Description
Description
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 QM features a basswood body with an arched quilt maple top and a robust graphite-reinforced bolt-on quartersawn baked 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 baked 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 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
Specs
General
| Artist Name: | Eddie Van Halen |
| Country of Manufacture: | Made in Mexico |
| Product Color: | Sangria |
| Factory Setup: | E Standard (E-A-D-G-B-E) |
Body
| Body Material: | Basswood |
| Body Finish: | Gloss Urethane |
| Top Material: | Arched Quilt Maple |
Neck
| Neck Material: | Quartersawn Caramelized Maple with Graphite Reinforcement |
| Neck Finish: | Hand-Rubbed Satin Urethane |
| Neck Shape: | Wolfgang Backshape |
| Fingerboard Material: | Caramelized Maple |
| Nut Material: | Floyd Rose R2 Locking |
| Nut Width: | 1.625" (41.3mm) |
| Fingerboard Radius: | Compound 12-16" (304.8-406.4mm) |
| Scale Length: | 25.5" (647.7mm) |
| Number of Frets: | 22 Frets |
| Neck Joint: | Bolt-On with Graphite Reinforcement |
| Fingerboard Inlay: | Black Dot |
| Inlay Shape: | Dots |
Electronics
| Bridge Pickup: | Direct Mount EVH Wolfgang Humbucking |
| Neck Pickup: | Direct Mount EVH Wolfgang Humbucking |
| Controls and Switching: | 3-Position Toggle: Position 1. Bridge Pickup, Position 2. Bridge and Neck Pickups, Position 3. Neck Pickup, Volume (500K EVH Bourns Low Friction Pot) with Treble Bleed Circuit, Tone (250K EVH Bourns High Friction Pot) |
Hardware
| Hardware Color: | Chrome |
| Bridge: | EVH-Branded Floyd Rose Locking Tremolo with EVH D-Tuna |
| Tuning Machines: | EVH-Branded Gotoh |
| Fret Wire: | Jumbo |
| Saddle: | Metal |
| Knobs: | Black Plastic with White Indicator |