#Carvin guitars careers free#

Looking under the 1970 model year the catalog shows a picture of the underside of the guitar, and it is definitely a Fender type cable system. I wonder if they went from a cable system to a rodded mechanism at that time? The 1969 model looks like it has cast pedals, and a knee lever. The models seem to be simular to the Fenders of that era, and the guitars do seem to improve from year to year. Carvin stuff was seen a lot more on the west coast, so maybe some other guys here will have pictures and info on the old stuff.Ĭheck the Carvin Museum website at - Look under Guitars, and starting with the 1966 model year you will find pedal steel guitars. They did offer kits for most of their guitars, too, but I'm not sure they were available for their pedal steels. The made all their own bodies, too, and they were aesthetically less pleasing than the Fender pedal steels. They were very similar to the old cable Fenders, with the wrap-frame and all.pedals were different, though. Their guitars were all natural finished wood at first, so Fender clearly had the 'color advantage', but Carvin had the Bigsby tremolo! They did offer pedal steels back in the early and mid '60s, but they were quite rare. (Now they offer clones of other major manufacturers, too.) They gave something close to the Fender look and sound for a fraction of the price, most models selling for about half what Fender was charging. Styles, models, most everything Fender offered, they offered. They were (for all intents and purposes), the first Fender clone, built in Covina Calif. They made solid-body steels and guitars, basses and mandolins, too. History for Carvin? Well, I was pretty familiar with them back in the early '60s. Joe's guitar went through many modifications and Semie Moseley wanted to put in his own PU's, but Joe always insisted getting back the old Carvin PU's. The connection here lies in the pick-ups of their original Mosrite double necks they were Carvin PU's. Joe Maphis and Larry Collins did endorse the Carvin guitars. Sierras and Wright Customs from that era are exactly like the Carvins. If I'm not totally mistaken, it was Chuck Wright ( Wright Custom and Sierra ) who built them, or at least designed them. There's no connection between Fender and Carvin pedal steels. But like most lead players, he was trying to play steel licks all over the place, so I just sat back and let him show off.I got paid anyway.al The band was real good, lead singer who played a mean lead telecaster was very good. I couldn't get used to it, so after the first set IĪ 14 string black one I built with a multi-chord head and finished the night with it. Tom- I played on a Carvin pedal steel one night in someplace south of Sanfrancisco, around 1968. Like I say, from the looks of the ones I've seen, some of the major components of the Carvin look exactly the same as those of the Fender 400/1000. I wonder if Carvin bought parts from Fender for their kit. I remember staring at their catalog and longing for the steel guitar kit, but alas, I couldn't afford it.Carvin has a web site even now, and is quite big in amplifiers. Anyway they were reputed to be good stuff. I never owned any of them but they were endorsed by Joe Maphis who played a double neck standard guitar, best I remember the other neck may have been a mandolin. What, is the history of Carvin, and what, if any, relationship is there between Carvin and Fender? Just curious.Ĭarvin is still in business, but in the days of the Fender 1000 etc, Carvin sold kits from which you built your own steel guitar, standard guitar, mandolins,amplifiers, etc. In fact, the overall appearence of the Carvin is almost identical to a Fender with the exception of the tuning keys. This brand of psg appears to have a Fender-type full-periphery cast frame as well as an early Fender 400/1000 type of changer mechanism. I've seen pictures of Carvin psg's here and there on the internet. Your profile | join | preferences | help | search I would be willing to travel 200 miles to meet someone.i am located in north central Oklahoma, 100 miles north of OKC.Classic country shuffle styles for Band-in-a-Box, by BIAB guru Jim Baron.

#Carvin guitars careers free#

In the meantime, feel free to ask questions. I am currently in Arizona and when I return to Oklahoma, I will post more pictures. I am not playing it that much these days anyway.

I am only selling this because I want to finance the purchase of a single neck C6th pedal steel. This guitar is not pristine, but not beat up and all the electronics work as they should. I know that no one will purchase without seeing a lot of pictures and I also realize that the no shipping limits my audience, so I am really just testing the waters at this point.