Help with id

[bucketbrian45]

I sold my Warrior WRXT for 200 and the guy gave me this Charvel. It says Charvette by Charvel on the back plate. The guitar has a weird finish it seems to get black marks on it. Any info would be appreciated.


















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So we figured out its spray painted...

[VitaminG]

Did you touch that thing with your bare hands?

a better shot of the back of the body would help identify it. It could be a US neck on any kind of strat-style body. The Charvette neckplate indicates that it has been in pieces, so it could be just a replaced plate or a complete mutt.

[sixx_ gunner]

was he keeping that in a sewer or something? Damn that is nasty!

[bucketbrian45]

Did you touch that thing with your bare hands?

a better shot of the back of the body would help identify it. It could be a US neck on any kind of strat-style body. The Charvette neckplate indicates that it has been in pieces, so it could be just a replaced plate or a complete mutt.

Check it out now.
Found some interesting stuff.

[moku]

it doesn't look like a charvel body. there's no control configuration that looks like that; looks close to a fusion with that slanted neck pup cavity, but the horns and body contour are different (http://www.franx.at/Jackson/Charvel/Charvel.htm). mabe it's an after market body?
does it play well? it just needs a good bath.

[m2pmd70]

My first guess would've been (poorly) repainted & relogoed charvette.

[bucketbrian45]

Lol so I got info from the girl who sold the guitar to my friend. She said it was painted white by a friend of hers(I can scratch the paint off with a credit card to show the black underneath) and that it belonged to Steve Blaze from Lillian Axe but that has not been proved.

[Axewielder]

Wow, many layers of molestation to detangle here. The neck seems to have a stringlock type truss rod cover, so I'm guessing it was an early MIJ Model series with a refin/USA decal. Just a guess. The body kind of looks like a Tom Delonge strat with that 1H/pickguard combo, but with a trem route added? Maybe? One thing I'm certain of: UGH.

EDIT: Did the Charvettes ever have stringlocks? Dunno much about them.

[Grandturk]

Model 3 neck by the look of the dots... if a model series at all.

[VitaminG]

judging by the stamp in the neck pocket, I'm going to guess it's a Charvette Model 188 body.

[dg]

It could be one of the early, better quality Charvette necks, which I believe were MIJ rather than Korea. They had narrow dot spacing and some of them had JT-6 trems, so the stringlock could be correct. Like some of the others above, and going by the old "path of least resistance" theory which works a lot of the time on these things, I think it's just a repainted Charvette with a Best-Decals logo on the headstock.

[chrisolson]

The early Charvettes were pretty nice. I had one - on par with the toothpaste logo lower end Charvels of the day.

[Firebird V]

its a suzie model.

[bucketbrian45]

Last night I sanded down the white on the headstock and I find a Charvette logo under all the white. It has the same font as the jackson logo. The guitar plays great I plan to refinish it and get a single coil back in it.

[m2pmd70]

I called it! What do I win?