Pre-pro Charvel / pre San dimas Evh 1977 - 1979 - Red and black stripes evh

Asuza charvel pre sandimas

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As I understand it, the pre-production Charvels were made with Boogie Bodies necks.
I believe this is a late-70's pre-production Charvel guitar, built with a Boogie Bodies neck, and rare routed for a single bridge humbucker boogie bodies body .
Legend has it that Eddie Van Halen used Boogie Bodies necks on several of his guitars.
The neck is slightly narrower than standard Strat necks, and narrower than later Charvel necks.
It has several other distinguishing features.
It has a 1-3/4" gold logo (early, no "made in USA"), 2-1/8" neck heel, 1-9/16" nut width, 21 frets with rounded heel, black dots with brass side dots, beautiful birdseye maple, glossy finish, no skunk stripe, and jumbo frets.
There's a hole where the original string tree was mounted, and the original tuner holes also look correct for a pre-pro neck.
The neck has serial number "893" stamped under the heel.
I found a Boogie Bodies neck on Google with a slightly higher serial number, dated as 1978.
I assume this one is a 1977 or 1978 neck.
The neck heel is rubber-stamped "Mark Lacey's Guitar Garage" in Hollywood.
He recently passed away.
old owner of this guitar spoke with him several years ago, when he was building archtop guitars.
He said that he modded many guitars back in the day.
He didn't recall this specific guitar, but he had three guys working for him back then, and any of them might have worked on it.
The Floyd route looks like an after-market modification, as does the pickguard trimmed around it, which leads me to believe that it was added later, probably at the same time as the locking nut.
The body is fairly heavy.
I didn't see any markings on it, but I professionals says it’s a boogie bodies body
It has a comfortable belly cut.
It's routed for a single bridge humbucker.
It has some lacquer checking that is consistent with an older finish.
There are two small holes between the pickup and bridge,as well as a hole on the top, near the strap button.
I think it had a Roland hex pickup mounted there.
It has a Bill Lawrence CXL-500 pickup.
It's a tapped humbucker, with 13k and 16k leads.
It screams.