2009 Charvel USA Production Guitars

[srommes]

I love the series, but the two things I'd like to see are:
1) White as a base color for a period of time
2) Please either put a Tele headstock on the SD2 or change it to a different body style. I do not care for the Strat headstock on the Tele body at all.

[Rich#6]

I would love to see purple with zebra pups or white with cream pups.

[gtrbuyer]

Jake models are supposedly coming in 2009 ......

that would be cool..I would love to have a blueburst!

[joelayres]

Jake models are supposedly coming in 2009 ......

[6string40]

As for the Jake issue, his was a 3-bolt Fender, not a Charvel. As well, it had a matching headstock and an ebony board as well as a hardtail non-trem bridge.

A white SoCal, SD1, and SD2 would in no way be a "Jake" model.

It would not even be an Adrian Smith model - his didn't have maple boards.

I wasn't implying that a white So Cal would be a Jake replica, I was just pointing out they may shy away from using white in production models for marketing purposes of a Jake model. Maybe it wasn't a good point, but that's what I meant...

[Grandturk]

I hope they do a single cutaway, mahagony body, set neck with a maple top and rosewood fingerboard... maybe in gold or sunburst... mmmm, thats what says Charvel to me.

[Newc]

Pssst .. it was rosewood ..

Which makes it even more different than a white SoCal, right?

[skorb]

Where were you a few years ago when the Standard USA production series came out? They are out there. They offered the Strat and Star bodies with choice of maple, rosewood or ebony boards, choice of V-trem or Floyd, choice of H, H/H, H/S or H/S/S pup configurations.

I was not saying I'm dying for pointies there, I was just saying OK if they did that.

I have a model 2 already, so my rw/pointy jones has long been met.

I meant rw would be neat with the strathead on a white two hum SD.

[toejam]

rosewood boards = yes 100% (a white two hum SD with rw board would be insane)

pointy hs = ok

Where were you a few years ago when the Standard USA production series came out? They are out there. They offered the Strat and Star bodies with choice of maple, rosewood or ebony boards, choice of V-trem or Floyd, choice of H, H/H, H/S or H/S/S pup configurations.

[~K~]

As for the Jake issue, his was a 3-bolt Fender, not a Charvel. As well, it had a matching headstock and an ebony board as well as a hardtail non-trem bridge.

A white SoCal, SD1, and SD2 would in no way be a "Jake" model.

It would not even be an Adrian Smith model - his didn't have maple boards.

Pssst .. it was rosewood ..

[slash]

Ok ... with that definition of top-loaded, what I'd really like is a no-pickguard HSS or HS.

That would be rear loaded

[10secondLX]

+1 on the hardtail, but I would prefer it on a strat body.

+2

I'd buy one in a second.

[DHardmanJr]

Top-loaded means pickguarded. The SoCal is routed to accommodate h-s-h, so changing it to h-s-s or h-s is up to the individual.

Ok ... with that definition of top-loaded, what I'd really like is a no-pickguard HSS or HS.

[Newc]

As for the Jake issue, his was a 3-bolt Fender, not a Charvel. As well, it had a matching headstock and an ebony board as well as a hardtail non-trem bridge.

A white SoCal, SD1, and SD2 would in no way be a "Jake" model.

It would not even be an Adrian Smith model - his didn't have maple boards.

[Newc]

Top-loaded means pickguarded. The SoCal is routed to accommodate h-s-h, so changing it to h-s-s or h-s is up to the individual.