Charvel Joe Duplantier San Dimas Style 2 HH - Satin White Reviews

Do yourself a favor and pick this up.

I own many guitars and I'm always looking for that special sauce and this guitar has it.
I ordered the Dmarzio fortitude at the same time as purchase and installed it ..

You gotta play this thing in .. At first I didn't like it much and as I played it a bit and it settled into my environment.. It has a very crisp distortion. My fav 25.5 in my collection and it always blows me away how good inexpensive guitars can be..

I'm just quoting my brother Martin... "Clean"

I am absolutely in love with this guitar!! Last time I felt this way about a guitar was back in 1988 with my black G&L Rampage( sold it for college money..:( .

I have PRS Standard SE, A Mexican strat and an ESP BK-600 in my current collection. The ESP and the PRS play well but I just don't like the satin finishes on the neck. This guitar had all the specs I was looking for: Tele,compound radius Mahogany unfinished neck, locking tuners, simple volume and tone control and the two humbuckers and seymour duncans(all though not officially SD's they are duncan designed). I think this guitar plays incredible and sounds incredible. LOVING IT!

A friend of mine purchased one of these. I have played it a number of times and the build quality, tone quality, and playability make for one awesome guitar. The simple volume knob and pickup selection is great for a stripped down versatile machine. Crunchy brutal tones on a high gain amp, or fat warm tones on a nice clean channel. The finish looks good and I can't think of another guitar at this price that I have been more impressed with. To me it feels and plays like a Tele, but has the grit to sound like a high powered monster.

Honestly I'm very satisfied with this guitar. It is what it is, playable right out of the box, the 55 eval was on point. It wasnt my first choice though, due to the rosewood shipment problem, it was the guitar that i was lead to that was close to the one i wanted in terms of specs and within my budget. It may not look fancy for metal, but it sure plays and sounds like one. Thanks Dustin for helping me out with this pick.

Out of all of the guitars I have played. This one is very special. The neck feels so smooth and the pickups are so good for being Duncan Designed. I absolutely love the crap out of this guitar. This will be forever my favorite guitar! The simplicity makes this guitar really kick. It has that Gojira sound for sure! Gojira rules!

I was bullied into buying one of these guitars used by my bandmates and I can't say anything horrible about this guitar honestly. The neck is super smooth, the matte finish across the body feels very nice, I love the bridge setup (but I'm used to this setup as I'm a former Les Paul fanatic), The tuners hold super well and I feel like I hardly tune this guitar when I go to play it. The pickups aren't masterpieces, but they're more than usable and I've been recording them, I'll definitely upgrade them in the future, but the Duncan-designed distortions work flawlessly and sound amazing for what they are, I definitely am satisfied with them for now. Running this guitar in drop C using D'Addario NYXL 11-56 and the guitar screams honestly. If you're thinking about buying one, I say go for it. I'm not a Gojira fan, but Joe knows how to design a signature guitar. Highly recommend the guitar!

This guitar is pretty great, I got it at GearFest 2018 after picking up the lone Telecaster on the Charvel/PRS wall in the store's guitar room. I loved the way it sounded in the store, and when I got home, I was able to get some good sounds going with it.

Here's how I broke down the pros/cons of the guitar:

Pros:
-The white w/ black binding looks phenomenal on a pickguard-less Tele
-The neck wood on mine has a very visually appealing grain
-Locking tuners that work great
-Mahogany Telecaster body (pretty weird not being Alder or Swamp Ash)
-Pickups are voiced to work well with lower tunings (Gojira plays in D Standard)
-Neck carve is very comfortable, and the compound radius is great for everything I've done with it so far

Cons:
-The Duncan Designed pickups are okay, but seem to be inconsistent from guitar to guitar (I believe the ones in this guitar are the ones meant to emulate the Duncan Distortion set)
-The guitar is very dark sounding without proper compensation in the upper-mids and highs (This thing ripped out of every Marshall tube amp I've tried it on. At home, I usually have to bump the mids and presence a bit to get it to sound more alive) P.S. User mileage may vary because of the first point

Preference Points:
-The Tune-o-matic bridge is nice, and doesn't feel cheap
-The pickup selector has a different cap than most 3-way toggles, which you could change out if you don't like it
-There's only a single volume knob, which does what it was intended to do.

In my case, the one thing that I've noticed with my particular guitar is that the nick pickup in my case is very vintage sounding compared to the bridge pickup, and almost sounds like a P90, which is actually an unintended plus in my case.

Overall, this guitar was a steal at the price, and it meets all my needs. Only reason I don't give this guitar 5 out of 5, is that it requires some tweaking to liven the sound if you're using an amp that isn't already boosting the high-mids and the highs. I would definitely recommend it if you are seriously considering it.

I was lucky enough to order mine right after last year's Winter NAMM as it left an impression on me. The guitar looks gorgeous and plays with a brutal and powerful presence due to the design of the double humbucker pickup configuration. The compound radius neck feels great, and looks even better with the Fender telecaster-licensed headstock. The finish is a matte-white which always stays nice and clean (no greasy fingerprints). I usually make this my primary drop-D guitar due to the ferocious tones I can get. Enough - it's a great guitar that plays very nicely.

One volume, no tone, satin neck, satin body. All you really need. I love the locking tuners, and the DD pickups were "good". I put in Seymour Duncan JB & Jazz pickups and it really opened up the tonal clarity.

There *is* a bit of neck dive. Looking into a resolution for this one remaining issue and that will make it a 5 star instrument.

Nice looking. Ebony fret board feels kinda dry and and not impressed with the look or feel. Much better on my LTD ec1000T.
Could not keep in tune until I restrung.
I am a big Seymour Duncan fan and these are terrible.Pickups are weak, thin sounding Seymour Duncan should be ashamed putting these out. Gonna replace the pups and I'm sure it will sound much better. I have many Charvels and been playing them since '86. A bit disappointed but I'll have to upgrade and spend more $ to make this guitar useful. After the upgrade I will update my review.

I feel like I have been done dirty by this guitar, and it's a signature model nonetheless. When it came time to intonate and set this guitar up to my preferred playability, the screws to adjust the string saddles started chipping off and became stripped after some amount of turns. I managed to pull off a "decent" setup and threw on a set of my preferred set of heavy gauge strings, but then I ran into the next major flaw on this guitar which is the terrible state of the frets. There are both uneven frets and horrendous fret buzz on the 1st, 6th, 7th, 8th, 14th, 17th, and 19th frets. I do not know HOW this guitar got past the 55-Point Inspection Sweetwater has. Overall, this guitar does not feel like a good mid-range guitar I though it was. I'm very disappointed and underwhelmed.