Charvel has actually revealed 5 brand-new additions to its Pro Mod and MJ series, consisting of 2 24-fret Pro-Mod Dinky develops and 3 brand-new Japanese designs. Both are noteworthy for various factors.
Up, the Pro-Mod Relic San Dimas Style 1 captures our eye for bringing relic’ing to the company’s core line-up. It appears that Evergrey guitar player Henrik Danhage’s signature design was the test bed for the method and now it’s been presented in the Pro-Mod series.
Paired with the fingerboard’s comfortable rolled edges and a neck completed with hand-rubbed urethane gel, the outcome, states Charvel, is “The broken-in feel of an instrument with lots of playing miles on it, and plenty more to go.”
The construct is based around an alder San Dimas body, with a graphite-reinforced maple neck and a pau ferro fretboard. The neck looks quite quick, too, with a 12-16″ substance radius on the fingerboard, plus those rolled edges.
There are 2 direct-mounted Seymour Duncan humbuckers — providing a timeless, if high output, pairing of a JB TB-4 and ’59 SH-1N– plus a three-way selector switch and Floyd Rose 1000 tremolo.
Unlike the gloss surfaces discovered somewhere else in the Pro-Mod variety, this antique utilizes a nitrocellulose lacquer as a base for the synthetic aging procedure, which– as far as we can inform– is another very first for Charvel (a minimum of beyond its United States Custom variety).
Anticipate the Pro-Mod Relic San Dimas Style 1 to set you back $1,599.
Somewhere else in the Pro-Mod line-up you can’t assist however identify the brand-new surface alternatives for the DK24 HH. The caramelized maple neck variation is now readily available in Malibu Sunset ($1,299) and Bubblegum Pink ($1,249) and, at the other end of the scale, there’s a moody brand-new ebony fingerboard choice ($1,199).
Charvel’s leading non-US-made line, the MJ Series, has actually included a trio of HSS set up electrical guitarsThese builds commemorate the Japanese workmanship that formed much of the brand name’s ’80s output, by, well … utilizing Japanese workmanship.
Previously, if you desired an HSS setup you were restricted to Rick Graham’s MJ signature designWhile that’s a bring building and construction in itself, 2024’s arrivals provide us a set of San Dimas constructs (with an option of Metallic Red surface and maple fretboard, or Satin Black with ebony fretboard), both of which will retail for $1,699.
There’s a launching in the MJ variety for Charvel’s So Cal body, once again in HSS format ($1,599) and including the very same pickup set as its San Dimas brother or sisters (a combination of a Seymour Duncan JB TB-4 in the bridge and 2 Flat Strat single coils in the center and neck positions).
In other places, all 3 of the brand-new MJ HSS designs include maple speed necks ended up with hand-rubbed oil [sounds relaxing – Ed.]plus rolled fingerboard edges, Gotoh Double-Locking Tremolos, and Gotoh tuners.
If you’re not knowledgeable about Charvel, you might be questioning what the distinction is in between the So Cal and San Dimas, and the response depends on the So-Cal’s Fender-style scratchplate, which sees the pickups and electronic devices front-loaded, like a Stratrather than the rear-loaded format of the San Dimas.
For additional information on all the brand-new Pro-Mod and MJ designs, head to Charvel
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