Eddie Van Halen will launch a new guitar for Fender next month.
The EVH Wolfgang electric guitar was roadtested by Van Halen after two years of development based on his 35-years of playing with guitars.Eddie had been playing this guitar on the Van Halen 2007/2008 tour.
“A guitar is a very personal extension of the person playing it,” Eddie says in a statement. “You have to be emotionally and spiritually connected to your instrument. I could have just stayed at home and built this guitar for myself. I do this because a lot of people ask if they can get what I use. Well, yes you can and what you get is identical to what I use. From the basics of the guitar to painstaking aspects like the binding and everything else, we re-did everything on this guitar.
“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,” said Eddie. “Everything that I’ve built, destroyed, stumbled onto, learned and experienced is in this guitar.”
Eddie’s first professional guitar was a homemade machine he called Frankenstein.
The EVH Wolfgang will be released in January.
