EVH Striped Series 5150 Red, Black, And White Stripes Electric Guitar

When Eddie Van Halen introduced his famous red, white and black striped 5150® guitar in 1984, he never would have fathomed the thousands of copies it would inspire. But then again, Eddie has made a career of being copied in every which way imaginable. EVH® Gear proudly introduces a new Striped Series 5150 model based on his original instrument, featuring his distinctively striped 5150 motif and single humbucker setup.

The Striped Series 5150 has a basswood body identical to the original, with a bolt-on quartersawn maple neck featuring a comfortable modified “C” profile, hand-rubbed back finish and “hockey stick” headstock. The fast-playing compound-radius (12”-16”) maple fingerboard has 22 jumbo frets, black dot inlays and a convenient heel-mounted truss rod adjustment wheel.

The 5150 is also fitted with a custom designed EVH® Wolfgang® alnico 2 Humbucker bridge pickup, delivering the perfect amount of power and articulation with sweet sustain and thick chunky rhythms in a perfectly balanced EQ curve. A custom designed EVH-branded low-friction volume knob provides for unmatched performance and even-volume tapering for the smoothest volume swells.

Decked out with a rock solid “dive bomb” certified EVH-branded Floyd Rose® bridge, each locking nut tailpiece features fine tuners and a patented EVH D-Tuna® for switching back and forth from drop-D to standard tuning in an instant.

With its quintessential red 5150 hologram numbers and star decals, the Striped Series 5150 is a high-powered, high-performance machine that’s as kickass to look at as it is to play.

Features:

• Body shape: Double cutaway

• Body type: Solid body

• Body material: Solid wood

• Top wood: Not applicable

• Body wood: Basswood

• Body finish: Gloss

• Orientation: Right handed

• Neck shape: Modified C

• Neck wood: Quartersawn Maple

• Joint: Bolt-on

• Scale length: 25.5 in.

• Truss rod: Standard

• Neck finish: Gloss

• Material: Maple

• Radius: Compound

• Fret size: Jumbo

• Number of frets: 22

• Inlays: Dot

• Nut width: 1.687 in. (42.8 mm) Locking

• Configuration: H 

• Neck: Not applicable

• Middle: Not applicable

• Bridge: Wolfgang alnico 2

• Brand: EVH

• Active or passive pickups: Passive

• Series or parallel: Series

• Control layout: Master volume

• Pickup switch: Not applicable

• Bridge type: Tremolo/Vibrato

• Bridge design: Floyd Rose with EVH D-Tuna

• Tailpiece: Not applicable

• Tuning machines: EVH

• Color: Chrome