Hattrick. new strats!

[Orpheo]

Allright... let's start at the very beginning. My first guitar was a Charvel 650XL in an ugly shade of green, but I loved the pearl sharktooth inlay, the dense rosewood fingerboard and the feel of the guitar. I sold it. Stupid me.

In the late 1970s EvH bought a boogie body body and neck by Wayne Charvel. It was to be an amazing combination of hard ash and maple.

In the late 1980s, George Lynch used a guitar with a maple neck, ebony fretboard and a maple top, build by ESP, with a floyd rose.

Look at what I bought and got.

 

[Orpheo]

Let me start with the first one. My new/old Charvel Model 6. It's pink. I know. I love it. It plays like a dream, sounds ok. The pickups just stink. I am saving up for 3 cream pickups. a jb/fullshred hybrid in cream plus 2 hotter pickups in cream. not sure which one, but cream to open up the color.

Here are some more pics.

 

[Orpheo]

The other one is a very old warmoth with very old seymour duncan pickups. I was able to date the youngest part at 1994. I think that the screaming demon is older than that, as well as the A2Pro singlecoil...

It's been played for years, it's a true beater but she stays in tune very well and sounds so resonant. I completely understand the mojo of the Screaming Demon now. Even more than before!!











The only thing not 'original' is that trem arm.

 

[Orpheo]

Allright, the third one. That's a special puppy. It's been build in Japan, by the guys who build for the ESP Customshop. This body and the neck weren't really up to snuff for some unclear reason, so they passed it off. A friend of mine bought a gazillion necks and bodies and made guitars for himself. I nagged him for years to flip this pink axe, and he finally did.

The neck is a huge baseball bat with an enormous ebony slab. Compound radius. The body is quilt maple on I believe maple (unfigured, super lightweight). It doesn't sound or feel like alder (it's hard as hell!). But the tone is enormous. It's a JB in the bridge plus a jb Jr in the neck and the duckbucker in the middle. It's a superversatile setup. quod non. It can do two things and two things only: scream and howl. Don't expect quacky tones or cleaner funky tones. No sir. Just squeel and crunch. It's really a turn-off and turn-on at the same time. It does that Steel Panther-thing perfectly as well as that Warren Demartini, George Lynch, and even some Andy Timmons.

I am attributing the lack of versatility on two things. The pot. It's for now a 250k pot and I hate 250k. I need that pot to be 500. The bridge. It fits in an original floyd rose route on OFR studs but this is a mediocre bridge at best. I believe that a better bridge would make a world of difference. I want to adjust the neck pocket a bit more to get the action as low as possible, too, even though this one plays better than most guitars in the stores.

 

[DangerousR6]

Love the Charvel... :headbang1:

 

[swarfrat]

Does anyone have Orph's personal contact info? I think his account has been hacked.

 

[DangerousR6]

Does anyone have Orph's personal contact info? I think his account has been hacked.

:laughing11:

 

[MikeW]

Love the Charvel... :headbang1:

Yeah. What a find that one is. Great stuff. I've found the same thing about my Charvel Model 2. Overall the guitar is great, but the pickup is just... meh. I love playing it, but I'm thinking about replacing the original Jackson with a Dimarzio Evo 2 to bring out the growl in it.

 

[elgravos]

Are 80s shredders your new fix now that the Warmoth LPs are gone?

I agree that those Jackson pickups that came on 80s Charvels were absolutely awful.  Funny thing, I had installed an evo on my Charvel model 2 which I sold a few years back to a guy who used to lurk on the forum.  I left the evo in the guitar and threw in the old Jackson pickup as well and the first thing he did was put that horrible thing back in the guitar.  Go figure, takes all sorts.  I guess I should have kept the evo.

 

[Orpheo]

Are 80s shredders your new fix now that the Warmoth LPs are gone?

I agree that those Jackson pickups that came on 80s Charvels were absolutely awful.  Funny thing, I had installed an evo on my Charvel model 2 which I sold a few years back to a guy who used to lurk on the forum.  I left the evo in the guitar and threw in the old Jackson pickup as well and the first thing he did was put that horrible thing back in the guitar.  Go figure, takes all sorts.  I guess I should have kept the evo.

actually, I always had a thing for these kind of guitars

I'm gonna put some new pickups in the charvel and in my new jackson as well. can't wait!