Eddies New Charvels Already On Ebay

[ELVIS]

Originally posted by Matt White
I agree 100% man! Utter BULLSHIT! What made Ed unique back in the day is anyone else looked like A COMPLETE TOOL playing a guitar that looked like his. And he took alot of time and effort to make sure nobody sold anything that looked like his spit-and-chicken wire guitars. Now, he'll let ya' for a piddly 5K?!?! FUCK THAT CRACKHEAD MOTHERFUCKER!!!!! I'm gonna do it just like he did. Paint my OWN guitar, not be a sheep and OOOOOHHHHHHHHH have a guitar like my HERO! UTTERLY FUCKING PATHETIC!

I double agree 200% !!

[ELVIS]

Click on this!

[Hecubus]

OK...

It sucks that they're expensive as hell, but he's Eddie Van Halen for cryin out loud & how many guitarists take the time to stripe & play an entire handful of guitars to make available to the public.

Do I want one? Damn straight.

Can I afford one? The investment now may pay off later.

I'm not biting, though...if he did this 3 years ago (even without playing them live) I would have in a heartbeat, but coupled with this cash grab of a tour and joke of a greatest hits album, it just too.....

corporate......

and that's where it stops being Rock & Roll, man.

[justaxxxgirl]

Email received today, I thought I would share. I updated the current EVH guitar Ebay bid prices. – jag

EVH Art Guitars Series and other information
From LAMetalGod: 07.14.2004

As I indicated last month, Fender (FMIC), who owns Jackson-Charvel (JCMI) signed Eddie and Peavey is not renewing their expired contracts with Eddie due to long-term problems and contract defaults by him. Announcement will be made after the Tour. No slam on Ed, it's just business.

The current fad is doing high dollar, limited production, replica “Guitar God” and vintage guitars. Fender did very well on the Stevie Ray Vaughan #1 Stratocaster replica series, (1) and this is where the idea came for the Eddie Van Halen Art Series guitars. Yes, you will be totally shocked as to the open market prices these replica guitars will bring. Buyers exercising shear want-to-be stupidity, in my opinion.

(1) Fender Custom Shop Pays Tribute to Stevie Ray Vaughan: Click Here
Another good Fender Article on the SRV #1 Replica Series: Click Here

The same time Fender announced the SRV replica Strats, they announced a new limited edition ‘54 replica Stratocaster for $5,400. Click Here

EVH Art Guitars Series
My understanding is the EVH Art Guitars Series is being sold mostly through EBay, to really increases ultimate individual sales prices for these baby’s.

EVH-JCMI’s main site for the sale is: Click Here
EBay’s main auction page for the sales is: Click Here

1st Guitar Up - White and Black Strip #12: Starting Bid: $5,150 - Current Bid: $14,500 Click Here

2nd Guitar Up: Yellow and Black Strip #14: Starting Bid: $5,150 - Current Bid: $6,650 Click Here

Just wait for the classic EVH Red and White striped replica guitar to come up for bid to see some really crazy prices.

I am continually amazed what people will spend on junk like this or the SRV #1 replica strat.

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Talk about shear craziness. Did you see the pricing Clapton’s recent guitar action brought? 88 guitars for total of $7,438,624.

Crossroads Guitar Auction – Christie’s, June 2004
Eric Clapton & Friends for the Crossroads Centre

Strat Collector – Clapton Auction results news: Click Here
Sales Results: Click Here

Christies – Clapton Auction main page: Click Here
Individual Sales Results: Click Here

Guitar Center Spends Over $2 million on four Clapton auction guitars: Click Here
Guitar Center’s article on auction purchases:
Click Here

[Cathedral]

If Ed were dead like SRV, then i could see this as a good thing. But he isn't and quite frankly, Ed's NO SRV.

Then it would have to be some individual selling them off and not a corporate money grabbing, piece of shit profit scam.

Just another notch down the pole of integrity for Ed in my eyes.

[BlimpyCHIMP™]

SO ARE YOU ASKING FOR A HIT TO BE SETUP ON EVH OR ARE YOU TELLING ME TO DO SO

IT CAN BE ARRANGED YOU KNOW

[Shadow Jazz]

Unbelievable................

Peavey is not renewing with him either............. seems that not many people {other than Sam} want to work with good old Ed these days.........

[GAR]

I'd want one to hang above the dirty laundry basket down the hall.

Very appropoo..

[Cathedral]

I'd put one over the toilet, but i don't want to give anyone an excuse to shit in my water.

Go home to poop, ya nasty bastard...

[Panamark]

Is that a Drop D Tuner I see ???

Well Fuck... That justifies the $5000 alone !! :p

(I really need a sarcasm smilie)

[Fabulous Shadow]

the EVH Art Series













I dont get it? So these basically are shipped to Ed and he puts um together and paints um? So what do you suppose were paying for assembly?

[EDDIEVRULZ]

i havent played one of these, but i definitely wouldnt pay the money for them. well, the money they are selling for on ebay. of course, those are signed by him and played during a concert form this tour. supposedly anyway. i do know at the last NAMM show (music convention for companies and retailor's) they were selling them to music outlets. just regular charvel's unsigned and built and painted in the factory. i believe it was 2 or 3 grand. still too much money. i have built and painted EVH guitars for myself for a lot less money than this crap. and they all sounded great. but, thats just my opinion. of course you could call me a hypocrite becasue i just bought an actual kramer guitar that ed used to own. but thats different! lol. you can see the pics in the "gear street forum" under "can i post pics of my guitar" or something like that. my apologies for not having the link.

[sambo]

Originally posted by EDDIEVRULZ
i havent played one of these, but i definitely wouldnt pay the money for them. well, the money they are selling for on ebay. of course, those are signed by him and played during a concert form this tour. supposedly anyway. i do know at the last NAMM show (music convention for companies and retailor's) they were selling them to music outlets. just regular charvel's unsigned and built and painted in the factory. i believe it was 2 or 3 grand. still too much money. i have built and painted EVH guitars for myself for a lot less money than this crap. and they all sounded great. but, thats just my opinion. of course you could call me a hypocrite becasue i just bought an actual kramer guitar that ed used to own. but thats different! lol. you can see the pics in the "gear street forum" under "can i post pics of my guitar" or something like that. my apologies for not having the link.

Here's a link to the Charvel guitars...

http://www.bananas.com/productdetail.asp/PID_6332

I too bought a second hand Kramer and did the red/black/white thing.. got a Seymour Duncan Custom EVH from Ebay as well as a original Floyd and a hockey stick neck... works just fine for me... all for under $1000 AUD.

btw EDDIEVRULZ, nice axe...

[darkknight]

Ed doesn't paint them. He only stripes them with tape. It's another money grab.

[EDDIEVRULZ]

thanks! actually, ed didnt stripe mine, but he did build it. kramer did the paint job. for all of you old school metal heads, you might remember the ad in the mags back in the day that was for "heavy metal" strings. the guitar that i just got, is the same in the ad.