This may be old news to the Allan Holdsworth and/or Charvel nerds out there, but it was new to me. At about 34m40s of the documentary linked below, one of the old Charvel employees (Henry Boyle) talks about working with Holdsworth to build a guitar to suit him. According to this, what ended up emerging as the “standard” neck geometry for Charvel’s shred guitars in their heyday arose from this trial and error with Allan Holdsworth to find something that suited him. (Video linked is “The Original Charvel Gang” (2021), directed by Paul Gervasi.)
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