“I’ve always been a huge fan of relics. They look like they have a story to tell”: Charvel and Rick Graham team up for new Pro-Mod series signature model, featuring a distressed nitro finish in a cult classic Fender colour

Rick Graham is photographed in a dark setting with a warm stagelight in the background; he holds his new signature electric guitar, a shell-pink S-style with a reverse headstock.

Charvel has expanded its signature guitar lineup with the Rick Graham Pro-Mod DK24 2PT MPL, a guitar that pretty much nails the brand’s M.O. as the O.G. maker of hot-rodded Fender electrics.

This doozy of a Superstrat is quintessentially Charvel; built for speed, but kinda grown-up, too, what with the Gotoh 510 tremolo an arguably more elegant vibrato system than the engineering marvels coming out of the Floyd Rose workshop. It even has a nitrocellulose finish, as though some maniac wanted to soup-up a pre-CBS Strat for shred. Very nice.