Smart feller. 😆👍

Great choice man. The Japanese Charvels are seriously underrated

@@nckhed i totally read this as fart smeller lmfao

I wish I was given the same choice. I haven't even seen my ring since I graduated

@@iLLuzion1st 😂😂😂👍

Hey fish man 🇨🇦🇨🇦

When I heard "nickel frets" I thought of you..."that's a deal breaker for fish"lol have a good one my man!!!👍🤘

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They get dirty really fast though...

@@denverrandy7143 Yeah, they wear way too fast!

Yeah dude, Fender really covered all their bases by acquiring Jackson and Charvel.

Spot on analysis. I can’t go back to a strat after playing the effortless neck and almost non-existent heel joint of a Charvel. It’s like night and day difference with the strat’s gigantic heel

Evh equipment can do metal better than some brands that came out after Van Halen did

I have that one and its my daily driver. Totally great all purpose box of guitar.

Plus Angel Vivaldi, his technique is phenomenal and his signature guitars look fantastic

I have the Burgundy Mist one. I fought off GAS for 3 years but finally caved. It's a great workhorse

@@thesmellycatjazz agreed!

Add Gojira Joe to the list (not the DKs, but still)

I have the matte gray but the finish wears off easily. I love the neck so much, I'm having the body repainted and upgrade the pickups... Will eventually upgrade the frets to stainless.

definitely want a tim henson copy charvel. it would sell like hot cakes

@@rainypath96 thats basically what this guitar is except its a full size humbucker instead of the mini humbucker

Honestly man, I own this same one Ola is playing, as well as the Dual humbucker orange quilted maple top mahogany body pro mod. The white one obviously doesn't have a Floyd, the orange maple top does. But I have to say man, even though I'd play either without any complaints, the Gotoh 510 2PT bridge on this one, the Pro Mod DK24 HSS, I truly believe is an even better bridge than the Floyd. Love the Floyd on the other one, but the combo of the Gotoh and locking tuners on this white one is just magic. I love it so much.

It's just the neck that has hum right? It looks like the middle 3 positions are all pairings of single coils, which I'd assume are hum-free tones? But I can't find out if they're parallel or series.

@@guyincognito320 Um, you got me on that - I'd have to check into it. But the middle three positions definitely give you that strat-y, quacky tone.

I wonder if anyone complains about these extremely noisy pickups when noiseless single coils that sound a lot like this have been around for 40 years. For a 'pro mod' guitar, there should be Dimarzio Virtual Vintage or something, or whatever SD makes in that vein, and not these. These are for tone guys, not super strat players

@@guyincognito320 ya. That's why I got the SoCal style 2. It's got the open core Fishman. They are a great set of pickups

Is it versatile? I am comparing it to Prs SE Custom 24. They are both beautiful guitars, but the Charvel looks more straight forward and less pretentious.

@@biohazard8295 yeah! It can do pretty much anything. Meanwhile Harley Benton has released their take on this model. If you want it for a bit cheaper, you can go that route and just replace the electronics ;)

@@NathanSidF thanks for info. Actually i am saving some money and wanted a good guitar. P.s. i already have a harley benton, they are extremely good for the money, but still it feels a bit cheap, also it has poor resell value.

yup!!!

So I guess if you want those type of necks fender products is the way to go You're saying?

@@patrickh.1658 just a preference thing in terms of feel. Roasted maple in general is the best feeling neck wood to me

Without a doubt. Bought their DK24 HSS after one play. That neck…

@@Riff_salad that's why I ONLY play Charvel/Jackson...THE NECKS are like butter....you can EASILY change pickups but NOT necks

All this caramelized maple talk is making me hongreh!

I couldn’t agree more. Fender is killing it right now.

Yeah I have a Pro Mod DK24 and a Player Strat and I love them both. In fact I bought the Player series because I already had the Charvel and knew that if it was made in the Mexican factory the Fender would be great too.

Yup id rather pay half for a guitar made by mexicans in mexico than pay double for a guitar made by mexicans in california.

Absolutely! Bought the Charvel So Cal 2 Spring 2020; very well built instrument.

Agreed, the new Player series is amazing!

I think I'm going to buy this guitar.

Whats wrong with the pink one?

@@TheBigglenn311 Pink is okay but I wish I had black

Agreed. Unless you’re doing serious Vai dive bombs, modern two points+locking tuners can handle whatever you throw at it.

I have a couple of guitars with Full Shreds in the bridge. They sound awesome in a guitar with mahogany body wood.

It's funny you say that because so many people complain that it's way too bright to sounds good in any situation, i guess the amp setting have a lot to do with the trble of it. But if i can use a single coil tele to chug then the sh10 will also be adequate

@@eliasmsv3156 i don't know what those people are smoking tbh, sh4, sh5 and sh6 are all brighter sounding pickups in my experience. especially the sh5.

I have the Shell Pink one. I really need to get around to changing the pickups. I like the feel of the guitar, but it's the worst sounding out of all my guitars, so I don't pick it up as much as I should.

@@flips220 What a shame. Change those pickups and enjoy her!! I can not put mine down!

whats wrong with the seynour duncans??? they sound great

Sounds like a Dimebag solo album if he were still around

Andy Wood and uncle Ben (Ben Eller) call themselves shrednecks. 🤘

Andy Wood has a song called "Shredneck", on his "A Disconcerting Amalgam" album. Probably the last word in chicken-pickin shred. Check it out, it's insane.

Except it's a charvel

@@jamessteelman9276 Dig a little deeper friend.

Since I was planing to buy AZ prestige - in what fields you find Charvel Better ?

I've got the charvel hh in black and it's an amazing guitar. I've wanted to put it up against an az but I can't ever find one at my local music stores. I really want to see how different the necks are

@@lejeq pickups sound more versatile imo, neck definitely plays faster brcause of the flatter profile compared to the Fender-y AZ...I wished it had stainlesssteel frets though

If Charvel would put SS frets on them, I would be all over them...Cmon Charvel

@@CroneRaven1810 I have guitars with ss frets and nickel frets. I don't notice too much of a difference between them at least when the frets are polished up. Yes the stainless will last longer but nickel frets will still last year's. Fender is just a little late to the party. Not really surprising when a large portion of their customers want a copy of a guitar from the 50s to 70s. They'll come around eventually though

So was I !

Any particular reason for prefering bolt on?

I’m noticing any guitar under 3k these days needs quite a bit of fretwork to get the action really low

I’m looking at getting one but I’ve heard the full shred is quite a low output pickup. I like playing John Petrucci and other fairly heavy proggy stuff, would you recommend it for that?

@@davidlane147 They are plenty hot. Add that tone circuit bypass into the equation and it's hard to beat. I have a DiMarzio Super Distortion in another axe and it's an amazing pickup... but maybe a little too hot. The DiMarzio can OD the clean channel. This may not be what you want to hear (as it might be a PITA) but I recommend you play one. I have over 10 axes but none of them play as well as the Charvel's in the collection. I paid 2 grand for an amazing shreddy guitar, but the 2 charvels still play better for half the price IMO. We're talking minute degrees of difference in all around great instruments, but when one costs twice as much it can beg the question... should I have just bought 2 Charvels instead? I mean you could buy a Charvel and put literally whatever pickups you want and still save 500$. The Charvel Speed neck with compound radius and carbon fiber reinforcement is ultrastable and the best feeling neck I've ever played. I live in a scorching desert that gets 20°f in the winter and I've had zero problems and never had to touch the truss rod. I've heard some people say that after nearly 10 years their neck is still in perfect adjustment on their Charvels. Bottom line, try one. 🤘

@@munkyenima Wow I think you just sold it, perhaps you should consider a career with charvel lol the lack of stainless steel frets was one of the only things putting doubt in my mind but sounds like it’s not enough to sway people against it

I have one. I may have to buy another in white haha