Carvin DC127

2008 Made in USA. 24 frets, maple neck through alder solid body in a very smooth, perfect solid white gloss finish. Volume and Tone knobs, a 3 way pickup switch, and 2 coil splitting switches. Pickup configuration Humbucker/Humbucker using Carvin stock passive S22's with black covers. Body style similar to a Strat with a fixed Carvin FT6 bridge and Sperzel locking tuners. Neck is ebony fretboard with dot inlays and medium jumbo frets. Included ABS molded and padded case and strap locks.

I play several types of guitar driven music. I use Guitar Rig 3 for my guitar modeling. The only noise I hear is when the buckers are split and I am using only one coil and even then it's not that bad, buzzy like a Strat. Believe it or not Carvin makes some of the most underrated pickups on the market and they are almost half the price of leading replacement pickups. The guitar is full sounding but bright, not too bright on the bridge bucker and nice and smooth and warm using the neck bucker. I am not a person who likes to use both together so I have no opinion on that. Good versatility for almost any music form I can think of.

The guitar came in nearless flawless and the action was just about as good as it gets out there in guitar land. I was skeptical because I hate ordering guitars by mail without touching or hearing first. I once ordered three Ibanez guitars (same model) and each one had a completely different feel and neck profile, I mean really not even close, so I thinned to one and got this Carvin.

looks and feels sturdy and tough. The hardware looks great in black on a white guitar. I think this guitar is a keeper for a long time to come.

Carvin has always been good to me. Hopefully it stays that way. Shipping has always been lightning fast.

10,10,10. Consider the DC 127. Consider the DC 127. Consider the DC 127!!!!!! Especially for the price this guitar is probably in all reality unbeatable.

Late 90's early 2000's all USA made DC127 Lefty in trans Vintage yellow. Thin Compound radius Neck, 24 Jumbo frets, Ebony Board, Locking Sperzel Tuners. Hard tail, stock Carvin pickups, H/H design with 3 way toggle and phase switches. Alder wings with maple neck thru body with super smooth uninhibited reach right to 24. I'm giving this a 9 simply because it needs a Graphite nut instead of plastic and it has a generic bridge, could use some graph techs saddles. having a generic bridge and plastic nut doesn't hurt the guitar at all, just upgrading them would improve tuning stability a little more, and are really the only areas of improvement I could find on the guitar, everything else is flawless.

Played thought a Pod Pro preamp or a Mesa Studio Tube Preamp and a Carvin TS-100 all tube power amp into a Mesa 1x12 thiele ported cab with EVL12M. This guitar is beyond magnificent in both sound and playability. The Ebony board give the tone a little snappy brightness like maple and added sustain, which this guitar has tons of due to the neck thru. It will do everything from bone crushing metal to blues, jazz and clean playing with ease, these Carvin pickups are some of the best, if not the best stock pickups I have ever played on. I'm a hardcore Dimarzio fan and for the first time I haven't felt like ripping these pickups out 2 seconds after playing the guitar. They remind me of Super Distortions, with plenty of harmonics and sustain, with the ability to change character just by backing the volume down. Even in standard tuning you can get a very mean crushing metal sound, then shred to your hearts delight. There is an option the throw them out of phase, but this option only sounds good in the middle position with a clean or blues sound, since the other two have some hum, which is inevitable.

Since I got it used I really can't comment to much on this, it played really well before I set it up, I can get the action very low with minimal buzzing. The fret ends are a little sharp, this may just be due to the natural shrinkage of the ebony. Either way, not a major issue and easy fix.

This guitar is solid as a rock and could easily stand up to a world tour or just a bar gig or two. The volume pot loosened up a little, easy fix though and happens to all guitars.

No opinion since I have never delt with them directly, but everything I hear is that there great.

I am absolutely in love with this guitar. I Own a Ibanez Jem 77BFP/rg550 hybrid, a super rare Ibanez rg3120TW Prestige, a ESP m-207L, I've also owned a slew of others including Kramer, Fender, Schecter and Jackson and this guitar can hold its own to all of them. us leftys don't get many options but Carvin really comes through. I think I'm going to order a 727 soon. Grab one if you can!

Alder body, super strat, ebony fret board, sst frets. carvin crapistic pickups.

This guitar sounds like a carvin----bleh. Frumpish and uninteresting. If i could get a fender to sound this bad, i would be able to open up a factory in china. thin, man, thin, thats all i can say about the sound.

this is where carvin is good. the frets are pretty good for this price range, maybe two high or low ones (i cant tell). but it only rattles at the 14th fret and frets out at the 17th. the finish is sunburst and it is flawless

it is built quite well. i use it for rehersals at a friends house mainly because the sound is not siotable for live playing IMO (too thin). i would say it is pretty dependable aside from too frequent truss rod adjusting.

Carvin customer service is like a crap fish that ate a crap stack burger at the crap shack and took a giant crap in a porto-crapper bathroom and then smeared crap on the walls. these losers are a joke. They were rude to me on the phone when i ordered. I heard wrappers rustling around in the background and i think the guy burped while he was on the phone with me. Yeah he was actually eating potato chips while on the phone with me, and he burped at me. i actually still think that is hilarious. they never get back to you when they say they are going to. this guitar was 3 weeks late and they never notified me of when it was going to be shipped. i missed the UPS guys and had to go pick it up myself, why, because i had no idea it was on its way!

this guitar is OK for the price. carvin has seriouse probs with their cust. service.

200? Carvin DC-127. Mahogany Neck-thru, Mahogany Body. Clear Gloss finish. 24 Fret, 25" scale. Ebony fretboard with Large Abalone shell fret markers. Master volume, master tone, two coil tap switches and a phase switch. Stap-locks. String through body bridge. Seymour Duncan SH-PG-1 Pearly Gates in the neck and a SH-13 Dime-Bucker in the bridge position. Sperzel locking tuners. Chrome plated metal pickup rings also added. Carvin Tweed case. Individual volume and tone controls would give it a 10 score.

EXCELLENT TONE and sustain. BIG sounding. This guitar can cover about any type of music, period. The taped coil sounds are very nice played clean, and can be further thinned out with the phase switch. Splitting the coil of the Dime-Bucker is actually closer to the output of a good Tele/Strat single coil. In single coil mode the guitar sounds very good with light to mediun-heavy distortion. Both humbuckers sound great clean as well. The Dime-Bucker needs the volume rolled back a tad bit though for the really clean stuff in humbucker mode. The guitar is nothing short of fantastic with the bridge pickup,under High/Ultra Gain settings. The treble bite of the Dime-Bucker is a perfect match for the ALL MAHOGANY body and neck, with Ebony Fretboard. Never muddy, and powerful indeed.

Very Low action!!! SUPER-FAST Neck with perfect frets. Beautiful Clear-Gloss finish. Excellent Abalone inlay in the Ebony fretboard with no sign of filler. Light, comfortable, and balanced well. Top quality build! I cant find anything that is not perfect. Excellent tuning stabilty.

Built like a Bomb-Shelter. SOLID...It will outlast me. I am 45

Honestly, I have never had to deal with Carvin, though I own several Carvin produts. I must leave no opinion.

QUALITY-QUALITY-QUALITY!!! Great guitar at any cost, period! Would sell other guitars I own, and pay Full Price, if I had to replce it. Hard to believe one guitar could sound so good Clean, and be such a Beast through a even the highest gain settings. I bought it like new but used, with case, and have about $725.00 total, counting the Duncans. The stock M-22 pickups sounded very good with the Mahogany, but the Duncans have a small bit more output when tapped, and can do the more extreme gain settings.

Updated review. I reviewed this a few years back and really burned it. I was PO'd because I couldn't get a replacement armseat for the Wilkinson Trem. I still haven't found one, but after getting it out of it's case for the first time in many many months and cleaning the hell out of the pots and resoldering the battery box, I repost.
It's all black with unfinished ebony neck SS frets, Sperzel tuners and active electronics HH, coil split, I don't know what some of the switches and knobs do, and a carvin case. Bought used for 500. I think it's a late 90's in good condition, no scratches. Tons of features.

I play blues and classic rock. I play through what ever is at the studios I rehearse at. Like jazz 120, Fender blues jr., Matchless. They lined the control with copper and it is not noisy. I use Tube screamer, Dunlop wah, boss dd3. It sounds fairly full and manly on full HH setting. Other settings get thin to wierd. Sounds really good straight to BJ. I wish I could get the trem going without spending 100 for a whole unit. Great for tapping, speed, and variety. Wish I could play better to see it's full potential.

Got used. The pots had a major dirt problem. Lowest, fastest, action possible, stailess on elbony is slick and bright. Black gloss finish is flawless, kinda funny but clean where it stops at the neck.

Could play live definately but, with the electronics a little finicky and after the promblem with the battery wires coming off, I'd bring backup, my Les Paul or US Strat, just in case I broke a string.

Since I didn't buy new I felt they treated me like s**t when I tried to get the "seat" for the trem arm. Not good for biz but they don't seem to care. Worthless to this second hand buyers. I don't mean to devalue the resale value but that's my experience.

Player 27 years, own a ton, Gibsons, Fenders, Martins, PRS, and much more. Marshall, Jazz 120, US blues jr., recording stuff, too. The guy who sold it to me said it would be easy to replace the bar, not. I wouldn't sell it but wouldn't but another. Their 15 watt amps look cool. I love the action, unpluged is awsome. Plugged in needs more mojo. Wish it had the trem. I think it's a good git for the money, BUY MADE IN USA

Most notably I added a flame top over the alder sides and 5 piece neck to the options which makes it look beautiful, gloss finished body tung oiled neck Koa and maple. I went active electronics, maintained the hardtail bridge, and went for pearl inlays. Plus straplocks.

All of the features I picked out are extremely elegant and practical. The guitar looks classy yet is a real workhorse that can take some abuse and really perform.

With the right pickups, there is no way this won't be a 10. Acoustically the instrument sounds great and the tone woods available are wonderful. Personally I wasn't thrilled with the sound with the carvin pickups but after changing them I really started to dig the sound.

Personally the number one thing I look for in a guitar is playability, comfort and look. Of course you need good tone woods for an exceptional guitar, but carvin has that covered.

With the forward midrange and volume of this guitar, I'm sure I'll make this guitar sound a 10 after another pickup swap.

This is where the guitar really shines, the combonation of a tung oiled neck, stainless steel frets, and ebony fretboard makes for the best playing guitar I have ever played. Also to me, neck through guitars play better and don't inhibit where you can move(because there is no neck heel. The playability on this instrument is outstanding and not even the more expensive Ibanez JEM beats its playability. The shape is extremely comfortable, and honestly it allows you to move freely. Mine is lightweight and never fatigues me.

Of coure the look is immaculate, but the frets are also very well done. As carvin is famous for, the guitar arrived in tune. Absolutely incredible how much care the people at carvin put into their instruments.

Everything on this guitar is cosmetically perfect and plays better than any other guitar on the market.

Another strong point of the carvin is the fact that they don't break easily. Playing in a metal band I've accidentally hit walls amps and band members with it, and it can take alot of abuse and still work great. I was very impressed with how this axe has held up over the 3 years I have had it so far.

Carvin builds its instruments so well that support really isn't neccessary. I haven't had to deal with them yet and I think thats a good thing.

While carvin pickups aren't the be all end all, the guitar certainly is. I could not be more proud of my purchase, and I have not stopped receiving complements on it since I first laid eyes upon it. Carvin takes pride in their work, and their instruments portray their values.

If stolen or lost I would absolutely buy another, I really do love this guitar.

1993 DC 127 model. Has upgraded Tom Anderson humbucker pickups, Kahler Steeler tremolo system, alder body with poplar wings, maple neck-thru. Beautiful birdseye maple fingerboard. Features Carvin tuners and additionally, one volume knob, 1 3-way pickup selector, and a coil tap for the bridge. Absolutely beautiful translucent vintage yellow finish.

I play primarily 80s metal and shred. The Tom Anderson pickups are fantastic, the cleans are amazing full and rich. I'm running these through a Line 6 Podxt Live. The distortion is excellent, it's bright, but that makes it fantastic for a lead tone. It can produce jazzy cleans to strat type classic rock to full on heavy metal tones.

The action is very low, making it very easy to play. I bought it in used condition, however everything is in great condition, including the neck which is nice and thin. The bridge is set parallel, pickups in perfect position, everything is great.

This guitar is built rock solid. Has solid strap buttons, durable finish, and excellent electronics. I would certainly use this for gigging without a doubt.

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I've been playing for a little over a year, and this guitar is everything I could ever want. I would certainly buy this one again if it were possible. I love the neck, as well as the bridge. Finally, I think this is a one of a kind find that is fantastic.

DC127C-2006-Black stain on Quilted Maple top w/ matching headstock-Rounded body sides-Floyd Rose w/ locking nut-stainless frets-ebony fingerboard-no inlays-M22SD & C22N PUs-just the basic elect- Tung oil finish on back of neck-Black hardware-Strap locks- Tweed case

M22SD sounds great but the M22N is sorta underpowered. Had a few slight adjustmants to make when I got it and the coilsplitter for the neck PU didn't work for single coil mode(don't use single anyway). They sent me a new one right away.

All great

Gotta love it

They do take care of me

This guitar will do it all. My particular model has a fixed bridge and no trem, but you can have the same guitar built with a trem if you like. I have an Ibanez Jem which has a great trem, the best available IMO so having a guitar without a trem that can change tunings quickly is more valueable to me at the moment anyway.

I believe mine is the standard trim from Carvin for a DC127: alder body, ebony fretboard, 24 frets, neck-thru construction, 12" radius fretboard, pearl dot inlays, fixed strat style bridge, 2 humbuckers with coil splits for each. I am 99% sure the pickups are the default Carvin models C22N/C22B - whatever they are they are definitely Alnico V magnets and sound great.

If mine does not have the feature that you want, such as trapezoid inlays, mahogany neck and body with or without a maple body, or a fretboard perhaps made of rosewood or maple instead of ebony, you can have one made however you want which is a really cool option. The guys at Carvin do a really good job and it's all factory direct so that makes Carvins a really good value.

I play a variety of styles like classic rock, hard rock, progressive rock, blues, metal, etc. I should mention that I am a tone freak, and will not even use some equipment out there if it was free.

So far I played the guitar more in the store through a Peavey Classic 50 more than I have through any of my all-tube Marshalls or my Vox AC30, but I find my favorite sound is a mildly overdriven fusion tone. It sounds great both clean and distorted, and the pickups also have rich harmonics which is rare for pickups to do clean and distorted so nicely.

I compared the guitar to a Jackson, and an ESP which both sell new for over three times the price of the Carvin DC127. They both had 10s on them where the DC127 only had what I am fairly sure is a set of 8s, and the DC127 was easily the best of the bunch and sells new for a third the price! After playing the DC127, I was not expecting to like either guitar better, but I thought they would be able to hold their own. They had more lows and a tigher sound, but there was an inch difference in action and they did not even sound nearly as good until you get a real heavy amount of gain on either.

I was totally shocked at how good the Carvin stock pickups sound in contrast with the wood. The alder top gives the guitar a fairly balanced tone with rich midranges. The coil tap switches add so much more versatility. Most coil tap switches that I have seen I would never use because the contrast is too harsh - the humbucker has a big mean sound and the single coil sounds very thin in contrast.

On my Carvin DC127, the single coils do sound a little thinner as to be expected, but as single coils they are not overly bright or harsh sounding in comparison to the full humbucker. Additionally, the guitar sounds equally good with the coils tapped as without. My favorite combination right off the bat is using the bridge as a humbucker and tapping the coil of the neck pickup which makes both pickups sound the same volume (and the highs are about the same that way as well). I can turn the coil tap switch off and use the neck pickup to solo and it gives the appropriate boost and makes a tube amp sound really warm.

This is easily one of the better sounding guitars that I have ever played.

I bought it used and it was setup for 8s. The action was insanely low when I got it.

The particular model is a little bit beat up and the price was affordable which is what attracted my attention, but after playing the guitar I had to check the price tag again to make sure that I was reading it correctly. The neck is perfectly straight and the radius is even, and the neck is about just right - it is slightly fatter than the neck on my Ibanez Jem with a slightly different shape to it, which felt very natural to me.

I compared it with an ESP and Jackson just as a reference, both which cost over three times more new than the baseline DC127. I really expected more from both of them. There was absolutely no comparision - the only thing either had on the DC127 was a little more low end, and possibly better sustain (from the mahogany body / maple tops). Additionally, the action was not even close and it was apparent to me, being as I am very proficient in doing setups on guitars that either guitar would never have action twice that of the Carvin DC127 without skipping a note and buzzing horrendously.

The only thing that I do not like about the guitar is that it has Sperzel locking tuners. I have had a really bad past with the same tuners on my G&L which regularly slip and break for me.

It seems like it is made like a rock. If I owned it for longer I would be able to better judge.

Bought it used. No dealings with the company.

The price tag initially attracted me to the guitar. I have played one Carvin before many years ago, and do not remember it being that good but I played a very different style of music back then and I do remember considering buying that guitar because it was a great value.

I was only looking for a banger when I came across my DC127 that I could carry around and not care if it gets stolen, damaged or destroyed, but this guitar is well beyond my wildest dreams for a "banger" price - all of $425 plus tax. Even for the new price, the value of this guitar is amazing and I was blown away by the quality of the entire instrument throughout.

Judging by my DC127, Carvin will build you whatever you want at great quality and price that makes gas look cheap. My only problem is that you don't get to walk into a store and play one new. Fortunately, I happened to be in the store at the right time and got myself a hell of a steal.

carvin dc127, made in usa, 2005. 24 fret. maple neck through alder body. rosewood fretboard (extra cost option). pickups- c22n, neck, c22b, bridge. three way switch, neck/bridge/both. dual to single coil switch for each pickup. ft6 fixed bridge (string through body). sperzel locking tuners. passive electronics. chrome hardware. strat style double cutaway body. translucent finish, vintage yellow face with cherry burst edges. black pickups, black bezels. 14 inch radius fretboard. (extra cost option)-seperate volume and tone for each pickup instead of standard one volume and tone for all.

suits my style, which is varied. blues, rock,country, folk, psuedo classical/jazz. this guitar could produce the tones to work for any. absolutely silent! no noise, buzz, hum. pickups loud and strong. clean and bright on bridge p/u single coil. mellow and smooth on neck p/u. humbucker mode really brought out harmonics, real nice full sound. finger picking would almost sound like two instruments. sustain went on and on and on. however, i ended up returning the guitar because of crosstalk on the volume controls. adjusting the volume on one pickup actively changed the volume on the other. it was impossible to replicate tones by adjusting/mixing volumes of the pickups. oh yeah, no effects just on old 50 watt silvertone tube amp(rescued from the dump) pumping through 2 12inch 100 watt speakers.

action fit and finish were immpecable. set up was excellent. a really good looking guitar that plays very nice and easy! no fret buzz on any string at any fret. neck properly bowed, action extremely low.

seems to be rock solid and high quality all the way. gig with out a backup? yes. but i have never gigged with a backup. so that's a wash.

warranty-5 years for manufacturing defects. carvin covered the shipping both ways on my return for repair. you get 10 days to try it before you buy it. on the eleventh day, you can return it for credit on your next purchase from carvin, but you won't get your money back. sales people are freindly enough, most want to help you get exactly the guitar you want, but they are not experts and there are options not listed in the catalog. and there are options they don't know about or are not aware of. Technical support at carvin really, really sucks. no answer, differing answers, always referred to some guy i could never get ahold of. came close one time...probably should have used the name Joe Walsh or Keith Richards.

played 1965-75 for my second income. 20 year break for marriage, kids, canoe trips etc. from then to present playing all i can when i can. gear- that '63 silvertone amp i mentioned, a model 5060 Alvarez Yairi acoustic, 1969 silvertone electric guitar and a few garage sale types acoutic and electric. also a fuzz and a wah-wah from the late '60's but i haven't used them in quite a while. oh yeah and a carvin dc 135. if lost or stolen i'd look at a lot more guitars before i'd decide. $900 is a lot of money to me, and every guitar is different. just like fingerprints no two are identical. don't love it, don't hate it. it is a very very good guitar. except for the volume control problems on the dc 127.oh, i read on the carvin bulletin board chat that returned guitars are sent to one of the two carvin stores in calif. the dc127 i sent back showed up on the in stock ready to ship list on carvins web site. really dude, same serial number and all. probably with the same problem i sent it back for. ??? oh before you order, check sale prices in catalog and sale prices on line-ask for the better price