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Charvel Pro Mod San Dimas

Style 1 HSS HT E Sassafras

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The Pro-Mod Series continues upon Charvel’s storied legacy of innovative excellence in high-performance guitar design, offering the latest technology and top-notch features that modern players need.

Made in Mexico with great craftsmanship while keeping the price as low as possible. It’s a guitar with decent playability. It has good pickups but might be lacking in terms of versatility.

 It’s a well-balanced guitar for playing solos and chords. In general, it offers a good amount of features for the price. Overall, a good guitar for the price, especially if you like Hard Rock or similar genres.

PROS:

 

Locking Tuners

Compound Radius Fretboard

Expensive Wood

Top Pickup Brand

CONS:

 

Neck-Through Build

Push Knob or Extra Switch Option

Weight Relief

Tremolo

Stays in Tune (Evertune)

21:1 Tuner Ratio

Stainless Steel Frets

High-Quality-Standards Country

Strap Lock

High-Quality Nut

Luminescent Inlay

Knowing where the guitar is produced is a good way to know how well it’s built. Some manufacturing countries are known for having higher quality standards. For example, most expensive guitars are made in the US or Japan, but there are some exceptionally great countries—like South Korea—that are building a good reputation.

The Charvel Pro-Mod San Dimas Style 1 HSS HT E Sassafras is made in Mexico. This is the country that some American brands choose for building really good, but cheaper guitars. You can expect a guitar that offers a good price-quality relationship, although they don’t get the same quality control as the ones built in Japan or the United States.

As an electric guitar, type of wood won’t affect the tone and sustain much. Instead, the hardware will be much more important. However, wood is still important for the look and feel of the guitar in general.

The body is made of Sassafras. It’s not a very hard wood that is rarely used for guitar building. The tone is similar to Maple, but with a bit more balance.

The neck is made of Maple. This is one of the most popular types of wood used in all kinds of guitars. It’s heavy, strong and compact, which makes it great for necks. However, it’s also used for fretboards, bodies and tops due to its light color, resistance and beautiful patterns. When it comes to tone, it highlights the mid and high frequencies.

Finally, the fretboard material is Ebony. This is one of the most expensive woods there is, which is why it’s mostly used for fretboards. It is dense, heavy, highly resistant and comes in a really dark color that gives any guitar a classy touch. Tone wise, it helps the high side of the spectrum and provides good sustain.

Bridge

The bridge is a Charvel HT6 String-Through-Body Hardtail. The advantage of fixed bridges is that they don’t require any kind of set-up. This makes it extremely easy when changing strings because you don’t need to adjust anything besides tuning the guitar. Also, the fact that the bridge is directly attached to the body will help to increase sustain. The disadvantage is the lack of versatility since you can’t create the same vibrato effects as with tremolo bridges.

Tuners

The Charvel Pro-Mod San Dimas Style 1 HSS HT E Sassafras comes with locking tuners, which helps with tuning stability and makes changing strings a lot faster and easier. As long as they’re high quality, these are the best tuning machines you can have. The only disadvantage is that they are a bit heavier than normal tuners.

Nut Material

Another important thing to analyze is the nut material, as it’s one of the most important aspects that can affect the sound and playability of your guitar. A well-cut nut will make sure the guitar stays in tune and will make it more comfortable to play.

In this case, the Charvel Pro-Mod San Dimas Style 1 HSS HT E Sassafras has a Plastic nut. This is a low-quality nut that you might want to consider upgrading soon. Bone and TUSQ nuts are the best for guitars with a fixed or simple tremolo bridge.

Neck Joint

The neck joint is the part where the neck of the guitar meets the body. There are three main techniques to attach both parts together: Set-In, Bolt-On and Neck-Through. The latter two provide different advantages, although neck-throughs are the most expensive.

This guitar has a Bolt-On neck joint. Even though this type of neck was looked down upon for a long time, nowadays bolt-on necks are well built and provide just as much sustain as any other join method. First of all, it’s cheap to make because it consists of simply 4 bolts that attach the neck to the body. And you can travel with the guitar more easily, swap out the neck if you damage it, or upgrade to a more comfortable neck later on.

Pickups

Another important thing to analyze is the nut material, as it’s one of the most important aspects that can affect the sound and playability of your guitar. A well-cut nut will make sure the guitar stays in tune and will make it more comfortable to play.

In this case, the Charvel Pro-Mod San Dimas Style 1 HSS HT E Sassafras has a Plastic nut. This is a low-quality nut that you might want to consider upgrading soon. Bone and TUSQ nuts are the best for guitars with a fixed or simple tremolo bridge.

The Charvel Pro-Mod San Dimas Style 1 HSS HT E Sassafras’s configuration is HSS. If you play a lot with humbuckers in the bridge position, but would also love to have pristine cleans, this is a great configuration to have. The bridge humbucker will give you tons of output for playing distorted rhythm parts, while the single coils will give you a lot of tone options.

It gives you a good amount of tone options with its 5-way switch. You can use it to choose at least 5 different pickup combinations.

The Charvel Pro-Mod San Dimas Style 1 HSS HT E Sassafras’s frets are Jumbo size. This is a tall fret size that is becoming increasingly popular because it makes it easier to press down the strings cleanly. With this fret size, you won’t feel the fretboard when playing, so if you press down too hard, you will get the notes out of pitch. However, this is something you can overcome by getting used to the taller size.

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