It’s interesting to note that over time they slowly ruined the Surfcaster culminating not just in design changes but in manufacturing plant changes. Manufacturing in India has since improved, but unfortunately not before Jackson ceased production of the Surfcaster. The post 2000s Indian Surfcasters are generic and of very poor quality. Design deteriorated with small but ultimately meaningful changes and eventually Quality plummeted as they changed manufacturing from Japan Fuji-Gen to India. The models changed a little each year, with pickup configuration and colors through 1996, then in 1997, inexplicably, they became Jacksons instead of Charvels. But I haven’t been able to uncover anything thus far. I’d love to know what the thinking was on making that change, which transformed the Surfcaster from just another pointy headstock hair-band super strat to a retro classic. Then, in 1991 the real Surfcaster appeared as we know it today with three tuners on each side of the headstock. In 1990 a small production of the Surfcaster was released with the tuners still all on top. These first versions are close to the later production models except they have all tuners on the side, like a Tele. ![]() Records seem to suggest that the Charvel Surfcaster was conceived by Charvel in 1989 and a few prototypes from that year without serial numbers are floating around.
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