EVH just brought back two of Eddie Van Halen’s sickest guitars – the Shark and the Circles – and we want them both.
The EVH Circles features a very Strat-esque Basswood body, quartersawn Maple neck with oiled finish, and a compound-radius 12″-16″ Maple fingerboard with rolled edges and 22 jumbo frets. The EVH Circles comes loaded with a single EVH direct-mount pickup controlled by a single black plastic control knob, because why complicate anything? And then finally, the EVH Circles has a an EVH-Branded Floyd Rose Locking Tremolo with EVH D-Tuna, locking nut, and EVH tuners.
The EVH Circles is available here for $1,399.99.
And then there’s the Shark. The one we’re all salivating over. First off, the explanation behind the body shape is that Eddie took his angular offset guitar and sawed a chunk out of the body, leaving what looked like “teeth”. The guitar was first seen live during the first Van Halen World Tour in 1978, and became widely known after appearing on the back of Van Halen’s Women and Children First.
The EVH Shark features an angular Ash body with a rock-solid set Maple “C” profile neck with “hockey stick” headstock, and a 12″-16″ compound radius Pau Ferro fingerboard has 22 jumbo frets and white dot inlays. The EVH Shark is fitted with custom designed EVH Wolfgang alnico 2 Humbucker bridge and neck pickups, black numbered speed knobs, three-way toggle switch housed on a brass mounting plate, brass nut, gold and chrome custom EVH-stamped Gotoh tuners and chrome eye hooks with turnbuckles.
The EVH Shark is available here for $1,899.
