.

Floyd Rose Original Tremolo   Add only
$100.00 That's right, this is not a misprint !!!!!
EMG Pickups 81 & 85   Add only
$60.00
That's right, this is not a misprint !!!!!

If you need any other special parts we will discount them accordingly.
Call the Custom Shop with questions we will be running this deal for a while but the people who move quick will get the best selection and the best deals.

Example for the simple minded

Buy a real "Schon Bodyblank" Made by Grover Jackson in 1985 USA neck through original hand made "Body Core for $800.00 buy your parts package for  $265.00

Your total cost is $1,065.00,   You will probably need a couple of small items $60.00 and you have to paint it and assemble it yourself.

Mockingbirds Stealth's, & Bich Models are more popular, they will be several hundred dollars higher. Ironbirds, Exclusive's, Wraiths & Seagulls will be cheaper.  We also have 100 or so bolt on models these will be even cheaper yet.  (Call For Pricing--- Do Not Email)

Obviously if you want more or fancy items added,  it will cost more,  we have attempted to put together an affordable package so that we can get people into a real quality USA made instrument and lower our overstock.

 

Complete Kits are Available for these Jackson Made Schon Guitars

 All Schon's have ebony fingerboards with bound neck & headstocks
They are made of 100% Maple and are "Neck Thru The Body."
These were all made by Jackson in the 80's

Because we are finally after 8 years running out of the Schon Body Cores Abstract Guitars is now offering  this guitar it will be called "The Journeyman"


Schon Original


Schon Original


 

 Journeyman Model  June 2008


We can make bodies from 42 different kinds of Wood