More than 35 years of innovation and experience went into the development of the original Wolfgang USA, and it continues to unleash pure, unadulterated rock n' roll power, huge sound, agile playability, and breathtaking, spot-on style. "Everything I've built, destroyed, discovered, learned, and experienced is in this guitar," said Eddie Van Halen. "Every aspect and component of this guitar has been inspected and brought to the highest level possible: stainless steel frets, double molded custom wound pickups, 5-piece binding on matching body and headstock, custom tuners and Floyd Rose® bridge, brand new low friction potentiometers, the list goes on. We left no stone unturned." The EVH Wolfgang USA Left-Hand features a basswood body with arched maple top, a bolt-on quarter-cut maple neck, a 12-16 inch bird's eye maple or ebony fretboard with compound radius, 22 vintage stainless steel direct-Zebra humbucking pickups with EVH Wolfgang frets, an EVH-branded Floyd Rose locking tremolo with EVH D-Tuna®, EVH-branded Gotho® high ratio die-cast tuners with white mother-of-pearl buttons, and mother-of-pearl block inlays (3-color burst) or dot inlays (vintage white, stealth).

Features

• BASSWOOD WOLFGANG BODY WITH 5A FLAME MAPLE TOP AND COLOR MATCHED HEADSTOCK Featuring an offset shape with larger upper horn, the Wolfgang’s basswood body provides excellent tonal response that is full and rich, along with overall warmth and sustain. The body is capped with a big-leaf maple top for enhanced note separation and clarity. The Wolfgang headstock is color matched to the headstock.
• DIRECT MOUNT EVH WOLFGANG USA HUMBUCKING PICKUPS Not all humbuckers are created equal. Direct mount EVH Wolfgang USA humbuckers with Alnico 2 magnets are hotter and harness Eddie’s signature authoritative, high-gain lead tone that captivated the world of rock ‘n’ roll in the ‘70s and ‘80s. These pickups deliver radiate rich harmonics, pristine highs and plenty of snarling mids.
• VERSATILE SWITCHING & CONTROL LAYOUT Explore this axe’s sonic palette with the three-way toggle switch, with reverse wiring. Position one engages the neck pickup for all your blistering solo needs. Position two engages both pickups, while position three engages the bridge pickup for robust rhythm riffing. The volume knobs houses a 500K EVH Bourns low friction pot with treble bleed circuit for seamless swells, while the tone control with 250K EVH Bourns high friction pot that will stay in place even if accidentally bumped.
• 2"-16" COMPOUND RADIUS EBONY FINGERBOARD WITH 22 VINTAGE STAINLESS STEEL FRETS AND PEARLOID BLOCK INLAYS The innovative 12"-16" compound radius design features a fingerboard that gradually flattens toward the heel from its smaller and more rounded profile at the nut. This makes for unparalleled comfortable chording and riffing near the nut and precise shred articulation and bending near the heel. Known for its clear and crisp attack, the ebony fingerboard’s tight wood grains also lend for a slick and fast-playing surface, while the vintage stainless steel frets are smaller for a classic feel. Lastly, pearloid block inlays add an elegant flash.
• EVH-BRANDED FLOYD ROSE LOCKING TREM, R2 LOCKING NUT AND EVH D-TUNA 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.

Specifications

General

• SERIES: Wolfgang® USA
• ORIENTATION: Left-Hand
• COLOR: 3-Color Sunburst
• COUNTRY OF ORIGIN: US

Neck HEADSTOCKE: VH® Wolfgang® NECK MATERIAL: Quartersawn Maple NECK FINISH: Hand-Rubbed Satin Urethane NECK SHAPE: Wolfgang® Backshape NECK CONSTRUCTION: Bolt-On with Graphite Reinforcement NECK THICKNES: S.805" at 3rd & .890" at 12th Fret FINGERBOARD RADIUS: 12"-16" Compound Radius (304.8 mm to 406.4 mm) FINGERBOARD MATERIAL: Ebony POSITION INLAYS: Mother of Pearl Block 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 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 MACHINE: SEVH®-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® USA Humbucking NECK PICKUP: Direct Mount EVH® Wolfgang® USA Humbucking PICKUP CONFIGURATION: HH CONTROLS: Volume (500K EVH® Bourns® Low Friction Pot) with Treble Bleed Circuit, Tone (250K EVH® Bourns® High Friction Pot) SWITCHING: EVH® Reverse-Style 3-Position Switching: Position 1: Neck Pickup, Position 2: Neck and Bridge, Position 3: Bridge