Thank you for visiting sandimascharvel.com. This site is meant to keep a small part of music history alive. Charvel Mfg., now known as Jackson Guitars, a division of Fender Musical Instruments, was founded in 1977 and turned the guitar world on its ear for the better part of a decade. They continue to make some of the finest guitars and basses today under the ownership of Fender with key employees from the heyday still employed at the factory!
This site was launched Sept 18, 1997. Since that time, it has been in a state of constant revision. This site actually started life as 'vintagecharveljackson.com' containing information about Charvel and Jackson guitars. Since that time it has been retooled to focus on USA Charvel guitars manufactured between 1977 and February 1986.
From the original inception of this website, my idea was to use my own collection of guitars to tell the story of Charvel Mfg. While this site is primarily focused on my personal collection of guitars, the intent is to provide the visitor a complete picture of the development and evolution of the San Dimas Charvel guitar as it existed in the early to mid 1980's. The menu on the left contains details about each guitar as well as peripheral items of interest. For each I have written about details and specifics regarding design features, stories, and changes which took place over the span of the examples in my collection. By reading the text and studying the pictures, the reader should be able to identify features and characteristics common among original USA made Charvel guitars. Other areas of this site feature factory literature, technical component descriptions, and identification tips.
Please keep in mind this is my personal site full of my opinions based on my experience playing and collecting these guitars over the past two decades. I am in no way affiliated with Jackson/Charvel Guitars or Fender Musical Instruments.
Enjoy the site and hopefully you'll learn something in the process. Bear in mind all content, both pictures and text, is protected under federal copyright laws. Please do not copy or reproduce any material contained herein.
Thank You,
Bret |
