Axis neck compared to Wolfgang neck

[GuitarHack]

Heh, heh....maybe I'm bored, and want to cause some trouble.

But, the Wolfgang is a good/great guitar. Obviously descended from the EVH/Axis, but an excellent rock guitar nonetheless.

I neglected to mention, Peavey's Customer Service is great as well.

BUT, all that said, I'm selling Wolfs and HP Specials, and accumulating EBMMs. I'm voting with my wallet. EBMM is just better.

Peavey pillow fluffing aside (LOL), whose opinion is more flattering to EBMM? A guy who says "Wolfgangs suck, I'll never own one", or a guy who says "I've owned 31 Wolfgangs, and they're good, but I prefer EBMM."

EBMM rules.

 

[andy2randy69]

Guitarhack...I also own a couple of both guitars and they both are great. You're right though the EBMM's do feel much more consistent.

 

[Astrofreq]

Come on guys. Peavey? Here's an exercise.

Say it outloud "I have a Peavey guitar." Now say "I have a B.C. Rich guitar." Then say "I have a Music Man guitar."

You should feel like a poser 2 out of 3 times when saying those phrases.

all in good fun . . .

 

[GuitarHack]

Radrock, LOL, I take your meaning, and I know you're kidding, but all good humor does illustrate a true point. NOBODY plays a Peavey guitar for the status of it, so it's not really a poser issue. Maybe you get the occasional Ed-head, but by and large, if you play Peavey, people assume you can't afford better (but Wolfgangs weren't inexpensive). Now BC Rich, you're dead on

I have a very good friend, a Strat guy, and he dumped all over my Wolfgang every chance he got. He'd play it, go "Wow, nice neck, feels solid, looks great, sounds amazing", then hand it back and say "Too bad it's a Peavey."

A few months ago, he decided he wanted a new HSS Strat. Unlike us EBMM fans (or Peavey fans for that matter), he could walk into any GC and play several examples of the Strat he wanted. The first three he found had quality problems: one had a missing pickguard screw, one had a nut slot cut so low the B-string rested on EVERY fret, and the third had a scratchy volume pot. And this was a $1200 guitar. He did eventually find a nice specimen, and it is a nice guitar, but he still plays mine and says "Too bad it's an EBMM (or a Peavey)".

I no longer care about headstock-itis, or those who suffer from it. There's a million guys out there playing PRSs through Mesa Boogie Triple Recs...great guitar, great amp, but Crap Almighty, wake me up when it's over. My Strat fan friend is always raving about how he got the quintessential "quack" form his Strat. Translation: he now sounds exactly like somebody else. Oh well, to each his own.

 

[GuitarHack]

There's a million guys out there playing PRSs through Mesa Boogie Triple Recs...great guitar, great amp, but Crap Almighty, wake me up when it's over.

My sincere apologies to all the PRS/Mesa guys who tune down to H sharp and do the chugga-chugga-chugga thing.

 

[Drown]

My sincere apologies to all the PRS/Mesa guys who tune down to H sharp and do the chugga-chugga-chugga thing.

I even tune down to A. But wait.. that´s the second string
What really surprised me, was that the last guitar I bought on ebay was tuned up to F Why!?

 

[mb99zz]

I know I'm digging up an old thread here (last update was October 2006), but I'm surprised that Peavey could use such a blatent copy of EB's truss rod design on their Wolfgang model. I would have assumed there was a patent on this design -- maybe that patent is past it's prime. I'm certainly not an IPO law expert. And maybe this is a subject already discussed in the past. I'm relatively new to the forum -- just thought the design was an overt copy.

 

[Lord Toneking]

I personally love the Wolfgang. I had a high dollar arched top that I wish I would've never sold. The quality was outstanding!

I sold it because I bought an Axis and it very soon became my main guitar. I ended up buying a Silo Special to replace the Wolfie but sold that too to fund a P90 Axis that I have'nt got yet