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This guitar was ordered in 1982 by my best friend in high school. When he got it ,it prompted me to order my own,(#2089,pointy).
In 1986 my friend moved to Hollywood where I lived and needed money and was headed in a jazz direction so I bought the guitar from him. Shortly after buying it I scored a gig and thought there was no way I could be taken seriously with the EVH paintjob, so I commenced to decorating the guitar with dripped on nail polish that was kindly donated by some local Hollywood strippers. We went to town on it. This is also a time period where Yngwie and Vai were really establishing the new standards, so of course I routed under the trem and scalloped the neck! [img]images/icons/tongue.gif[/img]
So many years later I had retired the guitar from active duty and one day dug it out and sanded it down to the wood...then it sat...and then I sold it for 200 bucks! i bought it back a few months later...same condition, same price.
Then I become friendly with Metalcop and he hounds me to sell it to him and eventually gets me to give in because of his love of Charvels. He then sent it off to GMW to be restored. Matching the paint colours to some paint left in the cavities and the stripe pattern to old pics.
Some of you may know the story from when he was getting the restoration happening..well all I can say is GMW did a magnificent job restoring this to original, so good that I had to buy it back yet again!! It was really cool to get it back and for Metalcop to let it go after all he put into it. And he didn't hold me ransom that badly [img]graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]
The original owner was blown away too, he said,"Now just don't wreck it again!"
Here are some pics...
now...
when I had it thru the 80s-90s...
and when I sold it to Metalcop...
In 1986 my friend moved to Hollywood where I lived and needed money and was headed in a jazz direction so I bought the guitar from him. Shortly after buying it I scored a gig and thought there was no way I could be taken seriously with the EVH paintjob, so I commenced to decorating the guitar with dripped on nail polish that was kindly donated by some local Hollywood strippers. We went to town on it. This is also a time period where Yngwie and Vai were really establishing the new standards, so of course I routed under the trem and scalloped the neck! [img]images/icons/tongue.gif[/img]
So many years later I had retired the guitar from active duty and one day dug it out and sanded it down to the wood...then it sat...and then I sold it for 200 bucks! i bought it back a few months later...same condition, same price.
Then I become friendly with Metalcop and he hounds me to sell it to him and eventually gets me to give in because of his love of Charvels. He then sent it off to GMW to be restored. Matching the paint colours to some paint left in the cavities and the stripe pattern to old pics.
Some of you may know the story from when he was getting the restoration happening..well all I can say is GMW did a magnificent job restoring this to original, so good that I had to buy it back yet again!! It was really cool to get it back and for Metalcop to let it go after all he put into it. And he didn't hold me ransom that badly [img]graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]
The original owner was blown away too, he said,"Now just don't wreck it again!"
Here are some pics...
now...
when I had it thru the 80s-90s...
and when I sold it to Metalcop...
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