Solid quilt Carvin V220

[Tricky]

Now this is serious quality.
I'm not really into furniture, but damn.

http://forums.carvinmuseum.com/viewtopic.php?t=27206

[Nightbat]

It would've looked better if it had a nicer top or at least better selected maple pieces

[eakinj]

This makes me wonder how my Carvin is going to turn out since it's all maple. in fact, shit it's the 26th i have to go call to see if it's done.

that Carvin in the link is sweet i wouldn't mind one of the old ones like that

[Tricky]

It would've looked better if it had a nicer top or at least better selected maple pieces

A serious nice cap or thin veneer, you can find all day long, but solid quilted Maple all the way through like what that is made with. Good luck.

They aren't made like that anymore.
If they were, the price would be off the hook.

http://www.carvinmuseum.com/decade/images/84-dc160.html

[axmann]

Thats pure wicked shit. I think its bad ass.Solid maple with figure through. Thats something. I have wanted a nice V220. I'd take that one.

[Cygnus X1]

Like I commented elsewhere, not enough respect.

[Ripley7t]

Somewhere in Cleveland my 89 Carvin DC sits. It was one of the superstrat neck thrus with an oil finish. I wish I had never sold that thing. I have yet to see anything, even in the Carvin collectors forums that would rival it.

[Nightbat]

A serious nice cap or thin veneer, you can find all day long, but solid quilted Maple all the way through like what that is made with. Good luck.

Solid maple, yes, but not quilted all the way thru
If it was, then you'd hear nothing but praise from me

[Tricky]

Solid maple, yes, but not quilted all the way thru
If it was, then you'd hear nothing but praise from me

Look in the cavities. It is not capped, and not pancake or sandwich.
Those bodies back then were either solid quilt, Flame, or birds eye.

Did you check out this link?

http://www.carvinmuseum.com/decade/images/84-dc160.html

Or

http://www.carvinmuseum.com/decade/images/81-dc160.html

http://www.carvinmuseum.com/decade/images/83-dc160curlykoa.html

http://www.carvinmuseum.com/playersgallery/dc200vintage.html

http://www.carvinmuseum.com/playersgallery/dc150vintage.html

[Nightbat]

Look in the cavities. It is not capped, and not pancake or sandwich.
Those bodies back then were either solid quilt, Flame, or birds eye.

Semantics at work, if you call it solid quilt/flame/birds I expect to see that 100%
perhaps I should clarify that the link in your first post doesn't show an 'all over' quilted guitar

unlike (most of the) bookmatched examples you now linked

[Tricky]

Come on now. You cant be serious.
Those V220s took a lot of lumber to make, and are rare to see with figured bodies.
I doubt their figured stock came in sizes large enough to do a complete book match like the DC bodies had.

Hell, the price on that guitar in 84 was $724, and in 86 was $690.
That's about the same price as a new Model 3.

[j2379]

you see this alot in guitars of that era, 10 tops and highly figured wood was the exception not the norm. even if you ordered it that way it was more of an "a" or "aa" grade, not like today with "aaa" and "10" tops. back then it wasnt much of an upcharge for SOLID figured woods, nothing like it now.

[Venomboy]

Early BC Rich guitars have solid maple wings. I have a BCR Explorer bass like that. Not highly figured. I've seen some that were nicely figured and solid.

I'm getting a custom Moser and talked to some wood vendors. Anything now is possible in terms of wood quality and size but you will pay more now than in the past. It's easier to build a neck thru with solid wings than with a top. Tops were common on bolt ons and set necks because it's easy to build that way. No neck to get in the way.

[Tricky]

Those old Carvins were set neck. They didn't start building neck thru until 88.

[toejam]

Maple Carvin bodies FTW!