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This Vantage Neck Through 810 has belonged to Ed for more than 33 years.

Completely Stock Ed never even changed the pickups.

Ed always liked and appreciated finely made guitars but Ed didn't actually start collecting guitars till 1995

In eleven years Ed's personal collection has reached the 150 mark.

Neil Schon Guitar

Originally made by the Jackson Custom Shop. These guitars are very cool especially if you are a huge Neil Schon Fan like me. Currently, I have several of these available for sale. Original models as low as $2,000.00 I also have a huge selection of original Jackson made neck through bodyblanks all fretted and ready to build. Prices start at $750.00 for unpainted ones $850.00 for painted ones. I have all the original parts available and I can assist you in assembly if you like.

Check out the Grover Jackson Manufactured Schon Bodyblanks

Here is one of my favorite Acquisitions
A matching set of BC Rich Maple Guitars

These three guitars are signed by Bernie Rico SR just days before he passed away. In fact they were still in production so I didn't receive them for several months later.

BC Rich were my first real high quality guitars that I owned so naturally I have had an affinity with them for close to 30 years. I owned lots of Fenders and Gibsons in the 60's and they were cool then. I can honestly say I never loved or became attached to any one of them. in 2003 I made a deal with a group of the original BC Rich Luthiers to build guitars for me. They are called Abstract Guitars. They come in over 75 body shapes.

Bond Guitar

Not the prettiest guitar I own, perhaps maybe it's the ugliest. It's not even the coolest. I own it because it is innovative and ahead of it's time.

I admire innovators and even though this one was a failure. I feel that collecting this guitar is worth my while

Custom Guitar ???

Ed constructed the entire thing except for the bridge which plainly says Steinberger on it.

The pickups are custom wound Seymour Duncan Black/Backs TM. The neck & headpiece, Ed made in the shop.

The body was retopped in my shop and the inlaid binding was completely done in the shop. look at LSR Guitars if you want to see more

JET Earlewood Serial #1

This guitar is a very cool addition to my collection. it has many distinctive features that aren't available on many guitars. The JET guitars took #1 position for guitar of the year in 2002, 2003 and 2004

Dean Time Capsule Set
There were 50 made of each model
This set is the 50th set

Leslie West Rocket Guitar #1
This guitar was designed as the Leslie West Rocket Guitar, originally the Westberger or Flyberger.

Leslie has used a LSR Guitar for almost 9 years as of this writing. Originally Leslie wanted the small version until he played the Edberger below.

The Guitar on the is now called the EB-1
LSR EB-1

Edberger Serial #1

This guitar was designed as a tribute to Eddie Van Halen, sort of a Steinberger meets Ernie Ball. When LSR released the guitar in 1997 it was called the Edberger. Several years later, Gibson, the people who own the Steinberger name and legal trademarks objected to the name so currently it is called the LSR EB-1.

Ed has built about 50 a year, Eddie himself has serial number 002. Ed built many for Leslie West of Mountain and Buck Dharma of Blue Oyster Cult. Leslie West told Ed that it was the finest guitar he ever played. Leslie doesn't hand out compliments too often. So when he does Ed really take them to heart.

Abel Axe
This is a cool all aluminum guitar. A good friend of Ed's found it in an LA Pawn Shop and picked it up for him.

Ed Generally would not buy a $100.00 Bill for $5.00 in a pawn shop

So this is the only guitar in his collection that came from a Pawn Shop

Kramer Voyager Full Size

Currently Ed owns over 350 Kramers.

Not all of them are in Ed's collection but he has one of almost every model.

This one is a great example of an extremely stable American made guitar.

The graphic on this guitar is supercool. We have built several guitars exactly like this one except they are 24 fret neck through body construction with Ebony necks, full binding and beautiful inlays.

Rickenbacker Lemmy Bass

The rarest of all Rickenbacker limited editions & the last one they say they are doing.

This One Has Been Signed To Ed By Lemmy Himself

Ed Roman Scroll Bass

Handbuilt right here

Monsters of Rock

Only 12 of these were made originally. The one in the picture has been signed by Eddie Van Halen twice. The first signature faded.

In 1999 when Ed hand delivered his EB-1 guitar to him Ed brought this along and Eddie re-signed it for him.

Alan, Ed's shop manager and Ed spent about 30 minutes with Eddie alone in his dressing room. Ed Roman played all of his guitars and talked shop with him for the whole time.

How Cool is that!! No one in the world was cooler than Ed & Alan that night!

The Rand Guitar

A very rare guitar made by a guy named Rand Havener. This guitar was the inspiration for the "Ed Roman Penetrator" model guitar and the Steinberger Mega Axe that I designed when I worked at Steinberger. There were only a few Penetrators made and very few Mega Axes made. The Steinberger Mega Axe had a headstock and the body looked like the Rand. There was only 1 run done of them and they were red.

Today this guitar can be ordered as an Abstract Caligula

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