back when I was playing guitar in like 91 or 92 I think the year was when Ernie Ball released the EVH, which had that headstock, and the coolest roundest, nicest neck I ever played guitar on. Now that I play bass, I can see where the guitar neck came from a little, it is like a Stingray neck for the round, thick, fits in the palm of your hand, but scales back for the size of a guitar.
I remember reading about the guitar in the Guitar magazine, prior to it hitting the shelves, and how they said they worked with Eddie to come up with a shape of guitar neck that felt good in his small hands, and helped with flow and transition up and down the neck.
I fell for the look of the guitar for sure, I thought it was cool AF, kind of a Telecaster meeds Les Paul for body profile, and the bad ass neck into that 4+2 headstock.
I loved that guitar, but list price (back in the early 90’s) was like $1300, and was double what I paid Carvin to make me a guitar to my configuration.
I stopped playing a while after that, never got a chance to get one.
Then when I went to the HollyWood guitar store early last year (like 1 year ago almost to the day) when I went to look to decide if I wanted to start to play bass.
i was walking around the guitar’s looking for the Ernie Ball EVH. I couldn’t find them, but Sterling had one that looked identical, as far as my memmory served, and was called Axis or something like that, and I was a little confused, but thought it looked similar.
Now that I know more about the current state of the companies and their sister or daughter companies and all that (mind you I said I know MORE about, nowhere near knowing all about) and I do see how the Axis is the evolution of the EVH, and I think (i don’t pay too much attention to 6 string these day, so I might be wrong, but I think) that Sterling makes them momre then EBMM and they are Axis, but they are some cool instruments, and if I decided to drop $200-$300 on a guitar anytime in the future, those are probably what I would be looking for.
I ahve seen EBMM EVH ones for as low as $250, and the SBMM Axis or EBMM if they do axix too?? go for as low ass $200, but usually $300-$350.
so yeah, I would get one if I had the need and the extra scratch, even if just to hang on the wall for memories, and to pull down once in a while to strum a bit, to realize why I chose bass this time around, and put back and look at its beauty some more.