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- Charvel is a brand of electric guitars founded in the 1970s by Wayne Charvel in Azusa, California and originally headquartered in Glendora, California. Since 2002, Charvel has been under the ownership of Fender Musical Instruments Corporation.
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Charvel is a brand of electric guitars founded in the 1970s by Wayne Charvel in Azusa, California and originally headquartered in Glendora, California. Since 2002, Charvel has been under the ownership of Fender Musical Instruments Corporation.
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Charvel guitars started to be mass produced in Japan bearing the Fort Worth Texas neck plate. The first Charvel Japanese made imports were delivered in 1986. In the USA Grover Jackson relinquishes the majority of his ownership in Jackson Charvel to International Music Company in and about the year 1989.
May 17, 2023 · Charvel guitar continued being built in California until 1986 when production moved to Canada. Grover sold the company in 1989, but we’re getting ahead of ourselves a little. Let us backtrack and look at some details from the brand’s heyday first…
Apr 8, 2021 · Grover Jackson, JoAnn Pieroth, Mike Eldred in the Charvel/Jackson workshop. Wayne and Grover came to an agreement where Grover bought the business, in November 1978. By the end of January in the new year, Grover and his wife JoAnn Pieroth had their first employee, 18-year-old guitarist Mike Eldred.
Apr 1, 2014 · Charvel guitars were originally constructed from wood components outsourced to Boogie and Schecter bodies, and various Charvel and aftermarket hardware. [1] Wayne Charvel sold the company to Grover Jackson in 1978, and ceased all working associations with the brand name from that point forward.
Jackson-built Charvel guitars debuted in summer 1979 and quickly became the axes of choice for the flamboyant new breed of Sunset Strip guitar heroes whose loud, heavy bands were then being signed left and right by major record labels.
May 5, 2010 · Guitar World celebrates the storied history and glorious renaissance of Charvel. Wayne Charvel unwittingly spawned a guitar custom shop revolution when he opened Charvel's Guitar Repair in 1974, in Azusa, California.
