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Is it a true Ernie ball EVH ? HELP !

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Lew

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banjoplayer said:
wasn´t that a thing which EBMM refused to do. Think I read that somewhere...?!?!?



I believe I saw a pic lately from an original EBMM and wondered about this thing, so I think it was like this at some time.

What really confuses me, is the finished neck. Who would to this voluntarily ?

edit: original or not - I would not buy it, because it´s too much mods if original
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hahah you got me doubting myself now :p
here's the best pic's I could find http://perso.wanadoo.fr/patrice.frey/images/MMEVH9.jpg
http://www.streamcheck.com/jay/axis-rear-noflash.jpg
 
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That is not an EVH. Right off the bat, I'm relatively certian EBMM never offered that color. The next thing I noticed right away is that the back of the guitar is not painted black, it is stained blue like the top. The neck is rock maple, with no figuring of any kind, and the neck is finished. The tuning machines, while Schallers, have black buttons, the EVHs had pearloid buttons. The signature is all wrong, and the Music Man decal seems altered. EVHs didn't have pearloid fret markers. We know that not all neck plates were countersunk, but we do know that all the cavity covers for the switch and the volume pot were countersunk. It appears in the photo that the control cavity covers are not countersunk, or they are not countersunk enough.

All that being said, it is a pretty good looking forgery. It's too bad that somebody would go to that extent to rip somebody off. Obviously, whoever made that guitar had some skill.
 
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nobozos said:
That is not an EVH. Right off the bat, I'm relatively certian EBMM never offered that color. The next thing I noticed right away is that the back of the guitar is not painted black, it is stained blue like the top. The neck is rock maple, with no figuring of any kind, and the neck is finished. The tuning machines, while Schallers, have black buttons, the EVHs had pearloid buttons. The signature is all wrong, and the Music Man decal seems altered. EVHs didn't have pearloid fret markers. We know that not all neck plates were countersunk, but we do know that all the cavity covers for the switch and the volume pot were countersunk. It appears in the photo that the control cavity covers are not countersunk, or they are not countersunk enough.

All that being said, it is a pretty good looking forgery. It's too bad that somebody would go to that extent to rip somebody off. Obviously, whoever made that guitar had some skill.
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Wow Sounds Like you did your homework to me! It looked really off to me as well but i was going with HEAVILY modified:confused:??? hhahahaa
 
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Why don't you take off the neck and show us some pictures of the neck pocket and neck markings? All have some distinguishing markings. What's yours have?
 
threeminutesboy

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He can't do that :)

he was about to purchase this guitar (actually send a check for it) and was waiting for the seller to ship it. Then he decided to check DOB and Dan said it was a black EVH. While wagner said it was plue I ask him to send more pictures and you know the rest of the story ...

I told him to cancel the check and talk to the seller.

This is not an EVH the seller told him that the humbuckers are splitted

Since when can you spit the pickup on an EVH ?

So no original Pups, no Original neck and seller wanted 1800 Euros :eek:

I really hope wagner will get his money back
 
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