Charvel Nightmare

Blaendulais

Fire destroys his workshop and home

https://www.guitarworld.com/news/wayne-charvels-home-and-workshop-destroyed-in-california-wildfire?fbclid=IwAR0PY2QtaI2iNGvHBZoZvD8sDiJDXAH5E1zgvcIrvbU0ckYdqZMONFins8E

Dave_Mc

That's awful

JD50

That's just terrible.

Why the go fund me page, surely they have home / business insurance?

axisus

Sad story, one of many sad stories over there. So many people missing.

Fortheloveofguitar

JD50 said:

That's just terrible.

Why the go fund me page, surely they have home / business insurance?

They’ve been getting a lot of grief over on FB groups for asking for money when that’s what Insurance is for 

ICBM

Very sad. At least he and his family are OK, but much of what's been lost from his guitar-making business is probably irreplaceable even if he was insured.

JD50 said:

Why the go fund me page, surely they have home / business insurance?

Probably because it takes a long time to get insurance money through. It sounds like they've lost literally everything.

No doubt some sellers are already increasing the asking prices for older Charvels, since there won't be any more the same now...

skullfunkerry

JD50 said:

That's just terrible.

Why the go fund me page, surely they have home / business insurance?

I wondered that. I've had insurance that specifically excludes major events or 'acts of god' or whatever you want to call them, so maybe that's the case? Or perhaps the premiums were so steep because of the fire risk that they were under-insured.

Terrible times though, I can't even imagine what they're going through.

polotska

ICBM said:

No doubt some sellers are already increasing the asking prices for older Charvels, since there won't be any more the same now…

In a rational world, this wouldn’t happen—Wayne Charvel sold Charvel to Grover Jackson in the late–1970s, who eventually sold them to a Japanese company, and Fender bought whatever was left in 2002. Wayne Charvel did start the “Wayne Guitars” brand some time back, but he hasn’t been involved with Charvel guitars for about forty years. His residence and workshop that burned down were in the city of Paradise, California, which is in far-northern California; the Charvel guitar company most famously operated in various cities in the eastern suburbs of Los Angeles (Azusa, Glendora, Ontario, San Dimas), though I think its operations have been consolidated into the Fender apparatus for some time now.

That being said, I wouldn’t put it past sellers to try to use this to justify higher prices on older Charvels!

(And I hope this doesn’t sound unsympathetic to Wayne Charvel—the California fires have been awful.)

TeleMaster

No doubt these companies had insurance. Whether they get a full pay out is different. As we know, insurance companies suck and they’ll happily take full premiums from us and only pay a fraction of the value of what’s lost. 

I feel for the people who have lost everything but hope that they can get back on their feet. And for the many others around the world where there is hardly any publicity and have no means of getting anything back at all.