Open Box Charvel Pro-Mod DK24 HSS 2PT CM Electric Guitar Level 2 Snow White 197881309770

I bought this guitar back in 2018. Needed a setup but it plays amazing, the neck feels really nice and the bridge pickup screams. Even the neck pickup can do some straty tones. Really loving the sound of it. Unfortunately the are severe QC issues with the instrument. I was too busy at the time to reach out to GC to see if they can swap it for another one — that is my bad. Sadly, now I'm stuck with a guitar with flaws that I can't unsee. I don't mind an organic relic, in fact, I like the look a lot! But, poor routing and craftsmanship makes the guitar look and feel cheap. The routing around the pickups and bridge are incredibly bad for a guitar that is over a thousand dollars. You can even see paint smudging inside of the pickup cavities. Would I buy again? Probably not.

So close to an A+ out of the box, but unfortunately the wiring/soldering on my guitar was very poorly done, which led to intermittent issues with some of the pickup positions. I brought it to my local luthier because otherwise I love the feel/playability/look of the guitar, but I can't say its completely without issue. Buyer beware.

My wife bought this guitar for my birthday! just because of this this guitar should be my favorite, but it is actually a great instrument. I like the slightly smaller body than a Stratocaster, but still a lot of Strat tones. The hotter pick up make it very versatile, you can always reduce the volume if you want. It drives well a tube amplifier but if you need a crystal-clear tone this guitar will deliver it. The neck is fantastic: it is very slim but not too much and nice and flat. If I have to highlight a negative point, the fret work was not impeccable, not very smooth on the sides. But except this, my favorite electric.

I will need to get this set up (which will need to be done anyway). The Neck truss rod needs adjusting and the bridge moves when I bend a string which is annoying. Most of these problems will be corrected with a setup or so I hope.

I tried one of these in store when picking up a player Stratocaster because the salesman recommended it. I was immediately impressed by the neck profile feel and and body contours on neck pocket. I have hands on the smaller size (size 9 gloves) and I find this guitar neck very easy to play. I've tried tons of different guitars, from Jackson, Ibanez, schecter, Epiphone, PRs, evh and more. This neck profile so far has to be my favorite. I like it so much I will probably pick up the Warren signature snakeskin dk since it also has the Charvel speed neck.

This is a pretty great guitar, but with some flaws. Mine sounds great, the single coil neck pickup does buzz quite a bit, but otherwise the pickups are very solid. It has a great tone with distortion or a raw clean setting. This was my first guitar with a floating bridge, though keep in mind the nuts do not lock. The first time I broke a string on it and changed the strings, the bridge was all messed up, being way too high. (I won't call this a negative since it was my fault for not knowing this, just keep it in mind.) It also has locking tuners, however due to the floating bridge I find it very difficult to tune, and keep in tune. A lot of times when I try to tune, all of the other strings go out, and it takes minutes to tune. The locking tuners do not help this much. I also, especially as a metal head, find it very, VERY difficult to downpick/trem pick. The middle pickup gets in the way a LOT when I'm picking. As a full package however, I think this is great. I'd give it 5 stars if it weren't for the middle pickup getting in the way and the difficult to keep in tune sides of things.