Road-tested in arenas around the world, the Wolfgang® Special is a purebred music-making machine, designed with stunning style, giant sound and high-speed playability.
The Wolfgang Special features a basswood body with an arched top and a robust graphite-reinforced bolt-on quartersawn maple neck. The neck is carved and rolled to Eddie Van Halen’s exacting specifications and features a hand-rubbed satin urethane finish on the back. Primed for high performance, energetic riffing and blazing leads, the 12”-16” compound radius ebony fingerboard has 22 jumbo frets and pearloid dot inlays. Truss rod adjustments have also never been easier thanks to a spoke wheel conveniently located at the base of the neck.
A pair of flagship custom-designed EVH® Wolfgang Alnico 2 humbucking pickups are mounted directly to the body, providing dynamic yet articulate voicing, as well as endless sustain for powerful chords and melody lines. A sturdy and dependable EVH-branded Floyd Rose® locking trem and Floyd Rose locking nut work in tandem for precise tuning even with extreme changes in pitch, while the EVH D-Tuna® retunes to drop-D and back with strict accuracy at the flick of a finger. The volume knob with treble bleed circuit has a 500K EVH Bourns® low friction pot for smooth swells and a tone control knob with a 250K Bourns high friction tone pot that prevents accidental tone shifting.
Features:
- Arch Top with Unique EVH Wolfgang Body and Headstock Designs
- Maple or rosewood neck with an oil finish and special Wolfgang profile
- Rosewood on Stealth Black Finish
- EVH Wolfgang direct-mount humbucking pickups
- Bar String Retainer
- Side-Mounted Square Output Jack
- Heel Mounted Spoke-Wheel Truss Rod Adjustment
- Oversized Strap Buttons- Series: Wolfgang Special
- Body Material: Basswood
- Neck: Bolt-On Quartersawn Maple
- Neck Finish: Hand-Rubbed Oil
- Fingerboard Material: Ebony
- Fingerboard Radius:12" to 16" (304.8 mm to 406.4 mm) Compound
- Finish: Satin
- Frets: 22, Jumbo
- Scale Length: 25.5" (64.8 cm)
- String Nut: Floyd Rose Locking Nut, 1.625" (41.3 mm)
- Position Inlays: Pearloid Dot
- Headstock: EVH Wolfgang
- Tuning Machines: EVH Branded
- Pickup: EVH Wolfgang (Bridge and Neck)
- Controls: Master Volume, Master Tone
- Bridge: EVH-Branded Floyd Rose Locking Tremolo with EVH D-Tuna
- Hardware: Black
- Strings: EVH Strings, (.009-.042 Gauges)
- Control Knob: Black Plastic
- Body Finish: Satin Polyurethane