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.
Neck
HEADSTOCKEVH® Wolfgang®
NECK MATERIALQuartersawn Maple
NECK FINISHHand-Rubbed Satin Urethane
NECK SHAPEWolfgang® Backshape
NECK CONSTRUCTIONBolt-On with Graphite Reinforcement
NECK THICKNESS.805" at 3rd & .890" at 12th Fret
FINGERBOARD RADIUS12"-16" Compound Radius (304.8 mm to 406.4 mm)
FINGERBOARD MATERIALMaple
POSITION INLAYSBlack Dot
SIDE DOTSBlack
NUMBER OF FRETS22
TRUSS RODEVH®-Branded with Wheel
TRUSS ROD NUTHeel-Mount Truss Rod Adjustment Wheel
STRING NUTFloyd Rose® R2 Locking
NUT WIDTH1.625" (41.3 mm)
NUT MATERIALFloyd Rose® R2 Locking
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Body
BODYArched Basswood
BODY FINISHGloss Urethane
BODY SHAPEWolfgang®
BODY BINDING1-Ply Cream
BODY MATERIALArched Basswood
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Hardware
BRIDGEEVH®-Branded Floyd Rose® Locking Tremolo with EVH® D-Tuna®
TREMOLO BLOCKBrass
PICKUP COVERSZebra
CONTROL KNOBSBlack Plastic with White Indicator
SWITCH TIPBlack
HARDWARE FINISHBlack
TUNING MACHINESEVH®-Branded Gotoh®
STRING TREESFloyd Rose® Retainer Bar
STRINGSEVH® Nickel Plated Steel (.009-.042 Gauges)
TREMOLO ARMFloyd Rose® 1000 Series Locking
STRAP BUTTONSOversized
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Electronics
BRIDGE PICKUPDirect Mount EVH® Wolfgang® Humbucking
NECK PICKUPDirect Mount EVH® Wolfgang® Humbucking
PICKUP CONFIGURATIONHH
CONTROLSVolume (500K EVH® Bourns® Low Friction Pot) with Treble Bleed Circuit, Tone (250K EVH® Bourns® High Friction Pot)
SWITCHING3-Position Toggle: Position 1. Bridge Pickup, Position 2. Bridge and Neck Pickups, Position 3. Neck Pickup