Members Prages Posted November 27, 2007 Members Share Posted November 27, 2007 Did the "EVH" have a floyd type trem and a single coil?I can't remember My buddy's Sears EVH wasn't a Cort, I don't believe, but he also had a Cort Superstrat that he got from either Sears or JC Penny. It had EMG Select pickups (HSS) and three mini toggle switches. From what I can remember, the EVH wasn't really a Strat knock off. It seems like the shape was a little off, and it was nowhere near as thick as a strat (think 60's Teisco thickness). I'm pretty sure his had a vintage style six screw trem and one single coil that was about 1/2 way between the bridge position and the middle position. It's been at least 15 years since I've seen the guitar in question though, so I could be wrong. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members King Loudness Posted November 27, 2007 Author Members Share Posted November 27, 2007 Didn't it cost like,$79? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members King Loudness Posted November 27, 2007 Author Members Share Posted November 27, 2007 I wasn't alive when they came out! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members King Loudness Posted November 27, 2007 Author Members Share Posted November 27, 2007 In the Sears catalog I saw a couple years ago,There was 2 red EVH Copies. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members King Loudness Posted November 27, 2007 Author Members Share Posted November 27, 2007 It was The Canadian 1987 Wish Book. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members aliensporebomb Posted November 27, 2007 Members Share Posted November 27, 2007 Gotta love the $100 Prince-style knockoff tele. Even the crap post-lawsuit Hohners are going for 10 times that much now. The irony is, he got it because it played well and he could play the heck out of it. I bet he's got 20 just like it at home because at one point he's the only guy who cared about them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members aliensporebomb Posted November 27, 2007 Members Share Posted November 27, 2007 I remember those Sears guitars with the built-in effects. At the time Iactually thought that was a good idea, like they took the MPC guitars one step further. Still, yes, pure cheese. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members cogdog Posted November 27, 2007 Members Share Posted November 27, 2007 man I remember looking at those catalogs for days when I was a kid, it was like the internet of it's time, did you see that effects pedal for $99 bucks holy crap, that was alot dough back then! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members mikeSF Posted November 27, 2007 Members Share Posted November 27, 2007 great thread. yeah, i still have a Sears Flying V from '81-ish. It was a tobacco burst in the catalog. later in the 80's i spray painted it da-glo pink and blue, however. good times. my friend had the white explorer-shaped guitar with the built in effects. those effects sounded ridiculous but we were just kids and thought they were awesome back then. haha. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Brewski Posted November 27, 2007 Members Share Posted November 27, 2007 RaVenCAD!! I had the Striped one!! IT played well and sounded distorted. My neighbor and I snaded it down and repainted it. We cut the head stock up a bit and added the EVH Red/Blue/Yellow electric tape.I can't even remember what I did with it. 1983: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members cephus Posted November 27, 2007 Members Share Posted November 27, 2007 That V looks pretty decent compared to some of the others. Late 80s is after I had realized that a sears guitar was crap. Back in like 79 and 80 I drooled over the les paul copies that had the contoured body and everything. If you didn't get the really kick ass one, all they had were "Global" guitars. I knew a kid with one and his brother had the matching bass. 3/4" thick body. Maybe 1". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Brewski Posted November 27, 2007 Members Share Posted November 27, 2007 Hell, The information found in the old Sears catalogs is more informative than what you get at Guitar Center. I totally Agree!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members mrspeed Posted November 27, 2007 Members Share Posted November 27, 2007 I had one of those "long-neck" basses. I was very solid but my cheapo Ibanez bass plays and sounds so much better. I bought a short scale Cort bass from Sears in 83 or 84. I returned it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members hare.29 Posted November 27, 2007 Members Share Posted November 27, 2007 Hmm. Is that a real guitar or a Sears guitar? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members bloolight Posted November 27, 2007 Members Share Posted November 27, 2007 Those guitars look like they came from a Soviet-era instrument factory. This is definitely a nostalgia trip...I remember looking through those wishbooks and drooling over all the stuff we couldn't afford. My first ever guitar was a little Sears acoustic which I beat the crap out of...I don't think I ever actually played a note on it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members blueshawk1 Posted November 28, 2007 Members Share Posted November 28, 2007 More from that same place (1983 catalog): look at that control plate Oh My God! I had that one 169. "wired for sound" LP with all the effects built in. I didn't remember that I bought it from Sears, I did remember buying it from one of those dept. store catalogs (I was thinking JC Pennys).Don't ask me anything about it, how it played or how the effects sounded, it was too long ago, but I definitely remember having bought one of those back then.The best catalog buy was the amp I bought from Montgomery Wards. A 100 watt amp, I peeled the Montgomery Ward label off it one day and found out it was a Marlboro amp, which at the time, was a good brand. When I traded it in, I got three times what I paid for it as a Mont. Wards amp. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members King Loudness Posted November 28, 2007 Author Members Share Posted November 28, 2007 Last Time!Does ANYONE have pics of the Sears EVH? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members sylvesterlowery Posted November 28, 2007 Members Share Posted November 28, 2007 Hmm. Is that a real guitar or a Sears guitar? Might I interest you in some zircon encrusted tweezers? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members King Loudness Posted November 28, 2007 Author Members Share Posted November 28, 2007 Sears guitars are fun! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members King Loudness Posted November 29, 2007 Author Members Share Posted November 29, 2007 Still no luck!I've searched EVERYWHERE! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members dcindc Posted November 29, 2007 Members Share Posted November 29, 2007 I have that black Effector (explorer style) with the chipboard case. It's made by Cort. I got it this year from Music Go Round in excellent shape. Most of the effects don't work so I have it disassembled and will fix it someday. The effects in them sound horrible.It's quite a good guitar for being a cheapy. Plays and sounds great. I shoulda bought one back when I was looking at them and had it in my hands at Sears, 20 years ago! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Guitarted Posted November 29, 2007 Members Share Posted November 29, 2007 Firewood! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members King Loudness Posted January 7, 2008 Author Members Share Posted January 7, 2008 bump Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members magentaplacenta Posted January 7, 2008 Members Share Posted January 7, 2008 My very first guitar was a Harmony strat from Sears. $99 and it came with a little amp and cord, just plug in and rawk! I wish I would have kept it, would be cool to still have the very first guitar I owned, even if it was POS. Traded it in for a new Kramer 300ST which I think was around $600-650 back around '88. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Kramerguy Posted January 7, 2008 Members Share Posted January 7, 2008 Hell, The information found in the old Sears catalogs is more informative than what you get at Guitar Center. hahahaha sad, but true. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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