They expanded various product lines, including their steel guitars, electric basses, electric guitars, double necks, and other instruments. Aside from their own instruments, Carvin sold rebadged guitars from other manufacturers and slowly increased its visibility through advertisements in magazines and mailed sheets of information.īetween the 1950s and the 1960s, Carvin guitars experienced plenty of turbulence - though most of it was ultimately good for business. Sales started to pick up, and it wasn't long before it branched out to other types of instruments and accessories. At that point, the company was rebranded Carvin in honor of Lowell's sons (Carson and Gavin Kiesel). The move was not permanent, though, and the company returned to California in 1949. In 1947, the business briefly shifted from the original shop in San Diego, California to Gothenburg, Nebraska when Lowell lived there for a short time. The company didn't limit itself to pickups for long - in short order, they were also manufacturing steel guitars. At the time, the company focused on creating guitar pickups to help magnify the sound of electric guitars (which had been invented in 1931 and were an established type of instrument by this period). Kiesel Company, named for its founder Lowell C Kiesel.
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