We need a sit down. Shares. Review: EVH Striped Series Guitar. By Chris Gill, Video by Paul Riario 23 April 2014. This guitar was launched in January 2013 - it's taken us more than a year to get a review sample, as demand has outstripped supply. Of course, there are still vast numbers of guitarists who want what Eddie was playing in the Seventies and Eighties, and to satisfy that desire EVH recently introduced the EVH Striped Series. That appeal must lie with the … If you want something similar to the guitars he plays today, then the EVH Wolfgang WG Standard is the guitar for you. If you want a guitar that looks and sounds like Eddie Van Halen’s most classic guitars, then you should go with the EVH Striped Series. All too soon, our time is up... the guitar's fingerboard now a darker shade of grey. The EVH Wolfgang guitar is the only way to go if you want what Eddie Van Halen plays today.