EVH Wolfgang Special Electric Guitar (Satin Surf Green)

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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.

The innovative 12"-16" compound radius 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. Versus a 24-fret neck, a 22-fret layout shifts the neck pickup farther away from the bridge, centering it at the “sweet spot” and resulting in an overall warmer tone. The jumbo fret wire slightly increases the distance between string and fingerboard for seamless and comfortable bends. 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 bridge features our EVH logo stamped on the bridge plate, steel saddles and a solid brass block. The Floyd Rose bridge and R2 (41.8 mm) locking nut is a professional-grade double-locking design that secures the strings in the saddle and nut, providing ultimate tuning stability and dynamic tremolo action. Standard equipment on Eddie’s personal guitars since the early ‘90s, the EVH D-Tuna is a unique patented device that enables players to drop the E to D and back, in an instant.

Humidity and temperature fluctuations wreak havoc on a guitar’s neck. With the truss rod adjustment wheel placed at the heel of the neck, you (or your guitar tech) can quickly insert a 1.5 mm Allen wrench between the strings for seamless neck relief tweaks on the fly. Our Wolfgang Special kicks style up a notch with attractive body binding and a Wolfgang headstock color matched to the body.

Specifications

Body

• Body shape: Offset double cutaway

• Body type: Solid body

• Body wood: Basswood

• Body finish: Satin urethane

• Orientation: Right handed

Neck

• Shape: Custom

• Wood: Maple quartersawn

• Joint: Bolt-on

• Scale length: 25.5"

• Truss rod: Standard

• Finish: Hand-rubbed urethane

Fretboard

• Material: Ebony

• Radius: 12"–16" compound

• Fret size: Jumbo

• Number of frets: 22

• Inlays: Black dot

• Nut width: 1.625" (41.3 mm) Floyd Rose locking

Pickups

• Configuration: HH

• Neck: EVH direct-mounted Wolfgang Zebra humbucker

• Bridge: EVH direct-mounted Wolfgang Zebra humbucker

Controls

• Control layout: Master volume, tone

• Pickup switch: 3-way

Hardware

• Bridge type: Tremolo/Vibrato

• Bridge design: Floyd Rose locking trem with EVH D-Tuna

• Tuning machines: EVH

• Color: Black chrome

Other

• Number of strings: 6-string

• Special features: Body binding

• Case: Sold separately

• Country of origin: Mexico