Carvin Guitars’ Icon Series basses now have a deeper cutaway, chambered body option, and a headstock with a three-piece design that uses a wood overlay with a thin black mid layer. Flamed-maple tops with matching headstocks are standard, as are dual carbon-fiber reinforcing rods, and a two-way truss rod. The electronics use plain-enamel wire, with options including radiused humbucking or single-coil pickups and a split-coil neck pickup. The controls have a different layout, while the pickups have been repositioned and run through 18-volt active/passive electronics.