Peavey Axcelerator AX

I got this guitar right when it came out in about 94. I love the deep sound of the guitar and i love the way the humbucker and single coils look. You can look down at other reviews because they are the same but it came with a Rose tremelo and locking tuners. It had a NICE blue transparent finsh on it and the pearl pickguard held it together.

WOW!!!! what can i say it is the best guitar i own as sound goes and i own a les paul standard and a 1992 tele supreme. It by far surpasses those i guess that is why they stopped making them. Lol!

I got this guitar new and it sounded great out of the case i think that the peavey people did a good job on it. the only problem i had was the humbucker was a bit low but i fixed it.

This guitar still plays and looks like new and i have had it a while. It holds up great and stays in tune on stage.

The peavey guys are great with customer support. I cant find much now but when they sold this guitar they were great about help. I dont think i will have to call them though!

I think that for 100 hundred dollars les than a Paul this is a crazy good deal. For less money you get a great guitar. It was worth every penny

I hear it was made around the 90's and discontinued around 96'. I got mine about a year ago. It come with a blue transparent finish, 2 single coils and a humbuker, a pearl pickguard, chrome hardware, and a Floyd Rose locking tremelo. It also had locking tuners which I thought was awesome because I had never seen that before. It has a 3 way switch and a coil spliter. It has a Mahogany neck I think you will have to check that and was a great great rhythm guitar so it works great with thicker strings 10-12.

It really was what i was looking for in every aspect i could play punk, grung, or any type of rock. It works well with distortion with the humbuckers on and has a deep sound for a Peavey. It has a great variety i can get this guitar low and deep or all the way up to picking up every thing when i play.

I dont really know because i got the guitar used but when i got it it was in good condition for playing on the spot. The humbukers were sort of low but may have been tweaked by a previous owner.

I really enjoy this guitar it was in almost perfect shape when i got it so it must of held up for a while. I am very clumsy but the guitar goes on with out any flaws.

I looked this guitar up and i cant find much about it i did find a little but not much i really wish they would give out info on peavey.com but i guess not.

Overall this is the best guitar i have bought and i think i got a great deal from what i have seen. I love this guitar i can play almost any thing on it.

1996 USA made. Strat style ash body w/fat wide rock maple neck and birdseye maple fretboard.
Beautiful transparent blue finish w/pearliod pickgaurd. Gold finished hardware that is wearing off the Floyd Rose bridge.
S/S/H blade P.U. 5 way selector and coil tapping switch that is a 3 way which allows overide of the P.U. selector pushed in the 3rd position up.
The overide puts it in the bridge P.U. in series mode. This little switch ended up working great for my upgrade to Dimarzio Pups I installed which allows me to select Series, split, or parallel mode for both bridge and neck Dimarzios with just 1 little coil tapping switch.

Stock Pups are high output, very good for drop-tuned crunchy stuff.
Although they never sound muddy, they tend to lack tone and harmonics. I altered the pickgaurd to H/S/H and installed a Tone Zone at the bridge and an Air Norton at the neck. With the bright sounding maple neck and ash body, this thing is now a fat sounding monster in series mode and strat sounding in split mode.
I have a Fender Twin and a Pod that I goof around with. Sounds heavenly with Fender clean all the way to searing distortion.
I am happy! I would give it a 9.5 with the upgrade, but I'll have to rate it stock though; 7

I bought it in 96, so its hard to remember since I am constantly tweaking things. From what I remember, it was set up decent, very playable right out of the store.

The workmanship on this is top notch. The finish is awesome, and still holding up great. I'm not real crazy about the gold finished hardware.

I have several guitars. The craftsmanship and quality on this Ax is the best.
If it was stolen, I would cry.
My rating reflects it as it came stock.

my guitar was made in 1995, in america, only 500 like it, hence the lack of responses on the website, 22 frets, 5 way selector, coil tap switch, which also doubles as a quick bridge override switch, in other words if its flipped all the way forward, it will only use bridge pick up regardless of the selector location, they are passive but very hot pickups, it looks like a peavey, with a strat style body, very thin neck, i don't know what the other post was about, but i own a mexican strat, and this peavey, and my strat neck is HUGE compared to this, it has a floyd rose licensed trembalo, medium jumbo frets, mine are pretty worn down now, i play it alot, i'm going to get it refretted someday soon, the only difference between this and my strat is the coil tap,

OMG!! this guitar has it all, from glass breaking highs, to gut rumbling lows, thats only on the middle and bridge pickups, on the neck pickups it has the most beautifully warm tone, now i worked in a guitar shop that dealt ibanez, fender, samick and some generic brands, and had several different consignment brands from awesome to totally suckky, and this one takes the cake in the warm tone of the neck pick ups, i will never replace those, the bridge pickup could be clearer but i can't complain for a stock humbucker its pretty good, and competes with seymore duncans and EMG's but doens't quite have the clarity the neck pickup, just beautiful through my amp, and processor

well i got it from a friend of mine, whom i traded with, i traded my mexican strat, for this and beleive me he got screwed, everything was fine on it except the first night i had it i was changeing the strings and i striped the nut, i don't know why it stripped so easy but the locking nut when i was giving that final snug just went loose and was a goner, for the E-A-D-G strings, well the next day i ordered a new nut, and i kid-you-not, it took two years to get that nut back, it had to be special made to the guitar, but the one i have now is a tougher metal it feels like, now i remind you i worked in a guitar shop so i know how to tighten a floyd rose, it was just a softer metal, they action is great and i'm into leads like joe satriani style leads with the finger tapping and everything and this guitar is alright for that, but its frets are to low for my taste i like ibanez's really high frets, but nothing compare to the sound and ease of play, and it has the most beautiful see through green finish i have ever seen on a guitar,

it easily withstands live playin, i'm into the hardcore rock, and i'm usually moving doing something, jumping, running, headbanging and this guitar easily keeps up with me, the hardware is great other than the gold plateing on the bridge has begun to rub off, but its pretty dependable, it doesn't break strings anymore than usual, but i never play without a back up, i give it a nine because of the bridge but it was easily a ten before that

don't know, never had to deal with them on my guitar,

if this guitar where stolen i would spend my every waking second trying to find it, and formulating my revenge on the person who comit such a horrible crime, this is definatley a unique guitar that i will own for a lifetime

made in 1994,strat body, 22frets, male neck, rosewood fingerboard,ash body.
The electronics consist of db2 and db4 peavey pickups in s/s/h config with a five way toggle, 3-way coil splitter, tone and volume knobs. transprent blue finish(very nice!)with a perloid pickguard. It has a power 3 peavey bridge and locking tuners

This guitar has served me for seven years nearly every day hours on end. I play expirimental pushing the envelope " extreme" guitar, yeah yeah i'm kindof a modern day wanker but anyways, this isnt the best sounding guitar flat out but it is extremely versital in the sound that it posseses. The single coil in the neck position does sound good, but not that fender-like snappy little wing type goodness, it has a little more mid to it(not quite as hollow sounding).The center position is wonderfull, it is very very almost exaggerrated in nature. It comes off almost mahoghony wood sounding. Ilove usind the neck and center pickup together, you get a very good dire straights duran duran police type sound. As for the hum in the bridge its reltivaley week( overall all the pickups are relatively weak for being blade pickups)Using an ash body with the bridge pickup will produce the flat out thinest sounding thing imaginable especailly with a pick up whos sole design was for output and is much more quite than most traditional humbuckers. AND if you want a even thinner sound you can use the three way toggle switch and push it down so it goes into what Peavey calls "turbo mode" and bypasses the 5way and the nech and center pickups. Now were talkin mariah carey in her eight octave thin.With the tggle switch up it turns the hum into a single coil and claims to make all pickup selections sound more strat like. It makes every thing sound muddy. Ash is just not a good wood for low response, some peaople claim its low response is " sweet" or "warm" I just claim its not there. O yah, and for all of you who are reading this thinking well maybe with its thin sound I can still do my best cc deville pinch harmonic solo think again soldier. No harmonics what-so-ever. I got into such a habbit of trying to get a harmonic sound through this guitar that when I finnaly tried a friends esp kirk hammet with emgs its sounded like zakk wylde getting a coffee enema. So overall in sound, hmm, there definently is diversity in sound and I think ill have to give the ash some credit for that. even though all the sounds are well, characteristically mid-high-thin sounding ash this body does allow for the pickups to come through with all their, well flavours( as oppossed to a mahaghony body which no matter what picku position yuor it will sound characteristically more mahaghony than pick-up changy).I gave it a 6 because I got this guitar when I was 9 and it has sentimental value and swamp ash wood just sounded alot cooler to me at the time.Also it sounded alot better than a sears guitar with a built in speaker. Next time Im buying a japanese made ibanez.

Lets pull a 180 in mind-train from the sound category. Great neck action geat great action! It has wide string spacing stealth like feel and i dont no what the other reviewer was thinking but he obviously trys to approache his guitar as if it were a remote control. What does he mean by hurts his hands to play? Anyways the neck is some what reminiscant of a Ibanez jem neck accept not quite as wide string spacing and note quite as thin. Its a beutiful guitar, nice transparent blue finish and ash wood does "look" nice and chrome hardware. The headstock is a bit tackey. Not quite as bulky as the old predator guitar heads but does appear as is they tryed to streamline a telecaster head. AND its a nice yellowy eastern malple to go with the blue finish, hmm go figure. I whish they offered a matching headstock option when I ordered this bad boy factory direct.
I like the action of the tremolo on this guitar alot and it stays supprisingly in tune with the locking tuners despite a locking nut. The floating nature of it is kind of week. theres enough space to do a good wide vibrato on it but theres no recession in the body for it to be pulled up( you can only pull it a half step) I gave this guitar a 9 because the Ibanez jem and wizard guitars do exist and they play just a little bit better.

Heavey use for seven years: electronics still in tact, many drops but no breakage, some of the chrome has faded on the bridge and the pickup blades are slightly oxidizied but thats it. You can depend on it and i would take it to a gig.A 9 just because tens to absolute

Wound not no, this thing is built USA though, yeah go Yankees!! umm o yah

Im almost twenty, been playin for 11 yearz, own to peavey amps digitech reverb delay rackmount, korg g3 porossecor for distortion and chorus and a crybaby. Needs good Dimarzio or seymourduncan pickups in it, especially in the bridge humbucker position. So to sum it up Great playability, great features, okay sound(damn ash, i not a country star, should got the optional poplar body)Great looks(exept for the slighty unorthodox headstock)

Maple neck & fingerboard, ash body, transluscent paint, gold licensed Floyd, Peavey pickups. Looks like a Strat, even the headstock is very Strat-like. Not some weird, wacky design usually typical of Peavey. H-S-S, volume and tone knos, and some mysterious mini switch. Best feature is the HUGE, HUGE 'V' neck, bigger than a lot of '50's Strats! I love that neck!

I grabbed this guitar at a music store to try an amp out, I didn't care for the amp much, but I did like the guitar, so I bought it. The dual blade single coil sized pickups can be switched for a thin or fat sound, the fat sound is more like a P90, thin is more Strat-like. The 4 blade lead pickup is OK, but lacks some harmonics, a little too flat sounding, but it is chunky-toned. Overall, not a bad sounding guitar at all.

The frets sucked, I ended up refretting it right away, but since I do my own fretwork, it was no big deal. The locknut was total junk, it was made by Kahler, so I replaced it with a Floyd R2 nut, which works much better. The finish looks a bit thick, like a '70's Fender, but is nice, and shiny looking. The rest of the guitar looks pretty solid.

Seems like it is very sturdy, but always bring a backup ax to the gig!

No opinion

I've been playing for almost 20 years, play many different styles. I like the guitar, a nice ax for pretty low bucks, and I love the whopper sized 'V' neck! It isn't perfect, but I've seen a lot worse guitars selling for much more money, so it really was a decent deal.