New for 2022 Charvel Pro-Mod model with Sin City finish.
The Pro-Mod Series continues upon Charvel’s storied legacy of innovative excellence in high-performance guitar design, offering modern players the latest technology and top-notch features. An ideal instrument for dazzling high-speed playing, the Limited Edition Pro-Mod San Dimas Style 1 HH FR M boasts scorching sound and unrivaled feel and performance. Next-level style is also here with an adventurous Sin City Sparkle finish, with matching headstock with a black Charvel logo and chrome hardware.
Key Features:
- Alder body
- Bolt-on maple neck with graphite reinforcement
- Unique Charvel Back Neck Shape
- 12”-16” radius maple fingerboard with rolled edges and 22 jumbo frets
- Seymour Duncan JB TB-4 & Seymour Duncan ‘59 SH-1N pickups
- Three-way blade pickup selector, volume control with coil splits, and no-load tone control
- Floyd Rose 1000 Series double-locking tremolo bridge system
- Heel mount truss rod adjustment wheel
- Color matched headstock
Charvel Pro-Mod San Dimas Style 1 HH FR M
The Pro-Mod Series continues upon Charvel’s storied legacy of innovative excellence in high-performance guitar design, offering modern players the latest technology and top-notch features. An ideal instrument for dazzling high-speed playing, the Limited Edition Pro-Mod San Dimas Style 1 HH FR M offers next--level style with an adventurous Sin City Sparkle finish and matching headstock with a black Charvel logo and chrome hardware. The alder body is coupled with a graphite-reinforced bolt-on maple speed neck with comfortably rolled fingerboard edges. The 12”-16” compound radius maple fingerboard has 22 jumbo frets and a heel-mount truss rod adjustment wheel for quick and convenient neck relief tweaks. High-output Seymour Duncan JB and Seymour Duncan '59 humbucking pickups are directly mounted to the body, cranking out a high-octane rock ‘n’ roll tone with plenty of sweet overtones. The volume control features push/pull coil splitting for even more tonal variations, while the no-load tone control operates as a standard tone control from positions one through nine and is removed from the circuit at position ten for a transparent sound that lets the full natural voice of the guitar shine through. A Floyd Rose 1000 Series double-locking tremolo bridge system allows for an aggressive dive bomb without sacrificing tuning stability. Available in Sin City Sparkle.
For more information, please visit charvel.com.
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Tom Bedell in the Relic Music acoustic room, holding a custom Seed to Song Parlor with a stunning ocean sinker redwood top and milagro Brazilian rosewood back and sides.
A born storyteller, Bedell doesn’t keep his passion to himself. On Friday, May 12, at New Jersey boutique guitar outpost Relic Music, Bedell shared some of the stories he’s collected during his life and travels as part of a three-city clinic trip. At Relic—and stops at Crossroads Guitar and Art in Gilbertsville, Pennsylvania, and Chuck Levin’s Washington Music Center in Wheaton, Maryland—he discussed his guitars and what makes them so special, why sustainability is such an important cause, and how he’s putting it into practice.
Before his talk, we sat in Relic’s cozy, plush acoustic room, surrounded by a host of high-end instruments. We took a look at a few of the store’s house-spec’d Bedell parlors while we chatted.
“The story of this guitar is the story of the world,” Bedell explained to me, holding a Seed to Song Parlor. He painted a picture of a milagro tree growing on a hillside in northeastern Brazil some 500 years ago, deprived of water and growing in stressful conditions during its early life. That tree was eventually harvested, and in the 1950s, it was shipped to Spain by a company that specialized in church ornaments. They recognized this unique specimen and set it aside until it was imported to the U.S. and reached Oregon. Now, it makes the back and sides of this unique guitar.
A Bedell Fireside Parlor with a buckskin redwood top and cocobolo back and sides.
As for the ocean sinker redwood top, “I’m gonna make up the story,” Bedell said, as he approximated the life cycle of the tree, which floated in the ocean, soaking up minerals for years and years, and washed ashore on northern Oregon’s Manzanita Beach. The two woods were paired and built into a small run of exquisitely outfitted guitars using the Bedell/Breedlove Sound Optimization process—in which the building team fine-tunes each instrument’s voice by hand-shaping individual braces to target resonant frequencies using acoustic analysis—and Bedell and his team fell in love.
Playing it while we spoke, I was smitten by this guitar’s warm, responsive tone and even articulation and attack across the fretboard; it strikes a perfect tonal balance between a tight low-end and bright top, with a wide dynamic range that made it sympathetic to anything I offered. And as I swapped guitars, whether picking up a Fireside Parlor with a buckskin redwood top and cocobolo back and sides or one with an Adirondack spruce top and Brazilian rosewood back and sides, the character and the elements of each instrument changed, but that perfect balance remained. Each of these acoustics—and of any Bedell I’ve had the pleasure to play—delivers their own experiential thumbprint.
Rosette and inlay detail on an Adirondack spruce top.
Ultimately, that’s what brought Bedell out to the East Coast on this short tour. “We have a totally different philosophy about how we approach guitar-building,” Bedell effused. “There are a lot of individuals who build maybe 12 guitars a year, who do some of the things that we do, but there’s nobody on a production level.” And he wants to spread that gospel.
“We want to reach people who really want something special,” he continued, pointing out that for the Bedell line, the company specifically wants to work with shops like Relic and the other stores he’s visited, “who have a clientele that says I want the best guitar I can possibly have, and they carry enough variety that we can give them that.”
A Fireside Parlor with a Western red cedar top and Brazilian rosewood back and sides.
