Description

Player’s Perspective

This Charvel HSS San Dimas in Satin Plum is a lean, mean purple machine with an understated yet striking look. Charvel brings a level of prestige in their USA Select line to the San Dimas model, and the quality is evident everywhere from the ’80s-accurate body shape, quartersawn maple neck with hand-rolled fretboard edges (super comfortable!), and the calibrated DiMarzio pickup set featuring a Super Distortion in the bridge and powerful HS-2 single coils in the neck and middle. The players here at the shop also dig the fact that this particular San Dimas is a hardtail, which makes for no-fuss string changes and excellent tuning stability.

For a great hard-rock axe with unparalleled quality and versatility, check out this hardtail San Dimas.

Details

The USA Select San Dimas® Style 1 HSS HT features an alder body paired with a quartersawn maple neck with one-way vintage-style bullet truss rod, and a 22 jumbo fret rosewood compound radius fingerboard with rolled edges and a bone nut. Pure tone pours from a DiMarzio® DP100 Super Distortion bridge pickup and DiMarzio® DP-116 HS2™ neck and middle pickups, with five-way “super” blade pickup switching that delivers the bridge pickup only (position 1), bridge pickup inner coil and middle pickup (position 2), bridge pickup inner coil and neck pickup (position 3), neck and middle pickups (position 4) and neck pickup only (position 5). Other premium features include a single control knob (master volume), side-mount “football” output jack, black hardware, string-through-body bridge, and more.