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What a difference a week makes huh? Brand new 2009 Charvel polar white So Cal model last Thursday.
Sounds great, plays nice. Don't forget to keep scrollling down
Then I saw some pictures of the "tortured" series Custom Shop Charvels and started thinking. I had some beat up old gold Grovers. I know old Charvels didn't have Grovers but they almost all had gold tuners. I had some brass hardware. I had an old Floyd in chrome. So yeah, the hardware doesn't match. Just like it never did in 1982-1985. This is what all our Charvels looked like. The only Floyds we could get were chrome.
I also wanted to relic the body. A guy I know does cool, amateur relic jobs on strats. He had a new belt sander. What the heck? I explained that old Charvels did not wear like vintage Fenders and I didn't want the typical forearm wear like you see on all the relic strats. Well he grabbed my body and was going to take some paint off the edge on the forearm area. First thing he's ever done with the new belt sander. So he slowly brings it down toward the belt sander....... and then it touches the belt sander. ZING ZING ZING zing zing! The belt sander had grabbed the body and and took the paint down to the wood in three spots about an inch apart right on the forearm cut. Then it made two other weird scuffs above where the bridge pickup would be. OK then buddy..... THANKS.
So I took the guitar home and spent a ton of time trying to make it look passable and salvageable. So yeah, I ended up with the typical Fender relic style forearm wear but compared to what I started with it looks ok. I actually really dig it now. George Lynch style push pull pot to switch pickups. Duncan Custom/59 Alnico 5 hybrid I modded in the bridge and Duncan SSL-5 in the neck.
Sounds great, plays nice. Don't forget to keep scrollling down
Then I saw some pictures of the "tortured" series Custom Shop Charvels and started thinking. I had some beat up old gold Grovers. I know old Charvels didn't have Grovers but they almost all had gold tuners. I had some brass hardware. I had an old Floyd in chrome. So yeah, the hardware doesn't match. Just like it never did in 1982-1985. This is what all our Charvels looked like. The only Floyds we could get were chrome.
I also wanted to relic the body. A guy I know does cool, amateur relic jobs on strats. He had a new belt sander. What the heck? I explained that old Charvels did not wear like vintage Fenders and I didn't want the typical forearm wear like you see on all the relic strats. Well he grabbed my body and was going to take some paint off the edge on the forearm area. First thing he's ever done with the new belt sander. So he slowly brings it down toward the belt sander....... and then it touches the belt sander. ZING ZING ZING zing zing! The belt sander had grabbed the body and and took the paint down to the wood in three spots about an inch apart right on the forearm cut. Then it made two other weird scuffs above where the bridge pickup would be. OK then buddy..... THANKS.
So I took the guitar home and spent a ton of time trying to make it look passable and salvageable. So yeah, I ended up with the typical Fender relic style forearm wear but compared to what I started with it looks ok. I actually really dig it now. George Lynch style push pull pot to switch pickups. Duncan Custom/59 Alnico 5 hybrid I modded in the bridge and Duncan SSL-5 in the neck.
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