EVH Striped Series 5150 Standard

The EVH Striped Series 5150 emulates Eddie Van Halen’s famed red, white, and black striped solidbody electric guitar in tone and performance. The rumbling tone of this axe begins with a basswood body. A custom-built bridge humbucker produces rich lows, crisp highs, and hot-rodded mids with tons of crunch and singing sustain. A quartersawn modified C-shaped maple neck with a hand-rubbed back finish provides exceptional playability. The dive-bomb-only D-Tuna-equipped Floyd Rose, designed to his exact specifications and purposely positioned against the body, allows you to easily emulate Eddie’s characteristic trem work while also providing immediate access to Drop D tuning. The EVH Striped Series 5150 solidbody electric guitar, complete with “hockey stick” headstock, is a suitable tribute.

The EVH Striped Series 5150 Standard is now available from Westside Music Studio, Los Angeles’ longest-stablished guitar specialist. We ship fast across the US and beyond with every guitar getting a pro setup before dispatch.

Engineered for speed, comfort and full-throttle attitude, the reimagined 5150 Series Standard is an iconic blast from the past that blends both throwback and modernized features.

Like its predecessor, the 5150 Standard features a modified Strat-style basswood body with a deeper upper body curve. The graphite-reinforced bolt-on quarters awn maple neck features a comfortable modified “C” profile, hand-rubbed satin urethane back finish, heel-mount truss rod adjustment wheel and color matched “hockey stick” headstock with EVH logo decal. Built for smooth and speedy playability, the 12”-16” compound radius maple fingerboard has 22 jumbo frets and black dot inlays.

While the famed striped original had a single humbucking bridge pickup only, the all-new 5150 is outfitted with an HH pickup configuration controlled by a three-way toggle switch on the upper bout. The custom designed EVH Wolfgang Alnico 2 humbucking bridge pickup delivers the perfect amount of punch and articulation with sweet sustain and thick chunky rhythms in a perfectly balanced EQ curve. The EVH Wolfgang Alnico 2 humbucker neck pickup serves up no-nonsense, balls to the wall overdrive and endless sustain without skimping on articulate cleans when the volume is rolled down.

A custom designed low friction volume knob creates even-volume tapering for the smoothest volume swells, while the high friction tone knob will stay in place even if accidentally bumped. An added new feature comes in the way of a lower bout kill switch, allowing you to mute your guitar for those stutter, rhythmic effects — think “You Really Got Me.”

Decked out with a “dive-bomb” certified EVH-branded top-mount Floyd Rose bridge, the locking tailpiece features fine tuners for each string and a patented EVH D-Tuna for switching back and forth from drop-D to standard tuning in an instant.

A high-octane, high performance axe, the 5150 Standard boasts screaming style in a Slime Green finish with all-chrome hardware, including the EVH-branded Gotoh tuning machines.