New Charvel dealer program upcoming.

[sully]

Got some fun news from a friend who works at the Corona plant; they're starting three new budget minded production models, and apparently they'll be made on the main Fender assembly line.

oy. there goes the fretwork.

sully

[sully]

Why not just buy 2 year old pointy "Stock"? That way your getting
older OFR's... quality is great...and the price most of the time is around
$1900 Certainly better than spending say $1700 or more for this newer
"better moustrap? Id spend my $'s on 05' pointy's still hanging in dealers
showrooms. Most likely a level above these new ones in hardware certainly.

hell, you can find minty used pointies for 900 bucks on the bay.

sully

[CharvelRocker]

oy. there goes the fretwork.

sully

Whats wrong with Fender USA fretwork out of interest?

[Budman68]

Both involve forged steal.

boy, there's a freudian slip, how true!!!

[Flatpicker]

If they did a MIM Charvel for 5-600. I'd be there.
I'd get a white one and mod the hell out of it.

[danastas]

My Vintage Hot Rod Fender Strat sold at the same price point with good electronics (same as the Custom line). So it can be done.

Then again I bought it for less than $1200 because it was sold as blem (they screwed up the logo badly) so there may be defects.

It's still a great guitar for the price. I found that it's as good as any of the Custom Time Machines I've owned, with better specs (i.e. jumbo frets).

[fuel0707]

A USA strat-head Charvel with a good Floyd for an MSRP of $1599 is VERY interesting to me, especially in the second half of '08.

I hope it happens and the guitars are of very good quality. I'd love to finally own and play something with Charvel on the headstock.

[Rich#6]

To me it looks like fender is discontinuing the fender american deluxe quilt models (according to MF) and I bet they are replacing it with the charvel line. I think they can out with those to compete with charvels anyway. Those models with quilt tops were only $1430. Move the jack, add jumbo frets, and a compound radius fretboard and it's close.

[titan7]

Keeping my fingers crossed this happens. I just can't fork out $2500+ for a US Charvel, they are nice, but it's a bolt on neck, with one pup. Come on, I like them but that's a 1200-1500 guitar tops.

[danastas]

It really depends on craftsmanship, IMO. Suhr is selling guitars just like that for a lot more, so are many other builders. There's a market out there if the build quality is top notch.

[titan7]

Well, I really hope this happens, I would love a US Charvel with a strat head, to go with my imports.