Charvel Id

[AndreasD]

Can anyone tell me what Charvel this is?




Thanks in advance.

[Tricky]

Looks like a 90-91 Fusion Plus with a Model headstock logo.

[Rich#6]

I think that's a japanese market charvel. they kept the logo.

[dg]

Definitely a Japanese-market SDK model of some sort. Here's a very similar model with H-S config called the SDK-080-SH:




More pics here:

http://www.jacksonguitar.org/gall/gall11.html

[AndreasD]

Thanks for the answers.

Has anybody got more info on these? (How they compare to the model series,how much they should go for, etc)

[dg]

I've never seen a Japan-market catalog from the time-frame these came out, but I'm pretty sure they were made some time between '89 and '93. The build quality should be similar to the toothpaste-logo Charvels from around the same time, but the hardware isn't quite as good. These have a Takeuchi JT-580 trem, which isn't as good as the Schaller JT-590 that most toothpaste-logo Charvels had. Here's an old post with closeups of the body & trem on an SDK-080-SH:

http://www.jcfonline.com/forums/showpost.php?p=1063499&postcount=15

As for price, I have no idea what a good price in Europe would be. I guess it's worth about what a Fusion Plus is worth, but maybe a little less because of the trem. In the U.S., that would probably be around $300 or a little less.

[AndreasD]

Is the neck supposed to look like that?

[moku]

is that short scaled? 24.75? sweet looking...

[dg]

Pretty sure it is short scale. There's no catalog online to check on these exact models, but the Jackson Stars versions of the Super Dinky (SDK-***) in the '93 Japan catalog are all listed as short scale.