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From a recent post on my WoodyTone blog. EVH quotes are from his first interview, the Nov. '78 Guitar Player, not the one w/ him on the cover. Comments are my own. Full posts FYI are below if curious. Enjoy!
Eddie assembled his main guitar with parts he bought from Charvel. “It is a copy of a Fender Stratocaster,” he says. “I bought the body for $50 and the neck for $80, and put in an old Gibson PAF pickup that was rewound to my specifications.”
> “Was rewound to” means he didn’t do it himself. If, as some contend, Seymour Duncan did it, then it might’ve been rewound a little hot, something which EVH seemed to favor then and since. If so, then a low-output humbucker was not used on VH1! Also, it’s interesting to note that the Seymour Duncan custom shop pickup formerly known as the EVH is now called the “‘78.” Hmmmm. According to the Duncan website, the “‘78 Model” is slightly hotter than vintage PAF range.
Eddie’s other guitars include an Ibanez copy of a Gibson Explorer [an Ibanez Destroyer which was NOT korina], which, he says, “I slightly rearranged. I cut a piece out of it with a chainsaw so that it’s now a cross between a [Gibson Flying] V and an Explorer, and I put in different electronics and gave it a paint job.... I also found a 1952 gold top Les Paul.... I have rewound Gibson PAF pickups in it, too.”
> “Different electronics” in the Shark. Does that just mean different pickups? Tone control not hooked up?
> “Rewound Gibson pickups” again probably mean hotter-than-normal. Remember that all of Eddie’s signature pickups, including on his signature axes, have been hot.
http://www.woodytone.com/2010/06/28/wow-evhs-1st-interview-super-interesting/
http://www.woodytone.com/2010/06/30/a-look-at-evhs-1st-interview-part-2/
Eddie assembled his main guitar with parts he bought from Charvel. “It is a copy of a Fender Stratocaster,” he says. “I bought the body for $50 and the neck for $80, and put in an old Gibson PAF pickup that was rewound to my specifications.”
> “Was rewound to” means he didn’t do it himself. If, as some contend, Seymour Duncan did it, then it might’ve been rewound a little hot, something which EVH seemed to favor then and since. If so, then a low-output humbucker was not used on VH1! Also, it’s interesting to note that the Seymour Duncan custom shop pickup formerly known as the EVH is now called the “‘78.” Hmmmm. According to the Duncan website, the “‘78 Model” is slightly hotter than vintage PAF range.
Eddie’s other guitars include an Ibanez copy of a Gibson Explorer [an Ibanez Destroyer which was NOT korina], which, he says, “I slightly rearranged. I cut a piece out of it with a chainsaw so that it’s now a cross between a [Gibson Flying] V and an Explorer, and I put in different electronics and gave it a paint job.... I also found a 1952 gold top Les Paul.... I have rewound Gibson PAF pickups in it, too.”
> “Different electronics” in the Shark. Does that just mean different pickups? Tone control not hooked up?
> “Rewound Gibson pickups” again probably mean hotter-than-normal. Remember that all of Eddie’s signature pickups, including on his signature axes, have been hot.
http://www.woodytone.com/2010/06/28/wow-evhs-1st-interview-super-interesting/
http://www.woodytone.com/2010/06/30/a-look-at-evhs-1st-interview-part-2/
