Charvel has expanded its Pro-Mod Series with a vast array of new San Dimas Style 2 guitars. Pedigreed shredders, Pro-Mod San Dimas guitars are packed with high-speed playability and innovative design elements that epitomize Charvel’s definitive combination of time-honored style and modern features, power and performance. Charvel San Dimas Style 1 The Southern Californian towns of Glendora and San Dimas, just 30 miles or so east of downtown Los Angeles, are inauspicious locations for an important shift in the electric guitar world.
Click to expand.It depends. A custom Charvel built with a 2 3/16 butt would fit a fender. However, unless you specify that even custom charvels default spec is 2 1/4 which does not fit a fender.Charvel customs are made entirely by and only by original Charvel employees that date back to the gelndora (San dimas) shop.Charvel is owned and distributed by fender. That's as far as the 'union' between the two goes.Yes. Charvels shop is actually almost in the center of the fender plant However, they exclusive to the Charvel floor space. No tool or employee crossover.
It's evident in the final results. The closest thing you find from fender that matches the detail of a custom Charvel. Is a fender masterbuilt. Historyedit1970seditHaving worked at Fender for three years in the early 1970s, Wayne Charvel originally started 'Charvel's Guitar Repair' in 1974 to refinish and repair out-of-warranty Fender instruments. The shop earned a solid reputation among performing artists for its repair work, custom finishes, and upgraded parts manufacturing.
When Asian companies began copying Charvel's parts and selling them at a discount, Wayne decided to begin building complete guitars. Charvel guitars were originally constructed from wood components outsourced to Boogie and Schecter bodies, and various Charvel and aftermarket hardware.1 Wayne Charvel sold the company to Grover Jackson in 1978, and ceased all working associations with the brand name from that point forward.After purchasing the company, Grover Jackson tooled to produce guitar bodies, which were sold to Mighty Mite and Dimarzio. The proceeds were used to fund an expansion into crafting necks. During this time BC Rich, SD Curlee, and Music Man approached Charvel with prospects of contract manufacturing of various wood parts.
The income from these sales provided the Charvel shop with additional tooling and experience that would give Grover the footing required to grow the Charvel brand into a market contender.Beginning in the late 1970s, Charvel popularized custom revamps of the Fender Stratocaster design - often consisting of a Strat-shaped body with a single humbucking pickup and Fender style tremolo bridge systems. This modernized Stratocaster configuration (commonly referred to as the superstrat) was particularly well suited to the heavy metal style of music that was very popular at the time. Charvel guitars became renowned for its use of creative graphics, unfinished maple necks, and various innovative appointments.1980seditIn 1980, Grover Jackson was introduced to Randy Rhoads, who had recently secured the job of guitarist for Ozzy Osbourne's new band. They worked together to develop a guitar to complement the polka-dotted Flying V built for Randy by Karl Sandoval. The initial prototype was not angular enough for Randy, but the second design resulted in a shape that Randy referred to as the Concorde. Grover was concerned that the radically styled, neck-through guitar was too different from Charvel's familiar 'Superstrat' theme, so he decided to label the instrument with his own name on the headstock in case the design proved unpopular.
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Contrary to Grover's concerns, the visual impact of this guitar would spawn the 'Rhoads Model' that would soon become iconic in the industry, and served as the impetus that inspired Grover to found Jackson Guitars.Charvel (and Jackson) guitars continued to be manufactured at the Gladstone Street shop in the city of Glendora, California until 1986. In 1986, the manufacturing facilities were relocated to Ontario, California, and the production of U.S.-built guitars carrying the Charvel name ceased shortly thereafter.The success of Charvel in the 1980s led to Grover's planning to mass-produce popular configurations in Asia.
Whereas each Charvel guitar produced in California was essentially a hand built, custom instrument, the Japanese assembly line versions that appeared in 1986 would be categorized into model numbers. Grover eventually sold Charvel/Jackson to the Japanese manufacturer IMC (International Music Corporation) in 1989, and Charvel guitars were produced exclusively in Japan from 1986 to 1991.2The Japanese made Charvels that appeared in 1986 could be easily identified from the San Dimas instruments by several distinct differences:Neck plates circa 1982-1986 stamped 'San Dimas, CA'3 (then briefly 'Ontario, CA') were changed to a plate that read 'Ft.
Worth, TX', the location of IMC's U.S. This was confusing to many consumers, as all guitars with the 'Ft. Worth' neck plate were made in Japan, without exception.4The gold logo labeled 'Charvel - Made in USA' that was affixed to the headstock of the San Dimas era (U.S. Made) instruments was changed to a white logo that read 'Charvel - By Jackson/Charvel'.4The unfinished maple bolt-on neck that was a hallmark of the U.S. Instruments was replaced by a Japanese neck with a clear satin finish.2002 - The rebirth of CharveleditCharvel/Jackson was bought by Fender in 2002, and the Charvel brand entered a renaissance, with several U.S. Made 'San Dimas' models—so-named in order to recapture the original association of the Charvel name with high-quality, American made professional guitars.Charvel presently offers several series of guitars, including both lower-priced Japanese and boutique-priced American made instruments, and operates a full-service custom shop.5 Perhaps the most notable product of Charvel's present custom shop is the Eddie Van Halen signature model - a short run of which are actually paint stenciled by Eddie himself.
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