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NGD - Something snow white for winter
Posted: Fri Nov 25, 2022 7:06 pm
by Flatline
The wife went out early this morning and did her annual black Friday shopping. Once she returned she wanted to go back out a little later in the day to get some things she forgot and missed. I agreed to go if we could stop by the local music shop. So, we stopped in and made a lap through the store. I wasn't looking for anything in particular, but I always enjoy checking out their massive collection (they literally have over 1000 guitars on display). My wife saw a guitar tucked away in a rack with a sale paper slid in the strings. It was too good of a deal to pass up at 50% off.
It is a new old stock Charvel Pro-Mod San Dimas style 1 HH HT. It has a compound radius 12-16" neck, Seymour Duncan ’59 SH-1N (neck) and JB TB-4 (bridge) humbuckers, push pull volume pot for split coils, locking tuners and black hardware. They even did a quick tweak of the action and checked the intonation before I left. It's currently strung with 10's. I'll eventually restring it with 9's.
Re: NGD - Something snow white for winter
Posted: Fri Nov 25, 2022 8:09 pm
by Rollin Hand
#rawkmachine
HNGD!
Re: NGD - Something snow white for winter
Posted: Fri Nov 25, 2022 8:31 pm
by sabasgr68
Flatline wrote: ↑Fri Nov 25, 2022 7:06 pm
The wife went out early this morning and did her annual black Friday shopping. Once she returned she wanted to go back out a little later in the day to get some things she forgot and missed. I agreed to go if we could stop by the local music shop. So, we stopped in and made a lap through the store. I wasn't looking for anything in particular, but I always enjoy checking out their massive collection (they literally have over 1000 guitars on display). My wife saw a guitar tucked away in a rack with a sale paper slid in the strings. It was too good of a deal to pass up at 50% off.
It is a new old stock Charvel Pro-Mod San Dimas style 1 HH HT. It has a compound radius 12-16" neck, Seymour Duncan ’59 SH-1N (neck) and JB TB-4 (bridge) humbuckers, push pull volume pot for split coils, locking tuners and black hardware. They even did a quick tweak of the action and checked the intonation before I left. It's currently strung with 10's. I'll eventually restring it with 9's.
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You gotta thank your wife for forgetting those things!
Enjoy it!
Re: NGD - Something snow white for winter
Posted: Sat Nov 26, 2022 6:07 am
by Bullcat
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Re: NGD - Something snow white for winter
Posted: Sat Nov 26, 2022 6:51 am
by toomanycats
That's a beautiful Charvel. With that pickup combination, coil splitting option, and tuning stability, it's the type of workhorse guitar you could play all night long and look good doing it.
Re: NGD - Something snow white for winter
Posted: Sat Nov 26, 2022 12:20 pm
by peskypesky
that's sweet
Re: NGD - Something snow white for winter
Posted: Sat Nov 26, 2022 9:48 pm
by Sinster
Flatline wrote: ↑Fri Nov 25, 2022 7:06 pm
The wife went out early this morning and did her annual black Friday shopping. Once she returned she wanted to go back out a little later in the day to get some things she forgot and missed. I agreed to go if we could stop by the local music shop. So, we stopped in and made a lap through the store. I wasn't looking for anything in particular, but I always enjoy checking out their massive collection (they literally have over 1000 guitars on display). My wife saw a guitar tucked away in a rack with a sale paper slid in the strings. It was too good of a deal to pass up at 50% off.
It is a new old stock Charvel Pro-Mod San Dimas style 1 HH HT. It has a compound radius 12-16" neck, Seymour Duncan ’59 SH-1N (neck) and JB TB-4 (bridge) humbuckers, push pull volume pot for split coils, locking tuners and black hardware. They even did a quick tweak of the action and checked the intonation before I left. It's currently strung with 10's. I'll eventually restring it with 9's.
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Nice!
Re: NGD - Something snow white for winter
Posted: Sat Nov 26, 2022 11:36 pm
by bc rich
Congrats on score , an astute wife is a plus.
Re: NGD - Something snow white for winter
Posted: Sun Nov 27, 2022 11:10 pm
by Flatline
Spent some quality time with it this weekend. Changed the strings to 9s, polished the frets, set the action, neck relief, set the pickup height, and checked intonation. The low E nut slot is a tad low after the string change, so I’ll eventually need to deal with it, but for now I have it shimmed with a couple slivers of index card. The nut is probably the one thing they cheaped out on. As best I can tell it is just black plastic. I’ll eventually swap it out for tusq or bone.
It’s plays and sounds great. I really like that the volume knob is moved down out of the way compared to my strats. I’m not frequently hitting it with my strum hand.
These have been on my radar for a few years. I’m glad I finally had an opportunity to pick one up.
Re: NGD - Something snow white for winter
Posted: Mon Nov 28, 2022 6:43 am
by Jaymo
Very nice. 50% off is hard to argue with.
Re: NGD - Something snow white for winter
Posted: Fri Dec 02, 2022 12:47 pm
by jtcnj
Congrats that is really nice!
Re: NGD - Something snow white for winter
Posted: Mon Dec 12, 2022 8:47 am
by Razzle
Love the Charvel necks! HNGD!