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Just took a little group picture of my current Charvels. This picture is way down number-wise from my heyday of collecting Charvels from 1984-1997, but I really dig all four of these guitars and the money from my original (and semi-famous in the Charvel world) sell off of early Charvels is sitting in the garage and makes me not miss the guitars too much.
Anyway, here is what I have now.
1980 pre-production strat head mahogany with maple 21 fret neck with brass side dots and rosewood fret markers. I bought it at a pawn shop in 1986 for $275. I watched this guitar hang on the wall in that pawn shop for almost a year at $350 before I finally said "what the heck?" and offered $275. At that time, in LA, nobody wanted strat heads. It was all about the pointys.
1984 Candy Purple pointy. Old faithful. The start of my Charvel addiction. I bought it new in 1984 at Guitar Center Chicago for $864 counting tax and case. Added Floyd and neck single coil sometime over the years. Dave Anderson from Eric Steel helped me pick out the best one on the wall at GC that day. He was friends with my guitar teacher and kind of took me under his wing for the months I drooled over the Charvels while delivering pizzas and saving every penny for my big day. Every gig I ever did in Chicago or LA was done with this guitar and every recording too. This guitar sounds sick!
The other two are new ones. Pre 1st batch USA production models with serial numbers in the 8000's instead of the 6 digit numbers the 1st batch released models have.
Anyway, here is what I have now.
1980 pre-production strat head mahogany with maple 21 fret neck with brass side dots and rosewood fret markers. I bought it at a pawn shop in 1986 for $275. I watched this guitar hang on the wall in that pawn shop for almost a year at $350 before I finally said "what the heck?" and offered $275. At that time, in LA, nobody wanted strat heads. It was all about the pointys.
1984 Candy Purple pointy. Old faithful. The start of my Charvel addiction. I bought it new in 1984 at Guitar Center Chicago for $864 counting tax and case. Added Floyd and neck single coil sometime over the years. Dave Anderson from Eric Steel helped me pick out the best one on the wall at GC that day. He was friends with my guitar teacher and kind of took me under his wing for the months I drooled over the Charvels while delivering pizzas and saving every penny for my big day. Every gig I ever did in Chicago or LA was done with this guitar and every recording too. This guitar sounds sick!
The other two are new ones. Pre 1st batch USA production models with serial numbers in the 8000's instead of the 6 digit numbers the 1st batch released models have.
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