As Schecter Guitar Research moves into its 40th year of business, it has solidified its elite status as one of the world’s premier guitar companies, offering electric guitars and basses, acoustic guitars, and USA Custom Shop instruments to musicians around the world in more than 150 countries. Its continually evolving and expanding line of guitars and basses appeals to a broad spectrum of players and diverse musical styles. Its core business practice offers high-quality instruments with professional components at an affordable price. One of the company's strongest assets is its growing roster of high-profile artists, including Disturbed, Avenged Sevenfold, The Cure, Papa Roach, Seether, Prince, Stone Temple Pilots, Nevermore and Black Label Society. I got a Schecter ash body on my home build Stratocaster and I am currently for the first time in 15 years through a serious upgrade. The thing is that I can't find any stamps or labels on the body itself. Vintage Schecter Guitars. Related Categories. Auction Alerts. Some of the world best electric-guitar manufacturers began their businesses on the fringes of the music world. What Schecter '70s or '80s could it had been back then? Dream machine? The build was done I guess 1994 so and old body goes to a home builder. The vintage tremolo is as I can tell original Schecter with a brass blok though the saddles are Fender that I put on. You can follow the upgrade on Anyone with any kind of info on this body or bridge? I thought Schecter stamped their logo in the neck pocket of all their bodies but I could be wrong on that. If it is from the 1970s or early 1980s then it probably didn't go to any 'model'; it was just a Schecter strat-shaped body. Back then they were more of a parts company but they also had a small crew that would build guitars as well. That 'Dream Machine' term wasn't a model name, it was their tag line used in their early advertising, meaning 'if you can dream it up, we have the parts so you can build it (and we can build it for you if you want)'. If it is from a bit later in the 1980s when they shifted their primary focus from selling part to selling complete guitars then the Strat-style model was called the 'Mercury' (and the 2-humbucker Tele-style that is now known as the 'PT' was called the 'Saturn'); that would be if it is from say 1983-1986 which covers the late Van Nuys era and the start of the Dallas era. When they get to the Dallas era they began using a grab-bag of bodies and necks - some were made by Schecter, some were sourced from Japan (both ESP and their own Japanese shop), and some were sourced from Canada (La-Si-Do, parent company of Godin). At least that's my understanding (based on reading some posts by Tom Anderson) that they didn't really mill a lot of parts once they moved to Dallas but they did finish them there. Anderson left the company right around the time they shut down in Van Nuys; he may well have bought their pin routers to start his business. The bridge definitely looks like the ones Schecter sold. I know their trem system with roller saddles, fine tuners, and a string lock was made for them by Schaller, but the brass traditional trem bridge like yours may have been made in-house. I have recently picked up what you may call the Crysis 'suite' (Crysis, Crysis Warhead and Crysis 2) in preparation of Crysis 3. Anyways, to get to the point, I have finished Crysis, and one of the mods I used (actually included in the awesome Tactical Expansion mod by killroy) was the Advanced AI mod. I made this because the regular crysis AI just werent cutting it. They werent aggresive or smart or used cover right. My AI are different, they are way more aggresive, smart, and use cover more efficiently. They arent like the old Crysis AI where they stay back and fire off some rounds and run. The AI will work in any combat situation basically, they even work in a completly empty map with few trees or nothing at all. Though to utilize the AI to its best, a good AI navigation and AI setup map is recommended. You can now play the Crysis SP again with much tougher AI. Crysis ai model. This is an essential mod for the Crysis game which drastically improves the enemy combatant AI making the game much harder. Hope that helps; if I can turn up any photos of old Schecter bodies to verify about neck pocket stamps I'll post them. Unfortunately doing web searches for Schecters leads you into two directions - lots of photos of new ones, and lots of photos of Townshend's Tele-styles from the early 1980s. What I did turn up was a 1970s catalog scan - from that it appears that Schecter used to stamp most of their bodies with their logo in a pickup cavity, typically the neck pickup cavity unless the body only had a bridge pickup cavity. That being said there are photos of unstamped bodies in the same catalog. At any rate here is a link to that catalog scan I found: I would PM another forum member who goes by 'superrock' (or maybe just 'superock' ) - while I know enough of the company history to be helpful he is the real Van Nuys/Texas era Schecter expert on the boards and continues to turn up vintage Schecter parts for builds. He might be able to help you out some. His screen name is the name of a series of pickups Schecter made back in the day.
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