Can anyone identify my Charvel bass please?

[Clark Dark]

well Clark that is a ESP body with the double-p and j angled like that IF it was a charvel body it was heavily modded, filled in first because no jackson ever came with angled p-pups like that. He bounces around so much there is no stopping the vid on the headstock sticker. It is a ESP body with a replacement neck as well, unless ESP made Charvel copy headstocks that I don't know about.

ESP double p/J:

The headstock resembles a Charvel or that Kramer angular headstock from the pics up above (21 frets with different fret markers). But from the pots alignment it's an ESP. Maybe there were some models with that style headstock back in the day. One thing for sure, that double P/J has a nice thick tone.

 

[amimbari]

I'm only good at identifying Jackson stuff mystery pics from nice shots of everything, looking at that vid, that ESP was the only thing I could come up with.

 

[Mr.Reed]

Any one know any thing about this bass

 

[Mr.Reed]

Here more pictures of it

 

[abarson]

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[amimbari]

Mr Reed, that is a model 1b by the serial looks like a 1988

 

[Mr.Reed]

Mr Reed, that is a model 1b by the serial looks like a 1988

From what I could find it a 400 but was sure on the year

 

[amimbari]

a 400?

 

[Mr.Reed]

This is the info I could find on what I think it is

 

[amimbari]

oh...thats a charvette 400. They made those in 1991-92.
The finest database for Charvels in the 80s is no longer online, and if you go to the JacksonGuitars site, those catalogs are missing

 

[Mr.Reed]

oh...thats a charvette 400. They made those in 1991-92.
The finest database for Charvels in the 80s is no longer online, and if you go to the JacksonGuitars site, those catalogs are missing

I was hoping it was a 80 model but I take a 90's, thanks for the help

 

[amimbari]

it is 80s Mr Reed, the black one in your pictures is a 1b made in the 80s like these

the catalog scan ( charvette 400 ) is a slightly different bodystyle and not what you have. Unless you had the 2 side by side, ya they do look the same.
This is my model 400 made in 91/92: different logo, bridge, hardware and a less sensitive pickup. I only bought it for the cool crackle paintjob.

 

[Tim Human]

thats a generic body with a charvel neck someone put on it. it is not a charvel body dude, I have had/have plenty of them. WHY?

#1 Charvel NEVER EVER made a body with a slot cut for a TR adjustment because the TR is in the head.
#2 Charvel never put the neckplate on upside down like that, which means the neck was off of it at one time for sure. Serial 303xxx tells me a lot...meaning if it was serial 303xxx, it would be a 1988 and the p-pickups would be reversed.
#3 Kinda tells me the OEM neck was junk and someone just put a Charvel neck on it, and I would have to see the back control cover.
#4 NO Charvel ever came with 4 knob config like that.
#5 if it was real from 86-88 that bridge is dead wrong.

one more pic of the back cover would tell me 150%, because right now I'm at 100% it is not a Charvel body. The neck is from a 1986 because on top of the sticker it says TM not (R), so the neck is from 1986.

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• Sep 12, 2017

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