Another guitar body and a Charvette neck.

[DrNomis_44]

Hi everyone,

Last week, the same guy who gave me the Black guitar body that I'm planning on making into a Charvel model 1 guitar, also gave me another guitar body, plus a nice Charvette guitar neck, complete with the original tuners on it, but minus the nut and string-lock, the body has a Kahler Floating Bridge installed on it which features piezo-electric pickups on each of the string saddles, there is also a single Shadow Active Pickup installed in the bridge position as well, inside the control cavity there is a PCB with some pots soldered to it, which I'm assuming is all the active circuitry for all the pickups, and a 9V battery clip.

I'm thinking of stripping the body back to bare wood and re-finishing it in an EVH 5150 style and then seeing if I can source a Kramer Banana-Head stock neck for it on eBay, there are some cracks in the original finish that look a bit unsightly.

I'll see if I can post a pick of the guitar for you guys so you can check it out, just need to find my digital camera first though.


Looks like finding my digital camera is going to take more time than I anticipated, will post some pics when I do find it.

[Fretworn]

Those old Charvette T-style guitars were really good for budget Charvels (which at the time were budget Jacksons)

[DrNomis_44]

Those old Charvette T-style guitars were really good for budget Charvels (which at the time were budget Jacksons)

That's something I didn't know, I always thought that Charvels were high-end models, I'm still looking for my digital camera, will have a good look for it tomorrow and if I manage to find it I'll get those pics sorted out.

[Kick]

Why don't I not know guys who gives things like that to me...

Hope you find your camera soon!

[stan]

All the pics ive poster here were done on a phone camera...
awesome projects in the making Doc

[DrNomis_44]

All the pics ive poster here were done on a phone camera...
awesome projects in the making Doc

The trouble is I've got two phones, one is an old school Nokia that doesn't have a camera function on it, and the other one is a Samsung Galaxy Y that does have a camera on it but it is incompatible with Windows 10 which I'm running on both my laptop and desktop computers, so I'm stymied both ways.

[dave.king1]

Assuming you have WiFi why not connect your phone and email it to yourself and retrieve on the PC

[WeirdBits]

My first thought too, DK.

[dave.king1]

I do it all the time, save faffing around with finding a cable and waiting for windoze explorer to work its way to where it needs to be.

Using home wifi and a pretty big cap I always send the highest resolution by email so I can do what I want with it

[wazkelly]

Yeah, have to agree with you Dave as I take all my shots on an iPhone 4 and then email up to 5 shots at a time to my gmail address then upload to PGB forum from anywhere. Just need to have access to something to resize shots so that they are less than 1500 x1500