In the late 1970s, Carvin began to design and build their own guitars and basses, and began allowing customers to choose from various options, making each guitar or bass a unique, custom built instrument. The company would relocate to a larger facility in Escondido in 1975, where they would remain until the move to the current factory location in San Diego in 1995. The company relocated several time – original moving from Baldwin Park (outside Los Angeles) to Covina, California in 1956, then to Escondido, California in 1968. Throughout the 1950s and 1960s, Carvin expanded it’s product lines, selling popular lap and pedal steel guitars, electric basses and guitars, mandolins and doubleneck instruments. In 1954, the first Carvin mail-order catalog was produced, establishing the direct-to-customer business model that is still used today. Originally, Carvin advertised in the back of publications such as Popular Mechanics, and sent out one-sheet product information at customers’ requests. In the earliest years of the company, Carvin was also a reseller of Fender and Martin guitars, DeArmond accessories, Sonola accordions and Rheem organs. In the 1960s Carvin built most guitars from mainly Hofner components, before returning to manufacturing their own instruments in the 1970s.
Early Carvin instruments were made by Lowell Kiesel, and Carvin also sold rebadged guitars made by Harmony and Kay. The company began by making pickups and other accessories, then branched out to amplifiers, guitars, basses and other gear. Kiesel relocated briefly to his home state of Nebraska, but returned to California in 1949, and changed the name of the company to Carvin, after his two eldest sons, Carson and Gavin. And because we sell directly to the customer, with no middle man, you can save a lot of money on gear equal to or better than gear found in retail shops.Ĭarvin was founded in 1946 by Lowell Kiesel as the L.
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