The Carvin ST Body is Back!

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Carvin is excited to introduce our latest model, the ST300. This new model combines the features and options of our contemporary Custom Shop guitars with the classic body shape that was offered in the early 1990s. The body is more rounded than the DC series, and has a waist and forearm cutaway for playing comfort, as found on the Contour 66. This model represents over 60 years of experience that Carvin has in building the highest quality, USA-made instruments that are suitable for all playing styles at any level. With hundreds of available options, you can build your ST300 exactly the way you want it, and have an instrument that you'll be proud to play and own for years to come.

The ST300 has a standard alder body and maple neck-through design. Alder is a high-quality tone wood used by many manufacturers because of its relative light weight and fine resonating tone. It's slightly darker in color than maple, which accentuates the ST300's maple neck. Alder also has a subtle and attractive grain that looks great in any of Carvin's many finishes, including solid colors, translucent finishes and our metallic solid finishes. Although alder is the standard wood, optional woods such as swamp ash, maple, mahogany, walnut and koa are available, all of which have their own tonal characteristics. You can also add a 5mm premium top wood, such as AAAA flamed maple, AAAA quilted maple, flamed koa, flamed spalted maple, and California Claro walnut. The body of the ST300 has a gentle waist cut (also referred to as a "belly cut") as well as a deep forearm cutaway on the upper bout, which provides superior playing comfort, whether playing while sitting or standing. When an optional top wood is added, it is "bent" over the forearm cutaway, as on the C66. In conjunction with flamed and quited tops, you can choose Carvin's natural body binding. This is a process that leaves the edges of the top wood unfinished, so that the body is bordered by natural wood, which provides a nice contrast when the body is painted. When this option is selected on the ST300, the edges are straight - they don't have the 3/8" radius found on models without the natural body binding option.

The standard maple neck clarifies the overall tone of the instrument, but other neck woods, such as mahogany and koa are offered for their own slightly warmer tonal qualities. 5-piece necks of different combinations of maple, walnut and koa add to the already great looks of this instrument, and if an optional top wood is selected, you can choose whether you want the neck to show on the top or not. All of our necks and fingerboards undergo a long conditioning process in our de- humidification chambers to remove any stress in the wood and prevent future warping or twisting. Carvin's dual-action, fully adjustable truss rod helps keep the neck straight and true, and allows you to set the action just the way you like it. The standard headstock is a 6-inline version, and you can also choose a traditional 3 X 3, V style, CT style, pointed inline or reversed design.


Smooth Neck Heel
and Waist Cut
The ST300 features a standard 25" scale ebony fingerboard with white pearl dot inlays, a 12" radius and 24 medium-jumbo nickel frets. Carvin offers more fingerboard options than most manufactures offer for their entire guitar lines. You can choose from rosewood, maple or birdseye maple fingerboards; dot, diamond or block inlays in mother-of-pearl or genuine abalone; and fingerboard radii of 10" or 14". Carvin also offers a number of fretwire options, including jumbo, low-wide and stainless steel. Carvin's "Rapid Play" low action neck assures effortless playability throughout the entire fingerboard, while the smooth neck heel allows easy access all the way up to the 24th fret.

You can choose from 4 different bridges. The "M" bridge, with tune-o-matic bridge and strings fed through the body, is standard. You can also choose a Wilkinson tremolo; or a Floyd Rose tremolo with or without locking nut. Additionally, you can select a Bigsby vibrato in polished aluminum (silver) or gold, for classic looks and great vibrato tone. Sperzel™ locking tuners ensure you'll stay in tune no matter what your playing style is. Standard hardware is chrome, and you can upgrade to black or gold.


Optional S22 Metal Covered Humbuckers
The ST300 comes equipped with a Classic Series C22B humbucker in the bridge, and a Classic Series C22J pickup in the neck position, which are custom wound with vintage plain enamel wire that brings out the harmonically rich tone and sustain of the guitar. All Carvin humbuckers have 11 polepieces per coil, which eliminates dropoff when bending strings. Controls consist of a master volume and tone control and a 5-way pickup selector, which allows you to select any combination of pickups and doubles as a coil splitter for each pickup. For added warmth, try Carvin's S22 Series metal covered pickups, which are available in chrome, black or gold to match your hardware. You can also choose from Carvin's M22 Series or Holdsworth H22 Series pickups. Standard pickups have black coils and bezels, but any combination of black or cream coils and bezels are available. You can upgrade your ST300 to active electronics, which consists of two volume and two tone controls, dual-to-single coil switching for each pickup and phase switching.

Carvin also offers the C66, which has similar ergonomics as the ST300, in a bolt-on neck design with a flamed maple top standard. Additionally, we offer the DC127, which has the same neck-through construction as the ST300, with our contemporary six-string body design. Both models offer many of the same standard features and options as the ST300.

The only way to appreciate the performance of a Carvin product is to use it in your own environment, giving it the test of "real world" performance. Take 10 days to try out your Carvin ST300. If you're not completely satisfied, you can return it - no questions asked. Your trial period starts when the merchandise is received by you, not when it's shipped. Really give it a workout. If you're not satisfied for any reason, send it back for a prompt refund or exchange - you would only be responsible for the return shipping.

The ST300 is built at Carvin's Custom Shop in San Diego, California.