New EVH Wolfgang Special made in china

[Bishop5150]

I just picked one up about 2 months ago. I had no idea it was made in China till I happened to look at the back of the neck. I just assumed it was made in Japan. But it doesn't change my opinion of the guitar though and that it plays, sounds and looks fantastic. The shop I bought it from always does a killer setup on their guitars before they go on the floor. It plays like butter and sounds amazing with my EVH 100 watt and 50 watt. No complaints here. I wouldn't care if it was made in Timbucktoo as long as it fits my needs and expectations.

 

[nitro]

BYTOR you really believe that,wow........

 

[londaxe]

I just picked one up about 2 months ago. I had no idea it was made in China till I happened to look at the back of the neck. I just assumed it was made in Japan. But it doesn't change my opinion of the guitar though and that it plays, sounds and looks fantastic. The shop I bought it from always does a killer setup on their guitars before they go on the floor. It plays like butter and sounds amazing with my EVH 100 watt and 50 watt. No complaints here. I wouldn't care if it was made in Timbucktoo as long as it fits my needs and expectations.

looks great, were they doing them in natural before or just recently? i only recall white, black, and sunburst

i've been considering buying a special for a while, and to be honest, I couldn't care less where they're made as long as they're quality intruments...which they are, from the sounds of things

 

[romanianreaper]

I just picked one up about 2 months ago. I had no idea it was made in China till I happened to look at the back of the neck. I just assumed it was made in Japan. But it doesn't change my opinion of the guitar though and that it plays, sounds and looks fantastic. The shop I bought it from always does a killer setup on their guitars before they go on the floor. It plays like butter and sounds amazing with my EVH 100 watt and 50 watt. No complaints here. I wouldn't care if it was made in Timbucktoo as long as it fits my needs and expectations.

Wow, that's nice!!

You know, there is the old term "you can't polish a turd". The cool thing with the EVH stuff, is that quality components go into the guitar so really it is just being assembled in China. The same EVH parts that go into the USA guitar are in these so this is a bit different I think than what we normally see in the guitar building world.

I absolutely love my EVH Wolfgang Special Hardtail. I find myself reaching for that guitar more often than my $4000 Charvel.

 

[rlord1974]

From the Rasmus website:

It wasn't merely enough to work closely with what we consider the best guitar manufacturing operation in Asia.

Japan is in Asia still, right?

Ask a hardcore Japanese - they don't think so.

 

[rlord1974]

There is ..... a fairly large number of customers that won't touch a Chinese made guitar for purely political reasons.

Gee, let's see..... Canada or China?

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OBVIOUSLY.

 

[joepete77]

What a disgrace! It's bad enough that just about everything is made in china mostly with technology and methods we have developed, now they wanna give the Chinese the last thing we still had made in USA or Japan? If they are making evh guitars in china instead of Japan then price should at least be 40% less. Resale will suck on these if price is still same as jap made models.

 

[Zap]

Those are some nice looking guitars. However, I refuse to even look at any gear made in China based strictly on principle.

 

[Bob Savage]

Those are some nice looking guitars. However, I refuse to even look at any gear made in China based strictly on principle.

Do you hold this principle just for gear or do you enforce it for all products you buy?

 

[Stramm8]

The new run of EVH Wolfgang specials are now made in china.The japan plant where the EVH Wolfgangs were made has now closed.Terrible..........

Chevy's are soon to be as well. Thanks Obama It's a shame the cost to do business in the US and now Japan are so high that we have to ship everything to China to keep prices competitive. It's not an issue of greed on EVHs part, it's the price we pay for all of the regulations and barriers put in place by our government. And it's only going to get worse.

 

[TheEternal]

Yeah, Obama's a Chinese guitar building, no count economy destroyer..

 

[Stramm8]

Yeah, Obama's a Chinese guitar building, no count economy destroyer..

Spoken like a true, incoherent Obama supporter...

 

[TheEternal]

Yeah, Obama's a Chinese guitar building, no count economy destroyer..

Spoken like a true, incoherent Obama supporter...

No, I was serious.. I voted for Romney and live in Texas.. Not that everyone in Texas voted for Romney..

We are doomed to 4 more years of punishment..

 

[Bishop5150]

I just picked one up about 2 months ago. I had no idea it was made in China till I happened to look at the back of the neck. I just assumed it was made in Japan. But it doesn't change my opinion of the guitar though and that it plays, sounds and looks fantastic. The shop I bought it from always does a killer setup on their guitars before they go on the floor. It plays like butter and sounds amazing with my EVH 100 watt and 50 watt. No complaints here. I wouldn't care if it was made in Timbucktoo as long as it fits my needs and expectations.

looks great, were they doing them in natural before or just recently? i only recall white, black, and sunburst

i've been considering buying a special for a while, and to be honest, I couldn't care less where they're made as long as they're quality intruments...which they are, from the sounds of things

I think the natural color is a fairly new color. I'm guessing to go along with the manufacturing change.

 

[nitro]

TheEternal I agree.......+1

 

[romanianreaper]

I still don't understand the logic with having a guitar made outside the U.S. If I ship a feather, I basically get raped by UPS or FedEx and these guys are sending a heavy guitar in a case with a huge shipping box.

So you add whatever it costs to pay an employee (whether or not it actually goes to them), electricity costs for the factory, shipping, etc. I don't know how this adds up.

 

[Bob Savage]

I still don't understand the logic with having a guitar made outside the U.S. If I ship a feather, I basically get raped by UPS or FedEx and these guys are sending a heavy guitar in a case with a huge shipping box.

So you add whatever it costs to pay an employee (whether or not it actually goes to them), electricity costs for the factory, shipping, etc. I don't know how this adds up.

Liquid hand soap gets shipped from China. If they can afford to ship liquid in plastic containers that cost about $2 each retail they can ship a guitar and still turn a nice profit.

 

[chumbucket]

I still don't understand the logic with having a guitar made outside the U.S. If I ship a feather, I basically get raped by UPS or FedEx and these guys are sending a heavy guitar in a case with a huge shipping box.

So you add whatever it costs to pay an employee (whether or not it actually goes to them), electricity costs for the factory, shipping, etc. I don't know how this adds up.

It's easy. The Chinese slave workers get paid pennies on the dollar and they ship everything in giant shipping containers on huge freighters. The ships don't leave port until they are full of goods. One trip brings millions of dollars worth of cheap Chinese goods to America. You couldn't hire one worker in America for what they probably pay 10 people in China.

 

[Bishop5150]

 

[Chubtone]