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Charvel guitars are the very embodiment of high-performance tone machines, and discerning players who prize superior sound and feel have turned to the company's finely crafted guitars as their weapons of choice for more than 30 years. From metal masters including Warren DeMartini and Jake E Lee to instrumental fusion legends such as Allan Holdsworth and Shawn Lane to modern day virtuosos like Guthrie Govan, musicians worldwide have long relied on the exceptional design and performance of a Charvel.
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Charvel Henrik Danhage Ltd Signature Pro-Mod So-Cal Style 1 HS FR M Guitar
It's Back! As if it’s been through 20 years of touring, the Henrik Danhage Limited Edition Signature Pro-Mod So-Cal Style 1 sports a heavy White Relic finish topped with a 3-ply white ...
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Charvel Pro Mod DK24 HH 2PT CM Electric Guitar
A brazen instrument for the progressive guitarist, Charvel® created the high-performance Pro-Mod DK24 HH 2PT CM to take your music to an unparalleled spectrum of sound. Featuring a sculpted ...
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Charvel Sean Long Signature Pro-Mod San Dimas® Style 1 HH HT M Guitar
Sheffield metal core act While She Sleeps has been tearing it up for over 15 years now on the metal scene with a DIY approach, amassing a hardcore audience across the UK with an intense and highly-acclaimed ...
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Charvel Pro-Mod Relic San Dimas® Style 1 HH FR PF Guitar with Bag
Each Pro-Mod Relic San Dimas® Style 1guitar is meticulously crafted from superb alder wood, renowned for its lightweight and tonal clarity. The distressed body not only adds personality and a sense of history ...
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Charvel MJ San Dimas® Style 1 HSS FR Ebony Fingerboard Guitar
Classic Charvel hot-rod style gets a brooding makeover with the MJ San Dimas® Style 1 HSS FR E in Satin Black with gold hardware. The alder body features a sculpted shredder’s cut heel that ...
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Charvel Phil Sgrosso Signature Pro Mod SC1 Guitar
In his honor, Charvel presents the Phil Sgrosso Signature Pro-Mod which is a brutally modern take on a classic design. As I Lay Dying principal songwriter and guitarist Phil Sgrosso is a formidable creative ...
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Charvel Pro Mod San Dimas Style 1 HH FR
Southern California is a hotbed of guitar innovation, from new musical styles and sounds to hot-rodded high-performance guitar designs. The Charvel Pro-Mod San Dimas Style 1 2H FR, the ideal instrument for ...
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Charvel Pro Mod SanDimas SD1 Ebony Neck Floyd Rose Electric Guitar
Boasting scorching sound with stunning style, the Pro Mod SanDimas SD1 is an ideal instrument for dazzling high-speed playing. Its body is crafted from alder and is coupled with a bolt-on maple neck with a pair of ...
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Charvel Pro Mod DK22 SSS 2PT CM Guitar
Designed with elegance, the Pro-Mod DK22 is a sleek new instrument designed especially for a new breed of player whose musical vision and versatility knows no bounds. Charvel® continues to up the ante for ...
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Charvel Pro-Mod San Dimas Style 1 HSS FR M Guitar
Designed with style in mind, the Pro-Mod San Dimas® Style 1 HSS FR M boasts scorching sound, stunning style and grin-inducing playing feel and performance. An ideal instrument for dazzling high-speed playing, ...
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Charvel Pro-Mod So-Cal Style 1 HSS Floyd Rose Ebony Guitar
Get yourself the Charvel Pro-Mod So-Cal Style 1 HSS Floyd Rose Ebony guitar if you're serious about shredding! This beautiful instrument packs a punch with an Alder So-Cal body and a maple neck that is built with ...
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Charvel Pro Mod DK24 Dinky HH FR M Mahogany Guitar QuiltTop
Charvel’s Pro-Mod DK24 HH FR M Mahogany with Quilt Maple brings elegance to the realm of high performance. This instrument is the just the thing for the newest breed of guitar player with musical vision and ...
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Charvel MJ San Dimas® Style 1 HSH FR PF QM Guitar
The MJ San Dimas® Style 1 HSH FR PF QM is a brazen new model designed for the progressive guitarist seeking a spectrum of sound beyond the norm. The alder body with quilt maple top is wrapped in either a wicked ...
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Charvel Warren DeMartini Signature Snake Pro Mod Electric Guitar
Ready to Ratt-n-Roll! The new Pro-Mod Warren DeMartini Signature Snake was designed and built to Warren’s demanding specifications. Features include a Custom Designed Seymour Duncan humbucker, Seymour Duncan ...
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Charvel Jake E Lee Signature Pro-Mod So-Cal Style 1 HSS HT RW Guitar
Guitar virtuoso Jake E Lee blazed trails in the 1980s with Ratt and Rough Cutt before landing his legendary gig as Ozzy Osbourne’s lead guitarist. His acclaimed career continued with Badlands and now Red ...
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Charvel Pro Mod DK24 HSH Electric Guitar
Unbelievable full and crushing tone, the Pro Mod DK24 HSH features a mahogany body in the classic Dinky style. A stunning new instrument designed especially for a new breed of player whose musical vision and ...
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Charvel Pro-Mod DK24 HSH 2PT CM Guitar
Blending standout style with assertive tone, the Pro-Mod DK24 HSH 2PT CM guitar feature elegant style and crushing tone. The Pro-Mod DK24 HSH 2PT CM is a stunning new instrument designed especially for a new breed ...
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Charvel PM DK24 HSS 2PT CM Ash Electric Guitar Caramelized Neck
Charvel once again reaches new heights of modern high performance, elegant style, and crushing tone with the Pro-Mod DK24 HSS 2PT CM Ash, a stunning instrument designed especially for a new breed of guitar player ...
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Charvel DK22 SSS 2PT CM Guitar Caramelized Neck
With its new Pro-Mod DK22 SSS 2PT CM, Charvel continues to up the ante for modern high performance combined with standout style and full-spectrum tone. This sleek new instrument is designed especially for a new ...
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Charvel Pro Mod San Dimas Style 1 HH FR M QM
An ideal instrument for dazzling high-speed playing, the San Dimas Style 1 HH FR M QM boasts scorching sound, stunning style and grin-inducing playing feel and performance. Featuring an alder body with an elegant ...
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Charvel electric guitars are high-octane axes that are sure to make some serious noise! Channeling the energy of their legendary models from the late 1970s and 1980s, modern Charvels are bold, bright, and take charge on the performance stage. You’re getting a relaxed, well-balanced guitar that is comfortable to play. With their rock-solid bolt-on necks, fantastic color palette of finishes that go well beyond the basics, plus hardware and components that have been carefully selected for maximum stability and sonic presence, a Charvel is ready to rock and will make a wonderful addition to any musical setup.
California in 1974 was a flurry of musical activity and a serious epicenter for guitar talent. It was at this time that Wayne Charvel opened his repair shop in Azusa, California. He may have not known it then, but Charvel’s Guitar Repair would quickly become a driving force in kickstarting aftermarket builds, hot-rodded instruments, and free-thinking experimentation when it came to both the visual and sonic elements of electric guitar. During this era, Fender, Gibson, and many of the other big names weren’t doing any of their own custom guitar work for the general public. Instead, they directed those requests to a select number of independent luthiers and technicians. Charvel’s background as a sign painter, electrical engineer, and creative designer, along with his overall enthusiasm for guitar all culminated into his shop getting these opportunities.
After a year in Azusa, Charvel moved its operations to nearby San Dimas. The town lived and breathed rock and heavy metal guitar, and the new shop became a hugely popular gathering space for technicians, collaborators, and up-and-coming musicians. Even when the company would change locations years down the road, San Dimas would always be close by and remain at the heart of the brand. When doing modifications, Charvel often incorporated bodies and parts from the newly formed Schecter Guitar Research, pickups from DiMarzio, and other aftermarket manufacturers of components. The list of hard-working musicians looking to upgrade their axes included a young Eddie Van Halen, who was a frequent visitor of the space. The very first of Van Halen’s iconic striped ‘Frankenstein’ guitars was built using a spare body, neck, and parts from Charvel’s shop along with cans of spray paint. This was the first step in a journey that included an eventual striped custom-made Charvel all the way to his own lineup of EVH Striped Series electric guitars.
Starting to see a trend here with Charvel’s relationship to some familiar and well-known names? Schecter. DiMarzio. EVH. These are some serious brands! And last but not least, you also have Jackson.
Wayne Charvel also was introduced to Grover Jackson (yes, the eventual founder of Jackson Guitars), a budding luthier who had plenty of new business ideas. The two became partners and realized there was potential in building and selling their own guitars, and that repairs and modifications weren’t enough to keep things moving forward financially. Charvel had already begun exploring guitar building prior to meeting Jackson, but things had hit a snag up to that point. The two men strategized and moved forward with their plans, but over the course of the next year it become clear that they each had differing opinions on future operations and weren’t able to come to a compromise. In 1978, Jackson bought out Charvel’s interest in the company, took charge, and pushed forward.
Even though Wayne Charvel was no longer part of the company, it was during Jackson’s time in charge that the Charvel name exploded in popularity. They first got to work hiring eager builders, engineers, and staff, transitioning from making instruments from third-party parts to crafting their own necks and bodies. Charvel ‘Superstrats’ debuted in 1979, sporting compound radius fingerboards, modern tremolo systems, and exemplary paint work. In addition to the ‘Superstrat,’ Charvel built models based off the Telecaster and Explorer, and also started offering guitars made from more lightweight woods.
In 1980 Grover Jackson met with Randy Rhoads, who at the time was in the middle of touring with Ozzy Osbourne, to discuss building a new guitar. Rhoads insisted on going with an intense offset V shape, which was quite a radical design. Concerned that the instrument might alienate purists and their expectations of the Charvel line, Jackson put his own name on the new Rhoads guitar and Jackson Guitars was officially born. Throughout the 80s, both Charvel and Jackson instruments were marketed alongside each other, both enjoying immense popularity and success. This was a true boom period for Charvel - their instruments were being used by megastars on tours and were the de facto guitar of choice for hordes of rockers. Their expansion and critical acclaim led them to research new ideas, refine their build processes, and hire more experts into the fold. This required immense amounts of capital and ultimately the decision was made to seek additional outside investors.
Ultimately, the differing strategies from investors and management would lead Jackson to divest from the company in 1989 so he could pursue other projects. The 1990s and early 2000s saw the mainstream scenes shift away from over-the-top arena rock, glam, and bombastic shredding styles. And for awhile Charvel faded deep into the background, the name being primarily mentioned only in the expanding vintage markets.
Recognizing just how much of a historic and cultural significance the Charvel name provided, Fender bought the brand in 2002 and went about reintroducing their designs to a new generation of rockers. New genres of guitar music, renewed interest in 80s culture, and the rise of social media have led to a serious resurgence in popularity. With a full and ever-expanding lineup of guitars available, there is a Charvel with the right look and style just waiting for you!
Charvel is fully embracing the designs, builds, and styles that made them a behemoth in the 1980s. American Musical Supply is excited to carry their instruments - when you pick up one and plug it in, you’ll be inspired to start making music right away!
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