Product Overview
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.
NeckHeadstock: 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: Carmelized Maple
Position Inlays: Black Dot
Number of Frets: 22
Truss Rod: EVH®-Branded with Wheel
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 w/ Quilted Maple Veneer
Body Finish: Gloss Urethane
Body Shape: Wolfgang®
Body Binding: 1-Ply Cream
Hardware
Bridge: EVH®-Branded Floyd Rose® Locking Tremolo with EVH® D-Tuna®
Tremolo Block: Brass
Pickup Color: 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
