My main guitar for the past 18 months or so is my EVH Wolfgang Standard Exotic Ziricote. I love that thing. It does everything I ask it to with no complaints, it sounds great, and it looks amazing. But I’ve always got my eye on the EVH 5150 guitar line, which springboards from the vibe of the old Kramers Eddie Van Halen used to use, but tweaked, refined and reimagined through the context of everything Eddie learned in the decades since picking up that Kramer and then moving on to developing his own signature guitars. In many ways, the 5150 Series comes across as a Wolfgang with a more Stratty body shape. And that’s good enough for me! Check out the new Natural Finish model, which has a bit of an ‘If Eddie made a Nuno guitar, or if Nuno made an Eddie guitar’ vibe.
Those specs:
Graphite-reinforced bolt-on quartersawn maple neck.
Comfortable modified “C” profile.
Heel-mount truss rod adjustment wheel.
“Hockey stick” headstock with EVH® logo decal.
12”-16” compound radius ebony fingerboard.
22 jumbo frets with cream dot inlays.
Dual humbucking pickup configuration featuring EVH® Wolfgang® Alnico 2 pickups with three-way toggle switch.
A lower bout kill switch.
Certified EVH-branded top-mount Floyd Rose bridge.
Locking tailpiece with fine tuners and patented EVH D-Tuna® for switching back and forth from drop-D to standard tuning in an instant.
