Two guitars customized and played by Eddie Van Halen are headed for auction

Eddie Van Halen guitars
(Image credit: Julien's Auctions)

Two electric guitars custom-designed and played by Eddie Van Halen will take centerstage at Julien’s upcoming Icons & Idols Trilogy: Rock 'N' Roll auction on December 4 and 5.

First up is a 2004 EVH Charvel Art Series handstriped in the white-and-black abstract design style of Eddie’s 1978 Van Halen guitar. The EVH Charvel features a maple neck and fingerboard, Fender Stratocaster-style headstock numbered #54 on the back and an EVH humbucking pickup with evidence of a cigarette burn to the front.

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Richard Bienstock

Rich is the co-author of the best-selling Nöthin' But a Good Time: The Uncensored History of the '80s Hard Rock Explosion. He is also a recording and performing musician, and a former editor of Guitar World magazine and executive editor of Guitar Aficionado magazine. He has authored several additional books, among them Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck, the companion to the documentary of the same name.