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What models are those Charvels and Jacksons? I was never a fan of BC Rich, but I would love to own the first and red one. Do you know its model?
There might have been a time in my past when I might have scoffed at this. I was wrong. It was me, not this guitar. This guitar is amazing on many levels.
The Charvels on the couch are:...
Thanks for sharing! I love those old Charvels. I played some, all were well-mentained instruments, so all played exceptionally well, but I don't trust all those old bridges.
Did you own Ibbies from that era, too? How do they compare?
I had a couple RG565's. They were decent, but I was a C/J guy! It seemed like you were one or the other back then.
The bridges on the Charvels were decent, but the knife edges wore fast, and the fine tuners/string lock screws were soft and stripped a lot. That said, they were super easy to set up, and pretty solid. I had no tone issues either. The Schaller Floyds that came later wee a lot better.
a neon green BC Rich Ironbird with OFR bridge, scalloped fretboard, reversed headstock and hot pink DiMarzio humbuckers. I'll try to dig it out sometime.
Jackson/Charvel lost their mind on the CX series. New headstock shape, crappy components, not worth the hassle.
I want a ninja turtle guitar...
I have to take a little exception to this. Although some of the CX's had vintage bridges to try and compete with the normal Fender strat crowd, which didn't go over big at the time, the components used were just fine.
I have a cx390, it has the same takeuchi floyd rose as most of the pointy charvels, it has jackson pickups, bass wood body, etc. The only thing that didn't seem to make the market happy was the semi strat headstock. At the time people either wanted pointy or regular strat shape(but of course they couldn't do it because fender wouldn't let them).
Don't get me wrong I know the bottom of the cx line didnt appeal to many, but the upper end ones seem to me to be of equal quality as the rest of the MIJ stuff. I have had many fusions, predators, model 6's, etc.
Sorry man, I didn't know they had an upper end to the CX line. They all seemed like entry level stuff. At the time I would've played a Charvette over a CX....![]()