I had a 87' model 6 in 87...stolen in 89....just got a replacement 87...in fantastic condition. Stolen was black...had a scuff covered with a square playboy sticker and the Charvel logo was colored in with a marker on the case....the replacement is black cherry, and one latch is broken on the case...the guitar has a tiny surface ding that could be spot filled...best part I knew both the previous owners and this has been in a closet the last 20 year s. I went to high school with both these dudes. I am so happy to have this guitar
Sounds really good, Eighties super strats retained a Classic quality, a healthy mix of vintage Fender and Gibson guitars that contemporary modern high performance guitars lost in some way, cheers Johan!
I have a Kramer Beretta with a sustainiac, and 24 scalloped frets. It's beautiful, but I friggen hate dealing with the Floyd Rose.... Now I prefer a tele.
Through the last 30+ years my main guitar has been a late '84/early '85 Baretta with a Jackson custom shop neck I was allowed to design myself. It has a quartersawn maple neck and fretboard. Eddie refused to let Barettas be built with maple fretboards because he didn't want anyone copying his tone. The rosewood banana headstock things were okay, but they had a problem with both the location and glue of the scarf joint which caused many guitars to fret out at the first fret, including mine. Now that I have a legendary neck, life's good. Being all maple it's heavy as hell but with a wide thick leather strap and the ergonomics of the design I can play it for hours before I notice, much unlike a Les Paul. Ultimate axe!!
They were cracking guitars, I still have my Model 6 that I bought in 1986, love it, still my favourite, put in Bare Knuckle pups and it got a whole new lease of life.
Have a Charvel 88 ('84 Floyd, locking nut, wild bill 'n' becky's L500L) and an '87 model 1 with an '85 Floyd and an old Dimarzio SD. Great guitars. The old saying they don't make 'em like they used to just keeps coming true. I wish it were otherwise.
I have that exact guitar (model 3A in candy apple red bought in 1988) stored away, haven’t played it for 20 years....time to restring it and give it an outing methinks 😎👍❤️🎸🎶
In ‘89 I was 18..worked my butt off and bought a brand new les paul studio...I ended up trading it for a chunk of hash and an effects processor 3 months later..now that’s a dumb move..thank god those days are gone lol
Your enthusiasm for this guitar is apparent, love it. The guitar with your Bassman sounds killer man. You seemed really inspired to have some fun with it!
Nice axe, Johan! I have two Charvels, and they’re my go to guitars - very versatile. Charvels are definitely made for hard rock and heavy metal, but you can honestly play just about anything on them and sound great.
Brings me back to 1980, when I traded in my walnut Les Paul "The Paul" for a Charvel San Dimas guitar! It had a beautiful metallic pink/purple finish, whammy bar and the pointed headstock. Loved that guitar! When you dialed the volume down around the 8:00 minute mark, I was amazed at how great that guitar sounds acoustically. The chords, single note lines and tuning/intonation sounded great for a locking tremolo guitar!
Yeah those pointy guitars sure can ring out some loud tones ...cool...floyd rose and locking nut looked like a school metal work project ...great stuff Johan
I absolutely love my Charvel Toothpaste Logo 275 Guitar. I've been playing on them since I've been a kid. I absolutely love my Marshall Equipment also. Keep up all your great work. Knowledge is Power and Power is Strength.
That looks exactly like my model 3, except I replaced the stock trem with a gotoh. Great guitar. I've owned it for years and it's still one of the very best I've played.
Great guitar! Sounds really good, I remember these were sold by the hundreds when I worked in the music store, before these years it was the American made ones, but these Japanese ones were great! Earlier ones had Kahler trems and later a Jackson licensed Floyd type like this one. Early Jackson pickups were USA made, later made by Gotoh in Japan. Some had active pickup systems. I'd love to Find the Model 8! Thanks for sharing Johan, great riffs! Stay safe
Bought a Charvel Model 6 in 1987 brand new and played it thru a JCM800 Half Stack, Every thing from Metal to Motown and it work well for all, still have both. Went a little crazy over the last 20 years buying the model series, I now have 9 of them along with many others. Great to see some love for the old Charvels. Now my only fear is when I die, my wife will sell them for what I said I paid for them.
4:12 very nice, when the rubber meets the road. Ripping chords. I have an Ibanez RS315 Japan. One of my Favorite guitars. It came with 1 Humbucker in bridge. Sick guitar. The pickup is stock and sounds f...g amazing. Google them Ibanez RS 315 or RS1000. There's a few more out there.
I love 80's guitars because the good ones sound great and they gave people exactly what they wanted at the time. For every vintage Strat or Les Paul that got regrettably traded for a super strat or pointy guitar in the 80's, there are at least as many vintage guitars that were saved from being hacked up and "frankenstiened", routed out for a humbucker or Kahler or given a crazy paint job. Even the most coveted expensive strat in the world, Gilmour's black strat wasn't spared from a whammy-ectomy and a set of EMGs at the time.
It’s ok, my friend. Everyone has gear deals they regret. In 1988, I turned down trading my Westone Concord for a 78 Strat. I’m slowly getting over it...
It's been said that anything would sound good through that amp and cab. But this guitar sounds like the 80's and that's a good thing. Throw a chorus pedal out front and you're there for sure.
I recently bought a burgundy mist colored one with some moderate finish wear. I thought it has some serious mojo, and hope it plays and sounds as good as yours.
I had a black one in about 1987. I filed off the tops all the bridge string clamp blocks because I wanted it to look more like a Floyd Rose. Stupid. 😆 The "roofs" on the clamp blocks was a good idea, in my opinion. I can't remember if I sold or traded the Model 3, but I moved onto an older Model 5 with the active pickups and top-loaded Kahler.
You really seem to be enjoying that guitar ! I have a Charvel Model 4 '87, top notch guitar and similar sounding to the one you are playing. They have that unique fat and smooth sound. I believe the first San Dimas (around 83-85) have to be another kind of beasts, have never tried one though. If you ever find one please give it a try and share with us, it would be super interesting since we 've become accustomed to your sound and we can draw safer conclusions.
I think it's fair to say that you're a "Marshall" guy, but I see the Bassman popping up on the channel more and more. Is it growing on you? They're SO good! I played through a late model AB165 a couple times and it was always divine. And somehow the market hasn't blown the prices completely out of control, yet. Deluxes are drying up fast.....
I’d be curious to what result you’d get if you swapped in a Custombucker, burst bucker or Dimarzio super! Fantastic playing as always my friend! Thank you for your work on putting out excellent content!! Cheers!
Hi Johan! I thought, I am crazy, but I hever see you with that kind of guitar. Sounds great, I have something, like this (Some Washburn from 80-s are copies of Jackson), and I like it. Not Ibanez, this is my old moto, but old american superstrats are awesome! See you!🤘 Zigfrid
A fantastic guitar ... Replacing the trem JT-6 with a Floyd Rose improve the sound far way better ... Something else to do is split the J-90C ... Not a difficult job as the wires are already taped together to solder on the switch ...
hi johann you had video about a greenback reissue vs wgs green beret. i want to know how the sound of the wgs green beret is diffrent from greenback have wgs a smother top end or smoother midrange
Do you have any photos from the 80's of you rocking the Charvel? I would love to see 80's Johan with his shredcaster. Also, I think I just did the same thing you did.... I sold my 1989-1993 (hard to get exact date) USA BC Rich ST-III to fund getting a 1980s Korean Les Paul clone. I only felt good about it because I was not playing the BC Rich anymore, which looked shockingly similar to this Charvel, even the color is the same. Hopefully I don't end up regretting it.
Damn, those 80's Charvel guitars look and sound incredibly cool! Those mid to late 80's EMG pickups sound fucking killer. If I remember correctly those had a compound radius neck. How does the neck feel and play compared to a les paul or a fender strat? I haven't had the opportunity to play one yet, and would love to one day.
I can only agree, this guitar sounds great. But then of course, your playing helps. Impressive spectrum: I like the fat overdriven tones, but even more the sweet Hendrix inspired tones towards the end of the video. Is the neck slim or chunky? Do you know if these are the stock pickups?
You were releasing your inner-motley at 4:38. Mick Mars is the most underrated guitarist in rock history. He uses vintage Strats from the 60s with most of the finish peeling off because he discovered what many other people discovered - using pore filler and applying a thick finish to a guitar body reduces the vibration in the wood, and that chokes your tone - especially for rock and roll. You want that body vibrating hard enough to satisfy a horny housewife even if you're using high-output pickups and the preamp turned to 11.
Wayne Charvel had nothing to do with any Charvel's we think of as Charvel's he sold the company to Grover Jackson 82ish who started making guitars under the Charvel name. Grover stopped having anything to do with Jackson and Charvel 89-90
I had a red Model 2 (single humbucker). I also owned an '83 San Dimas, you didn't get the quality detail on the MIJ Charvels. And I hated the spongy sounding basswood bodies the MIJ Charvels were made with.
Everyone feels like a rockstar with one these in their hands. Lots of mojo
Indeed! :-)
Steel Panthers any1? Going to the Glory hole to have a Gang Bang at The Old folks' Home?
I had a 87' model 6 in 87...stolen in 89....just got a replacement 87...in fantastic condition. Stolen was black...had a scuff covered with a square playboy sticker and the Charvel logo was colored in with a marker on the case....the replacement is black cherry, and one latch is broken on the case...the guitar has a tiny surface ding that could be spot filled...best part I knew both the previous owners and this has been in a closet the last 20 year s. I went to high school with both these dudes. I am so happy to have this guitar
You can’t go wrong with a old Charvel 🤘🤘
I have a Charvel 750xl I bought new in 1989. Sounds and plays like a dream. Quality guitars from Charvel during that era
Had a 1988 Model 3A with two humbuckers. Awesome guitar!
Sounds really good, Eighties super strats retained a Classic quality, a healthy mix of vintage Fender and Gibson guitars that contemporary modern high performance guitars lost in some way, cheers Johan!
Thanks Vincenzo, Cheers!
This guitar, a boosted JCM 800, a pair of leather pants and a blonde wig, can make you sound like any 80's hard rock guitar player.
Lol
Satchel rings a bell...
Need a big multi fx rack too for that $1000 chorus sound on the power ballads.
@@jsnowdendavies And the ocean of delay.
@@jsnowdendavies LOL!
I always wanted a mid 80s American Kramer with the banana headstock like Eddie played live!
I have a sweet 88 American Kramer that I recently painted to copy the Frankenstrat. It's awesome!
Me 2
I have a Kramer Beretta with a sustainiac, and 24 scalloped frets.
It's beautiful, but I friggen hate dealing with the Floyd Rose....
Now I prefer a tele.
@@pupilmover9835 I prefer my tele now too, but variety is the spice of life.
Through the last 30+ years my main guitar has been a late '84/early '85 Baretta with a Jackson custom shop neck I was allowed to design myself. It has a quartersawn maple neck and fretboard. Eddie refused to let Barettas be built with maple fretboards because he didn't want anyone copying his tone. The rosewood banana headstock things were okay, but they had a problem with both the location and glue of the scarf joint which caused many guitars to fret out at the first fret, including mine. Now that I have a legendary neck, life's good. Being all maple it's heavy as hell but with a wide thick leather strap and the ergonomics of the design I can play it for hours before I notice, much unlike a Les Paul. Ultimate axe!!
They were cracking guitars, I still have my Model 6 that I bought in 1986, love it, still my favourite, put in Bare Knuckle pups and it got a whole new lease of life.
Have a Charvel 88 ('84 Floyd, locking nut, wild bill 'n' becky's L500L) and an '87 model 1 with an '85 Floyd and an old Dimarzio SD. Great guitars. The old saying they don't make 'em like they used to just keeps coming true. I wish it were otherwise.
I have that exact guitar (model 3A in candy apple red bought in 1988) stored away, haven’t played it for 20 years....time to restring it and give it an outing methinks 😎👍❤️🎸🎶
In ‘89 I was 18..worked my butt off and bought a brand new les paul studio...I ended up trading it for a chunk of hash and an effects processor 3 months later..now that’s a dumb move..thank god those days are gone lol
I have a model 6; it rocks!
I've had a Model 4, fusion deluxe, and pro Mod, and right now a 3DR. Charvel model series are just great guitars
Your enthusiasm for this guitar is apparent, love it. The guitar with your Bassman sounds killer man. You seemed really inspired to have some fun with it!
Wow, what a great sound! even with vintage sounds and riffs it comes out great!!!
Love my 88 model 1. Great neck and p/u’s
Nice axe, Johan!
I have two Charvels, and they’re my go to guitars - very versatile. Charvels are definitely made for hard rock and heavy metal, but you can honestly play just about anything on them and sound great.
In fact, 80s Charvels can beat most vintage guitars!
It’s funny how a lot of them are much cheaper than other vintage guitars
Damn right 🌟
Johan, I felt it in my chest when you said you regretted trading your Les Paul for the charvel!
Model 6, model 6, model 6, Japan! The most fantastic. The quality was on par with the Jackson USA soloists that came out right after, early 90s.
I have got an 89 475xl....which is still one of my top sounding guitars.. It was my second bought and now remains on top out of almost 30 guitars
Good info, thanks !! 🌟
Brings me back to 1980, when I traded in my walnut Les Paul "The Paul" for a Charvel San Dimas guitar! It had a beautiful metallic pink/purple finish, whammy bar and the pointed headstock. Loved that guitar! When you dialed the volume down around the 8:00 minute mark, I was amazed at how great that guitar sounds acoustically. The chords, single note lines and tuning/intonation sounded great for a locking tremolo guitar!
I owned one in 1989. It was black/purple with some sparkle flecks. Nice guitar
I have an 89 Dk-85 and an 87 Model 6 (which I will keep forever.) These are great guitars!
Yeah! Now you have to try a '80s kramer. You'll not regret it!
I have a Kramer Beretta. Muah
@@pupilmover9835 '86 Pacer Deluxe "champagne" finish!
@@JMPJackGuitar Those champagne finishes on the old Kramers are so awesome!
Yeah those pointy guitars sure can ring out some loud tones ...cool...floyd rose and locking nut looked like a school metal work project ...great stuff Johan
I had to trade a LP Deluxe for an acoustic in the 80s, so I could busk to make rent, so I know the feeling! Great video as usual! ♥️
I absolutely love my Charvel Toothpaste Logo 275 Guitar. I've been playing on them since I've been a kid. I absolutely love my Marshall Equipment also. Keep up all your great work. Knowledge is Power and Power is Strength.
Nice Guitar 👌🏻I have a Fusion Deluxe Charvel ...love it 🤘🏻
That looks exactly like my model 3, except I replaced the stock trem with a gotoh. Great guitar. I've owned it for years and it's still one of the very best I've played.
Nice range of tones in this video!
Great guitar! Sounds really good, I remember these were sold by the hundreds when I worked in the music store, before these years it was the American made ones, but these Japanese ones were great! Earlier ones had Kahler trems and later a Jackson licensed Floyd type like this one. Early Jackson pickups were USA made, later made by Gotoh in Japan. Some had active pickup systems. I'd love to Find the Model 8! Thanks for sharing Johan, great riffs! Stay safe
I had an early 90's Japanese Jackson very close to this one and it was a killer killer guitar. Those guitars were made well and sounded so cool.
My first guitar was a model 4. I’ve still got it.
Congrats 🌟
Bought a Charvel Model 6 in 1987 brand new and played it thru a JCM800 Half Stack, Every thing from Metal to Motown and it work well for all, still have both. Went a little crazy over the last 20 years buying the model series, I now have 9 of them along with many others. Great to see some love for the old Charvels.
Now my only fear is when I die, my wife will sell them for what I said I paid for them.
I learned to play on a Charvel!
4:12 very nice, when the rubber meets the road. Ripping chords. I have an Ibanez RS315 Japan. One of my Favorite guitars. It came with 1 Humbucker in bridge. Sick guitar. The pickup is stock and sounds f...g amazing. Google them Ibanez RS 315 or RS1000. There's a few more out there.
I love 80's guitars because the good ones sound great and they gave people exactly what they wanted at the time. For every vintage Strat or Les Paul that got regrettably traded for a super strat or pointy guitar in the 80's, there are at least as many vintage guitars that were saved from being hacked up and "frankenstiened", routed out for a humbucker or Kahler or given a crazy paint job. Even the most coveted expensive strat in the world, Gilmour's black strat wasn't spared from a whammy-ectomy and a set of EMGs at the time.
If you get over the looks of those guitars, they are great playing instruments for sure.
I personally think they look incredible!
That amp sounds unbelievable.
80's stuff is pretty neat. The PRS's with the original one piece brass trem block/plate are pretty cool too.
You got some nice Alex Lifeson tones with it!
I had the Blue one. Wish I still had it.
Nice axe , great tones . Funny how some guys call these "pointy" guitars . Yes their tones are sharp and to the point !
That guitar is really quite versatile , it sounds great.
It’s ok, my friend. Everyone has gear deals they regret. In 1988, I turned down trading my Westone Concord for a 78 Strat. I’m slowly getting over it...
I have the single pickup version that I bought back in 86 or 87
It's been said that anything would sound good through that amp and cab. But this guitar sounds like the 80's and that's a good thing. Throw a chorus pedal out front and you're there for sure.
looks like a 1988 , great year for Charvel
I have the excact same one! Charvel model 3 red with all original stuff!
🤘🏻 🌟 🤘
I traded a 1968 es335 for that same charvel. I also regret it but miss both guitars very much
Got a bunch of those guitars 🎸last time I counted its 8 of them with there case's there all from the 80des
I recently bought a burgundy mist colored one with some moderate finish wear. I thought it has some serious mojo, and hope it plays and sounds as good as yours.
I had a black one in about 1987. I filed off the tops all the bridge string clamp blocks because I wanted it to look more like a Floyd Rose. Stupid. 😆 The "roofs" on the clamp blocks was a good idea, in my opinion. I can't remember if I sold or traded the Model 3, but I moved onto an older Model 5 with the active pickups and top-loaded Kahler.
The first electric I owned was a Jackson, but the first electric I played was a PRS.
You really seem to be enjoying that guitar ! I have a Charvel Model 4 '87, top notch guitar and similar sounding to the one you are playing. They have that unique fat and smooth sound. I believe the first San Dimas (around 83-85) have to be another kind of beasts, have never tried one though. If you ever find one please give it a try and share with us, it would be super interesting since we 've become accustomed to your sound and we can draw safer conclusions.
I think it's fair to say that you're a "Marshall" guy, but I see the Bassman popping up on the channel more and more. Is it growing on you? They're SO good! I played through a late model AB165 a couple times and it was always divine. And somehow the market hasn't blown the prices completely out of control, yet. Deluxes are drying up fast.....
This guitar is now the same age as a late 50s Gibson or Fender was in the early 90s
I’d be curious to what result you’d get if you swapped in a Custombucker, burst bucker or Dimarzio super! Fantastic playing as always my friend! Thank you for your work on putting out excellent content!! Cheers!
of course
great guitars!
Ha! I had that guitar in white(ish)
At the end of the day it's the amp that delivers!
You need a lot more hair spray to get the right vibe!
These are very nice guitars, looks and sound great. Great riffing as usual, cheers!
That's a cool Charvel but I'm way more impressed with your amp collection!
Hi Johan!
I thought, I am crazy, but I hever see you with that kind of guitar. Sounds great, I have something, like this (Some Washburn from 80-s are copies of Jackson), and I like it. Not Ibanez, this is my old moto, but old american superstrats are awesome! See you!🤘
Zigfrid
I had the model 2 but traded it in for a Ibanez RG 550 that I still have !
RGs are hard to beat !!
How about the model 4 Johan?
A fantastic guitar ... Replacing the trem JT-6 with a Floyd Rose improve the sound far way better ... Something else to do is split the J-90C ... Not a difficult job as the wires are already taped together to solder on the switch ...
hi johann you had video about a greenback reissue vs wgs green beret. i want to know how the sound of the wgs green beret is diffrent from greenback have wgs a smother top end or smoother midrange
Do you have any photos from the 80's of you rocking the Charvel? I would love to see 80's Johan with his shredcaster.
Also, I think I just did the same thing you did.... I sold my 1989-1993 (hard to get exact date) USA BC Rich ST-III to fund getting a 1980s Korean Les Paul clone. I only felt good about it because I was not playing the BC Rich anymore, which looked shockingly similar to this Charvel, even the color is the same. Hopefully I don't end up regretting it.
No, no evidence of that I’m afraid! Cheers
@@JohanSegeborn ah nuts. honestly though, it would be cool to see any photos of you rocking as a youth. I need to see the history of the crocs. ;)
I got a bunch of those from the 80des from 1 to 6
I have a model 1 😁
Cool, 1 pickup models are the coolest!
asi es.. yo tengo una de esas joyas
Damn, those 80's Charvel guitars look and sound incredibly cool! Those mid to late 80's EMG pickups sound fucking killer. If I remember correctly those had a compound radius neck. How does the neck feel and play compared to a les paul or a fender strat? I haven't had the opportunity to play one yet, and would love to one day.
This must be one of the best sounding guitars you featured. What’s the secret do you think? (especially the single coils sound good)
From what I remember, there were only models 1 up to 6. I don't think they went up to 10. Could be wrong but I doubt it...
sounds really great! how much do these sell for?
I can only agree, this guitar sounds great. But then of course, your playing helps. Impressive spectrum: I like the fat overdriven tones, but even more the sweet Hendrix inspired tones towards the end of the video.
Is the neck slim or chunky? Do you know if these are the stock pickups?
PS Johan how is your hearing? I'm losing mine after being in bands for over 45 years. Ughhhhh
it's weird....your super strat sounds like a regular strat or a Les paul...you got a vintage hands man....
Thanks my friend, that’s kind of you!
I am not a fan of Charwel guitars because I prefer different music but I like watching your tests. Rock on Johan!!! 😊👍🎸
Seems like U really enjoyed playing that red Rock machine !! Did U pay Simon for it yet? ;)
I believe I have a model 6.
You were releasing your inner-motley at 4:38. Mick Mars is the most underrated guitarist in rock history. He uses vintage Strats from the 60s with most of the finish peeling off because he discovered what many other people discovered - using pore filler and applying a thick finish to a guitar body reduces the vibration in the wood, and that chokes your tone - especially for rock and roll. You want that body vibrating hard enough to satisfy a horny housewife even if you're using high-output pickups and the preamp turned to 11.
I think these were all built by Wayne charvel or he was involved in the process in the early 80s? It sounds awesome Johan you just need spandex 😂😂😂
Wayne Charvel had nothing to do with any Charvel's we think of as Charvel's he sold the company to Grover Jackson 82ish who started making guitars under the Charvel name. Grover stopped having anything to do with Jackson and Charvel 89-90
Did you just play Mind Over Metal?
With that guitar and hat, you kinda look like Tom morello
I had a red Model 2 (single humbucker). I also owned an '83 San Dimas, you didn't get the quality detail on the MIJ Charvels. And I hated the spongy sounding basswood bodies the MIJ Charvels were made with.
Gibson made Gibson charvel guitars I have a few of them
Live Wire!
Charvel is really no different than Jackson I don't know why someone would choose one over the other one.
All that gear. Dont u think u should do a little more practice on the guitar
u talking about u?