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2005 Charvel San Dimas Reissue

"Enzo"

#6562

This is a great one ... A Charvel "San Dimas Reissue" from 2005. Opinions are split among the Charvel consignenti as to how these guitars came about. It's seems to be generally agreed that these were made in the Charvel Custom Shop using the stock-piles of parts left over when Grover Jackson sold the company to Fender. The build quality certainly supports that idea; this one has been put together VERY tidily. The 'Custom Shop' theory is also supported strongly by the use of four-digit serial numbers, which is a characteristic of the modern Custom Shop guitars. This one has a maple neck and separate board (no skunk stripe) with the usual beautiful Charvel oil finish and excellent fret-work. It is still fitted with its original German Floyd Rose and Seymour Duncan pickups ... a neck humbucker with two single coils through a five-way selector and a single volume control. As usual (for me) I've wound down the middle single coil so that it gives a nice low-output setting for rhythm stuff before unleashing the humbucker. All in all, another nice no mess, no fuss guitar.

This was bought from eBay. As it was a few years before Charvel released their USA 'Pro-Mod' series (like "Scratch"), it got very little attention. I threw in a low-ball bid (embarrassingly low to be honest) and sat down with a cup of tea to watch the auction count down, prepared to dig in, bid hard and win. No other bids. I paid before the seller got a chance to change his mind!

Fast-forward to the present, and to the purchase of "Ruby", my PRS Custom 24. The guy that sold Ruby sent me a link to his PhotoBucket so that I could see close-up photographs of the PRS. I was leafing through the random photographs of his gear (what can I say ... I'm curious, ok?) and ... whats this? Yup ... there was Enzo! Its a small world. It turns out that the guy I bought the PRS from had toured France with Enzo for YEARS, and had sold in order to buy the PRS. Enzo and Ruby are now reunited.

Interestingly (to ME anyway), this run of guitars suffered from nasty delamination of the clearcoat on the headstock. That is no big deal, but IS pretty ugly, and normally takes the headstock decal with it when it finally gives way. This one has survived quite well ... certainly better than most. However, my other reissue ("Lenny") has survived unscathed ...