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There's also the great option of being able to string through OR TOP LOAD, which I wish Fender would include on their more expensive range. The push/pull option gives you yet more colours to play with. VERY slim and beautifully contoured.Īs Jonathan said in his video, "'The V90(P90 variation) pickup is real nice" and gives the instrument a darker, warmer sound than the more expensive (Indonesian) Van Nuys Schecter'. The sculptured shape and light weight make it just right for any aging players who find standing a task. I got the purpleburst a few days back from Owen Sound after a long wait, but it was well worth it.įirstly, the colour in purple is quite dark, not garish, and has a satin sheen, very lightly applied reminiscent of the worn Gibson finishes on their Studio LPs. I'm not a shredder at all, more inclined towards standard jazz, jazz fusion and blues based stuff and so I always associated Schecter with the big hair bands of the 1980s, but with this one instrument one can obtain a dynamic palette of colourful sound. I got the idea of this guitar from watching the fantastic youtube video by Jonathan Koh(he was spot on in everyway) Darrell Braun's video also was equally informative-įor the price, this PT range is a knockout series.

Baritone Horns, Euphoniums, and Alto Horns.

Speakers - Speakers & Tweeters Component.

I'm going to try to post some pics in the hope that one of you Schecter nerds can help ID what I've got here. His best guess was that it was a '76-'79 guitar made up mostly of extremely early Schecter parts, possibly pre-dating their catalog and its numbering system. While he said he was certain the guitar was "90% Schecter" (the "wrong" bits: 1970s Fender tuning keys, mystery lead PU, mystery volume/tone control panel), he was flummoxed by the model numbers that there were on the neck, and that there weren't in the body. They also turned out to be unknown to Kelly Cash, a prominent Dallas-area guitar wizard and former early-80s Schecter employee. Here's the mystery, though: there are no serial/model numbers in the heel joint of the body, and the serial/model numbers in the neck are unknown to me.

In addition to the clearly visible Schecter external components (bridge, neck PU, black/aluminum pickguard), the two-piece mahogany body was branded with the Schecter logo in the neck PU cavity, and the mystery-wood neck was similarly branded where the sun don't shine. It smelled like the real deal to me, and it played like buttah, so I plunked down my $300 and walked out the door with her.įlash forward 10 years, and I finally got the spare time to take the beast apart. They thought it might be a Schecter parts-o-caster, but weren't sure.

About 10 years ago, I got a call from my favorite guitar shop to let me know they had an unusual instrument I might be interested in.