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hi all, i'm new here and i own a 88-89 charvel model 3dr that i've customized over there years and it's still my favorite guitar.
well, my 15 year old son wants to learn to play guitar so i just picked up an old charvette 170 from my local music-go-round for $120 for him. turns out this thing needs some major work, but i figured it has all the necessities to make a decent beginner guitar. the neck looks to be in good shape and it has the JT-6 tremolo so that's the good news. the bad news is that it looks like someone lit the body of the guitar on fire
so i figured it would be a good father/son project that i can teach him about guitars along the way. we start taking it apart and see that the body is in fact plywood...not solid wood as i was hoping for...and the original finish was yellow crackle which someone sanded down and painted flat black. i figure we'll sand it down to the wood and refinish it to his liking.
the question i have is about the pickups...it has 1 single coil and 1 humbucker. the single coil only has 2 wires and says 'charvel' on the top of it (emg-style cover) with no markings on the rest of it..i'm assuming this is a J100? the humbucker has 4 wires and says 'jackson' on the top of it (no cover on this one) and has a sticker on the bottom that says 'J-50B (10.8)' but there is also the number 6 after the B but someone wrote over it with a black marker and the number (10.6) next to the (10.8) that is markered out also. is the J-50B a good pickup? would it have been the original pickup for this guitar? all the pictures i can find of the charvettes show the charvel logo on all of the pickups.
i also noticed that the J-50B appears to be f-spaced and doesn't line up with the string spacing very well...is it just me or is the JT-6 tremolo in between standard and f-spacing? i know on my charvel 3dr with a JT-6 i replaced the original bridge humbucker with a standard spaced dimarzio and the pole pieces are slightly closer together than the string spacing but it seems to work fine.
mateo
well, my 15 year old son wants to learn to play guitar so i just picked up an old charvette 170 from my local music-go-round for $120 for him. turns out this thing needs some major work, but i figured it has all the necessities to make a decent beginner guitar. the neck looks to be in good shape and it has the JT-6 tremolo so that's the good news. the bad news is that it looks like someone lit the body of the guitar on fire
so i figured it would be a good father/son project that i can teach him about guitars along the way. we start taking it apart and see that the body is in fact plywood...not solid wood as i was hoping for...and the original finish was yellow crackle which someone sanded down and painted flat black. i figure we'll sand it down to the wood and refinish it to his liking.
the question i have is about the pickups...it has 1 single coil and 1 humbucker. the single coil only has 2 wires and says 'charvel' on the top of it (emg-style cover) with no markings on the rest of it..i'm assuming this is a J100? the humbucker has 4 wires and says 'jackson' on the top of it (no cover on this one) and has a sticker on the bottom that says 'J-50B (10.8)' but there is also the number 6 after the B but someone wrote over it with a black marker and the number (10.6) next to the (10.8) that is markered out also. is the J-50B a good pickup? would it have been the original pickup for this guitar? all the pictures i can find of the charvettes show the charvel logo on all of the pickups.
i also noticed that the J-50B appears to be f-spaced and doesn't line up with the string spacing very well...is it just me or is the JT-6 tremolo in between standard and f-spacing? i know on my charvel 3dr with a JT-6 i replaced the original bridge humbucker with a standard spaced dimarzio and the pole pieces are slightly closer together than the string spacing but it seems to work fine.
mateo
but it reads like this:
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