EVH first guitar was it Alder or Basswood, or maybe Mahogany?

[Hot _Grits]

Re: EVH first guitar was it Alder or Basswood, or maybe Mahogany?

how well would that work?

Mahogany has a bigger bass and lower midrange response than basswood, alder or ash. It makes sense to me, as the ballsiest floyd equipped 'strat' I've played was an ibanez reb beach model with a mahogany body.

 

[shredaholic]

Re: EVH first guitar was it Alder or Basswood, or maybe Mahogany?

cool, I'll use mahogany then if i ever make a floyd equipped strat

 

[Willis]

Re: EVH first guitar was it Alder or Basswood, or maybe Mahogany?

The Ibanez Destroyer wasn't made of korina; that was just a name for the finish which was supposed to look like korina. I don't remember where I read that but it was something written by someone who knows a lot about old Ibanez guitars.

 

[WhoFan]

Re: EVH first guitar was it Alder or Basswood, or maybe Mahogany?

The Ibanez Destroyer wasn't made of korina; that was just a name for the finish which was supposed to look like korina. I don't remember where I read that but it was something written by someone who knows a lot about old Ibanez guitars.

I read the early ones like Ed had were the real Korina and then slightly later by a year or 2 after Ed bought his, they stopped using Korina and Ed didn't like them....

WhoFan

 

[Mephis]

Re: EVH first guitar was it Alder or Basswood, or maybe Mahogany?

and this is coming from a die hard van halen fan, but i dont like stuff like that.

i lose respect. i mean how much more money do these people want?

They wont be satisfied until they have the soul of a virgin. (Basicly some where over 300 trillion.)

 

[MattPete]

Re: EVH first guitar was it Alder or Basswood, or maybe Mahogany?

how well would that work?

"I used that one plus the original one from the first album for the first half of the tour, and then I ran into Floyd Rose, and he showed me his special bridge and nut for keeping a Strat in tune. I said, "What the hell -- I'll give it a try." I'm up for anything. So I had Boogie Bodies make me a mahogany body that's fit to my size, and I put the Rose device on it. The body is a Strat-style, but it's 2 1/2" thick, which is thicker than a Les Paul. The Rose tailpiece gets a thin sound, and I thought a chunky piece of wood could make up for the thickness. It works a little bit. That guitar has a Gibson PAF and just one volume knob -- it's real simple."
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I have a mahogany body strat, and it sounds thicker than my alder Kramer (they also have different pickups, so that complicates matters). If you want an EVH style guitar, I'd go with ash first (swamp ash sounds good) and mahogany 2nd (skip alder and basswood). If you are going to have a trem, don't have it float.

 

[Willis]

Re: EVH first guitar was it Alder or Basswood, or maybe Mahogany?

I read the early ones like Ed had were the real Korina and then slightly later by a year or 2 after Ed bought his, they stopped using Korina and Ed didn't like them....

WhoFan

I also read that, I think they said that in Guitar World.

 

[tone?]

Re: EVH first guitar was it Alder or Basswood, or maybe Mahogany?

They wont be satisfied until they have the soul of a virgin. (Basicly some where over 300 trillion.)

Thats too funny Mephis!

yeah i know in the real world people make money but i just dont like the Hypocrisy, you know, one day it was "hey i got a guitar made with 150 bucks and the other day is " hey im selling that same guitar for 2 grand, cause im smart and your not!"

know what i mean?

 

[tone?]

Re: EVH first guitar was it Alder or Basswood, or maybe Mahogany?

yeah the ibanez he had was definately Korina as he stated.