Charvel Model 4M?

[RR3DKMG]

I just saw this listing on preloved.co.uk, it is a Charvel Model 4M going for £175. I posted this because the body looks like it has an archtop. Did Model 4M's ever have archtopped bodies?

Here is the listing

http://www.preloved.co.uk/adverts/sh...4m-guitar.html

[Carbuff]

Looks like someone took a belt sander to it then refinned it.

[Alvin_Wilson]

Did Model 4M's ever have archtopped bodies?

Nope

[BenoA]

Nope

This is how it should look:

[84sups]

That's not the original body. The Model 4 didn't have an arch top

[Carbuff]

Like I said before it looks like someone ground down the edges of the body and refinished it. Its not really an arch top as much as it just has tapered edges.

[BigE13]

Definately not an original Model 4 body. If someone belt sanded it they are pretty good at it, but I think they put the Model 4 electronics on a different body, probably drilled the switch mounting holes and bolted on the Charvel neck. Nice looking guitar though...

[DonP]

Now I've seen everything

[tinribs]

I'd buy it for the neck alone

[DonP]

Not for that price. You can do better.

[EVOLVIST]

Old thread I know...But on the topic of a Model 4M, has anyone heard of one or ever seen one, 1986 with a Khaler?

I've seen the 1987 catalog with a FR, but not the '86. If it does not exist, I'm thinking about just getting a model 1A.

[Axegrinder87]

[VitaminG]

nope. 4M didn't exist in '86. It was introduced after they dropped the Kahler bridges

In a discussion on Facebook, we did discover there was a Japanese market Model 1AF. So a Model 1A with a Floyd. Might be hard to find, but an alternative to the 4M

[EVOLVIST]

nope. 4M didn't exist in '86. It was introduced after they dropped the Kahler bridges

In a discussion on Facebook, we did discover there was a Japanese market Model 1AF. So a Model 1A with a Floyd. Might be hard to find, but an alternative to the 4M

Cheers! Thanks for the clarification. I believe if I'm going to go with a maple neck the Model 1C will do me fine with the no bones trem on it. There is, however, a niggling feeling I have that instead of trying to drop the active mid-boost in a Model 1C (with only two knobs, I might add), to simply go with the 4M, which already has the JE-1200 and just drop something hotter in there, like a J-90C or a J-95. It might be more cost effective and since those J200 are really like single coils, anyway (despite the double stacking), I'm probably going to get a very similar sound out of a 4M, I would think. It's just that the damn Floyd kills me!

[VitaminG]

if you don't need a tone control, you could drop the preamp into a 1C