Vintage Schecter Guitars. Related Categories. Wouldn’t appear until 1950. Similarly, David Schecter got his start in 1976 making everything from replacement necks to pick guards for companies like Fender and Gibson, as well as. Continue Reading.

Fire hydrant autocad dwg. Great history. I pre-date that with my Dave Schecter experience: He hot rodded a Fender Twin Reverb for me in 1973.

(Yeah, I'm old.as my profile pic from three years ago attests.) Dave worked for The Music Stand here as a guitar/amp tech. I last saw him about twelve years ago at Guitars Etc.

He talked about his Ozone products and just rambled on, in general, about guitar minutiae. The guy has forgotten more electric guitar and amp knowledge than some whole guitar companies probably know in total. Truly a pioneer in the guitar world.

In fact it could be said he jump-started the custom guitar scene. Thanks for the original post and pics. Click to expand.there is no info source on these, but you can ask,, or myself, we do know quite a bit about older schecter guitars. (Im sure they are a few other knowledgeable guys about those years, but I don't know them personally) the ESP years started @87, very nice guitars in their own rights, but not the same league as the van nuys stuff, woods look nice but there must be something about the water content of the woods or something, that makes them a bit more sterile sounding, the later true 'monstertones' pickups contribute to that fact as well, and the hardware was definitely sub par compared to van nuys, being made out of gold plated metal instead of solid brass. In 92 a fellow GIT student had one made at Sunset Custom in LA (Esp/Schecter), and it certainly looked great, sounded good, but no match to my (then) only VN, I did score a few sets of monstertone pickups from Sunset Custom when they had a blow out sale a few years later PS: I like your old VN, nice white guard ( rare!), and killer body (Koa?)!

In the 80ies, Mark Knopfler was probably the most famous user of Schecter guitars. He bought several Schecters in 1980 at Rudy’s Music Stop in New York, mainly because he was looking for a guitar that was easier to play and better suited for the high demands on the road than the vintage Fenders he played before. Also his former girl-friend played a Schecter which he said was much better than his Fender guitars. So what was the story behind the Schecter company?

Schecter Guitar Research started around 1976 in Van Nuys, California, when David Schecter opened his repair and custom guitar shop. He soon started to produce his own quality guitar parts which were intended to replace some stock parts on common guitars. Especially the Fender Stratocaster and Telecaster were the ideal guitar to be hot-rodded, since all their parts could be replaced much easier than with the laminated constructions that Gibson used, and the quality of Fender guitars was possibly at the lowest in the Fender history. We got it all - a Schecter ad from 1979 Because of their background as supplier of upgrade parts, Schecter soon was mainly known for (a) exotic woods Unlike Fender who build their guitars from rather common woods (ash, elder, maple.), Schecter specialized in beautiful exotic woods, like Shedua, Koa, Cocobola, Pau Fero, Mahogany, Rosewood, Purple Heart, or figured maple (necks), or Red Oak, Paduak, Zebrawood, Teak, Koa, Anjico, Imbuya, and many more (bodies).