2022 EVH Striped Series '78 Eruption Relic Black & White Stripe Graphics > Guitars Electric Solid Body

Description

Freshly set up in-house by our esteemed Guitar Tech. This guitar has never been sold and carries a full warranty. See below for more details and specifications.

FROM EVH:

On the cover of Van Halen's 1978 eponymous debut album, Eddie Van Halen thrusts his black-and-white striped Strat®-style guitar towards the camera as if he's showing you the future. He played this guitar on his unprecedented and mind-blowing "Eruption" guitar solo, thus its nickname, and almost immediately, this monumental instrument became a timeless icon, symbolic of a paradigm shift in guitar-driven rock and roll.

Back when this trailblazing album first appeared, nobody had ever seen or heard a guitar like that because no such guitar ever existed. What was this? You couldn't buy one. That's because he made it himself. The 22-year-old Eddie Van Halen had the mind of not only a great musician, but also of an innovative inventor - a constant tinkerer who was always messing with his gear. Eddie would say it was out of necessity as no off-the-shelf guitar had the features he needed to really do his job and realize his full potential. So, he took matters into his own capable hands - refretting the neck, installing a humbucking pickup which he potted in paraffin wax, as well a single master volume knob (famously labeled as "Tone"), brass nut and tailpiece from a '58 Strat, cutting out and mounting his own homemade black and of course, coming up with iconic striped motif.

This EVH® Striped Series '78 Eruption guitar combines many of those famed mods along with modernized features and a relic treatment.

SPECIFICATIONS:

EVH-Branded Gotoh Tuners

1 11/16' Brass Nut

EVH Modified C Backshape Quartersawn Maple Neck with 25.5" Scale Length

Neck Depth .78" at Third Fret and .84" at Twelfth Fret

22 Jumbo Frets

Maple Fingerboard with Black Dot Markers and 12"to 16" Compound Radius

EVH Wolfgang Humbucking Pickup

6-Saddle Vintage-Style Fender Stratocaster Synchronized Tremolo with 43mm Brass Block

Basswood Body with Black & White Striped Relic

Oversized Strap Buttons