Resurrecting a Charvel

[J E C]

Re: Resurrecting a Charvel

I would use the color that it is as a base coat then paint it with red, yellow, blue, and green hand prints. Replace the bridge with a OFR in black, install new electronics with a 78 in the bridge and a P-rail or some thing like Full Shred in the neck. Use a super switch or a push pull on one or both of the pots to split the neck and ?. Refret neck with rather large SS frets and play the crap out of it!

 

[BloodRose]

Re: Resurrecting a Charvel

I would use the color that it is as a base coat then paint it with red, yellow, blue, and green hand prints. Replace the bridge with a OFR in black, install new electronics with a 78 in the bridge and a P-rail or some thing like Full Shred in the neck. Use a super switch or a push pull on one or both of the pots to split the neck and ?. Refret neck with rather large SS frets and play the crap out of it!

Very cool! Im sure the OP wants to build a JEC sig model!! haha
At first I was kinda Huh? on the hand prints, but I wish Id have done that when my kids were smaller and put thier prints on one.

 

[LazNovak]

Re: Resurrecting a Charvel

That's an old Dimarzio Al Di Meola in there now. It's a great pickup. I might just leave it and put a PAF Pro in the neck.

 

[Lake Placid Blues]

Re: Resurrecting a Charvel

Here's an old thread on the Al D pickups:

https://forum.seymourduncan.com/showthread.php?114396-Dimarzio-DP201-Al-DiMeola-Model%99-Neck

 

[LazNovak]

Re: Resurrecting a Charvel

Cool. It's a great pickup.

 

[Lake Placid Blues]

Re: Resurrecting a Charvel

You should know that the PAF Pro is higher output than either the neck or bridge Al D. If you want a DMz neck humbucker to match the bridge Al D you may need a to find a neck Al D or use an Airclassic neck. In internet research they say that the AL Ds are very unforgiving of mistakes but reward picking dynamics and good technique, and respond very well to volume and tone knob adjustments.

 

[Little Pigbacon]

Re: Resurrecting a Charvel

In internet research they say that the AL Ds are very unforgiving of mistakes but reward picking dynamics and good technique, and respond very well to volume and tone knob adjustments.

Imagine that.

 

[Aceman]

Re: Resurrecting a Charvel

That's an old Dimarzio Al Di Meola in there now. It's a great pickup. I might just leave it and put a PAF Pro in the neck.

Cool pickup. Find a cool place for it and put a Metal Shredder of some sort in there.

 

[LazNovak]

Re: Resurrecting a Charvel

Lake Placid Blues, thanks for the info. I'll keep that in mind.

I have an Air Zone and Air Norton in my Jackson soloist and it sounds killer through the JCM800.