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.
Features
Type |
Solid Body |
Colour |
Indigo Burst |
Orientation |
Right Handed |
Number of Strings |
6 |
Body Shape |
Wolfgang® |
Body Material |
Arched Quilt Maple Top with Basswood Body |
Body Finish |
Gloss Urethane |
Neck Material |
Quartersawn Baked Maple |
Neck Shape |
Wolfgang® Backshape |
Neck Finish |
Hand-Rubbed Satin Urethane |
Fretboard Material |
Baked Maple |
Number of Frets |
22 |
Fretboard Inlays |
Black Dots and Side Dots |
Fret Size |
Jumbo |
Fretboard Radius |
12-16 Compound Radius (304.8 mm to 406.4 mm) |
Nut Material |
Floyd Rose® R2 Locking |
Nut Width |
1.625 (41.3 mm) |
Neck Pickups |
Direct Mount EVH® Wolfgang® Humbucking |
Bridge Pickups |
Direct Mount EVH® Wolfgang® Humbucking |
Controls |
1 X Volume (500K EVH® Bourns® Low Friction Pot) with Treble Bleed Circuit, 1 X Tone (250K EVH® Bourns® High Friction Pot), 3-Position Toggle Switch |
Bridge |
EVH®-Branded Floyd Rose® Locking Tremolo with EVH® D-Tuna® |
Tuners |
EVH®-Branded Gotoh® |
Strings |
EVH® Nickel Plated Steel (.009-.042 Gauges) |