Interesting/Unique Vintage Charvel

[Crunchity]

Sifting through the local to me GC used gear pages. This is currently at the Atlanta store, listed as a "One Off for NAMM 1987." Pretty cool vibe to it if you like that era.

Couldn't copy the link straight to the guitar so I just nabbed the photo and upped it to my bucket...

 

[ghosty999]

Love the fully scalloped fret board, I've built a similar guitar:

 

[snowdog]

You know it's a good scallop job when you can see the side dot inlays from the top....

 

[sytharnia1560]

You know it's a good scallop job when you can see the side dot inlays from the top....

yep ... first one I did I went way to deep, was cool to play but the neck was really unstable

 

[snowdog]

You know it's a good scallop job when you can see the side dot inlays from the top....

yep ... first one I did I went way to deep, was cool to play but the neck was really unstable

Yeah, you really don't need to remove much wood.

 

[JerEvil]

Cool guitar! Oddly enough, for as much as I LOVE Yngwie, I have never played a scalloped neck.

 

[ghosty999]

Cool guitar! Oddly enough, for as much as I LOVE Yngwie, I have never played a scalloped neck.

You have to try it! It's actually very satisfying to play, especially on solos, huge amounts of control

 

[Hung Huy Tran]

Cool guitar! Oddly enough, for as much as I LOVE Yngwie, I have never played a scalloped neck.

You have to try it! It's actually very satisfying to play, especially on solos, huge amounts of control

 

[neilli]

Looks like a model series neck and with the floyd nut conversion, trem recess, 'wrong' bridge plus the control layout is weird, I'm saying mutt.

 

[Enjolras56]

Looks like a model series neck and with the floyd nut conversion, trem recess, 'wrong' bridge plus the control layout is weird, I'm saying mutt.

I agree that the layout is weird- especially that the pickup selector is between the two knobs.

It looks like a Model 1 or 2 which may have been tricked out? Model 1 and 2's had a single bridge pup, single knob, 22 frets on a bolt on neck.

I own a Model 5 from this era which is a dual humbucker, neck thru 24 fret, 3 knobs and a 5 way selector off to the side of the knobs.

If it is genuine, looks like they may have based it on this?

 

[neilli]

Could be anything LOL The control config is wrong for a model 3A, and the recess is wrong for any of the model series.