Played a Charvel today!!

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it was awesome!

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all mahogany with Seymour Duncan Blackouts. The neck had this really cool kind of unfinished feel and the shape wasn't your usual super slim shred neck. I loved it! It rocked hard!

I had never played one. :shrug: I really dug it.
 
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i have wanted to try one of those new charvels for awhile. They have a star shaped one in the same series which looks mint
 
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Those Charvels are pretty cool. There's a shop by me that has a few and they were really cool. I liked the Soloists more though :D
 
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no i know that...

usually the fanboys insist that unless it's a super strat, it's not a "real" charvel, whatever that means.... totally neglecting the fact that charvel is just a brand name.


back on topic though, I haven't played any of the desolation models, but the re-release of the stars certainly did ignite a bad case of GAS. Love the San Dimas/So Cal and wildcard guitars though...they play like greased butter and sound absolutely fantastic.
 
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CTN said:
back on topic though, I haven't played any of the desolation models, but the re-release of the stars certainly did ignite a bad case of GAS. Love the San Dimas/So Cal and wildcard guitars though...they play like greased butter and sound absolutely fantastic.
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that MIJ San Dimas Pro Mod I picked up a few weeks ago it awesome. as someone that confesses to tweaking just about every guitar, that one needed very minimal tweakage...seriously, hardly any. very pleased with it. the only thing I expect to do is throw a p/p pot on the '59n and that's just a matter of getting a high quality pot in the 3/8" width. looking forward to when they finally release the MIM version in a few weeks.
 
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I know there's alot of research I can do on my own, but can anyone give me the bullet points on how Charvel is related to Jackson?
 
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You wanna talk real deal Charvel, you fellas ought to see this sick 1-off custom shop job I just walked in with tonight. Ferrari Red, red pickups, red bowling ball binding on the ebony fretboard, black hardware... Holy crap.

It's not mine. I belongs to the other guitarist in my band. I'll be taking some glamor shots and listing it for him in the next day or so... Keep an eye out for that one.
 
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astrozombie said:
I know there's alot of research I can do on my own, but can anyone give me the bullet points on how Charvel is related to Jackson?
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pretty much sister companies. both owned by Fender these days. was there something more specific? I mean, much more than that and it's just opinion or a preference. for my perspective, it's sorta like the Jacksons are the higher end and Charvels are the hot-rods, but any gap between them is very slim. for example, it's not as far apart as LTD is to ESP or Epiphone is to Gibson when it comes to the quality of the materials and craftsmanship. I have a USA-made Jackson and two imported Charvels (one from the 80s and one from the 10s) and they are all fine guitars.
 
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I guess the only true charvels are the ones wayne made back in the day before he sold the company. In addition to that his current wayne guitars would be the closest you can get to the original usa stuff.
 
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darthphineas said:
pretty much sister companies. both owned by Fender these days. was there something more specific? I mean, much more than that and it's just opinion or a preference. for my perspective, it's sorta like the Jacksons are the higher end and Charvels are the hot-rods, but any gap between them is very slim. for example, it's not as far apart as LTD is to ESP or Epiphone is to Gibson when it comes to the quality of the materials and craftsmanship. I have a USA-made Jackson and two imported Charvels (one from the 80s and one from the 10s) and they are all fine guitars.
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That's really not the relationship between those two brands at all.

They have both been acquired by FMIC but they do not occupy different tiers with regard to quality, craftsmanship, or price.

Charvel guitars was started by Wayne Charvel during the late 70s or early 80s as a boutique brand making custom shop super Strats out of San Dimas, California. Their clients were a lot of notable famous players (shredders, primarily) during that time. They still operate in that capacity today.

Jackson was started by Grover Jackson around the same time, doing about the same thing, albeit with more neck - through construction and less Strat like body shapes.

Someone more versed in the history of these brands can give more detail, but they were developed as two different brands making extremely high end guitars, and over the years have incorporated less expensive import models into their lineups as well.

Their is no high end / budget relationship between the two bands whatsoever today and you can easily spend thousands of dollars on a single example of either brand.
 
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Damn, that guitar looks nice with its blue flame and inlays. If I owned it, I'd name it "Ocean", cause it looks like it was plucked from an underwater paradise.
 
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Got any more pics of that guitar, Agile? I can see it's LP shaped but not really the fine details.
 
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Back in the day, Charvel were the hot rodded bolt on neck guitars, Jackson was neck thru. Then, as now, came the Charvel
Import line that blurred the lines between the 2
 
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astrozombie said:
I know there's alot of research I can do on my own, but can anyone give me the bullet points on how Charvel is related to Jackson?
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They are and have always been the exact same company, using the same machines, templates, and workers in the same rooms of the same buildings, Jackson /Charvel Musical Instruments.

sosomething said:
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Charvel guitars was started by Wayne Charvel during the late 70s or early 80s as a boutique brand making custom shop super Strats out of San Dimas, California. Their clients were a lot of notable famous players (shredders, primarily) during that time. They still operate in that capacity today.

Jackson was started by Grover Jackson around the same time, doing about the same thing, albeit with more neck - through construction and less Strat like body shapes.

Someone more versed in the history of these brands can give more detail, but they were developed as two different brands making extremely high end guitars, and over the years have incorporated less expensive import models into their lineups as well.
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This is not exactly correct...

Charvel was a manufacturer of replacement parts first and foremost, only later did they eventuallly start offering pre-assembled instruments (The Fabled "Pre-Pros")

Grover Jackson was an employee of Wayne Charvel that eventually purchased the company. At some point in time Randy Rhoads approached him about his "concorde" design (which we know today as the Randy Rhoads model)

The reason for the 2 names is that when the Randy Rhoads model was designed, Grover Jackson felt it prudent to not risk the Charvel brand`s good reputation on such a "wild" instrument, and therefore created the Jackson brand. Had that not been done, Charvel would be known for classic superstrats AND "metal" machines.

So when you really want to get anal about it, the reality is that Jackson is the sub-brand and Charvel is the parent company. ;)
 
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Zerberus said:
They are and have always been the exact same company, using the same machines, templates, and workers in the same rooms of the same buildings, Jackson /Charvel Musical Instruments.



This is not exactly correct...

Charvel was a manufacturer of replacement parts first and foremost, only later did they eventuallly start offering pre-assembled instruments (The Fabled "Pre-Pros")

Grover Jackson was an employee of Wayne Charvel that eventually purchased the company. At some point in time Randy Rhoads approached him about his "concorde" design (which we know today as the Randy Rhoads model)

The reason for the 2 names is that when the Randy Rhoads model was designed, Grover Jackson felt it prudent to not risk the Charvel brand`s good reputation on such a "wild" instrument, and therefore created the Jackson brand. Had that not been done, Charvel would be known for classic superstrats AND "metal" machines.

So when you really want to get anal about it, the reality is that Jackson is the sub-brand and Charvel is the parent company. ;)
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Thank you, Zerb! I knew someone who knew the history of those brands would chime in. My whole point was just to illustrate that Charvel isn't anybody's "Epiphone."
 
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sosomething said:
Thank you, Zerb! I knew someone who knew the history of those brands would chime in. My whole point was just to illustrate that Charvel isn't anybody's "Epiphone."
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For awhile it was used that way though. In 86 the US made Charvels were discontinued and the Charvel name was used for one of Jacksons import lines. Wasnt until the mid to late 90's that USA Charvels were produced again.
 
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