EVH 510-7902-503 EVH Striped Electric Guitar - Red w/ Black Stripes

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With a career of being copied, the EVH Striped Series guitars put Eddie Van Halen's historic and authentic style in your hands. These are high-powered, high-performance machines as kick-butt to look at as they are to play.

The Striped Series guitar features a basswood Stratocaster-style body decked out in Eddie's famed striped graphics — Red with Black Stripes, Black with Yellow Stripes, and White with Black Stripes.

These unique guitars also have a graphite-reinforced bolt-on quarter-sawn maple neck with a hand-rubbed oil finish on the back, 12"-16" maple fingerboard with 22 jumbo frets and black dot inlays, and a thumbwheel truss rod adjustment wheel for convenient neck relief tweaks.

Powered by a single ferocious direct-mount Wolfgang humbucking bridge pickup, the Striped Series guitars also feature a single skirted Strat-style volume control knob (labeled "tone") that houses a 500K EVH Bourns low friction pot with treble bleed circuit, single-ply black pickguard (White with Black Stripes model only), bar string retainer and Floyd Rose locking nut, EVH-branded Floyd Rose locking tremolo with EVH D-Tuna, EVH die-cast tuners, chrome hardware, vintage-style strap buttons, EVH neck plate, and licensed Fender Strat headstock. The White with Black Stripes model also features a top-mount output jack.

• CASE/GIG BAG: Not Included.

Bolt-On Quartersawn Maple Neck with Eddie Van Halen's Modified "C" Backshape
Bolt-on is a type of neck construction that joins the maple neck to the body of the guitar with screws or bolts, resulting in bright tone with more control. The quartersawn grain runs the length of the neck and, as well as being visually appealing, is less susceptible to shrinking, warping or splitting. Graphite-reinforcement rods flank the truss rod for even more increased neck stability, while your fretting hand will feel right at home on the modified “C”-shape neck, which has a .790” thickness at the 3rd fret and .825” at the 12th fret.

12"-16" Compound Radius Maple Fingerboard with 22 Jumbo Frets
The innovative 12"-16" compound radius maple fingerboard design gradually flattens toward the heel from its smaller and more rounded profile at the nut for unparalleled comfortable chording and riffing near the nut and seamless bending near the heel. Maple is a dense wood that produces bright, snappy tones, articulate notes with bite, and a tight low end. Versus a 24-fret neck, a 22-fret layout shifts the neck pickup farther away from the bridge, centering it at the “sweet spot” and resulting in an overall warmer tone. The jumbo fret wire slightly increases the distance between string and fingerboard for seamless and comfortable bends.

Direct Mount EVH Wolfgang Humbucking Pickup
Not all humbuckers are created equal. Direct mount EVH Wolfgang humbuckers with Alnico 2 magnets are hotter and harness Eddie’s scorching signature lead tone that captivated the world of rock ‘n’ roll in the ‘70s and ‘80s. These pickups deliver rich harmonics, cutting highs and snarling mids in spades.

EVH-Branded Floyd Rose Locking Trem, R3 Locking Nut and EVH D-Tuna
Eddie Van Halen was the first player to popularize the innovative Floyd Rose locking tremolo, even advising Floyd Rose on his early designs to integrate round disc finger-type tuners that you would see on a cello or violin. Now universally embraced, our EVH-branded Floyd Rose bridge features our EVH logo stamped on the bridge plate, steel saddles and a solid brass block. The Floyd Rose bridge and R3 (43 mm) locking nut is a professional-grade double-locking design that secures the strings in the saddle and nut, providing ultimate tuning stability and dynamic tremolo action. Standard equipment on Eddie’s personal guitars since the early ‘90s, the EVH D-Tuna is a unique patented device that enables players to drop the E to D and back, in an instant.

Unique Appointments
Other killer appointments of this axe include Eddie’s famed striped paint job, a licensed-Fender Stratocaster headstock and single volume Strat-style skirt knob that reads “Tone.” The volume knob houses a 500K EVH Bourns low friction pot with treble bleed circuit for seamless swells.

General

• Series: Striped Series
• Orientation: Right-Hand
• Color: Red with Black Stripes
• Country of Origin: MX

Neck

• Headstock: Licensed Fender® Stratocaster®
• Neck Material: Quartersawn Maple
• Neck Finish: Hand-Rubbed Satin Urethane
• Neck Shape: EVH® Modified "C" Backshape
• Neck Construction: Bolt-On with Graphite Reinforcement
• Neck Thickness: .790" at 3rd Fret & .810" at 12th Fret
• Fingerboard Radius: 12"-16" Compound Radius (304.8 mm to 406.4 mm)
• Fingerboard Material: Maple
• Position Inlays: Black Dot
• Number of Frets: 22
• Truss Rod Nut: Heel-Mount Truss Rod Adjustment Wheel
• String Nut: Floyd Rose® R3 Locking
• Nut Width: 1.6875" (42.86 mm)
• Nut Material: Floyd Rose® R3 Locking

Body

• Body: Basswood
• Body Finish: Gloss Urethane
• Body Shape: Other
• Body Material: Basswood

Hardware

• Bridge: EVH®-Branded Floyd Rose® Locking Tremolo with EVH® D-Tuna®
• Tremolo Block: Brass
• Pickup Covers: Black
• Control Knobs: Black Stratocaster®-Style Skirt (Labeled "Tone")
• Hardware Finish: Chrome
• Tuning Machines: EVH®-Branded Gotoh®
• String Trees: Floyd Rose® Retainer Bar
• Strings: EVH® Nickel Plated Steel (.009-.042 Gauges)
• Tremolo Arm: Floyd Rose® 1000 Series Locking
• Neck Plate: 4-Bolt Standard
• Strap Buttons: Oversized

Electronics

• Bridge Pickup: EVH® Wolfgang® Humbucking
• Pickup Configuration: H
• Controls: Volume (500K EVH® Bourns® Low Friction Pot) with Treble Bleed Circuit
• Switching: None

Measurements

• Dimensions: 3.40 x 14.50 x 41.60 in
• Shipping Weight: 10.70 lb
• Fret Size: Jumbo
• Scale Length: 25.5" (64.77 cm)