Charvel Guitars

In November 1978, Wayne Charvel sold the small Azusa, California, company he founded earlier that decade, Charvel's Guitar Repair, to one of his employees, Grover Jackson. Charvel left the company soon afterward and ceased having any real association with the company's name from that point on.

Jackson promptly began building highly regarded electric guitars bearing the Charvel name. In 1980, he was introduced to Ozzy Osbourne's new young guitarist, Randy Rhoads; the two began to develop an angular, neck-through-body guitar designed by Rhoads himself that quickly evolved into a model dubbed the "Concorde." Wary of putting the Charvel name on this radical new instrument lest it not prove a smashing success, Jackson instead put his own surname on the headstock in a move that prompted the creation of the Jackson guitar brand (the guitar was eventually re-christened the "Rhoads" model and remains a top Jackson seller today).

Today, Charvel offers several U.S.-made Custom-Built guitars, a set of Warren DeMartini signature models, and the all new U.S.A. Production Model Series.