Carvin Bolt Kits?

[Aahzz]

Anyone built a guitar from one of the Carvin kits? Seems to be a more affordable option than Warmoth, with quality hardware....opinions?

 

[Phil513]

That is just too weird, i looked at those on the carvin website yesterday, and did a custom build up. (dreaming). I want a hardtail, but with a bucker at the bridge.

Anyway, i'd like to do one of those someday. I dont think carvin gets a lot of love around here though. I know a guy that works at the factory, its not far from me here.

 

[platypus]

I have a carvin neck on my black strat, they are very nice. very flat, very straight, very fast. The carvin tuners are comparable to any regular non-lockers in production, and often they use wilkinson bridges, which I like.

 

[jayhitz]

I've wanted to get one of those kits for a long time, but haven't been able to afford it. The two Carvins I have play better than anything else I've ever had the opportunity to play.

 

[Chihlidog]

I hear great things about Carvin, and bad things about carvin. Never "meh". I was pretty close to ordering one right before I bought my Schecter, but I was nervous to spend so much on a guitar I couldnt play first.

Having a guitar built exactly to your specs is a pretty sweet sounding deal, especially for under what you can get a new LP for.

 

[Prages]

I had a Carvin neck on a homemade guitar back in the early 90s. It was a good playing neck. Very thin, very flat radius, nicely done frets.

Unfortunately, it also twisted after a few years, but that was mainly due to the fact that at the time, my music room was my parents' fairly cool, damp basement.

I also had a Carvin licensed Floyd Rose on that guitar, and it was kind of crappy.

I think they've reinforced their necks since then, and they use OFRs now too, I think.

I know my old guitar teacher had a DC127 or whatever they are for a while and it was a nice guitar.

I also played Mystixboi's white CT6 and it was a nice playing guitar.

They always just seem a little vanilla to me for some reason.