Routing a San Dimas Reissue for Floyd?

[BYeh1]

Guitar store nearby has a beautiful 2005 Charvel 1H Reissue for sale, perfect in every way except with a NOS brass tremolo. Since I'm a diehard Floyd user, I'm thinking about buying it and re-routing the body for OFR and neck with locking nut.

Does anyone have opinions on how difficult/easy/costly/advisable this is?

If not fixable without spending a fortune, I'd just as soon pass on this and wait for the right axe to show up. I'd appreciate any intros to an experienced Charvel/Floyd luthier in Northern California if anyone knows one.

[rjohnstone]

Between the cost of the Floyd and the route job, you'll be looking at close to $400. Price for the route varies, but $150 to $200 for a QUALITY job is about average here. That should include finish work for the inside of the route.

[shreddermon]

+1. You might get away with less for the route but, for a pro job, be willing to pay a little extra like rj says.

I actually had this done on one of the Retro Bullseye stratheads. The Floyd routing came out very good, but the set-up he did sucked. (For a non-recessed Floyd, the guitar will need to be set-up differently than before, inc. shimming the neck.) I ended up bringing it to an excellent local luthier for a redo on the set-up, and it was a flat-out smoking player when he was done.

[neilli]

Personally, given the number of the SD series guitars there are on ebay and the prices they get, I wouldn't bother modding one - just wait for one with the right specs to appear on the 'bay...

[dg]

+1

A floyded one is bound to pop up soon for less than the cost of this one + the mod.

[shreddermon]

True, dat.

[dg]

Couple of blems, but $800 BIN:

http://cgi.ebay.com/Charvel-San-Dimas-2005-Dtuna-and-More_W0QQitemZ170150832785QQihZ007QQcategoryZ33044QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

[quiksilver]

Alternately, you could probably stay in tune pretty well with a GraphTech nut and locking tuners. I LOVE Floyds, but after getting a couple of Strats with that setup, I was surprised to find that they stayed in tune really well.

[BYeh1]

Appreciate the quick feedback, think the hassle and $400 is more time and money than I wanna spend, will sit tight until the right baby shows up.

BTW, the link to the candy blue ebay Charvie says the "headstock is a bit bubbled", not sure what tha means, can someone translate that for me?

[dg]

The clearcoat is probably lifting. Unfortunately, lots of them have this problem, usually along the bottom edge of the headstock.

[ADR]

Here is a prime example of lifting. . . . . .

You mean like this?

[Bengal65]

Yep, there's one of them. Mike Learn had a post response awhile back on the reason for this. It's caused by the different catalyst paints the shop uses. They have been working on correcting the problem.

[Jackson/Charvelfan]

Hi BYeh1,
Dont by the guitar unless it is the way you want it.
I have seen lifting on a number of CS Jackson and Charvels in the last year. I hope they fix this soon. It is usualy on the pointy panted headstocks. I have not seen any painted strat heads with this problem.

[ADR]

Problem solved

Problem solved, here's what it looks like now (notice its the smaller Strat Head sized logo.. .yeah baby)

[OUTLAW1969]

Problem solved, here's what it looks like now (notice its the smaller Strat Head sized logo.. .yeah baby)

VERY NICE JOB. Did Charvel "make it right" or did you have it done elsewhere? Looks even better with the strathead logo!