GMW Masterworks

Guitar Details

Year - 2011

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Country of Origin - USA

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Pick up -  HS

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Bridge - Original Floyd Rose

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Finish -  Pink

Guitar Information

Lee Garver. There’s a name to strike fear into the Charvel Custom Shop. Lee is a former employee of Charvel, and worked at the San Dimas factory in Glendora, California under Grover Jackson.  After leaving Charvel, he spent a while producing Charvel clones then ... just ... stopped.  I hear rumours of a ‘cease and desist’ order from Fender, which politely requested that he stopped using the Strat headstock. 

this was a shame, as his strathead builds were astounding guitars.  

As a result of the 'polite' request from Fender, he introduced two new headstock designs. One is a variant of the Tele headstock,  The other (called the ‘millennium’headstock) is an extreme pointy version of the established Ibanez headstock shape which I like.

My Thoughts

This guitar looks and plays incredibly, the neck is slim and made from a beautiful bit of wood, the original leaving GMW had gold hardware this was then changed by Rich at stormshadow guitars to black which I think is so much better.
A keeper that's for sure.