Your first Jackson/Charvel?

[nateb]

The one that hooked me....



-Nate

[Chief_CrazyTalk]

Mine was an 86(?) Model 4...red, with rosewood board and dot inlays, and a kahler. I paid $450 at the time, and it came with a tweed hard case.

I'd been playing an alpine white Gibson SG prior to that...one of those odd 80's models I bought new that had an ebony board, dots, and three knobs. Not a bad guitar, but the Charvel blew it away. It sounded so dead in comparison.

Over the years I had a Jackson trem installed and took out all of the switches, knobs and electronics. I settled on a Full Shred in the bridge and was very happy with it...later on loaned it to a "friend" who I later found out had pawned or sold it for drugs. Fuck drugs. I wish I still had it.

A few years before that, I found a NOS Model 1 that had been sitting in it's case for eight years and got it for about $140. Installed a schaller and SD distortion and never even thought about another guitar for almost 20 years. Those model series are the shit.

[DonP]

Mine was an 86(?) Model 4...red, with rosewood board and dot inlays, and a kahler. I paid $450 at the time, and it came with a tweed hard case.

I'd been playing an alpine white Gibson SG prior to that...one of those odd 80's models I bought new that had an ebony board, dots, and three knobs. Not a bad guitar, but the Charvel blew it away. It sounded so dead in comparison.

Over the years I had a Jackson trem installed and took out all of the switches, knobs and electronics. I settled on a Full Shred in the bridge and was very happy with it...later on loaned it to a "friend" who I later found out had pawned or sold it for drugs. Fuck drugs. I wish I still had it.

A few years before that, I found a NOS Model 1 that had been sitting in it's case for eight years and got it for about $140. Installed a schaller and SD distortion and never even thought about another guitar for almost 20 years. Those model series are the shit.

Too funny. I picked up a black Model 4 with a single Full Shred in it a couple of months ago.

If you want your red one back, it's at Nashville Used Music for $300, and in fairly good shape. Some parts replaced.

[quiksilver]

Mine was a Pearl White Charvel Model 2. Got it in high school, 1982 or 1983, I'd say. Wish I still had it.

[Alvin_Wilson]

Mine was a Pearl White Charvel Model 2. Got it in high school, 1982 or 1983, I'd say. Wish I still had it.

The Model series were first introduced in 1986.

[Chief_CrazyTalk]

Thank you. I'll check it out to see if it is indeed my old Model 1. I want that thing back so bad!

From what I remember, the FS sounded great in the Model 4.

[sah5150]

Here is me on stage in Hollywood in '85 with my first Charvel. Purchased new in the same year:









Steve

[m2pmd70]

Wow that's cool. Do you still have it? And what the heck is the guy behind you playing, and why is he trying to bite your headstock? lol

[sah5150]

Wow that's cool. Do you still have it?

I wish. I ended up selling that guitar in '89 when I stopped playing in bands. I had (unbelievably) already re-finished it in black blowing away that custom Jack Daniels graphic. At the time, I thought it was too much of a cliche for someone in a hard rock band. The guitar also originally had a Kahler, which, as you can see, I replaced with a Floyd. If I only knew then what I know now... (bangs head against wall...)

And what the heck is the guy behind you playing, and why is he trying to bite your headstock? lol

HA! He is playing a star he built from parts that was painted by GMW...

Steve

[bucky katt]

my first one came just this past weekend. a mid 90's ps-4 other than the previous owner trying and failing at setting it up, it plays great, i dont think i'm keeping it though, the action is the nicest of any guitar i've ever owned but the sound isnt for me i dont think. i play alot of classic rock, i used to play in a jazz band and though the sound of the Jackson is super hot, it isnt for me. i'd like to get it sold, get myself a squier jagmaster and pocket some cash to pay some vet bills

[holycross1]

86 Charvel Model 2 from Piano's Plus in Niles Michigan if memory serves me correct. Hopefully I can find some old picks. Been playing Dinkiy Rev's and Fusions for the better part of 20 years or more. well after I traded my Charvel for a Marshall JCM800.

[Snoogans]

My first one was my Jackson Strat with the snakeskin paint, serial # 12**, bought in Hollywood Guitar Centre, August 1989. (The one that got me into trouble with Customs)

That's a bit of of a coinkidink - I spent a couple of weeks in Hollywood in '89.
I bloody near followed through the first time I went into the Guitar Centre!
Remember these?


My first Jackson was a USA Strat. 2 Hums and a JT-6. It had a hideous paintjob - beautifully done, but stoopid. It was the Terminator "CSM-101" script graphic with painted-on bulletholes. Really not as cool as it sounds, I've probably got pictures somewhere.
Played really well, once I'd ditched the locknut for a Floyd one. Weighed a ton however. I eventually had it painted black, and traded it for something. Buggered if I can remember what though...

[vector]

It was September of '88- a black Charvel Model 3. Some son of a b*tch stole it from our rehearsal/storage garage just outside Seattle, WA. Corksucking iceholes also made off with a BC Rich ST III and a Peavey VTM head and 4 x 12 cab. Damn! Who started this thread? Thanks for dredging up the fond memories!

[jgd5150]

In 1988 I bought a Charvette, strat-style, HSS, locking trem, black, pointy head. I dropped an EMG 85 in the bridge. Not a great guitar-- played OK but acoustically was very dead.

Couple years later I picked up a CX391 which was much better. I put a PAF Pro in the bridge of that one and it was my main guitar for about 2 years.

[Sharkfin]

It was the Terminator "CSM-101" script graphich...

This one?