EVH Wolfgang Special Electric Guitar w/Floyd Rose, Quilted Maple Purple Burst

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.

Spotlight-ready, the Wolfgang Special QM is available in Charcoal Burst, Chlorine Burst or Solar with cream body binding and chrome hardware.

A basswood body provides excellent tonal response that is full and rich, along with overall warmth and sustain. The body is capped with a beautifully figured quit maple top for an elegant touch.

The innovative 12""-16"" compound radius baked maple fingerboard design gradually flattens toward the heel from its smaller and more rounded profile at the nut for unparalleled comfortable chording and riffing near the nut and seamless bending near the heel. Maple is a dense wood that produces bright, snappy tones, articulate notes with bite and a tight low end.

Not all humbuckers are created equal. Direct mount EVH Wolfgang humbuckers with Alnico 2 magnets are hotter and harness Eddie’s scorching signature lead tone that captivated the world of rock ‘n’ roll in the ‘70s and ‘80s. These pickups deliver rich harmonics, cutting highs and snarling mids in spades.

Eddie Van Halen was the first player to popularize the innovative Floyd Rose locking tremolo, even advising Floyd Rose on his early designs to integrate round disc finger-type tuners that you would see on a cello or violin. Now universally embraced, our EVH-branded Floyd Rose Special double-locking tremolo features our EVH logo stamped on the bridge plate, zinc alloy saddles and a zinc alloy sustain block. The double-locking design allows you to lock your guitar in tune at the R2 (41.8 mm) nut and at the bridge, resulting in excellent tuning stability and sustain throughout your most aggressive pull-ups and dive bombs.

Our Wolfgang Special kicks style up a notch with attractive body binding and a Wolfgang headstock color matched to the killer body paint job.

Specs:

• General:
  • Series: Wolfgang® Special
  • Color: Purple Burst
  • Number of Strings: 6
  • Orientation: Right-Hand
• Body:
  • Body Finish: Gloss Urethane
  • Body Shape: Wolfgang®
  • Body Material: Basswood
  • Body Binding: 1-Ply Cream
  • Body Top: Arched Quilt Maple
• Electronics:
  • Bridge Pickup: Direct Mount EVH® Wolfgang® Humbucking
  • Neck Pickup: Direct Mount EVH® Wolfgang® Humbucking
  • Controls: Volume (500K EVH® Bourns® Low Friction Pot) with Treble Bleed Circuit, Tone (250K EVH® Bourns® High Friction Pot)
  • Pickup Switching: 3-Position Toggle: Position 1. Bridge Pickup, Position 2. Bridge and Neck Pickups, Position 3. Neck Pickup
  • Pickup Configuration: HH
• Neck:
  • Neck Material: Quartersawn Baked Maple
  • Neck Construction: Bolt-On with Graphite Reinforcement
  • Neck Thickness: .805" at 3rd & .890" at 12th Fret
  • Neck Finish: Hand-Rubbed Satin Urethane
  • Neck Shape: Wolfgang® Backshape
  • Scale Length: 25.5" (64.77 cm)
  • Fingerboard Radius: 12"-16" Compound Radius (304.8 mm to 406.4 mm)
  • Fingerboard Material: Caramelized Maple
  • Number of Frets: 22
  • Fret Size: Jumbo
  • Nut Material: Floyd Rose® R2 Locking
  • Nut Width: 1.625" (41.3 mm)
  • Position Inlays: Black Dot
  • Side Dots: Black
  • Truss Rod Nut: Heel-Mount Truss Rod Adjustment Wheel
  • Truss Rod Wrench: 2.5 mm Hex
  • String Trees: Floyd Rose® Retainer Bar
  • Headstock: EVH® Wolfgang®
• Hardware:
  • Bridge: EVH®-Branded Floyd Rose® Locking Tremolo with EVH® D-Tuna®
  • Hardware Finish: Gold
  • Tremolo Arm: Floyd Rose® 1000 Series Locking
  • Tremolo Block: Brass
  • Tuning Machines: EVH®-Branded Gotoh®
  • Control Knobs: Black Plastic with White Indicator