Suhr & Charvel custom shop (and Anderson, Grosch, Tyler, etc, etc) are simply different shades of great...pick your poison. FWIW, I always preferred Anderson over Suhr based on the limited number of Suhrs that I had played. I recently took a gamble on a Suhr because it had the specs that I was considering for a custom order Anderson at about 1/2 the price of ordering new. I can comfortably say that this particular Suhr is every bit as wonderful as my beloved Andersons. Finding a guitar that speaks to you (regardless of brand) is a great thing...as players we're lucky that there are currently so many high-quality brands out there to choose from (unlike when I started playing).