After designing guitar models that updated and surpassed their original inspirations, luthier/designer Wayne R. Charvel left his namesake company. Charvel designed one model for Gibson (the US-1) that quite frankly looks like a Charvel Model 6 with "Gibson" on the (Charvel-style) pointy headstock.
In 1989, Wayne Charvel formed a new company that produced guitars under the Ritz trademark. Only a handful were built before the logo was changed to WRC (Wayne R. Charvel) in 1990. WRC produced a number of "one- off" specialty guitars as well as the Neptune Series, which uses seashells as part of the top inlay, which was designed in conjunction with staff member Eric J. Galletta. WRC produced guitars through the mid-1990s, and in 1998, Charvel founded Wayne guitars, which is run by Charvel and his son Michael.
Instruments previously built in Calimesa, CA between 1989 and the mid-1990s. Distributed by WRC Music International, Inc. in Hemet, CA.

WRC GUITARS Electric Guitars Models

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WRC GUITARS WRC CLASSIC

- offset double cutaway alder body, bolt-on maple neck, 24-fret rosewood fingerboard with pearl dot inlay, strings through Wilkinson bridge, three-per-side Grover tuners, chrome hardware, two single coil/one humbucker Kent Armstrong exposed...

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WRC GUITARS WRC EXOTIC

- offset double cutaway alder body, figured wood top, bolt-on maple neck, 24-fret rosewood fingerboard with pearl dot inlay, strings through Wilkinson bridge, three-per-side Grover tuners, black hardware, two single coil/one humbucker expos...

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WRC GUITARS CUSTOM

- offset double cutaway basswood body, bolt-on figured maple neck, 22-fret ebony fingerboard, strings through Wilkinson bridge, three-per-side Gotoh tuners, gold hardware, two Seymour Duncan humbucker pickups, volume/tone controls, three-po...

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WRC GUITARS DELUXE

- similar to the Custom, except features 24-fret rosewood fingerboard with abalone dot inlay, tune-o-matic bridge/stop tailpiece, black hardware, Seymour Duncan exposed humbucker pickup, volume control, available in Black Snake, Neptune Ava...

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WRC GUITARS STANDARD

- similar to the Custom, except features an alder body, bolt-on maple neck, 24-fret rosewood fingerboard with pearl dot inlay, double locking Floyd Rose vibrato, three-per-side Grover tuners, chrome hardware, available in Neptune Avalon She...