Sean Long’s new Neon Pink Charvel signature model might secretly be the most metal guitar of 2025
Charvel has once again partnered with While She Sleeps guitarist Sean Long on a new limited-edition version of his Pro-Mod San Dimas Style 1 HH HT M signature model. It’s essentially an updated take on Long’s Charvel signature model, which arrived back in 2022.
Sporting a fresh lick of paint – Neon Pink, no less – the new version boasts a similar spec sheet to its predecessor, including a set of EMG 57 and 66 pickups. The 57, Charvel explains, evokes an “unmistakably PAF quality with plenty of headroom and punch”, while the 66 in the neck position offers a “warm, smooth mid-range and expansive lows”.
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Notably, where the original Sean Long signature model features a neon yellow cover on the bridge pickup, the new Neon Pink version’s pickups do not. We don’t blame Charvel here; pink and yellow would have been bold, to say the least…
Elsewhere, the guitar features an HT6 string-through-body hardtail bridge, designed for “improved intonation and enhanced sustain and resonance”.
Credit: Charvel
The spec sheet is complete by an alder body – crafted into Charvel’s San Dimas Style 1 shape, of course – as well as a bolt-on maple neck with graphite reinforcement, with a Speed Neck profile and rolled fingerboard edges for enhanced playing comfort.
Further appointments include Luminlay side dots, 22 frets, a 12”-16” compound radius fingerboard, a heel-mount truss rod adjustment wheel and Charvel-branded die-cast locking tuners.
Sean Long is the primary songwriter of Sheffield metalcore heavyweights While She Sleeps, and his Pro-Mod San Dimas Style 1 HH HT M signature model is designed to keep up with his “high-speed playing, scorching sound and sinister, yet eccentric style”.
“This is essentially the same as my original signature, the only difference is that it’s fucking pink, and this pickup [pointing to the bridge pickup], is black,” Long explains in the video above. Why? Because it’s awesome.”
He goes on: “I grew up listening to bands like Blink-182, Sum 41, Rage [Against the Machine], stuff like that. And then I discovered metalcore and metal. This kind of music completely captivated me – I’d never heard anything like it before…
“So the design – one of the fundamental aspects of my thinking was, I wanted it to be as simplistic as possible. I did not want it to be intimidating. I wanted it to seem aesthetically digestible. Because I remember when I was a kid going to music stores, it always felt like I wasn’t good enough to be there.
“If you looked at the guitars at the top, you would never have the balls to ask the guy to get it down. And that feeling has always sat with me. There was always this intimidating feeling with a lot of gear. So I wanted this to look appealing and approachable.”
The Limited Edition Sean Long Pro-Mod San Dimas Style 1 HH HT M is available now, priced at $1,469.99.
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