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Re: Does a charvette compare to the charvel model guitars?
No offense to anybody else's opinion, but
I believe Joe simply because he has an exhaustive knowledge of the history and
performance of Charvel and Jackson guitars. Since the biggest "suck" factors would be plywood bodies and inferior hardware and pickups, I could see the upper-end Charvette being comparable to low and mid-level Model Series guitars, given the same hardware.
I think we were talking poplar, not nato mahogany, which poplar is cheap and readily available right here; in fact I live less than 50 miles from Poplarville,
Mississippi! I'd guess the best tonewoods for Models went to the 5 and 6
Series, as opposed to 1s, 2s, 3s and 4s.
The 5s and 6s are really junior brother versions of Student Soloist and Soloist.
Of course they don't get the respect their Jackson brothers do, but they're right there in fit, form and function with the Japanese Jacksons.
Not saying I want a Charvette though; it'd be tiresome pulling the neck off every time someone didn't believe the body was solid wood! [img]graemlins/laugh.gif[/img] Still, a guitar is wood, plastic, steel, brass, magnets and wires. Those evil Koreans might actually let a decent piece of wood slip through their QC process and a good one might've escaped on occasion.
I BELIEVE YOU JOE!!! Others do too, but fear the slavering mob!
Lerx
No offense to anybody else's opinion, but
I believe Joe simply because he has an exhaustive knowledge of the history and
performance of Charvel and Jackson guitars. Since the biggest "suck" factors would be plywood bodies and inferior hardware and pickups, I could see the upper-end Charvette being comparable to low and mid-level Model Series guitars, given the same hardware.
I think we were talking poplar, not nato mahogany, which poplar is cheap and readily available right here; in fact I live less than 50 miles from Poplarville,
Mississippi! I'd guess the best tonewoods for Models went to the 5 and 6
Series, as opposed to 1s, 2s, 3s and 4s.
The 5s and 6s are really junior brother versions of Student Soloist and Soloist.
Of course they don't get the respect their Jackson brothers do, but they're right there in fit, form and function with the Japanese Jacksons.
Not saying I want a Charvette though; it'd be tiresome pulling the neck off every time someone didn't believe the body was solid wood! [img]graemlins/laugh.gif[/img] Still, a guitar is wood, plastic, steel, brass, magnets and wires. Those evil Koreans might actually let a decent piece of wood slip through their QC process and a good one might've escaped on occasion.
I BELIEVE YOU JOE!!! Others do too, but fear the slavering mob!
Lerx
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