shredi knight
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Here is what was to be my first new guitar in over 10 years: A loaded up Carvin DC600C. Unfortunately, Carvin goofed and built it with the wrong style headstock. Here's a pic of what the headstock should have looked like:
(Edit: Changed picture to one that's a better example of the headstock....................not that anyone's going to like it any better
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What I got instead was the 6-inline style you see in the pics. It might not seem like a big deal to some, but 2 things initially drew me to the looks of this guitar: The direct mounted pickups & the headstock (probably because they are different than on the Carvin I already own, which has the 6-inline headstock style). So it's going back for a rebuild.
Having to send it back is somewhat of a blessing in disguise though. I had gotten this guitar with a thinner neck option that they offer. While I don't hate it, I prefer the neck profile on my other Carvin. So I'm dropping that option (which was $60), and in it's place, I added an option they have where you email them a pic of what you want the top of the guitar (in this case, Spalted Maple) to look like and they go through their stock and match it as closely as possible (this option is $100, but I negotiated and got the $40 difference waved). I opted for that option because, while I really liked the top on the one they sent me, I've seen pics of Carvins with ones I've much preferred.
So anyway, it's going back and I'll have some more waiting to do (though I understand the wait time for rebuilds is usually less than the first time around, which was 2 months). Here's the specs & pics (and no cracks about my dirty-ass couch
- Adler Body (gloss finish),
- Spalted Maple Top /w Matching Headstock
- Maple Neck-Thru (Tung oil on back), Ebony Fretboard (25" scale/14" radius)
- Thinner Neck Option
- Stainless Steel Jumbo Frets
- Floyd Rose
- Locking Tuners
- Dunlop Straplocks
- Black Hardware
- Black Carvin Logo
The pickups are aftermarkets that I sent to Carvin to install:
- (Bridge) Suhr Doug Aldrich
- (Neck) Dimarzio Air Norton
Here's a couple larger, close-up pics of the body:
(Edit: Changed picture to one that's a better example of the headstock....................not that anyone's going to like it any better
)What I got instead was the 6-inline style you see in the pics. It might not seem like a big deal to some, but 2 things initially drew me to the looks of this guitar: The direct mounted pickups & the headstock (probably because they are different than on the Carvin I already own, which has the 6-inline headstock style). So it's going back for a rebuild.
Having to send it back is somewhat of a blessing in disguise though. I had gotten this guitar with a thinner neck option that they offer. While I don't hate it, I prefer the neck profile on my other Carvin. So I'm dropping that option (which was $60), and in it's place, I added an option they have where you email them a pic of what you want the top of the guitar (in this case, Spalted Maple) to look like and they go through their stock and match it as closely as possible (this option is $100, but I negotiated and got the $40 difference waved). I opted for that option because, while I really liked the top on the one they sent me, I've seen pics of Carvins with ones I've much preferred.
So anyway, it's going back and I'll have some more waiting to do (though I understand the wait time for rebuilds is usually less than the first time around, which was 2 months). Here's the specs & pics (and no cracks about my dirty-ass couch
- Adler Body (gloss finish),
- Spalted Maple Top /w Matching Headstock
- Maple Neck-Thru (Tung oil on back), Ebony Fretboard (25" scale/14" radius)
- Thinner Neck Option
- Stainless Steel Jumbo Frets
- Floyd Rose
- Locking Tuners
- Dunlop Straplocks
- Black Hardware
- Black Carvin Logo
The pickups are aftermarkets that I sent to Carvin to install:
- (Bridge) Suhr Doug Aldrich
- (Neck) Dimarzio Air Norton
Here's a couple larger, close-up pics of the body:
