Uploaded August 2024 | Updated September 2026, 2 days ago
A 12 string electric from SCHECTER GUITARS! The Wayne Hussey (the Mission) signature model. Quite the guitar.
Body
Guitar Colors: Ivory
Hardware Color: Gold
Top Contour: Arched Top
Dexterity: Right Handed
Construction: Set-Neck
Body Material: Maple
Binding: Gold Multi-ply
Bridge: Diamond Adjustable-12
Neck
Tuners: Grover
Fretboard Material: Ebony
Neck Material: Maple 3-pc
Inlays: Mother of Pearl Mission UK Design
Side Dot Markers: Glow In The Dark
Scale: 24.75" (628 MM)
Neck Shape: Thin "C"
Thickness1st Fret- .787" (20MM), 12th Fret- .866" (22MM)
Frets: 22 Medium
Fretboard Radius: 14" (355 MM)
Nut: Graph Tech XL Ivory Tusq
Nut Width: 1.771" (45MM)
Truss Rod: 2-Way Adjustable Rod w/ 5/32" (4mm) Allen Nut
Electronics
Controls: 2 Volume/2 Tone(Push-Pull)/3-Way Switch
Bridge Pickup: Schecter Diamond Tubebucker
Neck Pickup: Schecter Diamond Tubebucker
A 12 string electric from SCHECTER GUITARS! The Wayne Hussey (the Mission) signature model. Quite the guitar.
Body
Guitar Colors: Ivory
Hardware Color: Gold
Top Contour: Arched Top
Dexterity: Right Handed
Construction: Set-Neck
Body Material: Maple
Binding: Gold Multi-ply
Bridge: Diamond Adjustable-12
Neck
Tuners: Grover
Fretboard Material: Ebony
Neck Material: Maple 3-pc
Inlays: Mother of Pearl Mission UK Design
Side Dot Markers: Glow In The Dark
Scale: 24.75" (628 MM)
Neck Shape: Thin "C"
Thickness1st Fret- .787" (20MM), 12th Fret- .866" (22MM)
Frets: 22 Medium
Fretboard Radius: 14" (355 MM)
Nut: Graph Tech XL Ivory Tusq
Nut Width: 1.771" (45MM)
Truss Rod: 2-Way Adjustable Rod w/ 5/32" (4mm) Allen Nut
Electronics
Controls: 2 Volume/2 Tone(Push-Pull)/3-Way Switch
Bridge Pickup: Schecter Diamond Tubebucker
Neck Pickup: Schecter Diamond Tubebucker
![Vintage JAPAN only CHARVEL AR-070-SSH - a Shredders Guitar?
This Made in Japan CHARVEL ARK SERIES super strat is a vintage Super Shredder! Im definitely not though! Watch me struggle not to play with my wang bar every 20 seconds in this video, which taking in the great tones. Its a great instrument.
So plenty of tones, specs and even a rather disturbing A Aye Dunsy at one point. Its all here.
Thanks as ever for watching
Dunsy
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Charvel is a brand of electric guitars founded in the 1970s by Wayne Charvel in Azusa, California and originally headquartered in Glendora, California. Since 2002, Charvel has been under the ownership of Fender Musical Instruments Corporation.
Charvel guitars became popular in the 1980s due to their association with famous rock and heavy metal guitarists such as Eddie Van Halen (Van Halen), Chris Holmes (W.A.S.P.), Gary Moore, Warren DeMartini (Ratt), Jake E. Lee (Ozzy Osbourne), Eddie Ojeda (Twisted Sister), George Lynch (Dokken), Allan Holdsworth, Shawn Lane, Richie Sambora (Bon Jovi), and others. Modern Charvel players include Guthrie Govan (The Aristocrats), Satchel (Steel Panther), Mike Orlando (Adrenaline Mob), Joe Duplantier (Gojira), Andy Glass (Solstice), and Angel Vivaldi.
In 1980, Grover Jackson met Randy Rhoads, who had recently joined Ozzy Osbournes new band as lead guitarist. They worked together to develop a guitar to complement the polka-dotted Flying V built for Rhoads by Karl Sandoval. The prototype was not angular enough for Rhoads, but the second design produced a shape that Randy referred to as the Concorde. Jackson worried that the radically styled neck-through guitar was too different from Charvels familiar Superstrat theme, so he labeled the instrument with his own name on the headstock in case the design proved unpopular. Contrary to Jacksons concerns, the visual impact of this guitar spawned the Rhoads Model that soon became iconic in the industry and later inspired Jackson to found Jackson Guitars.
Charvel (and Jackson) guitars remained in production at the Gladstone Street shop in Glendora, California until 1986. In 1986, as part of a licensing agreement with IMC (International Music Corporation), the manufacturing facilities moved to Ontario, California, and production of USA-built Charvel guitars ceased.
The success of Charvel in the 1980s led Jackson to mass-produce popular configurations in Asia. Each California-produced Charvel guitar was essentially a hand-built custom instrument. However, Japanese assembly line versions that appeared in 1986 were categorized into model numbers.
In 1989, Jackson sold Charvel/Jackson to the Japanese manufacturer IMC (International Music Corporation), who made Charvel guitars exclusively in Japan from 1986 to 1991.
The Japanese made Charvels that appeared in 1986 are easily distinguished from San Dimas instruments by several distinct differences:
Neck plates circa 1982-1986 stamped San Dimas, CA[4] (then briefly Ontario, CA) changed to a plate that read Ft. Worth, TX, the location of IMCs U.S. offices. This confused many consumers—as, without exception, all guitars with the Ft. Worth neck plate were made in Japan.
The gold label, Charvel - Made in USA affixed to the headstock of the San Dimas era (U.S. made) instruments changed to a white logo that read Charvel - By Jackson/Charvel.
Instead of the unfinished maple bolt-on neck that was a hallmark of the U.S. instruments, the imported instruments had a Japanese neck with a clear satin finish. Vintage JAPAN only CHARVEL AR-070-SSH - a Shredders Guitar?](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/wJS8gcNMVo0/mqdefault.jpg)









