Jim Root Charvel San Dimas signature model confirmed

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Jim Root has been playing a Charvel with Slipknot alongside his Fender signature guitars since 2021 and now a production model has been confirmed. The Jim Root Charvel Mod San Dimas Style 1 HH FR M is a streamlined weapon of brutality and finesse as you'd expect. But it looks like there's another model on the way at some point too! 

The mahogany body features a scalloped lower back bout  for enhanced upper fret access. The bolt-on maple neck features graphite reinforcement for added stability, and it's build for speed with a 12”-16” compound radius maple fingerboard with rolled edges and 22 jumbo frets.

Pickups are Root's signature EMG Daemonum humbuckers are controlled with a three-way blade switch and a single volume knob. A Floyd Rose 1500 Series double-locking tremolo bridge system.

Two options will be available at launch; a maple fingerboard / Satin Black finish and an ebony fingerboard / Satin White. Both feature black hardware and come in a Charvel multi-fit hardshell gig bag.

The Jim Root Charvel Mod San Dimas Style 1 HH FR M will retail for $1,499.99 / £1,539 / €1,799 / $3,299 AUD / ¥214,500 JPY and is available August 2022. 

And more Charvel models could well follow – it looks like there's already a Style 2 model in Root's rig for slipknot's current Knotfest trek. A post on the band's Instagram showing pics from the Moline, IL date reveals a pic of Root playing what looks to be a white Style 2 model.

Jim Root

(Image credit: Slipknot / Instagram)

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Rob Laing
Reviews Editor, GuitarWorld.com and MusicRadar guitars

Rob is the Reviews Editor for GuitarWorld.com and MusicRadar guitars, so spends most of his waking hours (and beyond) thinking about and trying the latest gear while making sure our reviews team is giving you thorough and honest tests of it. He's worked for guitar mags and sites as a writer and editor for nearly 20 years but still winces at the thought of restringing anything with a Floyd Rose.