Carvin Guitars

[Metaled1020]

dammit!

Carvin has a very cool looking pointy headstock though! I`m sure you would like it!!!

[Jackson-Charvel]

So this is the headstock that you'd have to pay $150 for?



You can get a Warmoth maple maple jackson pointy neck for about $157

[lerxstcat]

Well if you're ordering a Carvin, that's the only pointy headstock you can get and that's the price. Still better than Jackson charging you $3 grand for a 1-hum Soloist, but it's your choice....

[Metaled1020]

Well if you're ordering a Carvin, that's the only pointy headstock you can get and that's the price. Still better than Jackson charging you $3 grand for a 1-hum Soloist, but it's your choice....

+1

[Scholomance]

How are the neck profiles on Carvin 7 strings? Can anyone compare them to a Jackson speed profile, or to a higher end Ibanez 7 string neck?

Scott

[Sinistas]

So this is the headstock that you'd have to pay $150 for?

You can get a Warmoth maple maple jackson pointy neck for about $157

That's nice, this is Carvin, not Jackson.

[Jackson-Charvel]

I'm just saying it seems steep is all. I mocked one up at Carvin.com and it went over $1000 but I guess it would be $900 if their $100 special actually adjusted in the specs page. Compare that to what one would have paid in 1989> $499.

One of the few cases you see a similar guitar selling for more now (almost double for the Carvin) than what it retailed for 20+ years ago.

For example most of the Charvel model series were selling for more new back then for what one can get a new Jackson Japanese import today.

[slayer]

Carvin`s prices are going up pretty fast. Not but a couple of years ago they were dirt cheap, but are going up fast as are the options, although their best deal is on the stainless steel frets for under $100, that is a great deal!! Jack.

[Jackson-Charvel]

Yeah I noticed that too. I mocked up a DC125 with the stainless steel jumbo frets and they were only +$40 I'd say thats a good price. Everything else though is pricey, Im not sure when you order a Floyd Rose whether that assumes they make the nut for the neck a FR type or they just rig it with a plastic nut with a FR trem. In any event there is a $25 charge for a FR nut route.

[kmanick]

How are the neck profiles on Carvin 7 strings? Can anyone compare them to a Jackson speed profile, or to a higher end Ibanez 7 string neck?

Scott

the 7 string neck profiles are a little fuller than the ibanez necks.

[Leo Chang]

When we are referring to Carvin's prices "going up fast"... how fast and how much are we talking about?

For example, with Jackson, we roughly know that there has been X % price increase over X number of years. Can anyone provide this calculation for Carvin?

I just ordered a custom kit from them, and want to eventually order a custom classical thin line (CL450) from them too... so hopefully they don't keep raising prices too fast...

[slayer]

For $25 you get the Floyd Nut and attatched As for going up, I use to keep my old catalogs, but my best guess is about $200 per guitar in the last couple years. Some of their options are really fairly priced, but others are not. If you order online, they don`t show alot of their options, like the pointy headstock, V headstock and others. Best is to call. Even then, the slaes associates are all different and always don`t know your answers. They really go thru the sales people these days over there. That is a bad sign sometimes. Jack.

[slayer]

I just wanted to add that Carvin is staying away from Kahlers, becasue when Kahler closed up before, Carvin was kinda stuck and they got upset about it. They don`t want to sell a product that might go out of business again. seams weird, but I would consider a DC125C with a Kahler Pro as I don`t really care for recessed floyds and Carvin doesn`t offer non-recessed floyds Jack.

[lerxstcat]

I'm just saying it seems steep is all. I mocked one up at Carvin.com and it went over $1000 but I guess it would be $900 if their $100 special actually adjusted in the specs page. Compare that to what one would have paid in 1989> $499.

One of the few cases you see a similar guitar selling for more now (almost double for the Carvin) than what it retailed for 20+ years ago.

For example most of the Charvel model series were selling for more new back then for what one can get a new Jackson Japanese import today.

You have a point, but then Carvin has a better reputation and a bigger market prescence today than they did 20 years ago. They have raised their prices relatively but are still a good value and, within their more limited custom specs, will get you your custom spec'ed guitar in 6-8 weeks, not a year like Jackson. Of course Warmoth is a whole nother story, but they don't do neck-through AFAIK.

Personally if I were in the market for a pointy Carvin, I WOULD more likely scan Ebay for an 88-89 DC145 or DC125, or DC127 (really a DC125 with neck HB option back then). Those guitars actually go for more now than they did now as often as not because they're rare. But if I wanted a new one, I'd order a DC127 with the Carvin pointy hs and a Floyd with Floyd nut and call it good.

I do wish they offered neck binding though, but no big deal really, it's just cosmetic.

[slash-ed]

Can I order direct from the US if I'm overseas, or must I go through a local dealer?