Hello, here you will find comments from our users:
"McVay benders are the finest bender on the market. It's the only bender I will use
in my custom guitars."
Bill Crook
Crook Custom Guitars
www.crookcustomguitar.com
I have researched alot of benders and found that the best system out there is
McVay's and from the research it sounds as if they are the smoothest and quietest.
I'll be able to tell you more soon. Charlie is the only person I trust with my
guitar (aside from the luthier) let alone installing a bender for me. Charlie
and his family will not only respect you and your gear but they will treat you
like you are their very own family! If you are looking for that bent sound out
of your guitar... Look no further, you are here and McVay's your man!
Thanks again Charlie,
Micah Small
Guitarist/Lead Vocalist for Bad River Road
www.micahsmall.com
"I couldn't be happier with my McVay bender. The design is perfect. The installation was
incredibly clean, and it looks like the guitar was built around the bender. Every time I
play it, the notes bend to perfect pitch. It's simple to adjust and use as well. My guitar
is still incredibly light, and unless you know what to look for, you can't really see that
there is a bender even installed. The quality and performance of the bender stem from the
quality of the builder. Charlie McVay stepped me through the process from the point I
decided to have a bender installed through the day I received it, and he continued to
follow up to make sure everything was working great! Honestly, McVay is the only
bender I would use."
Ryan Ochsner
Guitarist for Kellie Pickler
www.ryanochsner.com
"Charlie pays attention to detail on each bender (he's built 2 for me so far). The
construction is flawless, the performance is perfect and I have never had better customer
service on anything than from Charlie McVay. I won't trust my guitars to anyone else.
I've owned them all and the McVay Bender is all I will ever use."
Bryan Elder
Guitarist for Nashville recording artist Tami Hall.
I've been playing Bender Guitar since the early 1980's. In that span of time I've owned several
Bender equipped guitars. After getting my first McVay bender installed nearly 12 years ago I
saw what I'd been missing. McVay Benders are much more precise in there function and have the
best tone by far. Simply put I feel they are the finest made.
"Pull that String and let it Ring"
Jim Miller/ Fabulous Bender Boys/ Jamboree USA Staff Guitarist
www.fabulousbenderboys.com
I've got a McVay Single and Double Bender and I still think they are the best ones going.
Charlie is a great machinist and with building steel guitars in the past, he has a wealth of
knowledge of the mechanics and tone as well as being a great steel guitarist.
As the staff steel guitar player for the Wheeling Jamboree for twenty years plus, we have done a lot of
playing together. I tune my benders once a year whether they need it or not. You can get short, medium
or long throw and the pull is smooth as silk and always comes back in tune. I can't imagine a more reliable
bender and it has "tone to the bone to boot."
It's a real musical tool.
Roger Hoard/Fabulous Bender Boys/Music Director & Lead Guitarist for Jamboree USA
www.fabulousbenderboys.com