Now, I would highly recomend, if at all possible, try and test drive one. I'm really startin to feel like I'm 'jonesin' fer one of them! But alas, too much dinero for my budget, and I dont really see em in the used market much: they must be 'keeper's'. Now their AC175 (electric/acoustic) I actually like! It has a much chunkier u-shaped neck (it's their only guitar offered like that) neck, and the flat fret board dont bug me as much. Also the neck is a 'fast 'C' shape', and my hand start's too cramping after a while. The neck radius (the fret board) is much too flat for me. The down side for me is: Even with all these positive thing's going for the Carvin, I just cant get comfortable with it. I have a buddy who play's only Carvin bass', and gives rave reviews about there custome service, and support. What is absolutely top notch, is the customer support you will receive from Carvin. Lots, and lot's of options too choose from too: pup's, active electronics, coil splitters, locking tuners, hard tail, Wilkinson trem, Floyd Rose trem, maple fret board, rosewood fret board, pao-ferro fret board, and not to mention all the body wood's, veneer's (caps) in AAAA grain, flamed, or quilted, and body binding. Balance seems good: No heavy neck syndrome experienced.

Like I stated before, I cant complain about the construction: It's top notch. Some love those pup's, and some other's dont. They look a lil funky too me, with all those screw's. They normally use decent component's, though I dont like there three way switch for Tele's (a lot of plastic in there), and even though it's the same switch that come in most (if not all) Squiers, it's irritating that your paying a higher dollar for that type of switch.ДЄs to their pup's, I cant really say, cause I havent logged that much time with em (I'd really need to take em home and really play with em on my rig to give an informed opinion). It's kinda weird: the pictures in the Carvin catalog dont do them justice. They are very well put together (Good to Great Quality Workmanship), and are beautiful to look at.

Carvin guitars have no soul