 Eddie Van Halen, proud father of Wolfgang (the guitar silly) Eddie Van Halen:
“I am constantly fussing with stuff, tone chasing, closing my eyes and just playing a guitar and the feel of it and this and that. The new EVH Wolfgang Guitar is a culmination of about thirty five years or more.”
“Every thing that I have destroyed, everything that I have stumbled on to is in this guitar. It is everything I know, and have experienced in my journey to where we are now.”
“I have never used or owned any distortion pedal. Nothing. I always used the guitar, cable, straight to the amp.”
“But a lot of people, untill they actually play my guitar through one of my amps, then they go ‘Holy Shit!’.”
 Custom designed EVH Floyd Rose bridge “If you have a great sounding guitar, you know, a quality instrument and of course a good amp and you know how to talk or make the guitar talk ,that’s the key. To me anything you put between that deviates, takes away from the pure tone. But it starts with the guitar and knowing what you want it to sound like and feel like.”
“What we did with the new Wolfgang Guitar was… the only similarity and even that has changed a bit… the only thing that is the same is the body shape. That’s it.”
“Every little damn thing, the way the neck bolts on, the frets, the tuning pegs, the binding, the pickups, the tail piece, the pots, even cavities in it to help the wood breath so it ages better. Even the jack, every little thing.”
“The basics of the guitar to the pain staking aesthetics, the binding and everything else, we left no stone unturned. We re-did everything on this guitar. The only similarity to the previous Wolfgang Guitar is the body style.”
 "Eruption" played on an EVH Wolfgang Guitar prototype in 2007. “I don’t let anything out unless I’ve dragged it around the block, meaning take it on tour and just beat the living shit out of it.”
“The guitar has stainless steel frets. I don’t know what other people think about them but they just kick ass. No flat spots, they don’t wear out. If anyone thinks it takes away from the tone they are crazy. It has nothing to do with tone. If it’s a bogus guitar it doesn’t matter what kind of frets you put in it.”
“Stainless steel frets was a major break through because for the amount of playing I do and bending I would have to get it refretted every couple of months. These frets, the whole tour.”
“You don’t want to hop out on the track with a wheel bearing that’s going to go bad. I’m doing 275 mph on stage and I don’t want this wheel bearing going out.”
“Starting from scratch alleviated a lot of the problems which gave me the confidence to take it on tour. They were actually very minor tweaks on the road because of all the preparation that we did.”
 EVH Wolfgang in striking black finish “The Wolfgang Guitar better outlive me. Period. My name, my son’s name is on it. It better last forever , like a Stradivarius. It is not a fad.”
“It is thirty five or forty years of my knowledge of what makes a sweet, sexy, toney, quality, indestructible instrument. And I am very proud of it.”
“This guitar is the culmination of years and years of trial and error. a lot of errors but a lot of breakthroughs.”
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