*bounce* new Charvie!!

[sonicsamurai]

How cool is that??

walked into a guitar store today, spotted this, and bought it for all of 250 quid...totally spotless body and a great neck

quick qus tho - is it a 3dr (it has reverse headstock) or a model 5? i believe its a 3dr because it only has a bolt on neck...but i didn't think 3drs had dinky bodies and this has a 5 way selector with coil taps and stuff and a floyd recess...maybe a different year than i've seen before - i'm guessing 1988?

[JZ06]

model 3dr! cool. i once had three of them.nice guitars-light and effortless to shred.

enjoy!

[straycat]

3DR is a dinky J-90c and J-100 pickup.Should have a 3 way unless the coil taps hve been done via the 5 way. Very cool great score.What logo does it have the guitar shaped or the small script of large script?

[sonicsamurai]

its the old skool guitar shaped one - with an R next to the logo as oppposed to tm...no 314656...are u saying the 5 way might be a later addition? i've been trying to work out what the 2nd and 4th positions do...

[straycat]

Guitar shaped logo would be 89.Yeah its should have a 3way.There were a lot of transistion(sp) guitars old school logos with trem routes or JT-6 trems and a floyd style nut things like that.89 seems to be the year for this stuff.

[Speiro]

Nice score, you lucky git

[sonicsamurai]

Guitar shaped logo would be 89.Yeah its should have a 3way.There were a lot of transistion(sp) guitars old school logos with trem routes or JT-6 trems and a floyd style nut things like that.89 seems to be the year for this stuff.

wow okay..so perhaps the 5 way is a transition thing aswell...i wonder why they would do that or were they just using up the parts?...

[Nuclear Vampire]

Whoa! Great score! I love rainbow firecrackle.

[Sanctuary]

Whoa! Great score! I love rainbow firecrackle.

+1

[Dutchman]

Very Nice!!!!!

[sonicsamurai]

is it possible that this might be an early charvel predator? just looked thru the gallery and saw this

http://www.jcfonline.com/gallery/images/327465_1a.jpg

according to some reviews on harmony central

http://reviews.harmony-central.com/reviews/Guitar/product/Charvel/Predator/10/1

it would fit the description - lots of crackle predators on there, 22 frets, 5 way selector, HS, bolt on neck reverse headstock...thoughts?

[dg]

It's a 3DR. A Predator will have a JT-590 and a rear scallop at the neck joint. As far as the switch goes, my Model 7 has a 5 position switch with positions 2 & 4 jumpered to 1 & 5 so it acts as a 3-way. Pretty sure that's how it came from the factory, but that would also be the logical thing to do someone replaced a 3-way blade switch w/ a 5-way.

[mudkicker]

Guitar shaped logo would be 89.Yeah its should have a 3way.There were a lot of transistion(sp) guitars old school logos with trem routes or JT-6 trems and a floyd style nut things like that.89 seems to be the year for this stuff.

3DR was only produced in 1988. 1989 the Toothpaste (contemporary series)models came out.

[Grandturk]

I always thought that DR meant "Dinky Reverse."

[Carbuff]

I always thought that DR meant "Dinky Reverse."

It does. Its a model 3 with a dinky body and reverse headstock. Model 3 D R. I believe this was the first charvel import to have a Dinky body.