charvel from fort worth tx???

[shmedly]

a friend of mine brought a charvel over, the neckplate says charvel by jackson/charvel and a p.o. box from fort worth texas....... serial # 224614 but researching serial numbers on this site doesnt show them ever being made in texas. does anybody know anything about this?

[shreddermon]

Import. Made in Japan.

[Alvin_Wilson]

Great guitars, BTW!

Alvin

[shmedly]

he is convinced it is made in usa, but after reading these forums i think you guys know your stuff. so i tend to believe you are correct shreddermon.

[Bengal65]

he is convinced it is made in usa, but after reading these forums i think you guys know your stuff. so i tend to believe you are correct shreddermon.

Indeed he is!

[jcmktgguy]

Charvel NEVER made any guitars in Ft. Worth. Shreddermon is correct - it's Made in Japan.

[RacerX]

Hey newbie, it's a common mistake...Jackson was owned by a company that had HQ in Texas at the time....for some reason they made a decision to put those neckplates on there....it's definitely a Japanese guitar but that doesn't mean it sucks. Get us a pic and we'll fully ID it!

[Junior]

At another forum, a member there swore up and down he had friend who use to work at the FT. Worth factory. Took a tour and everything.

[rjohnstone]

I'll take John's word over anyone else's regarding this matter.
If he says it didn't happen... it didn't happen.

[RacerX]

At another forum, a member there swore up and down he had friend who use to work at the FT. Worth factory. Took a tour and everything.

There wasn't a factory there per se; but they did have some sort of set-up room there. I had heard that some assembly or modding (of the Jap guitars) went on there.

A former JCFer here, Black Mariah, used to work at Ft. Worth there.

So your buddy probably did take a tour, jabez....but I reiterate....any Charvels with the Fort Worth neckplate were manufactured at the Japanese factory.

[jcmktgguy]

There's another Jackson/Charvel forum?????

[sully]

oy. one's more than enough!

[Budman68]

That is correct what ron is saying though, right? Weren't the Model 5a's (single hum neckthroughs) made into Model 5FX's at the texas facility?

[VitaminG]

That is correct what ron is saying though, right? Weren't the Model 5a's (single hum neckthroughs) made into Model 5FX's at the texas facility?

that's the word

QC was carried out in Texas before the Japanese axes were shipped to dealers. They had the tools there to mod the 5As into 5FXs

[Budman68]

Thanks, G, I knew I wasn't dreaming that. So maybe then "jabezcruz" isn't so far off in his statement? John, can you confirm this????