EVH Limited Edition Wolfgang Special Sassafras: A mean new rock machine!
EVH has just announced a Limited Edition Wolfgang Special in Satin Black with a sassafras body and a very nice arched top, taking a modern guitar design in a new direction.
EVH Limited Edition Wolfgang Special Sassafras
The Wolfgang Special is an archtop version of one of EVH’s best-known designs, most recently seen at NAMM in a model featuring an ebony neck and Ice Blue Metallic finish. This new model uses a softer tone wood for the arched top and body, namely sassafras. That puts a new spin on this design, with the wood grain texture showing through the finish. Ace!
Sassafras supposedly has a more “shimmery highs, creamy mids and lows and excellent note articulation”, according to the EVH site. I have never tried it myself and I’d be interested to see what players report when they start shipping and reviews hit our screens.
EVH Limited Edition Wolfgang Special Sassafras · Source: EVH
Baked Maple
Another interesting aspect of this model is the graphite-reinforced bolt-on quarter sawn baked maple Wolfgang neck with graphite reinforcement rods to add stiffness. It has a modern, playable 12”-16” compound radius with a baked maple fingerboard loaded with 22 jumbo frets and black dot inlays. I have a few Wolfgang models and they all have great necks. The profile is super comfortable and they feel great in your hand.
The EVH Wolfgang Alnico 2 humbuckers are both mounted directly to the body and wired via a three-way switch into a single volume and tone control. EVH have used 500K EVH Bourns low-friction pot and treble bleed circuit here, along with a tone control with 250K EVH Bourns high friction pot. That should make for easy, fast volume swells and a tone control that resists accidental changes.
D-Tuna · Source: EVH
D-Tuna
Another quality feature is the decked Floyd Rose locking trem that should provide great tonal transfer and stability. Plus you have the EVH D-Tuna that lets you drop that low E down to a D at the flick of a switch, handy for quick re-tuning on the fly.
A good-looking new Wolfgang Special from EVH, this one – especially with all that blacked out hardware melding with the satin black finish.
RRP – USD 1399
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