how're the new mexican promod Charvels?

[baron55]

I won't buy any guitar that requires the neck to be removed to adjust the truss rod. When you take the neck of, you completely unload it, also depending on how good the neck pocket is making the alignment right, not to mention the screws into the wood gradually wearing out. If I had a guitar like this I would be removing the neck 6 times a year.......

 

[Bob Savage]

I won't buy any guitar that requires the neck to be removed to adjust the truss rod. When you take the neck of, you completely unload it, also depending on how good the neck pocket is making the alignment right, not to mention the screws into the wood gradually wearing out. If I had a guitar like this I would be removing the neck 6 times a year.......

I would never live somewhere that messed with my guitars wood so much that it required me to adjust the truss rod 6 times a year.

 

[baron55]

Not to be a whiny bitch, but where I live the climate and humidity change weekly, and I have to tweak the guitars I have frequently. That makes it almost impossible from a practical point of view with a Floyd guitar that you have to pull the neck off..............

I hope you didn't read my comment as some slight against you, I have the same issue where climate changes regularly. I was just trying to point out how the EVH striped guitars have the truss rod wheel while the new Charvel Pro Mods don't. Coming from the same factory you'd think they would share more parts, production lines, etc. if Fender wanted to save some money. For me as well the non-truss wheel is a deal breaker.

They are trying to be true to the original... Doesn't mean they should include obvious omissions.

 

[baron55]

I won't buy any guitar that requires the neck to be removed to adjust the truss rod. When you take the neck of, you completely unload it, also depending on how good the neck pocket is making the alignment right, not to mention the screws into the wood gradually wearing out. If I had a guitar like this I would be removing the neck 6 times a year.......

I would never live somewhere that messed with my guitars wood so much that it required me to adjust the truss rod 6 times a year.

Called humidity....
People Living in CA, AZ, NM don't have a such issues with that. I know I am originally from AZ.

 

[Bob Savage]

Called humidity....
People Living in CA, AZ, NM don't have a such issues with that. I know I am originally from AZ.

Humidity? I'll have to look that one up.

 

[bulletproof_funk]

Not to be a whiny bitch, but where I live the climate and humidity change weekly, and I have to tweak the guitars I have frequently. That makes it almost impossible from a practical point of view with a Floyd guitar that you have to pull the neck off..............

I hope you didn't read my comment as some slight against you, I have the same issue where climate changes regularly. I was just trying to point out how the EVH striped guitars have the truss rod wheel while the new Charvel Pro Mods don't. Coming from the same factory you'd think they would share more parts, production lines, etc. if Fender wanted to save some money. For me as well the non-truss wheel is a deal breaker.

They are trying to be true to the original... Doesn't mean they should include obvious omissions.

Then they shouldn't have routed the trem cavity too! I mean, if they're going to do that, then just add the truss wheel already!

 

[romanianreaper]

I'm so glad I have my Warren DeMartini USA Charvel but wish I would have kept my Slime Green Charvel San Dimas I got a few years ago.

I don't understand why once I start to like a certain guitar (EVH Wolfgang Special, Charvel San Dimas), they move operations from Japan to Mexico.

 

[Bob Savage]

I think they should just quit making them altogether. They're obviously doing it all wrong. #garbagepile #poopoo #pos

 

[baron55]

Not to be a whiny bitch, but where I live the climate and humidity change weekly, and I have to tweak the guitars I have frequently. That makes it almost impossible from a practical point of view with a Floyd guitar that you have to pull the neck off..............

I hope you didn't read my comment as some slight against you, I have the same issue where climate changes regularly. I was just trying to point out how the EVH striped guitars have the truss rod wheel while the new Charvel Pro Mods don't. Coming from the same factory you'd think they would share more parts, production lines, etc. if Fender wanted to save some money. For me as well the non-truss wheel is a deal breaker.

They are trying to be true to the original... Doesn't mean they should include obvious omissions.

Then they shouldn't have routed the trem cavity too! I mean, if they're going to do that, then just add the truss wheel already!

One hell of a good point!

 

[Badronald]

I won't buy any guitar that requires the neck to be removed to adjust the truss rod. When you take the neck of, you completely unload it, also depending on how good the neck pocket is making the alignment right, not to mention the screws into the wood gradually wearing out. If I had a guitar like this I would be removing the neck 6 times a year.......

I would never live somewhere that messed with my guitars wood so much that it required me to adjust the truss rod 6 times a year.

Called humidity....
People Living in CA, AZ, NM don't have a such issues with that. I know I am originally from AZ.

I've had a couple of my guitars for over ten years here in AZ and have never had to adjust them.

 

[bulletproof_funk]

I think they should just quit making them altogether. They're obviously doing it all wrong. #garbagepile #poopoo #pos

You're handy with woodworking. Route the neck to take Stew-Mac's truss wheel, maybe route a bit of the body as well, and show them how it's done!

 

[baron55]

I won't buy any guitar that requires the neck to be removed to adjust the truss rod. When you take the neck of, you completely unload it, also depending on how good the neck pocket is making the alignment right, not to mention the screws into the wood gradually wearing out. If I had a guitar like this I would be removing the neck 6 times a year.......

I would never live somewhere that messed with my guitars wood so much that it required me to adjust the truss rod 6 times a year.

Called humidity....
People Living in CA, AZ, NM don't have a such issues with that. I know I am originally from AZ.

I've had a couple of my guitars for over ten years here in AZ and have never had to adjust them.

One of the benifits of a dry heat

 

[Bob Savage]

You're handy with woodworking. Route the neck to take Stew-Mac's truss wheel, maybe route a bit of the body as well, and show them how it's done!

I'll route that mother out with an ice pick.

 

[luxxtone]

I'm so glad I have my Warren DeMartini USA Charvel but wish I would have kept my Slime Green Charvel San Dimas I got a few years ago.

I don't understand why once I start to like a certain guitar (EVH Wolfgang Special, Charvel San Dimas), they move operations from Japan to Mexico.

Just a quick heads up as to why production moved, Fender/Charvel didn't choose to move production from Japan to Mexico. The Japanese factory decided to stop making guitars completely since it wasn't as profitable as their other business, textiles. Yes, that's right, textiles were being made at the same factory……and it's more profitable than making guitars! Man, maybe I should start sewing dresses and give up guitars!

It actually threw a huge monkey wrench into guitar production for Charvel and many other companies that were using this factory for production. They were all taken by surprise by it and had to find another source of production. They already have the Mexico plant, so that's where it switched to. So it wasn't a pre-planned decision or a cost cutting measure.

 

[mentoneman]

the mexi strat i owned was cool. it came with a body cavity packed with seeds and stems, smelled like gas, you could limbo under the strings, and it made me fall asleep and noon.

on a serious note, cheaper strats tend to have chain link fence frets and problems with the neck flexing like an archer's bow, thus never letting an action setup "set" properly. but like anything you will find some doozies if you have the patience.

 

[Shawn Lutz]

I'm wondering if someone somewhere at Charvel can cut a pick guard so it doesn't have a mile gap between the back of the pick guard and floyd base

 

[rupe]

I'm so glad I have my Warren DeMartini USA Charvel but wish I would have kept my Slime Green Charvel San Dimas I got a few years ago.

I don't understand why once I start to like a certain guitar (EVH Wolfgang Special, Charvel San Dimas), they move operations from Japan to Mexico.

Just a quick heads up as to why production moved, Fender/Charvel didn't choose to move production from Japan to Mexico. The Japanese factory decided to stop making guitars completely since it wasn't as profitable as their other business, textiles. Yes, that's right, textiles were being made at the same factory……and it's more profitable than making guitars! Man, maybe I should start sewing dresses and give up guitars!

It actually threw a huge monkey wrench into guitar production for Charvel and many other companies that were using this factory for production. They were all taken by surprise by it and had to find another source of production. They already have the Mexico plant, so that's where it switched to. So it wasn't a pre-planned decision or a cost cutting measure.

Good info Any insights as to why they originally switched from the US to Japan? That was a bigger disappointment than switching from Japan to Mexico IMO.

 

[luxxtone]

Any insights as to why they originally switched from the US to Japan? That was a bigger disappointment than switching from Japan to Mexico IMO.

That I don't know. It was a bummer for sure when US production stopped.

 

[Chubtone]

I was told that they had to shut down the USA Production line because it was needed to build more Fender USA instruments. They had way more orders than they projected in 2010 and at one point there was a 6 month backorder to get an American Standard Strat. That was unacceptable so that production line had to be swapped to Fender products.

 

[charveldan]

I was told that they had to shut down the USA Production line because it was needed to build more Fender USA instruments. They had way more orders than they projected in 2010 and at one point there was a 6 month backorder to get an American Standard Strat. That was unacceptable so that production line had to be swapped to Fender products.

I call bullshit.