![]() As custom models they've gathered possibly the longest endorsee list I've ever seen (Jeff Beck, Bryan Adams, Elliot Easton, Vivian Campbell, Allan Holdsworth, Jake E. Most UK players will certainly have heard of Wayne Charvel's guitars, even if they've never played one. Charvel are obviously out to take over the top end of the Japanese-made guitar market, and they're in deadly earnest. ![]() Unless you collect literature on luxury cars, I'll bet you've never seen a guitar brochure like it, either. ![]() When a company spends as much money on producing a brochure as Jackson/Charvel have to launch their new guitars and basses it's pretty obvious that they mean business. I didn't even need to see the guitars to realise that something unusual was afoot. But can they live up to all that's expected of them? Gary Cooper tries two of the first samples in the UK. Firm favourites on the American custom guitar scene, Charvel's much talked about US-designed, Japanese-made range has at last arrived.
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