I've been away for too long...what happened to Charvel?
done got bought. first by a company that also owned "hondo" in the mid 80s- remember them $129 guitars.... yeah... and then later sold to FMIC (fender, but owned by akai and then somebody else).
at this point, i'm just building guitars out of warmoth parts. ken warmoth used to make shit with lynn ellesworth as "boogie bodies" which kinda was part of the charvel of legend (eddie's original dumb striped red guitar was boogie bodies stuff).
wayne charvel himself is long gone, now making guitars with his son.
it's actually kinda hard to get a guitar built by somebody who gives a shit these days. i probably spend $500 a pop just getting one "made right" after i've paid for all the parts.
but if i got one from GMW, i'd be surprised if it wasn't right. somehow you can tell that those guys aren't fucking around.