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.
Features
- Basswood body w/ Gloss Urethane finish
- Quartersawn Maple Wolfgang® Backshape, 25.5" (648 mm) scale, & Hand-Rubbed Satin Urethane finish
- Maple fretboard w/ 12"-16" Compound Radius radius & Black Dot inlays
- 22 Jumbo frets
- 1.625" (41.3 mm) Floyd Rose® R2 Locking nut
- EVH®-Branded Gotoh® tuning machines
- EVH®-Branded Floyd Rose® Locking Tremolo with EVH® D-Tuna® bridge w/ Floyd Rose® 1000 Series Locking tremolo
- Direct Mount EVH® Wolfgang® Humbucking bridge and neck pickup(s) w/ Zebra pickup covers
- Volume with Treble Bleed Circuit, Tone controls, & 3-Position Toggle switch