Dec 21, 2016 Yeah, that's a Dallas Schecter. The Axxxx serial number, Schaller parts, and the date. I have one from Jan '84 that is just a killer guitar. It was clearly a custom instrument, with a really intense factory paint job. Body is alder HSH, neck is probably Van Nuys if I go by the feel and setup (best neck of any electric guitar I've ever owned). Don't forget that back then Schecter did as much business (if not more business) in parts as they did in complete guitars, plus until the early 1980s their dealers (the 'Schecter Shops') assembled guitars that were considered the same as the Van Nuys-built 'factory' guitars.
1983 SCHECTER STRATOCASTER SUPER STRAT ~FLAME & BOUND~ Super Rare
VERY highly-flamed maple top in a bursting cherry sunburst finish! The maple neck is adorned with multiple birdseye maple figuring on the front and back! The pickups are all original Schecter and feature a single-single-humbucker configuration. The humbucker is tapped with a push-pull at the tone knob. The guitar is 100% Schecter original and it is in near mint condition! These are getting EXTREMELY RARE and with good reason! They were not a mass-produced line and the will rival any electric solidbody from a player/performance perspective! Dave Schecter started the company in the early 1970s; he wound up with some financial backing from a company called 'International Sales Associates' or 'ISA'.
Van Nuys Schecter Serial Numbers Average ratng: 8,1/10 8581 votes Schecter Guitar Enthusiast gives the curious all the information they could want about Schecter Guitars. I'm the first owner of a beautiful Schecter Van Nuys. The serial number of an acoustic is located on the label inside the sound hole of the guitar. All acoustic serial numbers begin with the letter 'A' and are followed by the two digit year prefix. Schecter Guitar Serial Number Checker. Peavey(Back to top of page) Serial numbers correlate to shipping dates of US models only. 1978 to 1995. A very old Schecter Tele. Assembled guitars that were considered the same as the Van Nuys-built 'factory' guitars. I don't see a serial number on this one so I. I am sure that the knowledgeable people on the subject will help out in this thread - you know who you are, I have learnt a lot from you guys already My hope, is that this thread.
This red Schecter Strat was Mark's main guitar from 1980-85. First it had three original Schecter pick ups, which were later replaced by Seymour Duncan Vintage (SSL1 ?) and then by Seymour Duncan Alnico Pros.Serial No. is S 8218. It has Dunlop frets 6110, today possibly 6105.
This sunburst Strat was played on Tunnel of Love on the third album. Unfortunately it was stolen.You can easily recognize it because of its dot markers.
This was the replacement for the stolen sunburst Strat.It is without dot markers, the jack is on the side of the body, which is uncommon for Strat-style guitars.Serial No. is S8001.
![]() THE SHECTER HISTORYThe Schecter Guitar Research repair shop was opened in 1976 by David Schecter in Van Nuys, California. This is where it all began for the future guitar manufacturing company. The repair shop manufactured replacement guitar parts and eventually supplied everything you would need to build a guitar but did not build any of their own guitars at that time. Their main customers were custom repair shops and the two big guitar-manufacturing companies, Gibson and Fender.
Finally in 1979, Schecter started making their own guitars to sell to the public. The designs were based on Fender guitar designs and were very expensive to purchase because of the high quality parts and the small amount they made available. Also around this time, Pete Townshend http://www.whocollection.com/pete%27s_.htm from The Who http://www.thewho.net/whotabs/schecter.htm got a Schecter guitar from his guitar tech and immediately liked it. In fact he liked the sound so much that it ended up being his main touring guitar.
Mark Knopfler of Dire Straits was the next high profile artist to discover the Schecter guitar. He ended up with many Schecter guitars over the years and one even sold at an auction for $50,000 in 2004.
In 1983, Schecter ran out of resources and could no longer meet the demand for their guitar. Schecter ended up selling the company to a group of Texas investors who were well aware of the great reputation of the Schecter name and the top quality of their guitars. Knowing this, the new owners expected to make a profit by expanding the operation and moving the company to Dallas, Texas. This unfortunately turned out to be a bad move because most of the original employees wouldn't move to Texas and this eventually led to poor design and quality decisions by the new staff. The guitars that were being produced at this time were being mass-produced and getting a bad reputation for their poor quality.
Even though they were going through this rough time, Schecter did manage to get an amazing guitarist by the name of Yngwie Malmsteen to endorse their guitars. They also released several new models including the Telecaster style guitar that Pete Townshend was using called the Saturn. Their other popular model was the Scorcher, which was based on the Stratocaster design. Even with these new designs and making their guitars more affordable, sales were very poor due to the lack of quality.
In 1987, the company was unloaded to a Japanese entrepreneur by the name of Hisatake Shibuya. Hisatake was no stranger to music and guitars; he also owned ESP Guitars and the Musicians Institute in Hollywood. He moved Schecter back to California and soon brought the reputation of the company back to the way it used to be. The company went back to their old ways of producing high quality, high priced custom guitars. The guitars were also made in fewer numbers and made available to a smaller amount of dealers.
In 1996, Hisatake hired Michael Ciravolo as president of Schecter. Michael was an experienced musician and had been an employee at a guitar shop owned by Hisatake. Ciravolo ended up bringing in some high profile musicians to endorse Schecter guitars including Robert DeLeo (Stone Temple Pilots) and Sean Yseult (White Zombie).
Michael Ciravolo also disliked the Fender style designs, so he developed new designs in the Avenger, Hellcat and Tempest models. He also wanted to produce a more affordable guitar and opened up a factory in Inchon, South Korea to build them. This time though, Michael made sure that they were high quality guitars as well as being mass-produced. The parts were made in the South Korean factory and then shipped to their U.S. shop for the guitars to be assembled. This led to the creation of the famous Diamond Series Schecter Guitars.
The Schecter Guitar Company is still going strong today and is loved by mostly the Heavy Metal, Hard Rock and Alternative styles of music. Some of the most famous guitarists past and present that have used Schecter guitars are Pete Townshend (The Who), Prince, Yngwie Malmsteen, Eddie Vedder (Pearl Jam), Mark Knopfler (Dire Straits), Shaun Morgan (Seether), Robert DeLeo (Stone Temple Pilots), Jerry Horton (Papa Roach), Synyster Gates and Zacky Vengeance (Avenged Sevenfold), Paul Raven (Killing Joke and Ministry) and Sean Yseult (White Zombie).
the who pete townshend
News (15 November 2011): Christie’s auctioned a Giffin/Schecter black guitar, as part of its Pop Culture: Rock and Pop Memorabilia sale, on 15 November 2011. The auction realised £34,850 ($55,865).
N.B.: Pete played the Gold Schecter at Live Aid. He did, however, play a black double-bound Tele at the 8 Feb., 1988, BPI Awards show at Royal Albert Hall.
Estimate £30,000 – £50,000 ($47,700 – $79,500)Realised: £34,850 ($55,865)
Live Aid Pete Townshend
A Roger Giffin/Schecter guitar, no serial number, Telecaster style body in black finish with white binding, single cutaway body, maple neck with skunk-stripe routing, twenty-one fret fingerboard with dot inlays, two humbucking pickups, selector switch, two rotary controls, bridge baseplate
with six adjustable saddles and white pickguard; and a black leather strap and Fender black rectangular hardshell case with red plush lining — Owned by Pete Townshend and used during The Who’s set at Live Aid, Wembley Stadium, 13 July 1985; accompanied by a signed letter from Pete Townshend concerning the provenance in which he states After heavy pressure from Bob Geldof, The Who agreed to reform for a one-off appearance at Live Aid.. Our set was 20 minutes.. I used my Black Schecter Telecaster on the last two numbers.. It was a great day and I’m glad I was part of it. I think The Who are one of the few acts who appeared at Live Aid and Live 8 twenty years later and a letter from Alan Rogan also confirming its useage (5)
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In one last push to promote the concert Bob Geldof, together with promoter Harvey Goldsmith, went live on BBC Radio 1, to announce to the world that Live Aid would take place on 13 July, just weeks away. Billed as ‘The Global Jukebox’, the event would feature two main concerts, that would run more or less simultaneously in the United States and at Wembley Stadium in London. During the same broadcast, Geldof regaled listeners with a list of artists who would definitely be performing on the day. The list was impressive but what listeners didn’t know was that a large number of the artists hadn’t yet agreed to perform — some of them were yet to be even contacted. Moreover, seconds before the broadcast began, he had been told that his team had just got through to representatives of The Who to discuss their involvement — for Geldof that was enough — he finished his set-list announcement by declaring he’d just been informed that The Who were reforming especially for the concert. On hearing the news both Roger Daltrey and Pete Townshend separately called Bob’s people to find out just what the hell was going on. The reunion of The Who proved to be a major draw for ticket sales, and would eventually be deemed as one of the highlights of the show, by those present.
This is one of Pete Townshend’s Schecter guitars used in early 1980s. Schecter started off as after market parts/kit guitar makers in the late 70s and this guitar was put together by the then Surrey based luthier Roger Giffin, using Schecter parts. The guitar bears Giffin’s name on the headstock. It is understood that Pete Townshend at one stage had a dozen of Schecter guitars for stage use put together by Giffin: a half a dozen or so of them bearing his name on the headstock as well as another half dozen with a Schecter logo on the headstock.
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Schecter Guitar Research, commonly known simply as Schecter, is a USguitar, bass and amplifier manufacturer. The company was founded in 1976 by David Schecter and originally produced only replacement parts for existing guitars from manufacturers such as Fender and Gibson.[1] Today, the company mass-produces its own line of electric guitars, bass guitars, and steel-string acoustic guitars, and offers hand-built custom instruments and a small line of guitar amplifiers.
History[edit]Custom shop days, 1976–1983[edit]
In 1976, David Schecter opened Schecter Guitar Research, a repair shop in Van Nuys, California.[1] The shop manufactured replacement guitar necks and bodies, complete pickup assemblies, bridges, pickguards, tuners, knobs, potentiometers, and other miscellaneous guitar parts. Contrary to popular belief, Schecter never supplied parts to Fender nor Gibson.[1] By the late 1970s Schecter offered more than 400 guitar parts, but did not offer any finished instruments.[1]
In 1979, Schecter offered, for the first time, its own fully assembled electric guitars. These guitars were custom shop models based on Fender designs. They were considered of very high quality and expensive, and were sold only by twenty retailers across the United States.[1]
Schecter guitars and parts have been used by, among others, Prince, Yngwie Malmsteen, John Norum, Gary Holt, Steve Lukather, Pete Townshend, Jeff Loomis, Mark Knopfler, Ritchie Blackmore, Chris Poland, Synyster Gates, Zacky Vengeance, Richard Patrick, Jinxx, Jake Pitts, Tommy Victor, Dan Donegan, Lou Reed, Todd Rundgren, Robin Zander, Rodrigo Amarante, Tony Maue, Shaun Morgan, and Nikki Sixx.[2]
Texan ownership and mass production, 1983–1987[edit]
By 1983, Schecter had reached its custom shop production limit and could no longer meet demand. That year, the company was purchased by a group of Texas investors who wanted to build upon Schecter's reputation for quality.[1] The investors moved the company to Dallas, Texas, where they produced above-par quality guitars using both imported parts and Schecter parts under the Schecter name for less than five years.
At the 1984 winter NAMM show, Schecter introduced twelve new guitars and basses, all based on Fender designs. The most popular of these guitars was a Telecaster-style guitar similar to those that Pete Townshend played. Although Townshend never endorsed this model, it was known unofficially as the 'Pete Townshend model'. Eventually, the Telecaster-style guitar became known as the 'Saturn', and the company's Stratocaster-style guitar became known as the 'Mercury'.
All guitars have the 'lawsuit' peg heads (two small marks on back of headstocks). Schecter was still using Stratocaster and Telecaster headstocks, which Fender had allowed when they were a parts company. It appears this lawsuit may have[vague] essentially led to their closing in late 1986 to early 1987. The current owners purchased the name in late 1987.
During this period, Schecter managed to sign famous endorsee, Swedish guitarist Yngwie Malmsteen. Schecter built several custom guitars for Yngwie Malmsteen that featured scalloped necks and reverse headstocks.[3][citation needed]
Hisatake Shibuya and reform, 1987 – present[edit]
In 1987, the Texas investors sold the company to Hisatake Shibuya, a Japanese entrepreneur who also owned the Musicians Institute in Hollywood and ESP Guitars (To this day, Schecter Guitar Research and ESP Guitars have remained separate entities).[1] Shibuya moved the company back to California and returned Schecter to its custom shop roots, devoting all its efforts to manufacturing high-end, expensive custom instruments.
Schecter guitars were once again only available from a few retailers, one of them being Sunset Custom Guitars in Hollywood, which Hisatake Shibuya also owned. Sunset Custom Guitars happened to be the place where Michael Ciravolo, the future president of Schecter Guitar Research, worked. During 1994/1995 Schecter managed to sign other famous endorsee, Swedish guitarist John Norum.
In 1995, Schecter introduced the highly sought-after 'S Series' guitars and basses, which were Fender-style instruments. In 1996, Hisatake Shibuya asked Michael Ciravolo to become Schecter's president and run the company. Michael Ciravolo, an experienced musician, brought to the company many well-known musicians as endorsees. These included Robert DeLeo of Stone Temple Pilots, Jay Noel Yuenger and Sean Yseult of White Zombie, and Xavier Rhone of Carbon Nation.
Michael Ciravolo never really liked Fender designs, so he sought to distance the company from its past Fender-style models.[1] Toward that end, he added the Avenger, Hellcat, 'Hollywood Classic CT' and Tempest models to the Schecter catalog. He also wanted to reach a new generation of musicians he felt were ignored by most major guitar manufacturers. Yet, at this point, the company was only producing expensive, custom shop models with a return to exceptional quality not seen since the early custom shop days under Dave Schecter. (Schecter's maximum output was forty guitars a month -all custom made.)[1] To realize his vision, Ciravolo began searching for a factory that could mass-produce Schecter guitars while maintaining high quality standards while maintaining production in the USA Custom shop. As a result of the low production and focus on quality, the USA custom models from this era (1996-2000) are some of the most sought after among guitar collectors.
Michael Ciravolo met with several Asian guitar manufacturers at the Tokyo Music Festival and subsequently decided on a factory in Incheon, South Korea. (Though not known for sure, this location could be the electric guitar factory of World Musical Instrument co. Ltd.) Schecter's guitars were built in the South Korea factory and shipped to the U.S., where they were set up in a Schecter shop. At the 1998 summer NAMM show, with the addition of now Executive Vice President Marc LaCorte, Schecter introduced the Diamond Series, which included six affordably priced non-custom guitars. The line included an affordable seven-string guitar, the A-7, to the market when none were previously available
In 2000, Schecter introduced the now legendary 'C-1, which was debuted by Jerry Horton in Papa Roach's 'Last Resort' music video. The Diamond Series is still in production to this day.
Expanded custom shop, return of USA production, and Schecter Amplification, 2013–present[edit]
In 2012, it was announced that Schecter expanded their custom shop, adding 14,000 square feet to the facility. Later the same year, Schecter announced a new line of USA-built guitars that would bring the company back to its 'roots'. This included the acquisition of several CNC machines from Haas Automation and a new 1,500 square feet spray booth. The new line would be called the 'USA Production Series.' These guitars were officially debuted at the 2013 Winter NAMM show. Schecter also announced a new line of hand-wound electric guitar and bass pickups, that would be available on USA Production and custom shop models, and possibly will be available for purchase in 2013.
Along with the announcement of the USA Production Series, Schecter announced their introduction into the amplification market. These new amps were designed in part with well-known amplifier designer James Brown, known for designing the Peavey 5150 amplifier with Eddie Van Halen, and his line of effect pedals under the Amptweaker name. The amps first announced were the Hellraiser USA 100, Hellraiser Stage 100, Hellwin USA 100, and Hellwin Stage 100. The USA versions are built in Schecter's USA custom shop, while the Stage series is built overseas. The Hellwin is the signature amp for Avenged Sevenfold guitarist Synyster Gates, who helped design the head with James Brown. Both amps use EL34 power tubes, an on-board noise gate, a passive and active input that compensate for the output difference by changing the circuit instead of reducing output, and a 'Focus' control that adjusts the low end response. The main difference between the Hellwin and the Hellraiser is the Hellwin's use of MIDI to control the amp. The Hellwin is also a three-channel amp, as opposed to the Hellraiser's two-channel design. Schecter also introduced a line of speaker cabinets, one featuring a 200W sub-woofer called the 'Depth Charge', that would increase the cabinet's bass response. These amps were debuted, along with the USA Production Line, at Winter NAMM 2013.
Diamond Series[edit]
The Diamond Series was first introduced in 1998, and consists of all the non-custom, mass-produced Schecter models.[4] The Diamond Series is further divided into groups of guitars, which share common design characteristics. Schecter has stated that it will not customize any Diamond Series guitar, thus any Diamond Series guitar is sold 'as is'.
Although there are a large variety of models available in the Diamond range, many are 'mixed and matched' parts from different Schecter guitars. For example, all 'Omen', 'C', 'Hellraiser' and 'Damien' basses have the same body shape, although some have set necks rather than bolt on necks, different finish colors, and different woods. However, Schecter produces many different guitars from a smaller number of core parts. This mix and match culture has the benefit of allowing guitarists to find a Schecter to fit their exact requirements, but negatively gives less of a 'core product' range as shown by Gibson Guitars who only have a small range of guitars available.
Some of the best known guitars made by Schecter are the 'C Series' in various configurations such as the 'Hellraiser' and 'Blackjack' models, and the S Series, which included the S-1 Elite (double cut) guitars, which resembled Gibson's Les Paul Double Cut and double cut Melody Maker—and the S-1 (a less fancy version of the S-1 Elite). The 'Elite' versions of Schecter's mass-produced instruments often include an arched top, abalone binding, a bound fretboard and a bound headstock with a finish matched to the body. Despite the decorative features, these instruments remained affordable and of reasonable quality. Pickups on many mass-produced Schecter models are almost always 'Duncan Designed' humbuckers (double coil pickups based on Seymour Duncan's pickup specifications), usually with a 'push-pull' coil splitter control that splits the full humbucker pickup sound into the sharper tone of a single coil pickup.
Schecter targeted specific market segments with occasional limited runs of its mass-produced guitar models in novelty finishes. The 'Aviation Series', which appeared around 2006 and ran for about a year, equipped certain mass-produced model bodies (the PT, Tempest, S-1, etc.) with World War II US (and British) aircraft colors and markings, and special pickup covers that look like cooling louvers.
Schecter also makes seven-string models, and recently, eight-string models. Schecter's 'Diamond series' guitars use components such as TonePros locking bridge products on non-tremolo models and original Floyd Rose double locking tremolos on many of the six and seven string models. Many models also feature USA EMG or Seymour Duncan pick-ups and Grover tuners.
Products[edit]Guitars[edit]
A Schecter Omen Extreme (7 String) Guitar
The following list of guitars are correct as appears on the Schecter Website [5]
Acoustics[edit]
The following list of acoustics are correct as appears on the Schecter Website (Accessed 25 February 2012):[6]
Basses[edit]
The following list of basses are correct as appears on the Schecter Website (Accessed 18 December 2008):[5]
Amplifiers[edit]
Discontinued instruments[edit]
The following instruments are no longer in production by Schecter Guitars as of 2012. Although, some guitars, like the Damien-7, The Banshee Elite, and Hellcat VI have been brought back for 2016 and are currently available to purchase on Schecter's official website.[6]
Guitars
Hollowbody
Acoustics
Basses
Van Nuys WeatherCustom shop[edit]
Endnote x7 word 2016 download. As well as the mass-produced Diamond Series, Schecter offers a custom guitar service. On their website, Schecter says, 'The Custom Shop is reserved only for orders made through a Schecter Authorized Dealer'.
Example projects[7] include:
References[edit]
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