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.
Specifications:
- Body: Arched Basswood
- Body Finish: Gloss Polyurethane
- Body Binding: 1-Ply Cream
- Body Shape: Wolfgang®
- Control Knobs: Black Plastic with White Indicator
- Fingerboard: Maple
- Hardware Finish: Chrome
- Position Inlays: Black Dot
- Neck Finish: Hand-Rubbed Satin Urethane
- Neck Construction: Bolt-On with Graphite Reinforcement
- Neck Pickup: Direct Mount EVH® Wolfgang® Humbucking
- Side Dots: Black
- 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" (64.77 cm)
- Truss Rod: EVH®-Branded with Wheel
- Truss Rod Nut: Heel-Mount Truss Rod Adjustment Wheel
- Neck Thickness: .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)
