Guitar of the Week 20: This EVH is CRAZY!!

[@ThrockMorton360]

Fun fact, Eddie used to have his pickup selector flipped like that because when he would go to tap with his right hand he would always knock it to the neck pickup so he just flipped it. :)

[@mattdylan664]

Ah yeah beautiful guitars i love em i need em, cant live without em no!

[@clintwilson6380]

Good1

[@Krullmatic]

Well, creatures from the sea, it looks to me like you like to play guitar!

[@jordenperkins8735]

I have the 5150 Stealth and I absolutely love it.

[@alanguitars]

I have this same guitar. Love it. Sounds great, light, neck is so comfortable.

[@thomashansson848]

October - April is fret sprout season in Sweden. When it reaches -25/30C in December/January, you reach for the ones with fret edge binding. ; )

[@2hi2dye]

New England in the US as well. Big time!! I'll pick up one of my guitars and say wtf happened to the neck!

[@MrFafnirsgold]

I have that Kind with the ash body. It sounds amazing. The pickups are awesome for hard n heavy music. Bur most of all i love the playabilty. It is so smooth in your hands. Warm and perfect. So to be honest. It really replaces all the guitars that I own for heavy Tones. Even if they were much more expensive. This one is a beast in value for money. Thanks a lot for the Video.

[@KennethMcMurry-h9s]

What a slick looking guitar I really like that finish

[@steverizundrums]

My buddy picked up this exact 5150 a couple years ago and he loves it so much. I’ve had the chance to play it quite a few times and it’s gotta be one of the nicest axes I’ve played and the price ain’t too bad either. Great video Steve, I’ve been a fan of your content for years! Cheers 🤘🏻🎸

[@thegaindane]

Looks great. I would prefer the top on that one to be more either burl or flame on the whole top. But I like it 👍

[@alfromplymouth]

Hey Steve, love what you do, I just wanted to add my very basic knowledge of wood, I believe when quarter sawn wood is called more stable, it is in reference to expansion and contraction as it refers to moisture content, less fret sprout and I am sure more structurally sound in reference to bow, as the grain is tighter closer to the core, especially in force grown forests. But I could be wrong.

[@INVERTEDBUKAKI]

yes quarter sawn maple is super stable that doesn't move like flat sawn. pre 2016 import charvels with the truss rod, skunk stripe on the back and they just pound the frets right into the neck. Those definitely are the real deal. The new charvels necks have been flat sawn for 9 years now . EVH maple neck is at least a 2 to 3 piece quarter sawn maple combined with a flat sawn fretboard that's glued on.

[@michaeleaster1815]

My "old man crankiness" is the color of the kill-switch... it is an angry pimple. Imagine that beauty with a black kill switch, or even light brown to match the body. Fun video!

[@gfgranja]

It is an EVH, and Eddie used a red killswitch

[@jmartini8875]

Yeah man cool. I have one in Stealth. Very cool. And Wolfgang pups are my favorite factory wound pickups. They have a really cool tapered burn on the end of their signal. Thanks Steve. P.S Red zone or no zone.

[@vincenta1074]

I have two EVH guitars The frankenstrat And a Wolfgang special w mods (kill switch) The quality of these guitars are unparalleled for the price point. I would put them up against the $3000 guitar any day.

[@saltyassassin]

I just got the Stealth Black 5150 guitar. Awesome instrument!!

[@joserdiazalmodovar1898]

Hi Steve. I've just recently started watching you're channel and quite cool bro. The first one I saw a couple of days ago was a review of the Charvel So Cal Pro Mod HSS in Ferrari Red. I have one too same color bought from Sweetwater a couple of months ago i put a White JB trembucker and a heavy brass block and it's an Awesome Guitar. Love it. ✌️🎸

[@Jasonk7479]

Great tone you got there Steve!!

[@countvond233]

Never considered "spinning around" the toggle switch. Glad I got that college degree... In the hardwood biz. We do saw quarter-sawn at our mill but we charge a premium for that (not for having to turn the log so much as pulling and sorting after the cut).

[@JTB--]

I had the Purple version of this guitar. The neck was nice and I really liked the Hockey stick headstock. Pick Ups sounded good and should please most EVH fans. But I eventually got bored with this guitar. The kill switch is fun for a while at first and then you don't care about it that much. The D-Tuna was a pain in the Arse. Hit or miss getting it right. Guitar also went out of tune a lot. This guitar made me realize I'm not a big fan of the Floyd Rose guitars. Especially having to constantly tune them and changing the strings is a real effort. All my guitars are PRS hard tails now and a few have the whammy bar for a little Whammy action. I Would still recommend this guitar to EVH fans who like the Whammy Dive Bombs and Kill Switch stuff. Endless Fun!

[@kasnitch]

Maybe the non premium FR's have tuning issues .. have never played any of them . I have 2 ESP Horizons, one with an FR0 the other with a hardtail , and I live in Northern Canada . The one with the Floyd rarely goes out of tune .. the hard tail with locking tuners goes out more often . I use Nanoweb 9-42's and try to play them 5-6 days per week . Changing strings is a pain, even one at a time .

[@DreidMusicalX]

I like th guitar! I always liked Kramers growing up but in my 39 years I moved away from playing 22 fret guitars to 24 frets and for some reason anymore. For me its 24! I went looking for Kramers and the ONLY Kramer I found with a 24 fret neck with Floyd Rose was a Kramer Striker. I paid like $400 US after taxes. The neck was like a baseball bat, so I sanded it down to a comfortable shape since I love wood working and can do stuff like that. I do a lot of modifications as it is on my guitars. I also got rid of the cheap jack it had and drilled it out and put a regular plate on it with a switchcraft. Then put some GHOTO tuning keys on it. Hot dang it looks, plays, and sounds incredible and I only have 2hrs work and an extra $100 in it. I'm actually thinking about getting another one instead of black and maple neck thats purple o r the red one. The pickups in them are some of the best sounding pickups for and HSS style guitar I have ever played on. They do metal and strat sounds phenomenally! But if I were going to get an EVH. That one you have there. I like it! It looks really nice and sounded great the second you plugged it in. You cannot ask for much more if it fells good to play as well.

[@jodyferguson3068]

A D tuner won't work properly with a floating Bridge that's all there is to that

[@INVERTEDBUKAKI]

True but I use a $5 trem stopper from ebay or Amazon on all my Floyds floating or not and I'll remove it from floating if I want to pull up 👍. I like it even on decked bodies because it gives it a better 0 point because sometimes against the body is sitting too high /too low etc.

[@smithfield06]

Great review, agree with you on evh pickups great sound, love their wah pedal too

[@retropuffer2986]

Beautiful guitar and great review once again!

[@uziforyoutosay1749]

They should have made this model with rbw stripe, wb stripe and wb circle….not some crap slime or pink, it’s not a fan boy thing…but homage to Eddie. I did purchase a blk satin, plays nice, but I have a Wolfgang special rbw, early version with the striped headstock and maple fretboard, EVH best guitar.

[@elevenAD]

Kiesel also only use quarter sawn necks, Jeff truly believes the wood is worth the extra cost.

[@tassobear]

Wood makes really everything on a guitar. Does not need to be expensive all the time it just needs to fit the purpose!

[@2hi2dye]

I won't buy anything that doesn't have a quarter sawn neck or graphite reinforcement because I live in New England. Definitely worth it. Jeff is correct

[@andystarcher1918]

What are you using for your guitar sounds.

[@robertclarkguitar]

My Classic vibe 60s squier is Quarter sawn. As is my MIM strat. Thank God. Neither have had any real drastic movement requiring truss dancing. Lol

[@patrickz2976]

I own that one in the Aqua Burst finish. I flipped my 3-way.

[@felipegarcia2188]

What kind of plug in do you use sounds great awesome guitar hockey headstock.

[@russelltodd2833]

If they ever make it in vintage white I might buy one.

[@resington]

Quarter sawn with carbon fibre reinforcement rods for the best necks ever! More companies should do it.

[@StevieBGoode]

Did I pick up a bit of Buckethead in there...? Nice.

[@satisfy2008]

old barreta of kramer shape. Very cool ~

[@titanandrews]

I have the 5150 in Stealth. Love it! Would like to see Wolfgang and the new SA-126 review as well. ;)

[@Hubblereach0]

Just bottom it out with the claw steve so it's just barely bottomed out and wham, d tuna sorks

[@vincenta1074]

Forgot to add Love the content Steve!

[@johnconnor6706]

I can't stand the pickup selector in that position like a LP...gets in the way when you go to tap. And the neck shape should be the Wolfgang profile...offset cut so the bass side is larger and the treble side is smaller. It's a unique, but very comfortable profile. I've heard the FU Pro guitars have extremely comfortable necks. That's a guitar you should check out - The FU Pro guitar from FU-Tone. It comes loaded with the FU Tone upgrades. I have a similar guitar in the Schecter DJ Ashba signature...top mounted Floyd 1500, 22 fret maple/ebony neck, killswitch, but pickup selector is on the lower horn and it has an EMG 81 in the bridge and a Sustainiac in the neck. Killer guitar.

[@johnnyrkramerthemusicmovie3147]

sweet i like the saten on that evh steve good looking guitar dude

[@SuperRickenbacker]

Steve - you’ll have to try Jet Guitars, quality for a budget guitar is insane.

[@TommyBrothers75]

i bought an EVH Eruption 78 and the fret edges were very sharp. I had to roll the edges myself with a fret file

[@johngonzales8224]

most people complain about the switch being opposite of Les Paul's. When I had mine I reversed the switch to be normal.

[@Brycereigle2000]

Hey, that’s the Feldman model! Haha sorry, had to!!! 😂

[@Brycereigle2000]

Just a different color, before anyone comments it. 😂

[@Smart-Alex]

Cool guitar! See if you can get a Gibson Victory in! 🤘

[@cebjr]

Nice looking guitar.

[@christopherholbert1878]

Steve have you ever played a Sterling SUB Ax4? Would love to see you review one of those.

[@studiotyson2963]

Holy Mackerel! Sounds EXACTLY like Eddie playing that guitar! You got that sound down tight as a drum! What is the amp or amp simulator/ modeler that you’re playing through?

[@AJgeartalk]

That headstock......... Can't get past it.

[@clintwilson6380]

At least it ain't reversed...

[@AJgeartalk]

@@clintwilson6380 That's the only thing that would make it worse.

[@clintwilson6380]

@@AJgeartalk I'm an 80's guys but I still can't stand reverse headstocks. I hate to see a Bigsby on a guitar too...grumpyoldman...

[@TKAdams69]

You need to take your time to set up the detuner properly and it will work

[@jodyferguson3068]

Wow that is a nice guitar

[@patrickshannon4516]

I heard people talking about fret sprout several times but haven't had any guitar yet in 38 year's of buying guitar's where one guitar the frets brother me like that. Has people actually been ripped open or something like that from fret sprouts

[@Krullmatic]

I don't know, but a lot of my guitars are quarter-sawn and they're all newer guitars. If a couple of the sub $300 donas well.

[@lonnieo4676]

what is that chord at 17:46?? what song does that remind you of??

[@idea1511]

I think my ‘87 Kramer is poplar

[@NelsonRodriguez_]

But we want to know is the bag better then the last EVH 🎉

[@2hi2dye]

I wonder what the difference is to the Wolfgang other than body shape.

[@bustanorms2028]

nice guitar

[@peterfranks7619]

That sounded so cheap when you used the bar stating how it goes out of tune. That kill switch should blend into the guitar what are we looking at a Buckethead spin off. No THX on the guitar, honest reviewer. I tip my hat to you sir. Thumbs up.👍 Eddie would not put his name on that piece of BLANK.

[@ce152capt100]

Beautiful guitar but for that hideous red kill switch. Couldn’t they have done black or chrome?

[@charleigh195]

Walter trout does that without a trick guitar but very good

[@BlackRose-vi2yg]

These are good guitars, but the quality can be hit-or-miss with these Mexican ones. It depends on the budget, but if you can, go for the Japanese EVH or the USA ones.

[@Hubblereach0]

Ayeeeee

[@SlappyMarsden]

Stainless steel frets?

[@autocyclepc2001]

Yes

[@JB_II]

Really wish EVH guitars would come without Floyd Rose on them.

[@andyoc]

Moist Heat...sounds like a ZZ song.

[@ickimadrasi8965]

Man, you still have not had 100K subscribers after being around more than 12 years

[@j7cc]

Kill switch, why?

[@tonyhao9344]

That EVH has to be the best bang for buck guitar around these days. I almost bought one several times. I am hanging out for the Evh MIJ Series Signature Wolfgang (Japan) - ivory. Essentially the same Except its way more $$$ and Buddy Approved..

[@jjm9741]

THU?

[@jeffreyrivers1983]

The body looks cheap

[@eddiejr540]

Woo Hoo…it’s 5150 time🤘 btw…I have never been able to get a d-tuna to work…I just take’em off and leave them in the case🫤