![]() This guitar used the same active pickups and circuitry as the Classic Series 475 Special model. ![]() The 650 XL Professional was a custom version of the 550XL. Plays like butter and can cover everything from blues, to thrash and everything else in between.ĬHARVEL made the 650 XL Professional between 19. ![]() Mega build quality and attention to detail. Jackson hardware pickups and trem, from the hay day of Japanese production. Snow white neck through body superstrat form Charvel /Jackson. Al except the quite well respected surfcasters, they were the 1st guitars that were made under the Charvet logo, and are actually pretty dam good, quite collectable themselves now, but that’s another story. Shortly after that Charvel disappeared for a while and Charvet appeared and they were cheaper guitars, in quality and materials. I played both Jackson soloists and these back to back and they were the same guitar and 1/3 the price, no wonder Jackson changed the business model. If you’re looking for an early soloist, don’t knock these till you try them. I know as i lived through it, and at that time simply couldn’t afford them. Up until then the Jackson brand was always high end to pro level guitars. By the start of the early 90s they stopped production of the Charvel guitars and actually just made their own cheaper self branded Jacksons. ![]() Their NOTįolks cottoned on to how dam good these things are and it started eating into the US Jackson sales. ![]() Top end Japanese workmanship would rival that of any other builder in the world so don’t think for one second these are any way inferior to the dear old US of A made guitars. To be brutally honest the attention to detail, build quality and playability were probably better than the US made guitars, other than the great stuff coming out the US custom shop. These guitars are from the eighties and early 90s when Jackson were using the Charvel logo to make there more affordable Japanese made guitars. Charvel 650 XL PRO neck through construction Snow white (1990 / 91)Īmazing all original condition Charvel from the absolute panicle of the Japanese production era. ![]()
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