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 urethane back finish. Primed for high performance, energetic riffing and blazing leads, the 12”-16” compound radius maple fingerboard has 22 jumbo frets and black 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 black 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.
Specs
- BODY MATERIAL: Basswood
- NECK: Quartersawn Baked Maple
- NECK FINISH: Hand-Rubbed Satin Urethane
- FINGERBOARD: Baked Maple, 12"-16" Compound Radius (304.8 mm to 406.4 mm)
- FRETS: 22, Jumbo
- POSITION INLAYS: Black Dot
- NUT (Material/Width): Floyd Rose® R2 Locking, 1.625" (41.3 mm)
- TUNING MACHINES: EVH®-Branded Gotoh®
- SCALE LENGTH: 25.5" (648 mm)
- BRIDGE: EVH®-Branded Floyd Rose® Locking Tremolo with EVH® D-Tuna®
- PICKUPS:
- Bridge: Direct Mount EVH® Wolfgang® Humbucking
- Neck: Direct Mount EVH® Wolfgang® Humbucking
- PICKUP SWITCHING: 3-Position Toggle
- CONTROLS: Volume (500K EVH® Bourns® Low Friction Pot) with Treble Bleed Circuit, Tone (250K EVH® Bourns® High Friction Pot)
- CONTROL KNOBS: Black Knurled with White Indicator
- HARDWARE FINISH: Chrome
- STRINGS: EVH® Nickel Plated Steel (.009-.042 Gauges)