Serial Number: WG03148A
Weight: 7.8 lbs
From Eddie Van Halen comes the Wolfgang®, representing over 35 years of cumulative EVH® experience and expertise in guitar design. The process undertaken to develop the Wolfgang® took over two years of intense trial-and-error research. The formidable task yielded a series of prototypes that endured a full year of brutal in-concert road testing by Eddie on Van Halen's triumphant 07-08 world tour. The result is a bulletproof and beautiful tonal giant of a guitar that takes whatever you can dish out and then asks for more. As the VH tour kicked off in the fall 2007, Eddie pushed every aspect of the Wolfgang's performance capabilities to the absolute limit, playing various Wolfgang prototypes every night on virtually every song. As the tour roared along, Eddie changed and adjusted components and specs until he was satisfied with the Wolfgang's sound, feel and looks. To prove that it was battle-worthy and could survive the road, performance data was collected from every gig for months and months to establish and confirm consistency and durability. This is what makes the Wolfgang the culmination of Eddie Van Halen's endless pursuit of outstanding tone, durability and consistency. Available to the public beginning in January 2009, the EVH® Wolfgang guitar is built to his exact specs and has every single feature of the Wolfgang guitars he himself plays onstage and in the studio. It's exactly what he uses. "Everything that I've built, destroyed, stumbled onto, learned and experienced is in this guitar," Eddie Van Halen said. "Every aspect and component of this guitar has been examined and upgraded to the highest standards possible: stainless steel frets, double-potted custom-wound pickups, five-piece binding on the matching body and headstock, custom-made signature tuning machines and Floyd Rose® bridge, new low-friction pots, and the list keeps going. We left no stone unturned."
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| Body | | Basswood |
| Body Shape | | Wolfgang® |
| Body Top | | Arched Maple |
| Body Finish | | Gloss Urethane |
| Body Binding | | 5-Ply |
| Number of Frets | | 22 |
| Fret Size | | Vintage Stainless |
| Position Inlays | | Blocks (Dots on Stealth Finishes) |
| Fretboard Radius | | 12" to 16" Compound Radius (304.8 mm to 406.4 mm) |
| Headstock Binding | | Bound |
| Fretboard | | Ebony |
| Neck Material | | Quartersawn Maple |
| Neck Finish | | Hand-Rubbed Urethane |
| Nut Width | | 1.625" (41.3 mm) |
| Scale Length | | 25.5" (648 mm) |
| Pickup Configuration | | HH |
| Bridge Pickup | | Custom Designed EVH® Humbucking |
| Neck Pickup | | Custom Designed EVH® Humbucking |
| Pickup Switching | | EVH Reverse-Style 3-Position Switching: Position 1: Neck Pickup, Position 2: Bridge & Neck Pickups, Position 3: Bridge Pickup |
| Controls | | Master Volume, Master Tone |
| Hardware | | Black (Chrome on Trans Finishes) |
| Bridge | | EVH®-Branded Floyd Rose® Locking Tremolo with EVH D-Tuna® |
| String Nut | | Floyd Rose® Original Locking |
| Switch Tip | | Black |
| Tremolo Arm/Handle | | Floyd Rose® Original Tremolo Arm |
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