guildman63
Senior Member
Okay LTG, here is your chance...
I have had my eye on several guitars over the years, and a nice vintage acoustic archtop from Epiphone has been my recent target. However, I have also wanted a PRS for many years, but didn't want to spend that kind of money. Then I was reintroduced to Carvin recently, and after doing some online sound comparisons the Carvin CT624 sounds like a perfect alternative. Best of all, it has a carved top, and can be extensively customized to my liking, and all for about $1700 - $2000 depending on the choice of tops. I have tentatively decided on a bookmatched 4A quilted maple top, mahogany back and sides, 5-piece mahogany neck, signature abalone inlays, chrome hardware, cream bezels and truss rod cover, ebony fingerboard, S22B and S22J pickups, metal knobs with abalone inlays, and a vintage tweed hardshell case to protect. The only thing left, if I choose, is to have the truss rod cover customized. This is where all of you come in. Give me your suggestions for what should go on the truss rod cover, and perhaps this guitar will have a Guild stamp on it.
Following are pictures that are very similar to what I have selected, aside from the color of the pickups, pickup bezels and truss rod cover, and inlays on this are a little different.
I have had my eye on several guitars over the years, and a nice vintage acoustic archtop from Epiphone has been my recent target. However, I have also wanted a PRS for many years, but didn't want to spend that kind of money. Then I was reintroduced to Carvin recently, and after doing some online sound comparisons the Carvin CT624 sounds like a perfect alternative. Best of all, it has a carved top, and can be extensively customized to my liking, and all for about $1700 - $2000 depending on the choice of tops. I have tentatively decided on a bookmatched 4A quilted maple top, mahogany back and sides, 5-piece mahogany neck, signature abalone inlays, chrome hardware, cream bezels and truss rod cover, ebony fingerboard, S22B and S22J pickups, metal knobs with abalone inlays, and a vintage tweed hardshell case to protect. The only thing left, if I choose, is to have the truss rod cover customized. This is where all of you come in. Give me your suggestions for what should go on the truss rod cover, and perhaps this guitar will have a Guild stamp on it.
Following are pictures that are very similar to what I have selected, aside from the color of the pickups, pickup bezels and truss rod cover, and inlays on this are a little different.
