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.
Spotlight-ready, the Wolfgang Special is available in Burgundy Mist Metallic, Deep Purple Metallic, Ice Blue Metallic, Ivory, Miami Blue, Satin Primer Gray and Stealth Black finishes with a matching headstock. The Burgundy Mist Metallic, Miami Blue and Satin Primer Gray models feature black body binding and black hardware, while the Deep Purple Metallic, Ice Blue Metallic and Ivory models feature cream body binding and chrome hardware. The Stealth Black model features cream body binding and black hardware.
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• Body: Basswood
• Body Finish: Gloss Urethane
• Body Binding: 1-Ply Cream
• Body Shape: Wolfgang®
• Control Knobs: Black Knurled with White Indicator
• Fingerboard: Ebony
• Hardware Finish: Chrome
• Position Inlays: Pearloid Dot
• Neck Finish: Hand-Rubbed Satin Urethane
• Neck Construction: Bolt-On with Graphite Reinforcement
• Neck Pickup: Direct Mount EVH® Wolfgang® Humbucking
• Headstock: EVH® Wolfgang®
• Orientation: Right-Hand
• Configuration: HH
•Refinement Pickups: Humbucker / Humbucker
• String Nut: Floyd Rose® R2 Locking
• Truss Rod Wrench: 2.5 mm Hex
• Bridge Pickup: Direct Mount EVH® Wolfgang® Humbucking
• Pickup Switching: 3-Position Toggle: Position 1. Bridge Pickup, Position 2. Bridge and Neck Pickups, Position 3. Neck Pickup
• Pickup Configuration: HH
• Bridge: EVH®-Branded Floyd Rose® Locking Tremolo with EVH® D-Tuna®
• Tuning Machines: EVH®-Branded Gotoh®
• Strings: EVH® Nickel Plated Steel (.009-.042 Gauges)
• Included Accessories: Tremolo Arm, Hex Keys & User Manual
• Case/Gig Bag: Optional EVH® Wolfgang® Hardshell (p/n 009-0916-000); Optional EVH® Black Gig Bag (p/n 022-1512-006)
• Fingerboard Radius: 12"-16" Compound Radius (304.8 mm to 406.4 mm)
• Refinement Fingerboard Radius: Compound
• Fret Size: Jumbo
• Neck Material: Quartersawn Maple
• Refinement Neck Material: Maple
• Neck Shape: Wolfgang® Backshape
• Number of Frets: 22
• Nut Material: Floyd Rose® R2 Locking
• Nut Width: 1.625" (41.3 mm)
• Scale Length: 25.5" (648 mm)
• Truss Rod: EVH®-Branded with Wheel
• Truss Rod Nut: Heel-Mount Truss Rod Adjustment Wheel
• Neck Thikness: .805" at 3rd & .890" at 12th Fret
• Controls: Volume (500K EVH® Bourns® Low Friction Pot) with Treble Bleed Circuit, Tone (250K EVH® Bourns® High Friction Pot)
