Taken off from the VH-II black/yellow guitar (bumblebee) after Ed retires the guitar surrounding legal issues with Grover Jackson selling unlicensed copies of the Bee through Charvel. Approximately August 1980, give or take a few weeks. Working on a more precise date for this. This neck remains attached to Franky for over a full year until broken on September 4, 1981, in a stage incident