Peavey EVH Wolfgang

Dark Cherryburst, hard stop tailpiece, custom humbuckers, volume knob, tone knob, three way toggle. Has everything I need.

I LOVE this guitar. As soon as I picked it up I knew I was getting it. The sound is probably the best I have heard and I own a lot of guitars. Ed Roman Rockingbird w/Duncan blackback pickups, Washburn Idol with Duncan's, B.C. Rich Mockingbird's with EMGs etc. etc. This guitar sounds better than any of mine. Something about the combination of wood/pickup is truely unique.. Tons of tight bite and nice sustain.. Rich and full of power. I'm using this guitar with my new EVH 5150III head and cab.. That probably has something to do with why it sounds so great. Ed probably used one of his Woflies when he worked on the new head.

The finish is beautiful, pickups are hard mounted and give it tons of sustain. The action is perfect.. Very low without any buzzing.

It's built to last and I bet it can take a beating. I added straplocks of course.

Probably won't need them since this thing is bullet proof.

Best guitar I've ever owned. I would freakin' lose my mind if it got stolen or lost.

The one I got is black with cream edge, has the liscened Floyd Rose, Bird's Eye Maple neck, made in 96' american. I have one of the original humbuckers, a single coil, as well as a Sustainer in it so i have like 3 knobs and 3 selector switches. Really, this one i have, has been modified, but its got a ton, including the tremelo, one of the most decked out guitars I've seen.

This guitar does not suit my stlye, well just not all the time, it isn't too versitale, and it seems to bee made to emulate a more metal song, and the clean channel isn't too great but it can perfectly imitate EVH's sound, and being his signature model i guess thats fine, but you;ll have to put it through a few pedals to get that sound you really want.

I bought this used, it was unbelievable when i got it, but then the Tremelo Bridge went out of place, and its never been the same, and now i need to adjust to torision rod and get the guitar set up. The pick-ups are awesome though, i love the Sustainer, especially with the tremelo, you can get some pretty annoying sounds out of it. The guitars finish is great, and it won't dent or chip too easily but its constantly needing maitanance, ,mostly with the bridge and Floyd rose system.

I have made the mistake of relying on this guitar, way too many times, too fancy for myself, to me, my Fender American Telecaster destroys this guitar, it just gets way more and better sound out of it, and more of YOUR sound, not a famous guitar player, and is more reliable. I would not use this alone anymore, but the finish is very good as are the strap buttons, but really, that doesn't acount for much, haven't your guitar scratched and bumped up ain't gonna change your tone

Well, they don't make'm anymore, plus i bought it used from G&G music, but the guy is pretty good for helping out there.

I've been playing for almost 7 years, and have owned this guitar for a year, a painful year, i hate this guitar so much but i love it too,but im finnaly gonna get rid of it. When it works its pretty beautiful, its an extremely nice guitar to look at and when i first got it, it was heavenly, it has everything, but thats the problem, I really wish it had no Floyd Rose, damn thing. Like I said , I have a Fender American Telecaster (2003) and I choose that over this one now, and run it through a Traynor custom valve 40 (i must say is an amazing amp), but overall, if you like hard rock and metal, this is a great guitar, mine just isn't so anymore, but it lacks vesitality and if you like any mellower rock, like myself, your best of staying away from this one.

WOW.
This is a Wolfgang USA Standard. 1998 model. Pat Pend.
Black with cream binding, licensed Floyd Rose tremolo, 25.5 scales, volume & tone, blah blah. Others have listed all this...

The sound is unbelievably great! Playing through a Peavey Classic 50 212 all tube amp. I use phaser, flanger, chorus, EQ and delay pedals from time to time. Guitar is not noisy. Sound is full and rich. And VERY versatile.

PERFECT!

Guitar is a tank! Will last forever it seems. Using any guitar in a gig with no backup is stupid.

Peavey's support, in my opinion, is second to none. They are always right there.

Been playing for almost 20 years. This is only better than the Korean Wolfgang I own as well. If lost or stolen...I would freak out. I can't be without it now.

1999, USA, Gloss black finish archtop with cream binding, all basswood body, Peavey Floyd Rose, Schaller tuners, unique fast, comfortable, and perfect unfinished bird's-eye maple neck, nice hard case, 22-fret, tone, volume, three-way switch, two gorgeous custom Peavey hot and tone-rich humbuckers.

This is a great guitar for rock, everything from The Who and Floyd, to Rush and Metallica. The pups push serious tone and amplitude for lead work, both neck and bridge. Sustain is LP-esque. On the neck pup with careful tweaking of vol and tone knobs, it will even do a nice clean blues/jazz tone. I'm playing it through a Laney ARO Pro-Tube Lead 100W head and 1960A 4x12, as well as a Peavey VT Classic 212. Effects include Crybay Classic, Boss Compressor, SD-1, DS-1, Chorus, and DD-3, and sometimes a Digitech RP-1. The Wolfie sounds great through everything. Consider this a 10 rating, with one point held back to leave room for someone to make the perfect guitar that does everything perfectly! ;)

I bought this used, and I'm not sure whether the pervious owner adjusted the action at all, but for me is was perfect, as was the intonation. It remains perfect. Not an off note up or down the nect. Pickups may be the best I have ever heard. Workmanship is excellent throughout, not a single flaw. I took a look inside at the wiring and electronics and all is top notch.

This thing is bomber! I have never had a single problem with it and don't expect to. Tuners, trem, neck. are excellent quality and assembly overall is tight and suberbly done.

Peavey provides excellent one-on-one customer support. They also make great gear. They get a bad rap because they also have made some cheap (aka, entry-level, but good value) gear over the years, but you get what you pay for, and Peavey is good stuff that gets the job done.

I've been playing since 1987, and I have owned and/or played various Gibsons, Guilds, Ibanez, Epiphones, Fenders, PRS, etc., and I have settled on three: The Wolfie (my hot lead machine), a Gibson Nighthawk (my Strat stand-in that does lovely warm to bright clean tones), and a Guild S-100 (blues rock to defined crunch... somewhere between an SG and LP). The Peavey is simply excellent at what it does.

Mine (was) a 2001 dark cherry-burst wolfie. Most everyone has listed the features. I'm going to keep it simple.

This guitar had a grood tone, especially with the bridge p/u. I always thought the neck p/u lacked a little clarity for soloing, kind of muddy and bland. It sounded good when in the middle position for those bluesy riffs though. I previously owned a Wolfgang special stop-tail before this one (see reviews). It quite honestly had better all around sound that this one.

These guitars always played great off the rack, mine was no exception. The finish on this guitar was beautiful no concerns there. My main concern with these guitars though is...
that the necks seem to be too narrow (for me anyway). They dont leave enough space for the E strings. If I vibrato the top or bottom E strings even a little the string rolls off the side of the neck. I'm not going to knock it that much because part of it may be my playing style, but in the end it was what convinced me to sell it.

Like I said I've owned 2 (to date). The first one has soldering issues on the p/u selector switch. This one had to have the vol. pot replaced and I fought with the input jack on occasion.

Never dealt with them.

I've been playing for over 20 years. Ive owned various Fenders, Gibsons, Peaveys, Epi's, etc... I really like Wolfie's I think they play really smooth and fast. I will probably own one again, but I will probably stick with a plain ol' Special-stoptail model. For the money (in my opinion) the difference in playability and tone is none, between the high end and special models.

Gosh, the first thing that i want to talk about is the neck, oh my gosh. It blows every guitar neck out of the water. Not many features, just tone and volume, but i do have a floyd rose and the D-tuna that comes with it. THe D-tuna is something that i thought could never work, but i have had no problems with it and i have owned the guitar for about 2 years now. The floyd rose is pretty good, it can still knock it out of tune quick, but over all is the best lock system i have ever used.

Gosh, the sound is great. I can get a really distorted metal tone to a nice bassy jazz tone. I love it.

The action is the best i have ever played. The finish on the neck is so smooth and the neck it self is small but not to small, and just over all really great.

It is my baby, so i really take care of her, but i would say that is is pretty durable, its just like any other electric, i think it depends on the user. Now the Reliability is diffent, that depends on if you like floyd roses or not.

I have never had any problems

Its a great sounding, feeling, and looking guitar, if you dont mind dealing with a floyd rose.

Everyones covered the features, highlights include d-tuna, peavey floyd rose, and pearloid key schaller tuners. Awesome thick flame maple arched top that is about 5//8" thick.

Pure EVH sound. You know what you get here. With the thick maple top the sound is very clear and articulate, chords ring out each individual notes very well. Harmonics are clean and nice. Even clean you can almost sound like a telecaster. Think finish what you started type tone. The best matching pickup set I have ever heard. Lots of pickups sound good, but very very few sound this good together. I would give it a ten, but I know some people would like to have a coild split, though if you want a strat sound why would you be playing a wolfie anyway?

Action is amazing, plays easier and better than anything I have ever had my hands on. The trem is recessed down in the body just a bit and makes for the perfect angle for the strings top sit on the fretboard. The setup is perfect, I would not even touch the pickup height, perfect. Frets are immaculate, the neck is unbelievable, it fits better than tom anderson could dream of. Swithchcraft jack, nice electronics, EVH wouldn't have put anything in here that is not top notch. The sculpted neck cutaway makes for superior access to the upper frets.

I believe it is a very reliable instrument. In fact I would almost take it to a gig without a tuner if I had to. Once you get it in tune, if you got the strings stretched out enough, you won't go out of tune, and with the d-tuna you don't even have to tune down for drop d. Poly finish should be durable as you will find.

Peavey has the best customer support of any big company I have ever dealt with. You may have to hold a while to talk to the person you need, but they will get back with you. They treat you very personable. They really back up there products and parts are reasonable.

I have played for over 15 years and gigged in 4 different states. I have had tons of strats, teles, a couple of les pauls, you name it. If it were stolen I would track down the perp and remove 99 percent of his major organs. I would not even consider another guitar instead. EVH and Peavey really outdid everyone else with this one.

2003 Model, made in Meridian ( I think Leaksburg had already shut down?). Standard Archtop model, you already know the specs from previous posts, so I won't get into all that. One thing different about mine is the fretboard...it's Rosewood. Body is Gloss Black, which means it's all Basswood. Mine is the trem model. I give it a 9 here due to the fact that this guitar is extremely well built. No gaps in neck pocket, excellent electronics, and overall construction. Very nice.

It's a pretty versitle box as it comes. I'm going to have a coil split done on the neck pup, to coax a bit more of the the strat-type tones, but that's just something I want to have done on this one. I play mostly clean, country type music, some light rock, and a bit of blues, etc. I know this is a guitar built by a rocker for rockers, but I am very pleased with the clean tones. The basswood body and Rosewood board give it a bit more "punch" in the mids, and really opens it up for a wide variety of tones. Also, this guitar has a "working" tone pot....very linear in it's abilty to affect the tone with small adjustments. I give it a 9 here as well.

This is where I will lay out a 10...it came from the dealer (mail order) ready to play out of the box. Intonation, action was dead on. If it weren't just my way, I could have played the thing for a week with the original strings as well...but I always change 'em right off. Binding, paint, all cosmetics are absolutely perfect I can't see a flaw anywhere. VERY NICE JOB

Yep, it's a Peavey. Whether or not you're a fan of Peavey gear, I have to say I've never owned a Peavey product that wasn't tough and durable. I don't gig, so don't have to worry about a backup, but if I did, I'd never go without one...I'd just have to have another Wolfie!

Peavey's customer support is excellent. There is a forum on the website, and you can get pretty much ANY question answered. There are Peavey empoyees that monitor it, and you can even post your serial#, and they'll reply with the build date, etc. I've never had to use the warranty service, but from what I've read by other users, it's top shelf.

I've been playing for a bit over 30 years, and have had my share of pretty much the gamut of guitars and gear. I've owned 2 Les Pauls, a tone of copies, some Strats, Teles, Carvins, Godin, etc. I purchased a T-60 in '79, and kept that one for about 6 years and traded it in...(wish I hadn't now). This is my 2nd Wolfgang (I lost the other one after loaning it out to a "friend"). The first time I played one in a store, I knew it was "my" guitar. The scale, shape and size of the neck and the overal comfort factor in playing this guitar made me throw rocks at the others. I DO NOT mean to imply that no one else makes as good a guitar, they do....just not for me. If this one gets lost or stolen I'll do what I did the last time....get another. I'm also wanting to get my hands on a Firenza w/P 90's. Overall, for me, this is as good as it gets. It's a much better guitar than I am a player, and that's fine by me. I enjoy playing it, and can't see me without one.

My Wolfgang has a green flame maple arch top laminated on a basswood body, highly figured birdseye maple neck, 2 humbucking pick-ups in Les Paul style tandem, Schaller tuners, Floyd Rose tremolo with a drop 'D' device on the low 'E' string and a case. I am most disappointed that the guitar doesn't have more tone options like a single coil pick-up or a coil split on the neck pick-up....then again, it is an Eddie Van Halen guitar and he doesn't use those things so...

In getting a Van Halen type sound this guitar is excellent....any other sound, just about, sucks...the difference in sound between the two humbuckers is huge, the bridge pick-up is too bright and cuts like a knife while the neck pick-up has too much low-end in comparison. When trying to compensate by adjusting your EQ on the amp or distortion/overdrive devices one or the other suffers (by the way my amps and pedals are all top o' the line boutique gear: Keeley, Analogman, Fender Custom Shop etc...)so pick-up balance sucks. The frets on the neck are thin and tall making for a difficult job of playing if your style incorporates a lot of sliding your fingers up and down the neck on strings like my style of playing does. Otherwise the frets are a bonus for tapping out harmonics and righthand hammer-ons ala Eddie (duh, figures...)a lot easier than my Custom Shop Strat. The guitar is quiet and seems well wired as far as electronics go. The pick-up selector switch feels kinda cheap with a lot of play between the settings, yet functions well.

The guitar was bought from ebay brand new. Set-up may not have been factory, because I'm not sure if the guy selling it fumbled with it or not...set-up was terrible, the action was a mile high, tremolo tension was way too heavy, so, I had to do much fine tuning to get the thing playable. After the adjustments the guitar was fine. The fit and finish of the guitar is flawless, stunning job really...the woods are all exotic looking and the guitar is put together well. Peavey did a great job here (I own or have owned them all: PRS, Gibsons, Fenders, Jacksons, Andersons, Custom ESPs etc...). After setting up the guitar it looks and plays excellent. It wants to be played fast so watch out (I liken it to a 'race car' guitar).

This guitar is built sturdy, like a tank...think 'Matchless' when it comes to being reliable....even though the bridge is not 'floating' always have a back-up though, the tone limitations alone will nece ssitate having another guitar along anyway...

Heard good things but haven't dealt with them...

My over-all rating is high because the guitar is built for the Eddie Van Halen thing and it does this superb indeed! it is not a '10' because of the disparity between the pick-ups, even Eddie Van Halen will have difficulty messing with the tone knob while playing this thing...

This EVH wolfgang is a 1997 model, in the U.S., solid basswood body, and birdseye maple neck. It has a thin neck that is unfifnished and oiled, very good for fast styles. It has a vintage gold finish that is pretty durable and beutiful. 22 frets I think. There is only one knob on this axe, a volume knob. It has a Floyd Rose bridge with a factory installed D-tuna (very nifty!).

These EVH pickups are thick and very good for rock (duh), but there is no tone knob! These pickups could be a little more versatile.

The Floyd Rose tremelo was out of position when I got it. Other than that, this is a beutiful guitar.

You can really depend on this guitar if it is set up properly. It seems very solid and the hardware is very durable.

I haven't dealed with Peavey, but when I recieved this guitar, the Floyd Rose was out of whack. I just ended up taking to a store to get it adjusted, and It plays great; really good punch now. I got this axe used, so it probably wasn't Peavey's fault it wasn't set up correctly.

Overall, I would rate this guitar 9/10, the pickups aren't quite as versatile as I would like them to be.