This Charvel is an amazing guitar! some stand out features are the 24 frets, caramelized maple neck, luminlay side dots, body contours, reverse headstock, locking tuners, heel mounted truss rod adjustment, and upgraded Fishman Fluence Open Core Modern pickups. Originally the guitar came with open core classics, but they were very underwhelming in output. The Fishman moderns come with 3 voicing options.
Neck Pickup
- Voice 1 (Modern Active High Output): The ideal active alnico sound. Full, round, and boosted, but with unprecedented articulation and dynamics.
- Voice 2 (Crisp, clean and fluid): The clean, crisp neck humbucker tone you’ve always wanted without the thin, plinky sound you don’t.
- Voice 3: (Single Coil): Glassy, crystal-clear tone.
Bridge Pickup
- Voice 1 (Modern Active High Output): The ideal active ceramic humbucker tone. Crisp, searing crunch, tight bass with no mud, and a growl.
- Voice 2 (Modern Passive Attack): Organic, high output, passive ceramic tone. Superb distortion characteristics with Fluence dynamics and response.
- Voice 3: (Single Coil): Bright, clear tone.
The voicing switching comes from the two position toggle switch. position one is voice one, and position two is voice two. The volume knob had a push pull which activates the single-coil voice three. The guitar is currently set up for Drop C with Ernie Ball 10-52 gauge strings installed.
the body does have some minor wear, one or two body dings, and some surface level picking marks on the pick guard.
This guitar plays amazing and has a solid range that can play any style of music you are into.
The guitar also comes with a free gig bag, and will be sent out double boxed for added protection during shipping.
The website description is:
With one of the most beloved and iconic body shapes as our starting block, our innovative design team sculpted even more dramatic curves for enhanced ergonomic comfort. The alder So-Cal Style 2 body also features a scalloped lower back bout and shredder’s cut heel for easier upper fret access and hours of grin-inducing playing-feel and performance.
A graphite-reinforced bolt-on maple neck offers rock-solid stability regardless of ravages of the road and climate, while a heel-mount truss rod adjust thumbwheel makes for quick and easy neck relief tweaks. Engineered for effortlessly nimble and highly-expressive playing, the So-Cal Style 2 has a speed neck profile with hand-rubbed urethane finish on the back and a 12″-16″ compound radius caramelized maple fingerboard with 24 jumbo frets, pearloid dot inlays and Graph Tech® TUSQ® XL nut. Luminlay® side dots will guide your way along the fretboard, even on the darkest of stages.
This axe also features a Charvel® HT6 string-through-body hardtail bridge with brass saddles, providing endless sustain with laser intonation, as well as Charvel-branded sealed die-cast locking tuners and standard strap buttons.