Charvel 2B with Duncans - $400 shipped

ScotAloha · #1 08-01-2011, 07:44 AM

PRICE REDUCED TO $320

This is a really nice Charvel in good condition. I am pretty sure it is a 2B (someone here on Talkbass said so) but there are a few models that all look similar to me so I am not positive.

When I bought this a few years ago, it had a DiMarzio P pickup already installed, so I added a Duncan J and now it has a good hot sound.

This bass plays and sounds excellent, but it's capabilities overlap kind of heavily with a bass I have owned much longer, and I have too many basses and not enough hands to play them all so we have to say goodbye.

I'd like to get $320 shipped but I'm definitely open to offers.

I'm not really looking for any trades right now.

ScotAloha · #2 08-02-2011, 08:28 AM

Give in to your urge to channel classic thrash metal aesthetics. I will even throw in a strap!!

Tommygunn · #3 08-02-2011, 11:00 AM

Is it a leopard strap!?

And thats a DiMarzio neck pup, btw.

BUMP For a sweet bass.

ScotAloha · #4 08-02-2011, 11:11 AM

That's pretty weird... why have I always thought it was a Duncan pickup? I swear I'm not usually dumb about this stuff!

Sorry for any confusion. Either way this thing sounds similar to / as good as my Hamer that is definitely all Duncans.

amimbari · #5 08-02-2011, 01:51 PM

it was probably me who said it, and ya that's a 1986 2b, only the knobs have been changed. ( as well as the pickups )

ScotAloha · #6 08-03-2011, 08:24 AM

I think you're right! Thanks for adding some additional cool Charvel scholarship to this thread!

amimbari · #7 08-03-2011, 08:33 AM

your welcome Scot

Is that thing red and the pics washed the color out? I have a champagne mist colored one, but it looks way different than that thing.

ScotAloha · #8 08-03-2011, 09:12 AM

Yeah in real life in looks red. That was the initial reason I bought it... because I have never really owned a bass that had that 80s hair metal / thrash metal look with the solid primary colored body and black hardware and the price was right.

I really like it, but my band activity level has dropped below my personal threshhold for owning 7 basses.

amimbari · #9 08-03-2011, 09:22 AM

well I won't hype up too much the durability of one of the model series. I have had so many of them and not one has ever had a bad neck/frets, a TR adjustment more than a tweek, a pot or pickup issue.

just never had a bum unit out of probably 30 of those things in the years I owned them.

Certainly not rare, but for 300-400 bucks a long lasting unit that will be around for a long time to come. Hope you sell it here and if you don't I'm sure I'll see it on the bay sooner or later.

armybass · #10 08-05-2011, 01:47 PM

Bump for a great bass. I have a Model 1 and it is a smokin axe. I avoided all things hair metal and pointy headstock for decades but gave into the Charvel a few weeks back when trying to find a good out door (P Bass) and scored mine. Well worth every penny for the price.

ScotAloha · #11 08-08-2011, 07:42 AM

Maybe the talkbass community just needed a week to get their metal affairs in order before taking on the heavy responsibility of owning this prize!

amimbari · #12 08-08-2011, 08:07 AM

maybe last week the color RED was not in anyone's mind, and this week it will be?

ScotAloha · #13 08-09-2011, 11:52 AM

This could be someone's ticket to an audition with Loverboy... it's just red enough!!!

amimbari · #14 08-09-2011, 12:20 PM

I wonder what response you would get if it was a crackle finish?

ScotAloha · #15 08-09-2011, 01:30 PM

Or that Spector holoflake!

Man actually I'd keep it then.

amimbari · #16 08-09-2011, 01:59 PM

you mean like this one of mine?

I'm a lefty so all my rightys are collectibles even though I can play them inverted strings, I don't use them on stage, only my lefty models like your red one ( I have 3 of them in different colors )

LimaGuy · #17 08-09-2011, 06:03 PM

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Originally Posted by amimbari

well I won't hype up too much the durability of one of the model series. I have had so many of them and not one has ever had a bad neck/frets, a TR adjustment more than a tweek, a pot or pickup issue.

just never had a bum unit out of probably 30 of those things in the years I owned them.

Certainly not rare, but for 300-400 bucks a long lasting unit that will be around for a long time to come. Hope you sell it here and if you don't I'm sure I'll see it on the bay sooner or later.

Agree on this. I owned 2 of these years ago. I actually kept one of the necks and had it on a ESP body till last year. Neck never developed any problems at all. Very solid 80's bass.

ScotAloha · #18 08-16-2011, 03:18 PM

I was sitting around trying to play the bassline to Mr Bungle's "Dead Goon" on this bass over the weekend. It's a lifelong pursuit.

amimbari · #19 08-17-2011, 10:04 AM

why is this bass still unsold?

ScotAloha · #20 08-24-2011, 08:22 AM

Maybe today is the day that you start your pre-Cowboys Pantera cover band?