Introducing the Pro-Mod San Dimas Style 1 Relics | Charvel Guitars 

People are morons, if they spend $1600 on a new guitar that looks like it was dragged behind a bus.

Hardtail guitars are for people who don't know how to set them up properly. Just joking, I'm imitating people who sh*t on us for liking relic guitars

Agree. I hate floyd rose

Really?

It's a waterjet program to relic. Looks even more fake in person.

Dude ain't nobody realistically ever getting that type of relicing unless you're a highly touring guitar player. Which most people aren't, that's the appeal for relic and I think some guitars even look way better relic.

@@thelongestdongrod190 I can grab some sandpaper and do it myself for a personalized wear pattern if that's really really really what I want.

@@BodhiSoftMobileAppsdude you absolutely can’t. Most guitars are poly finish nowadays. They’ll never age with playing, even for 100 years, and if you take a sand paper to it, it’s going to look disgusting. It’s sad that they don’t do “closet clean” relics but if you want a guitar that ages with your playing, nitro is the only way, which means the current relic offering is your only way

Whay add locking tuners when it has a locking nut? Do you enjoy neck dive?

@@BenCoombs because is way easier and faster to change the strings

Locking tuners are useless and pointless on a locking nut guitar.

​@@bluematrix5001not really.

Model 7 that tele with the Jackson headstock

I think the issue with non-relic is that the process is messy, meaning you’ll always have some level of little nicks. It would be a “closet clean relic” at best

It's funny but when I was young pau ferro was used on higher end guitars.

@@JD-vj4go i don’t have problem with pau ferro. I am saying pre pro vintage charvels never used it and didn’t look right on it. And most of the players like traditional woods. Do you want play baswood body and neck gibson les paul standart and pay 3000$? nobody wants.

That tonewoods debate is so outdated...

@@nicatquluzad8969 I just meant it's funny that pau ferro is the cheap wood now. I think it looks pretty good on these guitars. I have a 91 Charvel and yeah it's rosewood. Usually I dont like pau ferro but it works on these.

If you don’t know how to set them up. I personally love them. Hold tune better than anything else with a whammy bar…

Same, I hate floyds. Give me a hardtail or stop bar and tuneomatic.

@@alexcoronaI know how to work with them. They're still fucking annoying, and a two point trem is less of a pain to deal with.

Set them up for dive only, and they are the best.

Not only a pain to deal with, I've noticed a trend when testing these guitars in guitar stores, that hardtail versions are noticeably better sounding than FR and tremolos. For me it was such a big difference, that I've easily resigned from dives and other whammy bar tricks. Moreover, I would love to see more DK24 iterations. I've wanted San Dimas at first, but comparing them San Dimas are much more bulky, and nowhere near as comfy in high positions as DK24s - their body cuts are perfect!

Jordan is a Grade AAA rocker. He's allowed.

And he can play better than you 😂

@richmondvaper So you've heard of me!? Cheers for checking me out buddy!

...You're literally playing a relic on your channel. Nice self own dude! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

@@trevor4533 Bought it because of the price... doing a refin in turquoise blue. I've hated that finish since I bought it 🤣

@@scottdunn2178 Haha fair enough! SBS does sell non relic'd guitars by the way.

@@trevor4533I know. It's a great sounding guitar for the money.

You can rub off the Duncan logo if it bothers you (use scratch remover) but if authenticity is a concern there are bigger factors like the pau ferro fretboard, the spoke wheel truss rod adjustment location, the 12th fret dot spacing, the direct mount pickups, the recessed Floyd route, no skunk stripe.

Why would you expect a retro styled guitar to be new or innovative?

Just buy the Henrik Danhage Signature Charvel, thats top mounted.

@@Echoes- Ah hadn't seen that. Thanks.

Nope. I have originals from the early to mid 80's and none look anything like the relics any of these companies are doing.

@@Darth.Shredder Your Charvel is most likely finished in poly, which doesn't wear away like nitro. edit: That being said, these models are clearly overexaggerated on the relicing.

@@trevor4533 Yes, like most guitars from that era they are poly (most guitars still are). Obviously Gibson, some Fenders, modern PRS and some small boutique builders use nitro but most manufacturers still use poly on gloss finishes. Charvel has done some nitro runs but their standard production line gloss finishes are still poly.

@@Darth.Shredder Correct. These are also finished in Nitro. I would have preferred "showroom stock" model or whatever with non aging and nitro though.

You'd have to play that several hours a day for 30-40 years to look like that

No😂

Fair point.. Don’t forget though, Tadeo Gomez, the greatest builder Fender ever had, was Mexican. Nothing wrong with Mexican workmanship, my friend.

But then you'd complain that it costs too much for what it is.

I don't know who thinks Pau Ferro is inferior in quality/sound - just endlessly uglier to look at. At its best, it still looks like a bad piece of dried out rosewood. I would never buy any guitar with Pau Ferro, but to each his own.

Don't think so , more for bedroom guitarist who want people to think they gig

​@@metalheadbluesI don't gig anymore, but I like my relicd guitar because I don't care if it gets beaten up. But go ahead and continue to be a closed minded dumb shit.

Tell that to the working professionals playing them.

Unless they're parading these relics as 40+ year old guitars and lying about them, I couldn't really care less. Buy what ever you like, life is short. Not my money, not my problem.

😜 worry about your own playing

Yes but ironically it was used on higher end and custom guitars.

Nope, not on the original San Dimas Charvels these are mimicking. They did use pau ferro on the soloist shaped Charvels they did in the 90's.

@@JD-vj4go Yep... back in the day pau ferro was a premium wood but I doubt it's the same quality they use these days. Fender uses it on their cheapest models now and only started using it when rosewood was restricted.

where you have seen it in person?

It’s done by person, my cousin worked at the plant that was his job.

Oh cool! No one asked

@@the.wayofallflesh I've several models done from the plant, clearly done by waterjet.

@@alexcorona then why is the relicing the exact same on every guitar. Looks like a waterjet program.

Obviously for people who like relic guitars

Hmmm they’re for people who like old worn in feeling guitars that aren’t suffocating under 20 layers of plastic paint. Sort of like a comfy pair of ripped levis that have been washed 532 times. What’s so wrong with that?

@@mKreifeldt so buy a guitar that actually has mileage on it. That’s not what these are. They are mass-produced clones with no experience. Just doesn’t seem like there is an actual market to justify the expense, unless they are using it as a loss-leader to sell something else at a better margin. I don’t buy jeans with holes either, that’s a complete waste of money.