Ernie Ball Music Man Eddie Van Halen Signature Guitar

in the late spring of 1989 larry dimarzio got hired to do a photo shoot for guitar world magazine with the greatest guitar player on the planet six months later he got another call asking if he'd be interested in designing the pickups for that guitar player's soon-to-be signature guitar he responded how much do i have to pay you coming up we'll talk about the iconic ernie ball music man edward van halen's signature guitar it's kind of a boring looking guitar but at the same time i didn't want some like v x crazy looking thing you know it's real balanced it's real comfortable to play and it's basically what i wanted to do is just build like 20 guitars just for myself before we continue make sure you hit that subscribe button for more from the mitch lafon and jeremy white show and of course more van halen related content the ernie ball music man edward van halen's signature guitar was released in 1991 after ed's partnership with the previous company came to an abrupt end ernie ball was already manufacturing the 5150 guitar string so it made sense for edward to work with him on designing a guitar when asked why music man he told guitar player magazine in 1991 that i was not looking for a company that would pay me a bunch of money and just put my name on a guitar i was real concerned about quality i told music man we couldn't sell any of them we won't even have a deal to make them unless i was happy enough with the guitar to use it on her new album and play it live so i was blown away by the fact that i'm actually using this guitar on the record because for years i just used that one guitar and hated everything else but we topped it i haven't even touched the striped one a yellow music man that's my main guitar now feels like i've played it for years the guitar is a basswood body with a book matched figured maple top each guitar was hand stained and was available in translucent gold red sunburst blue purple green pink and natural some other rare colors included solid black and white with fantastic cream binding to hold it all together the bridge is a floyd rose license goto bridge with offset saddles making it easier to make intonation adjustments the guitar features one volume knob labeled tone because as ed says when you turn it up you get a good tone the neck is an oil finish 25 and a half inch scale bird's eye maple back and fretboard it's 22 frets with special design unique profile fret wire measuring 1 5 8 at the nut and 2 5 32 at the last fret radius is 10 inches and the next shape is digitally carved to edwards specifications they actually recreated the exact neck shape of his iconic kramer 5150 to replicate that worn in already played for years feel and that's exactly what it feels like the innovative truss rod adjustment wheel is located at the bottom of the fretboard just above the neck pickup it's attached with five bolts and the sculpted neck joint allows smooth access to the upper frets the pickups in this guitar are specially designed custom dimarzio humbucking pickups that have quite the folklore on their own for that visit dimarzio's website in the story that larry dimarzio shares on designing those pickups ever since ed sadley passed away all too soon the price of these guitars have skyrocketed to 51.50 prices the original sale price was about two thousand dollars u.s and now collector condition guitars could go for as much as fifteen thousand dollars or more of course if the seller can get it well good on them but there's been a lot of pushback from the evh guitar community on sharks trying to cash in but if it's worth it to you it makes you happy and you got the cash hey who's stopping you have you owned an evh music man's signature guitar what year was it made let me know in the comments and make sure you smash that subscribe button to get more van halen related content bye bye see you later [Music]

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Length: 3min 50sec (230 seconds)

Published: Sat Jan 22 2022