GuitarTrac
Carvin:
Carvin guitars are fully customizable from the factory and may have slightly different components than listed
CT6M: MSRP $1,369 mahogany body with flame maple top, set mahogany neck, string-thru or original Floyd, 22 MJ frets with dot inlays, 2 Carvin C22 buckers
DC127: MSRP $819, alder body, neck-thru maple neck, ebony fretboard, string-thru or original Floyd, 2 Carvin C22 buckers, 24 MJ frets with dot inlays,
DC400: alder body with flame maple top, neck-thru maple neck, ebony fretboard, string-thru or original Floyd, 24 MJ frets with abalone block inlays, 2 Carvin C22 buckers, active/passive electronics
DC747: MSRP $889, 7 string, alder body, neck-thru maple neck, ebony fretboard, string-thru or original Floyd, 24 MJ frets with dot inlays, HSH Carvin pickups
The company was founded in Southern California in 1946 as the L. C. Kiesel Company. As of 1947, the company was manufacturing steel guitars in Gothenburg, Nebraska. Around 1948, it returned to Southern California and moved to Baldwin Park, California in 1949, where the company name was changed to Carvin, from Kiesel's two eldest sons, Carson and Gavin.
Carvin developed its own niche in the musical instrument world in the 1980s by offering guitars and basses built to a customer's specifications, based on available body shapes, woods, colors, electronics and other features. This allowed customers to order a guitar or bass guitar that was a made-to-order instrument.
