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
| Series: | EVH Wolfgang Special |
| Country of Manufacture: | Made in Mexico |
| Product Color: | Chlorine Burst |
| Factory Setup: | .009-.042, E Standard (E-A-D-G-B-E) |
Body
| Body Shape: | Wolfgang |
| Body Material: | Basswood |
| Body Finish: | Gloss Urethane |
| Top Material: | Quilted Maple |
| Body Binding: | 1-Ply Cream |
Neck
| Neck Material: | Quartersawn Baked Maple |
| Neck Finish: | Hand-Rubbed Satin Urethane |
| Neck Shape: | Wolfgang |
| 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" (648mm) |
| Number of Frets: | 22 Frets |
| Neck Joint: | Bolt-On with Graphite Reinforcement |
| Fingerboard Inlay: | Black Dots |
| Inlay Shape: | Dots |
| Side Marker Inlay: | Black |
| Headstock Inlay/Decal: | EVH Wolfgang |
Electronics
| Bridge Pickup: | EVH Wolfgang Humbucking Direct Mount |
| Neck Pickup: | EVH Wolfgang Humbucking Direct Mount |
| Controls and Switching: | Volume with Treble Bleed Circuit, Tone, 3-Position Toggle |
| Electronics Notes: | Position 1. Bridge Pickup, Position 2. Bridge and Neck Pickups, Position 3. Neck Pickup |
Hardware
| Hardware Color: | Chrome |
| Bridge: | EVH-Branded Floyd Rose Locking Tremolo with EVH D-Tuna |
| Tuning Machines: | EVH-Branded Gotoh |
| String Tree: | Bar |
| Fret Wire: | Jumbo |
| Saddle: | Steel |
| Knobs: | Black Knurled with White Indicator |
| Switch Cap: | Black |