Wayne Charvel’s California custom shop sold EVH the body for his Frankenstrat, and EVH soon created a market for humbucker-equipped Strats that Charvel was uniquely positioned to fill. Steve Vai played a San Dimas as Jack Butler in the movie Crossroads and in David Lee Roth’s solo band, confirming Charvel as the brand of choice for Eddie’s heirs. Their custom necks with compound radius fingerboards were built to shred, and the LA crew bought them en masse.