One of the easiest ways to date your import charvel guitar would be your headstock logo. If your looking for Charvel Import Bridge information click here.
If you have a Charvel with a Fort Worth TX neck plate check out the logo on the headstock and on the neck plate.
Initially the first Import Charvels were released with a guitar shaped Charvel logo very similiar to an original San Dimas Charvel logo. The difference was the logo was redesigned to reflect a pointy headstock.
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Look at the images above. The Charvel Logo with the TM right above the 6 inline tuners would accurately represent the first version of the Import Charvel Logo. Charvel Logos with the TM were present on more 1986 Import Charvel Guitars than 1986 Charvels Guitars that didnt have the TM.
This Charvel Logo represented the Import Charvel Guitar line in the 1986 model series. The Charvel ™ logo was present well into the 248xxx - 25xxxx serial number range.
The Charvel logo with ™ at some point disappeared prior to the introduction of the 1987 model line up. A Charvel neck with a TM present on the headstock logo would NOT appear on any guitar in the Charvel 1987 product line. No Charvel Import Guitar was manufactured with a Jackson JT-6 Floyd Rose type tremelo that wore a Charvel logo with a TM.
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A Charvel ® R Logo appeared suddenly within the late 1986 Charvels guitars. This new logo with a R would be visible on more guitars branded Charvel than any other Charvel Logo ever. Without question.
This Charvel is from an era of Japan Charvel manufacturing that makes it near to impossible to find. We can verify that this gutar came from the 310000 serial number range from the Chushin gakki factory with a factory installed Kahler Floyd Rose type locking nut. This Charvel Import guitar was made during the time of the transition to the toothpaste logo.
Some deny that this factory nut exists. We can verify this transitional Charvel Import Guitar is authentic and that the nut is factory. We can also say that this guitar stays in tune!
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If you have a Import Charvel with a Charvel ™ logo and a maple fretboard and its wearing a Fort Worth TX neck plate you are one of the luck ones.
A 1986 Model 1 with a maple fretboard with a TM is super-rare! This Model One has the phenolic nut removed. See anything different? Its all in the details!
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The ever so poular Model 4 Charvel is a good example. In 1986 the Model Series Charvel Model 4 had dot fretmarkers made of Mother-of-Pearl. As a matter of fact the model 4 in 1986 was the only bolt on neck to wear mother of pearl fretmarkers and they were dots. The Charvel Model 1, the Charvel Model 2, and the Charvel Model 3 had clay color fretmarkers.
In 1987 the Charvel Model 4 had the awesome Jackson style shark fin inlays. Of course the Model Series Charvels adopted the Jackson Jt-6 Tremolo system echoing the USA Jackson guitars in 1987
Moving on...The below image of a red Charvel Model 3 is an example of a factory original Import Charvel that we call a Special Edition. This is a Japan Only Model Charvel. The Japanese factory put out various models from the 1987 line of imports with a body color that matched the necks headstock color. These Special Edition Models, as well as other exotic import Charvels were made for delivery to music stores in Japan that carried The Charvel Model Series.
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Chushin Gakki acted as the distributor and manufacturer for Jackson Charvel in Japan and special promotions with certain music stores in Japan.The Chushin Gakki factory enabled the creation of limited edition, special addition, and artist model import Charvel guitars in the period that followed the 1986-1987. We have assessed that zero of these special editions seem to have been offered in America.
We will launch more information in regards to the Japan Artist Model Charvel Guitars made for american artists that were manufactured by Chushin Gakki Charvel in followup articles. As well we will introduce artists that had endorsement deals and were Import Charvel Guitar Official Edorsees in the late 1980s and 1990s.
Known as the 1987 Charvel Model Series lineup had brought very cool ideas to reality. The 1987 Charvel Imports still kept true to what was being turned out by Jackson Guitars in the USA. As a matter of fact some USA creations looked exactly like import Charvels and vice-versa. Thats because import Charvels, although model specific, echoed what was being produced in the USA.
Early Charvel Red And White Striped Eddie Van Halen Style Electric Guitar
The Jackson shop in the USA had many changes of its own going on at the time. Grover Jackson saw a massive burst in company sales and he was already deep in a factory move from one city to a new building about 20 minutes to the east in Ontario California.
Later in 1987 there were some import Charvel guitars being created for just certain parts of the world that pretty much never made it to the USA. Yet, the initial 1987 Model Series with Jackson JT-6 tremolos were basically very good Japanese made Jackson guitars. They were just not made in Ontario California by Grover Jackson and his guys. Import Charvel Guitars were being produced at the Chushin Gakki factory by very competent guitar makers. The Chushin Gakki guys, even before making Jackson guitars, had a reputation in Japan for manufacturing good guitars.
In 1996 Charvel Japan recieved the tooling from the USA Corporate headquarters. They launched the Made in Japan versions of the San Dimas Series
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The San Dimas Series of Japan Only Guitars were released to the Japanese market in 1996. The Japan Group introduced these SD catalog models and also numerous other guitars that were basically hand made guitars such as the Charvel RR-80 Randy Rhoads V and a number of other popular body styles. A whole bunch of other neck-through and bolt on models were also made and distributed some of which look to have made it to Europe. The guitars that were released in 1996 had the familiar late 1980s style logos on the headstock. These guitars were also made by the same factory in Japan. Interestingly enough, in this time the Japan Factory had a few established Japanese artists as official endorsees of the Charvel Japan Line. This factory in later years would become Caparison Guitars. One extra note. We generally have noticed that most guitars that carry an Import Charvel logo are of higher quality and made from better materials and hardware than the Jackson Performer series and Japan made Jacksons that were strictly meant for the USA market. It appears as if the Charvel Japan Group placed guitars labeled as Charvel and Guitars labeled Grover Jackson that were meant for Japan only distributution were higher up in the quality chain. More information will be added here about the 1996 re-emergence of Japan Charvels check back soon...
We will also discuss the 1999 Refinement Series Charvels that were released to the Japan Market. Our main topic on this site is guitars that were logo-ed with The familiar Import Charvel logos. But we urge you to get educated on the Japanese Grover Jackson Logo-ed/line of guitars... thats a whole big topic of its own..
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