Last edited by Jeff Hilligan on Mon, 11:01pm, edited 1 time in total. HE is offering $5K or a Kiesel built by him for any information that aids in the investigation.
ARE CARVIN GUITARS STILL AVAILABLE SERIAL NUMBERS
Kiesel Guitars Custom Shop In Stock Jason Becker Tribute Numbers Guitar with Floyd Rose Tremolo, Serial Number 133444 - made in the USA and ready to ship! All serial numbers and pictures are available. He will be greatly missed and fondly remembered by the Kiesel family and the entire staff of Carvin.Carvin Guitars Jason Becker Tribute Numbers Guitar with Floyd Rose Tremolo Serial Number 133444 Find this Pin and more on Carvin/Kiesel Guitars by Anthony Spell. Kiesel’s leadership, technical expertise and innovative engineering concepts led the company for decades, and even after handing the reins of the company over to his sons, he maintained an office in Carvin’s San Diego headquarters and remained active in company operations.
ARE CARVIN GUITARS STILL AVAILABLE PRO
In the following years, the company expanded from pickups to guitars and basses, amplifiers, pro audio equipment and other musical accessories. Kiesel’s home state of Nebraska, and then moved back to southern California in 1949, where the name was changed to Carvin, after his two eldest sons, Carson and Gavin. The company was located in Los Angeles, briefly relocated back to Mr. Kiesel Company in 1946, and began winding pickups on an old sewing machine owned by his wife, Agnes. Kiesel was born in Nebraska in 1915, and as a young man, spent time in Wichita, Kansas, where he developed an interest in musical instruments specifically, Hawaiian steel guitars, resonators and the electronic aspects of these instruments. It is with great sadness that Carvin announces the passing of it’s founder, Lowell C.
A trawl on eBay suggests prices in the region of £300-£600. The UK price of this new model, due to the higher-end features, is £1226 (quoted from Carvin’s website, and converted from dollars) but original 1980s models go for surprisingly little. The body is now alder and the controls have been simplified. The shape remains the same, although the tremolo is now a Floyd Rose model, and the construction is thru-neck. It has since been reissued, however, and is in Carvin’s current product line albeit with some changes. It was discontinued in 1989 after a prosperous five-year run. The V220 was a successful design which found favour with many significant rock players. In terms of the controls, there was a master tone control, volume controls for each pickup, a three-way pickup selector and two coil-split mini toggle switches. The more common option was the then-new Kahler locking tremolo system, which ended up on most V220Ts. The standard was a one-piece fixed bridge/tailpiece combination. The pickups came with white covers and could be said to resemble DiMarzios. The pickups had twice as many pole pieces as normal, for more sustain. The pickups were an M22 humbucker at the neck and an M22SD at the bridge. The neck was topped off by an arrow-shaped headstock resembling that of a Gibson Flying V. The neck had 24 frets on an ebony fingerboard. In terms of construction, the V220T consisted of a maple body and maple set neck, although quilted maple and koa bodies were options. It is a surprisingly elegant shape, and was available in black, white and red as well as a clear natural finish. The V220’s shape was unique and could perhaps be said to resemble the bottom half of an upside-down Jackson Rhoads crossed with the top half of an upside-down Gibson Explorer. However, in 1984 they introduced a very different shape to their line-up, which actually became one of their most popular designs. Many of Carvin’s guitar designs are based on traditional shapes with their characteristic twists. Their amps are also renowned, and Vai is a long-time user of his signature Legacy series. In the 1980s Carvin began to gain a serious reputation, and their guitars were used by Craig Chaquico of Starship, Jason Becker of Cacophony and Steve Vai before his endorsement from Ibanez.
When Carvin started using it, however, it was in its infancy, having only been used previously on the Gibson Firebird and early BC Rich guitars. Many of Carvin’s designs in their 1980s heyday employed through-neck construction, which is now established and used often. They are not particularly well-known but to those “in the know†they represent high quality and reasonable value for what they are. Carvin is an American custom guitar brand.