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Today, Charvel and his son Michael own and operate Charvel Music, a full line music store in Paradise, California, and manufacture guitars as a joint venture under the name Wayne Guitars. [16] Their houses and shop burned down in the 2018 Camp Fire .
Wayne Charvel eventually filed bankruptcy and sold his interest to Grover Jackson on November 10, 1978, which gave Jackson control of the Charvel name. [ 2 ] Jackson Guitars originated in 1980 when guitarist Randy Rhoads approached the company with an idea for an individualized guitar.
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The Charvel Surfcaster is a model of electric guitar designed and produced in the early 1990s by the Charvel/Jackson guitar company. The Surfcaster was manufactured in Japan at the Chushin Gakki factory as were all the import Charvel guitars in this era.
In 1978, he started working at Wayne Charvel's guitar repair shop in Covina, California (while using a PO Box in neighboring San Dimas). Since Charvel's shop was almost bankrupted, Charvel eventually sold his interest to Grover Jackson on November 10, 1978, which gave Jackson control of the business and the Charvel brand.
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Charvel introduced a signature-model Eddie Van Halen guitar, the Charvel EVH Art Series Guitar equipped with a single custom-wound pickup and a Floyd Rose locking tremolo, in three colors: white with black stripes, black with yellow stripes and red with black-and-white stripes. The guitars have a neck profile similar to the original Frankenstrat.
Eddie Van Halen hacked his explorer-shaped Ibanez Destroyer to make it look like a shark [further explanation needed] around 1977, so he is credited [according to whom?] as the inventor of the star-shaped guitar. [citation needed] Wayne Charvel refined the design and those Charvel Stars 79-83 are among the most valued instruments of the brand.