Category Archives: Charvel Guitars

Charvel is a brand of electric guitars founded in the 1970s by Wayne Charvel. Since 2002, Charvel has been under the ownership of Fender Musical Instruments Corporation.

Charvel Desolation Skatecaster

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Musicradar reviewed a Charvel Desolation Skatecaster SK-1 FR and is encouraging metal players to check one out. According to the review, the SK-1′s mahogany body mates well with its pickups, resulting in an excellent tone.

“The Skatecaster’s sheer mass of mahogany helps round off any inherent abrasion from its EMG humbuckers,” said Music Radar. “And we’d suggest it gives a great Kirk Hammett-style scorching lead tone.” The review ends by giving a little background on the model and inviting metal-heads to sample the model.

“The Desolation series is far removed from the hot-rodded custom S-types for which Charvel is loved historically,” concludes Music Radar. “But we concede that most metal teenagers won’t care too much about that. Try one.”

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Charvel Pro-Mod Series Sunburst Ash

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Charvel Pro-Mod San Dimas Ash
Charvel Pro-Mod San Dimas Ash

The Charvel Pro-Mod Series San Dimas sandblasted ash body is coupled with a bolt-on maple neck featuring a pair of graphite-reinforcement rods to resist bending and warping under environmental stresses. The speed neck profile is designed for lightning fast playing and completely unhindered position shifts, while the comfortably rolled fingerboard edges provide the broken-in feel of an instrument with plenty of playing miles on it, and plenty more to go. Perfect for faster tempos, the 12″-16″ compound radius ebony fingerboard hosts 22 jumbo frets and white dot inlays. For regularly touring musicians, a heel-mount truss rod adjust thumbwheel is a must, allowing for quick and convenient neck relief tweaks.

This axe features an HH pickup configuration and comes loaded with DiMarzio® Super Distortion® DP100 bridge and DiMarzio PAF Pro® DP151 neck pickups. Explore this instrument’s versatile voice with a three-way pickup blade switch, tone control and a volume control that conceals a push/pull coil split for even more tonal variations on tap. With the Floyd Rose® 1000 Series double-locking tremolo bridge system, you can also dive to rumbling depths or add a well-placed rising harmonic without sacrificing your tuning.Destined for center stage­­, the Pro San Dimas Style 1 HH FR E Ash comes in a grain-filled shocking Neon Pink Ash finish with pink pickup bobbins, black hardware and a licensed Fender® Strat® headstock.

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The Charvel Pro Stock DS1

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Make a statement. The Charvel Pro Stock series delivers more new tonal and stylistic options to the new world of the modern guitar player.  The Pro Stock DS1 has a single-cutaway mahogany body with a carved top and neck-through-body design.

Features include a mahogany neck with contoured heel, cool color-contrast binding (Gold Metallic features cream binding) and pickup bobbins, compound-radius rosewood fingerboard (12″-16″) with 24 jumbo frets and alumiloid keystone inlays, Seymour Duncan® ’59™ humbucking neck and JB™ bridge pickups with 3-way toggle switching, Charvel bridge specially designed for compound-radius fingerboards, satin chrome hardware, three-on-a-side locking Charvel tuners, and metallic and sunburst finishes with matching headstocks. Available in Black, Blue, Red Metallic, Gold Metallic and Cherry Sunburst (dual Seymour Duncan® ’59™ pickups on Cherry Sunburst model only).

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