Sharpen Up Your Sound with this Custom Shop Superstrat
Ready to steal the spotlight with a stunning Snow White Crackle finish, this Charvel Custom Shop San Dimas 2H FR delivers top-tier Superstrat tone and performance. A contoured alder San Dimas body starts this 6-string off with a classic feel, standing opposite a lightning-fast caramelized flame maple neck. Likewise, a compound-radius fingerboard allows you to unleash screaming high-register leads and driving low-position rhythms with optimal playability and comfort. Under the hood, twin DiMarzio pickups — comprising a Super Distortion in the bridge and a PAF Pro in the neck slot — supercharge your sonic palette with both vintage-inspired warmth and high-octane humbucking firepower. And in time-honored Superstrat fashion, you get a top-mounted Floyd Rose double-locking tremolo that allows for wild and expressive flourishes with top-shelf stability. Factor in the impeccable craftsmanship and master-level fretwork of the Charvel Custom Shop’s expert luthiers, and this Charvel Custom Shop San Dimas 2H FR is all but destined to become your next #1.
Time-tested tones, courtesy of DiMarzio
Considering Charvel’s origins as Superstrat pioneers, it’s a welcome sonic supplement to endow the Custom Shop San Dimas 2H FR with this exact dyad of DiMarzio humbuckers: a bridge-mounted Super Distortion and a neck-mounted PAF Pro. The Super Distortion is revered for its groundbreaking engineering, as the first pickup expressly built to push tube amps into total overdrive — the foundations of myriad shades of rock and metal. Powered by ceramic magnets, the Super Distortion effortlessly balances booming presence and prismatic heft that ensures lows, mids, and highs are voiced across raucous riffage, lightning leads, brutal breakdowns, and searing solos, with equally exacting clarity and power.
At the neck, another hard-rocking DiMarzio dignitary arrives — the PAF Pro humbucker. This pickup takes up the mantle of the Super Distortion’s foundational vision, emerging when rackmounted gear, high-octane amps, and virtuosic playing first became the gold standard of guitar-playing excellence. As a result, the PAF Pro and its Alnico V magnets supply a sonic aperture of aural brilliance, cleaving through mixes with its marriage of incisive yet open presence that preserves the PAF-style sound that defined rock ’n’ roll’s early days. The result is reactive lows, boosted yet focused mids, and incisive highs that never turn brittle or cloying.
Fast-playing compound-radius fretboard
When it comes to pliable playability, this Custom Shop San Dimas is in a class all by itself. Built from alder, this solidbody electric guitar is directly descended from Charvel's early-’80s Southern California shredders, ensuring seamless technical playing up and down the fretboard. Furthermore, the caramelized flamed maple neck offers rock-solid stability, with an easy-playing compound-radius fingerboard. With a 12-inch radius at the nut that flattens to 16 inches at the 12th fret, you get the perfect feel for grabbing chords in lower positions, while the flatter upper registers facilitate blazing-fast fretwork.
Twisting, bending, and dive-bombing
Adventurous guitarists who want to unlock their full potential need an instrument that can accommodate the full gamut of playing techniques with steadfast reliability. That's why this Custom Shop San Dimas includes a non-recessed Floyd Rose double-locking tremolo. A perennial favorite among Sweetwater's trem-obsessed guitarists, the Floyd Rose enables you to dive-bomb, shriek, squeak, and flutter all you want, and you'll experience rock-solid response and tuning stability. Whether you use or abuse it, you'll have trouble knocking this San Dimas out of tune.
Charvel Custom Shop San Dimas 2H FR Features:
- US-built shredder crafted by the Charvel team at the Custom Shop in Corona, CA
- Lightweight and contoured alder body in classic Superstrat profile
- Fast-playing caramelized flamed maple neck retains exceptional stability in almost any environment
- 12–16-in. compound-radius fingerboard lives to serve shredders with slick upper-position bends and effortless chord work
- Top-mounted Floyd Rose double-locking tremolo unit unleashes screams, dives, and squeals
- Unwavering Gotoh tuning machines
- Snow White Crackle finish is sure to steal the eyes of any audience
