Also, the unfinished birdseye maple neck has a lot dirt and grime on it - it almost looks like rosewood! Otherwise, the guitar is in great shape. Take a look on eBay to see how much these things go for - not less than $2500.ДЄdmittedly, the transparent purple finish over the quilted maple top is a bit faded.

From what I've found out from a few different sources, Ernie Ball manufactured the EBMM EVH from January 1990 though September 1995, averaging about 25 a month. Once I got home, I called Ernie Ball out in San Luis Obispo to give them the serial number (#83316) so they could tell me what year it is (1993). To this day, I have no idea why they sold this guitar to me so cheap. I transferred my deposit to this guitar and very impatiently waited out the remainder of the police hold and took the guitar home before Henri's Music figured out what happened. I quickly asked how much the store wanted for it and I was shocked when Mark told me just $800 - with a case. That was the color I picked out for a Peavey Wolfgang. (It was in the back due to the standard police hold.) It was a purple Ernie Ball Music Man EVH! Like the one for the Runaround video 1 2. While in the shop one day in September, my salesman, Mark, told me and my friend Eric Klister that he had a cool used guitar in back that I might be interested in. When my San Diego trip was over, I went back to Wisconsin and obviously wanted to get my $300 deposit back, or at least find something else to buy, since I already had my Wolfgang. This started a chain of events that enabled me to buy the Holy Grail of guitars - the EBMM EVH. I went to Guitar Trader in Clairemont, and they had a black Wolfgang - I bought it (see the following guitar story). A year later, there still was no Wolfgang in Green Bay and in August 1997, I traveled to San Diego for a visit. In early 1996, I put a deposit down with Henri's Music In Green Bay, WI, for a Peavey Wolfgang guitar.

Not because I couldn't afford one (well, sort of), but because I couldn't find one!Д«oy did I stumble upon this guitar. In the mid-90s, I was resigned to the fact that I would never be able to own an EBMM EVH. Talk about a rare guitar! The Ernie Ball Music Man EVH came out in 1990 and I didn't actually see one in person until 1997! Ernie Ball couldn't make these guitars fast enough.

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