Charvel Charvette

I believe this guitar was made between 1989 and 1994 but not sure where. 24 frets. Volume control only with pickup selector. One charvel humbucker in bridge and one charvel single coil in neck. Not sure of body wood, but neck is maple with rosewoood fretboard. Body is cock rock orange and dinky strat style. Bridge is Jackson licensed by floyd rose. Has lock behind the nut with traditional headstock. Neck is thin and fast as hell with jumbo frets. Came with SKB case.

I play original death metal in the vein of latter day carcass/death with a touch of vintage sabbath. The guitar is great for solos but less than great on rhythms because of the floating bridge that does not give me the feel I need for rhythm work. Maybe if it was clamped down somehow it could be better? I use marshall valvestate, peavey supreme 160 and metaltronix amps. This guitar has no feedback problems whatsoever at any volume! (unless you are using the neck single coil). The bridge pickup has a powerful balls to the wall sound and this guitar has the best resonance ever! You can hit an open A chord or open D chord and you can feel the neck vibrate in a pleasing sort of way unlike any guitar I have ever played or owned, including neck thru guitars. Incredible sustain. If playing at low volumes the neck pickup can get some great Yngwie/Paul gilbert tones. I mainly use this guitar to play fun shred Yngwie stuff during the week between band practices and gigs, when I just want to have fun playing guitar in an 80s shred sort of way without worrrying about any band stuff. A great escape to the 1980s. I wish I had one then! this guitar is also the ultimate for doing scales and dexterity exercises. It stays in tune better than my true locking nut jackson rhoads with the floyd!

I bought this guitar used and the input jack was worn along with the volume knob, which likes to back off on its own. Pickups were adjusted perfect and frets were almost perfect except a little wear on the first 3 frets lower strings only. I can't believe the finish and frets are in such good shape considering the condition of the input jack and volume control! Overall, this guitar appears to have been engineered by a super genius!

I have played this guitar live and aside from checking the volume control, which I automatically do anyway from time to time, it worked great. Hardware and finish is killer, but the color makes me feel like I am in the Addicted to Love or Straight Up videos. It has aftermarket strap locks. I would always use a backup guitar.

would never even think of trying to figure that shit out.

I have been playing for 23 years and own a Randy Rhoads Jackson custom built for me in 1986; a 1964 Fender Jaguar; two 1984 Ovation Ultra Gs'; the aforementioned amps and an ibanez tube screamer and dimbag wah pedal. If lost or stolen i would carefully scan ebay for another. I don't know if the fixed/traditional bridges are as good as the jackson/floyds though, as I have only plaed the jackson/floyd bridges....I love the action, the frets, neck, playability and resonance. This is the best guitar for playing lead that I own, including the Jackson which I paid $1700 for! I am dead serious! Also the most resonant, including the neck thru Jackson! This is the kind of guitar that if you hit a chord kind of half assed on stage, it will do the rest of the work for you until you hit the next chord/note. I just can't say enough about how this guitar resonates better than neck thrus and has frets that you can feel when the hair is in your face and eyes full of stinging sweat and you can't see the fretboard! You can really throttle this guitar for Ace Frehely/Ritchie Blackmore type leads. I just wish the guitar was bigger, as I am a fat-ass and this little red bastard looks like a toy on my bloated gut.

LP shaped body (basswood), bolt-on ultra thin maple neck w/ rosewood fretboard, red and black burst on front, black on back... came stock w/ 2 CRAPPY humbuckers that sounded like total shit... 2 vol, tone pots... black hardware... bought in japan, i assume was made either in japan or korea... tune-o-matic bridge... i have never seen another charvette in the same configurtion outside of japan, which makes me think that this was made for the japanese market only... if you have a similar one, pls email me...

first of all, i have modded this guitar in the following way- i chucked the stock pups & replaced w/ gibson p-90's... awesome... but decided i needed more of a metal guitar, so i had a single fury 50's rocker pu installed in the bridge... also graphite bridge saddles... this guitar is very nice playing for a budget instrument... very fast neck and resonant body... after mods, this is an awesome rock guitar... simple 1 pu layout and reliable hardware... change the stock electronics and you have a well built and solid guitar... the fury (a canadian company) is a very high output pup w/loads of sustain... some would no doubt say it's wasted on a cheaper guitar... but man, this thing is amazing for metal... i am in a band and we play aggressive rock music... this baby cuts it... the above mark is after mods...

indifferent set-up... but good materials

very reliable... simple but solid hardware... no problem... i have played many gigs w/o a bachup- no problem...

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Good price for a decent instrument... do not buy a Charvette unless you are willing to soup it up a bit...

Not sure when it was made but I know it's old... 22 Frets. 1 Volume, 1 Tone, 3-way selector. Charvel pick-ups. Strat-style body. Red finish.

Great for metal, rock, or punk. Not noisy at all.

I've dropped, banged, smacked, and hit it off about everything and it still looks fine. The tremolo bar holder is broken but I got it used and I don't have any idea how they could've broken it.

It seems like the guitar will last forever. The finish never fades. Strap buttons stay tight. Only reason to have a back up is incase you break a string.

My only dislike is that I can't find alot of info on the guitar. I've tried to replace the tremolo and it's old so they can't replace it cheaply.

Great guitar... just old... but super durable

22 fret made in japan 1 volume 1 tone 5 way switch 1 hum 1 single coil, jumbo frets, charvel pickups maple neckboard floyd rose bridge

I play lots o megadeth metallica iced earth alice in chains, jimi hendrix, and SRV. This guitar is awsome for metal but not so much for blues, It is an awsome guitar for playing solos, not noisy at all, the humbucker kicks ass, but if you want to play slow rock or blues I would not play this guitar i have a fender strat i use for those styles, yet i still love the sound of this guitar.

There are no flaws on the guitar, everything was adjusted right, and even if it wasnt, if a person is good at guitar they know how to adjust the pickups and tweak the factory setups anyway, awsome finish, i have dropped the guitar on concrete and on many other surfaces and the paint has un-noticibaly cracked (if you look hard you can see it) the finish is still perfect.

It is reliable and durable and dependable

I love this guitar it plays great for a soloing style of music I would die if it was stolen i love it.

24 Fret, two jackson pickups, one of which is a hb. Three position switch to select one or both pickups. Unsure of wood type for body, definately maple neck, with rosewood fretboard. Finish is orange and black crackle (black painted cracks on a hideous puke yellowish color)

Floyd Rose bridge, with locking tuners. Low action, small radius, very smooth, definately designed for playing lead.

This has been the perfect "bust out into a solo" guitar. This guitar was actually my first electric, and I think now that's why I play lead guitar.

It seems to me that you could pull any sound out of this guitar. It has a very flat bright sound, but variations of amps and effects can achieve anything. I've been able to achieve surfer tones, loud earthy blues, and complete 80's rock.

The lower tones seem to carry, while the higher tones kind of diminish on the single pickup. The humbucker on the other hand really ballances everything, as well as pulling great harmonic frequencies too.

Overall the sounds that it pulls are allmost 'typical' sounding. There is not a whole lot of uniqueness to the sound, only the way that it feels. Which is definately not allways a bad thing.

I have had the guitar for 7 years now, and all in all it has only had one problem. The intination with the floyd rose has had problems. It was shortly after I first got the guitar. It seemed so bad, that I tried taking to a place to get it professionally fixed, and they started jacking up the price as it was taking them weeks of trying different things to get it fixed. Eventually they gave up and charged me a regular price and gave it back.

I have no idea what all of that was about, but I played with it a tiny bit and the intination is still a tad bit off but it's fine otherwise. I fear that this is from something in it's past and not something manufactured poorly.

I have torn the thing to pieces and put it back together again, it is very simple and durable. I broke the tremolo bar and three strings simutaneously during a live show once, but only because it is reasonably heavy and the strap broke. The guitar fell smack center on the tremolo bar.

The finish could easily be called bullet proof. And the weight and solidity of the guitar gives it the feel of a tank.

Never tried, and I don't know if there was ever a warranty.

There is something about this guitar that feels right. I wouln't trade it for my dream guitar, unfortunately. So I kind of feel stuck with it. That's very okay though. If I ever got my dream guitar, and didn't have this one any more, I would definitly seek another one just like it.

I've been playing on and off for eight years, I wouldn't ever get rid of this guitar, even if I one day stopped for good. This guitar has never collected dust unless all of my guitars were collecting dust.

Made in 1990, 24 frets, single volume knob. Bridge humbucker and neck single coil, with 3 way switch and no coil tap - they're both charvel pickups, passively wired.
Body is, I believe, mahogany and the neck is maple with a rosewood fingerboard. Typical superstrat with a floyd rose etc.
Not too many features, but the H-S pickup configuration is quite unique, so it gets a good rating.

Perfect for random metal noodlings (the neck is super fast), I play it through a Danelectro Black Coffee distortion into a Vox amp: perfect for any kind of Vai/Satch style shredding. Pretty much useless if you want anything that's not a solo though....

I can't really comment on this seeing as it was already 11 years old when I bought it. Came in pretty good nick though, considering its age.

This thing is pretty much indestructable ! I've thrown it around, yo-yo'd it with the Floyd (which looks to be nicely strong metal), and the thing's only got about three dents to it ! The strap buttons are large; very, very large. No need for straplocks.
I wouldn't gig it without a backup, simply because I'm paranoid. Some people might well do though.

I've had it for a month.

Been playing about 5 years now, and this is one of several guitars I own. Seems to be perfect for any kind of soloing with the sound and playability.
Please don't steal it, I love it, and I'd be hard pressed to find another like it...

22-fret neck, jumbo frets, locks. Volume and tone, 5w-sw, passive. Jackson pickups (J50 hb on bridge, 2 sc's are unlabelled). Floyd Rose where strings end up inside the trem cavity

i play mostly street punk and for some reason this guitar just sounds great....its got this nice kinda noisy punkih sound.....i like it...i like it alot

the action was so low it could almost play itself.....the picups were adjusted perfectly....its a bright red almost orangeish....just so awesome looking

i jump around alot and this guitar has taken falls to the cement and survived without chips and scratchs and what not...i could use it without a backup but it wouldn't matter anyway cuz my backup is a charvete too....i love this guitar

i've never dealt with them

i've been playin about two and half years...i own this one and another charvette (orange with black crackles) and a black one too.... i love all three of them and i don't think i'd ever play anything else....it sounds crazy but i'd take this guitar over a gibson les paul.....creepy

Age unknown but old and somewhat beaten.
22-fret neck, jumbo frets, locks. Volume and tone, 5w-sw, passive. Jackson pickups (J50 hb on bridge, 2 sc's are unlabelled). Floyd Rose where strings end up inside the trem cavity (making nasty angle).

I play random stuff; progressive mostly. The guitar has an oddly trebly (compared to oters I had then) sound which I believe is mostly the Jackson pickups. Adjust the amp for it and it's very nice.

I have no idea of the factory settings as i borrowed this to tune it. It was horible then and after i let go of it it was complimented on. I thought it was a great-playing guitar after string height, balance, intonation, bar strings etc were adjusted to fit together. As mentioned, this was a beat-up blue one with big cracks (pieces glued back on).

I'll give "no option" though the material looks very nice, I cant comment much on the hardware of originals.

I guess it had withstood quite a lot =). It seems very solid.

I don't deal with manufacturers.

I would take one for myself if found cheap. Funny little things.
I hear they're very underrated and distespected and thus very cheap.

I think it was made around the late 80's. It has 22 frets and has a humbucker and two single coils. All are Jackson/Charvel pick ups. The finish is a sort of dayglow red/orange. It has a vintage tremelo a fat neck with a reverse headstock and i got a strap and a lead cable with it.

It is excellent for Rock, as you'd expect. My friend has a Jackson PS and the guitars sound almost identical,(except his has a Floyd Rose). I play through a Korg AX1g into a Laney tube fusion amp, (TF200).

The action is very low. I need to adjust it. I am gtting a bit of fret buzz. Considering the guitar is at least 10 years old the finish is remarkable.

The finish is superb. The guitar looks like new.

I have been playing for 2 years and i have a fat Squire strat as well. My Charvette always get attention and considering its age plays and looks fantastic.

Red finish,3 single coil Charvel pickups standard trem(no Floydrose here), white lettered Charvette by Charvel on headstock,24 fret rosewood fretboard.

These Charvel single coils are GREAT!!! Very versitile & very meaty, reminds me of PRS pickups. I play blues rock & jazz & this does it all.

Pickups were adjusted right on, frets are extremely well finished,action is great, this is a real road warrior!!!

Everything works perfect after nearly 20 years! ROAD WARRIOR!!! Brick sh*t house tough!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Bought used but have gotten alot of info from Jackson on guitar! There are very helpful & friendly!!!

GREAT ALL THE WAY AROUND!!!!!!!!!