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: Neck HEADSTOCK EVH® Wolfgang® NECK MATERIAL Quartersawn Baked Maple NECK FINISH Hand-Rubbed Satin Urethane NECK SHAPE Wolfgang® Backshape NECK CONSTRUCTION Bolt-On with Graphite Reinforcement NECK THICKNESS. 805" at 3rd & .890" at 12th Fret FINGERBOARD RADIUS 12"-16" Compound Radius (304.8 mm to 406.4 mm) FINGERBOARD MATERIAL Baked Maple POSITION INLAYS Black Dot SIDE DOTS Black NUMBER OF FRETS 22 TRUSS ROD NUT Heel-Mount Truss Rod Adjustment Wheel STRING NUT Floyd Rose® R2 Locking NUT WIDTH 1.625" (41.3 mm) NUT MATERIAL Floyd Rose® R2 Locking
Body BODY Basswood BODY FINISH Gloss Urethane BODY SHAPE Wolfgang® BODY TOP Quilt Maple BODY BINDING 1-Ply Cream BODY MATERIAL Basswood
Hardware BRIDGE EVH®-Branded Floyd Rose® Locking Tremolo with EVH® D-Tuna® TREMOLO BLOCK Brass PICKUP COVERS Zebra CONTROL KNOBS Black Knurled with White Indicator SWITCH TIP Black HARDWARE FINISH Chrome TUNING MACHINES EVH®-Branded Gotoh® STRING TREES Floyd Rose® Retainer Bar STRINGS EVH® Nickel Plated Steel (.009-.042 Gauges) TREMOLO ARM Floyd Rose® 1000 Series Locking STRAP BUTTONS Oversized
Electronics BRIDGE PICKUP Direct Mount EVH® Wolfgang® Humbucking NECK PICKUP Direct Mount EVH® Wolfgang® Humbucking PICKUP CONFIGURATION HH CONTROLS Volume (500K EVH® Bourns® Low Friction Pot) with Treble Bleed Circuit, Tone (250K EVH® Bourns® High Friction Pot) SWITCHING 3-Position Toggle: Position 1. Bridge Pickup, Position 2. Bridge and Neck Pickups, Position 3. Neck Pickup