Share this with your buddies and collectors." These special Kiesel Editions will be signed and only our highest figured woods will be used. It is finished off with a clear satin and black chrome hardware. This has a 5 piece body, 5 piece neck, 5 piece headstock, stained flame maple fret board, walnut body and lots of flamed maple. "This is a special Kiesel Edition option package. I posted a few that I liked but there were way more photos on the facebook. This just makes me want to order another DC800 so bad! Imagine something like this but with burl maple tops and backs and black limba in between.
I guess they have a new option called the Kiesel Edition package or something like that. Lets take a sneak peak inside Carvin and see how their instruments are made.Omfg, I saw these pics on facebook and I had to change my underwear. The Carvin SH550 Can be purchased at the manufactures website –. The guitar is consider a value at around $1699. Music lovers consider the SH550 a soulful rich and warm articulate tones. There is no need to amplify the sound that comes from this guitar, this guitar can be used both with an amplifier or unplugged without the use of electronics. Providing rich, warm and articulate notes that can be heard in every strum of a chord. The SH550 has a warm and rhythmic S22 humbucker pickup. Discussion in Guitars, Guitars Guitars started by wok, May 4, 2015. 3-way pick up splitter and master volume / tone controls.High-quality gold, chrome or black hardware.Specifications of the Kiesel-Carvin SH550: The guitar is a solid and incredible instrument with a melodious playability, and looks that catches the attention of your crowed. While playing the notes this guitar gives out dynamics response, and the tones delivered by it are intuitive. All the operating controls and the electronics have a easy-to-use and simple layout. The controls include a 3-way pickup selector switch, two control knobs, volume and a tone. You can choose from a wide array of options, including rosewood, maple or birdseye maple fingerboards diamond, block or dot inlays in genuine abalone or mother-of-pearl.īeautified with gold hardware and a 24K gold plated Kiesel-Carvin logo. Standard 25” scale ebony fingerboard with genuine abalone dot inlays, a 12? radius and 22 medium-jumbo nickel frets. Kiesel-Carvin SH550 Electric Guitar Video Demo The neck is mahogany construction which significantly helps the guitar produce its warm rich tones. This ensures to maintain high sustainability, tonality and increase immense strength of the neck. After the top is bookmatched, it is top sculpted, and the underside of the top is also carved to follow the contour of the top, while increasing the overall size of the sound chamber to improve the tonal characteristics of the instrument.Īs mentioned earlier, the body of this model is beautifully carved in order to ensure high resonances and maintain maximums stability, in addition to the quality of the set-neck that is inset deep into the body. I received it at the end of October, 2015 and have put in maybe. It is gorgeous, plays magnificently, keeps tune exceptionally well, and sounds great. The top starts out as a 2″ thick slab of solid curly flamed maple wood. This is a Kiesel Special Edition DC800, built in the custom shop in California and signed by Jeff Kiesel on the rear of the headstock.
In addition, you can also choose an optional AAAA quilted maple top or a flamed koa top. The Kiesel-Carvin SH550 AAAA flamed maple is the standard top, yes, we said “AAAA“ maple top, and unlike most “archtop” style guitars, the SH550 features an actual carved top. These legends have relied on hollow guitars as mainstays of their respective guitar arsenals. King, Ted Nugent, Steve Howe (Yes) and Alex Lifeson (Rush). Semi-hollow body guitars are suitable for legendary artists such as B. The companies newest edition was introduced in 2008, named the SH550 (SH stands for semi hollow), this model has a carved top and it is a true precision semi-hollow custom shop masterpiece. Kiesel-Carvin SH550 Electric Guitar Review - Kiesel-Carvin had a long tradition of producing semi-hollow-body guitars dating back in the 1950‘s. *Update: Carvin Guitars changed their name/re-branded to the name of original founder of Carvin Gutiars (Lowell Kiesel) to Kiesel Guitars in 2015.