Urgent - what is this?

[shobet]

Buy the thing, you can always part it out for more than it's likely to go for.

[tcwil8]

I can verify that the 270 and 170s (with JT-6) that I've owned were solid wood. The other models were ply. And yes, the necks are nice and slim.

[Mrs Tekky]

Let's not start this BS that Charvette = Plywood body. Not all Charvettes had plywood bodies. I have three Model 188 bodies in my guitar room that are not plywood.

By the info I have, it is an Alder body. (and like it was mentioned before, it's a 24.75" - ie Fusion - scale) The best way to tell is to have a looksee in the tremolo or control cavity. Don't buy into the bias. Do your own homework on this one.

[Tekky]

I hate it when the wife doesn't log herself out...

[nhspike]

With all due respect, up there ^ I learned something, and far from starting B.S., I think B.S. is being clarified, rather than perpetuated.

I think the tone of the thread has been positive, and instructive.

:think:

[Rich#6]

I hate it when the wife doesn't log herself out...

I was going to say it didn't seem like it would be your wife typing.:ROTF:

[nhspike]

lol!

[MartinBarre]

Yeah, good thread for us Charvette know-nothings, so thanks guys. I never bid on it in the end - it went for £51, with some wee practice amp and £30 delivery. A good price, but not worth it for me.

[nhspike]

I, for one, will be watching for Charvettes with JT-6 trems from now on!!!

[Tekky]

With all due respect, up there ^ I learned something, and far from starting B.S., I think B.S. is being clarified, rather than perpetuated.

I think the tone of the thread has been positive, and instructive.

:think:

If you took it negatively, I'm sorry. But there are many times I see misconceptions thrown out as gospel. In the case of Charvettes and laminant (ie Plywood) bodies, it's a similar misconception along with the "all fusions have horn scallops" misconception.

[straycat]

Thats the first short scale Charvette I've seen.The necks are killer IMO.
I have bought several plywood C-vettes just to get the necks for project guitars.The good necks will have the pearl 12th fret dot markers that how I tell them apart.
They aren't all plywood.