Rick Lee":1fz7wcn1 said:
MYLILSS":1fz7wcn1 said:
I have a 95 pre production non serialized peavey Wolfgang amber quilt. I will never sell it, but have recently been offered insane amounts for it by some good friends. I wanted to mod it to look like the not enough guitar but may leave it be as a tribute to EVH. The prices for his gear new or used though are outrageous !
But that guitar (very cool BTW) was a unicorn 15 years ago. Why would anyone think it's worth more now? It's not like Ed was about to quit Fender and go back to Peavey and re-release those old Wolfgangs. Unless EVH/Fender announces they're discontinuing this or that model soon, nothing but Ed's personal autograph on guitars is going to get rarer than it already is.
Not trying to go too much on a tangent here, but the other side of that coin is that Peavey isn't making any more Wolfgangs. So the Peavey Wolfgang, like the EBMM EVH, is a discontinued model that can no longer be bought new. So right there, the guitars are more rare. These guitars also represent points in time.
For instance, in 1996, Ed recorded Human's Being and the two new songs with DLR, the last two songs to feature the original lineup. This is right when the Wolfgang came out. That was a pretty special time and Ed was playing like a monster. Secondly, and of course this is purely subjective, the case could be made that his 1995-1996 ears were better/less worn than his 2005-onward ears. This same case can be made across the whole spectrum, of course, from 1978-now. You can also throw in the 5150 vs. the II vs. the III, etc.
This is completely unfounded, but I would tend to think the younger Ed stuff would be more desirable than the later stuff as he was much more active and in his prime. Simple economics says that there is and will be supply of EVH brand guitars, but there is no new supply of EBMM and Peavey EVH guitars, so the longer time goes on, they should increase in price. Think of the price difference between a 1969 Marshall Plexi vs. a 1969 Marshall metal panel. Same amp, plexiglas panel vs. metal.
MYLISS congrats on scoring a pre-prod Wolfgang. I'm not sure how you did that but that's very cool. I am the original owner of a purple quilt and it's not going anywhere, either. Waited 11 months to get that guitar--ordered when they were first announced.
EVH's death hit me as hard, as well, and I can see the anger against folks trying to get insane prices on gear simply by exploit. I may not agree with it but definitely saw it coming.