David Gilmour with a Charvel?

[jmh151]

Re: David Gilmour with a Charvel?

I know the guitar which David played on the picture...
Here is the story what happend:
In the eighties I worked as a tech in a german music shop called No1 Music Center.
We imported Charvel guitars directly from Wayne Charvel to sell it in Europe.
This was because one day Don Dokken came to our shop and sold his Charvel guitar to us, because he wanted the money for a ticket back in the US.
But this is another story...
The guitar above is an original US Charvel guitar with the serial number #0052.
We got it as a special gift (very beautiful) from Wayne it and therefore is was NOT for sale.
It was equipped with an EMG active pickup.
(We also imported EMG pickups, Stuart Spector basses, Steinberger guitars, and so on...)
One day in the mid of the eighties, David visited our shop cheked some guitars.
Then he saw that guitar, played it a while and wanted to buy it.
But... it was not for sale. Sorry David!
The happy end: David called Wayne by phone and asked him to make a new same fine guitar for No1, so that the boss from No1 (Bernhard) finally sold it to him.
Yeah, the guitar was gone away :-(
Later we received the new and also very fine Charvel guitar... but it was not the #0052
So I dont know what happend with that guitar. Probably sold to someone else.

Btw: I own a very special Charvel guitar from the same early eighties too... Till today I like these guitars most!

Best regards
Kai

The only problem with this story- as I've read history- was that Wayne Charvel never sold any Charvel Guitars. Grover Jackson bought Charvel when it was merely a parts manufacturer like Warmoth. Wayne Charvel was heavily in debt so Grover Jackson bought out Wayne's part of the buisness- and then started manufacturing complete Charvel guitars. There was confusion over the years, but that has been Grover Jackson's story. Perhaps someone from the Charvel guitar company- maybe Grover- sent over the guitar, but it wasn't Wayne Charvel.

Grover Jackson set the record straight when Wayne Charvel began building Wayne guitars in recent years, passing them off as "real" Charvels- so Grover had to come clean to tell everyone the legendarys original Charvels weren't made by Wayne Charvel, but Grover and his guys.

Again, it's based on interviews with Grover that I've read.

 

[DrNewcenstein]

Re: David Gilmour with a Charvel?

And no one refuses to sell David effing Gilmour a guitar. That'd be career suicide.

What guitar shop turns down the "David Gilmour shops here" opportunity?

You'd get buyers from everywhere, wanting to see and buy the guitars he touched.