Charvel Identification

[lewis2112]

Re: Charvel Identification

I found this post on the imports forum. This 275DLX has different pickups than mine and the bridge pickup isn't offset like mine is...

http://www.jcfonline.com/ubbthreads/...&page=0#477209

[Sunbane]

Re: Charvel Identification

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I thought the 275 had two single coils and a humbucker at the bridge. Did they make them in different configs?

http://www.guitarmaniacs.de/html/use...-charvel.shtml

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That doesn't look like any 275 I've seen. Rear-loaded AND a pickguard? Possibly modified when they installed the EMGs?

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Yup. The text on that page states that the guy bought the body/neck from eBay, and that the humbucker rout was milled out so it was too big. So he added a pickguard from a Fender and the Lukather EMG set - and spray painted the body.

[VitaminG]

Re: Charvel Identification

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I found this post on the imports forum. This 275DLX has different pickups than mine and the bridge pickup isn't offset like mine is...

http://www.jcfonline.com/ubbthreads/...&page=0#477209

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as Tekky stated above (and as is also stated in the thread in the link above), the earlier 275s had a regular humbucker and slant single in a Strat body, with later ones adopting the double slant single coils in the bridge & the straight single coil in the neck of a Dinky body.

There have been many instances in the life of the JCF of models that seem to combine features from different production runs. Model 5FXs with just a volume knob compared to others with volume & tone. Guitar-logo Charvel Fusions, when all documentation indicates that Fusions were first offered with the introduction of the Toothpaste-logo Charvels. There have been many other anomolies in Charvel history.

As Tekky suggested above, yours may be a tweener - arriving somewhere between changes in the production of the 275, and therefore sharing attributes of both versions.

[Tekky]

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Todd, wasn't that pickup used in the neck position of one of the myriad of Jackson Fusions? I'm at work now, so don't have to time to dig through the Jackson Museum for supporting evidence, but I'm pretty sure that is a Jackson pickup, although most probably never used in a stock 275.

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Yeah, the Dinky Reverses had them as well, the J85. Though they were Jackson logoed and I think the magnet bars were definitely less prominent than this one. (they are tinted black-ish) The Dinky Reverses and Fusions that they were on were between 1992 and 1995. Slightly out of the time frame for this particular 275DLX.

[lewis2112]

Re: Charvel Identification

I'd like to thank everyone for all the help. Very much appreciated [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img]