Anyone know what model this Charvel is?

[BYeh1]

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...309116392&rd=1

Don't recognize it.. any feedback or comments on this guitar?

Thanks!

[SteveK]

Re: Anyone know what model this Charvel is?

A bit of a bitsa. Looks to me to be a Model 4 body, neck from a model 3M (maple board). The Model 4 would have originally had a rosewood board and sharkfin inlays.

Cheers - Steve

[VitaminG]

Re: Anyone know what model this Charvel is?

Model 4M

AFAIK, there was no Model 3M

[Alvin_Wilson]

Re: Anyone know what model this Charvel is?

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The Model 4 would have originally had a rosewood board and sharkfin inlays.

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My Model 4 has dot inlays. According to some of our forum members, the first year Model 4's had dots and Kahlers.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3...9/P2160001.jpg

[Budman68]

Re: Anyone know what model this Charvel is?

<font color="aqua">That is absolutely correct, first year had dots and was called a Model 4, next years had sharkies and was called a Model 4a </font>

[Tekky]

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http://www.jcfonline.com/ubbthreads/...;page=0#417954

[BYeh1]

Re: Anyone know what model this Charvel is?

Thanks everyone for the feedback... this is a great board. So it sounds like this is an 86 or 87 Model 4M?

What are the key questions I should check out with the seller for this model?

Any comments on pricing would also be appreciated.

Thanks.

[Jackson-Charvel]

Re: Anyone know what model this Charvel is?

Hmmm I thought I asked before about what Model series had a maple neck and I was told only the Model 1 had a maple neck stock and any designations such as Model 2M or Model 3M were strictly modded Model 1 necks with the lock nut added. I'd love a Model 3A or Model 2 with a Maple neck. Still looking...

[VitaminG]

Re: Anyone know what model this Charvel is?

all of the Model series had maple necks.

The only Models that had maple fretboards [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img] were the Model 1s (1, 1A, 1C), the Model 4M & the Model 7.

[MetalMan]

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Holy Damn !
that guitar sold for $406.
Is that the going price for a Model 4 these days?
I only payed $118(that was total with tax if i remember right) with the original case. Was missing the original humbucker and electronics but did have an EMG 81 installed.

[BYeh1]

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http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...tem=7309162070

Is this a Model 4 also? The pickups look different (don't say "Jackson" on them)... With the toothpaste logo, is it called a 450? What years were these made?

The neckplate also looks a little different.

[img]/images/graemlins/cool.gif[/img]Any thoughts much appeciated...

[VitaminG]

Re: Anyone know what model this Charvel is?

That's a 375. It was available from 89-91, after the Model series guitars.

There's a lengthy thread here recently about the Toothpaste Charvels. They are very well regarded around here.

[BYeh1]

Re: Anyone know what model this Charvel is?

VitaminG - thanks for the quick answer. Do the pickups worry you at all? I thought it came with "Jackson" pickups, these look unknown to me...

[Tekky]

Re: Anyone know what model this Charvel is?

I wouldn't be "worried" about them. It's not like they're going to attack you or anything. Someone had just replaced the stock pickups. Pickups ain't no thing.. You can always find replacements.

[badams]

Re: Anyone know what model this Charvel is?

Here's my Model 4M completely untouched from it original form. I beautiful, beautiful guitar.