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'.
In 1977 Shecter was doing well and wound up hiring a young Tom Anderson; Tom did a lot of work with pickup development. At that time Schecter was pretty much a parts company that built small numbers of completed guitars each year; their dealers tended to be shops who had individuals on-staff who could assemble guitars from their parts (places like Valley Arts Music in California and Rudy's Music in NYC - Rudy's builder at the time was another guy cut from the same mold as Schecter and Anderson named John Suhr).
ISA pushed Schecter away from being primarily a parts business that made some completed guitars to being a guitar company that produced some parts. Part of that was setting up a separate entity to produce Schecter guitars in Japan for the Japanese market, and Dave and Tom wound up spending time over there getting this entity set up. Dave got fed up and left early in this process, so the owners decided to move the company from California to Dallas, Texas. Tom didn't want to make the move to Dallas so he left and started his own company which would only make parts from 1985 until sometime in 1988 when he made the decision to no longer sell bodies and necks.
At any rate Schecter stopped supplying parts to those dealers who were doing a good business assembling guitars, so they found other sources (Valley Arts desinged and built their own models, Rudy and John launched the Pensa-Suhr line, etc.) as they focused on just building guitars and selling hardware like pickups, bridges, loaded pickguards, etc. but no more bodies and necks. The company, now without Schecter and Anderson, went bankrupt in 1986 (probably part of this was a cease and desist from Fender to stop using their headstock shapes - Schecter had worked out a license to use the shapes when Schecter was focusing on parts; once they moved to doing finished guitars that ended any deals they might have had).
THE SHECTER HISTORY
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- I bought a Schecter Stiletto deluxe-4 and I would want to know basic infos about it. Mostly, when was it made and where (in korea, right?). Serial number is 0401376.
- The serial number stamped on the Schecter branded neck plate is four digits in the format 80. or 81. can't remember which. I assumed it was '80 or '81, but I didn't know. If so I would imagine it is worth a more than a used MIA Strat of comparable age.
Private Company Guitar manufacturer | |
Industry | Musical instruments |
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Founded | Van Nuys, California, United States (1976; 43 years ago) |
Founder | David Schecter, Herschel Blankenship and Shel Horlick |
Headquarters | 1840 Valpreda Street Burbank, California 91504 United States |
Worldwide | |
David Schecter Herschel Blankenship Shel Horlick (founders) Hisatake Shibuya (distributor/owner) Michael Ciravolo (president) Marc LaCorte (Vice President) | |
Products | Electric and acoustic guitars Bass guitars Guitar amplifiers |
Owner | Hisatake Shibuya |
Website | schecterguitars.com |
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History[edit]
Custom shop days, 1976–1983[edit]
Texan ownership and mass production, 1983–1987[edit]
Hisatake Shibuya and reform, 1987 – present[edit]
Van Nuys High School
Expanded custom shop, return of USA production, and Schecter Amplification, 2013–present[edit]
Diamond Series[edit]
Products[edit]
Guitars[edit]
- C Series = C-1, C-1 Arist, C-1 Blackjack, C-1 Blood Moon, C-1 Classic, C-1 Blackjack EX Baritone, C-1 Elite, C-1 Exotic Star, C-1 FR, Schecter C-1 Hellraiser FR, C-1 Lady Luck, C-1 Platinum, C-1 Plus, C-1 SheDevil, C-1 SheDevil FR, C-7, C-7 Blackjack, C-7 FR, C-1 XXX, C-8 Hellraiser, C-1 custom
- S Series = S-1, S-1 Blackjack
- Tempest Series = Hellraiser Tempest, Tempest Blackjack, Tempest Classic, Tempest Custom, Tempest Extreme (Excluding USA)
- 00 Series = 006 Deluxe, 006 Extreme (Excludes USA), Hellraiser 006, 007, 007 Elite
- S-1 Tribal = Devil Tribal Delux, S-1 Scorpion Tribal Deluxe (Excludes USA)
- Devil Series =Devil Custom, Devil Spine
- Hollywood Series = Hollywood Classic
- Stargazer Series = Stargazer, Stargazer 12
- Sunset Series = Hellraiser Sunset FR, Sunset Deluxe
- Stiletto Series = Stiletto 6 FR, Stiletto Classic
- PT Series = PT, PT Fastback, Pete Dee Signature
- Hellcat Series = Hellcat VI
- Ultra Series = Ultra III, Ultra Classic, Ultracure (Robert Smith signature model), Ultra VI Bass/Baritone
- Artist Models = Loomis 7 and 7 FR (Jeff Loomis), Porl Thompson Model (Porl Thompson), RS-1000 and Ultracure (Robert Smith), Synyster Standard, Custom, Deluxe and Special (Synyster Gates), Vengeance Custom and ZV Blade (Zacky Vengeance), Pete Dee Model (Pete Dee), Jake Pitts C-1 FR (Jake Pitts), Jinxx Recluse-FR (Jinxx), Al Jourgensen Signature Triton (Al Jourgensen)
- Extreme Series = 006 Extreme (Excludes USA), Omen-6 Extreme (Excludes USA), Omen-6 FR, Omen-6 FR Extreme, Omen-7 Extreme, Tempest Extreme
- Banshee Series = Banshee Extreme, Banshee Elite
- Demon = Demon (Excludes USA), Demon-FR (Excludes USA), Demon-7 (Excludes USA), Demon-7 FR (Excludes USA)
- Hellraiser Series = Hellraiser 006, Hellraiser Avenger, Hellraiser C-1, Hellraiser C-1 FR, Hellraiser C-7, Hellraiser C-7 FR, Sunset Hellraiser FR, Hellraiser Tempest, Hellraiser V-1, Hellraiser V-1 FR, Hellraiser C-8 LIMITED EDITION, Hellraiser DLX
- Blackjack Series = C-1 Blackjack, S-1 Blackjack, C-1 Blackjack ATX, C-1 Blackjack ATX FR, C-1 Blackjack FR, C-1 Blackjack EX Baritone, C-7 Blackjack, C-7 Blackjack ATX, Tempest Blackjack, V-1 Blackjack ATX, V-1 Blackjack ATX FR, V-1 Blackjack, Blackjack ATX C-8
- Avenger = Avenger, Avenger FR LIMITED EDITION
- Omen Series = Omen Solo-6, Omen-6, Omen-6 Extreme, Omen-6 FR (Excludes USA), Omen-6 FR Extreme (Excludes USA), Omen-7, Omen-7 Extreme (Excludes USA), Omen-8
- Damien Series = Damien-7 FR, Damien B-2, Damien B-2 FR, Damien Special, Damien Special FR, Damien-6, Damien-7, Damien-FR, Damien V-1, Damien V-1 FR, Damien ELITE FR, Damien-7 ELITE Damien-8 ELITE
- V Series = V-1 Classic, Hellraiser V-1, Hellraiser V-1 FR, Blackjack ATX V-1, Blackjack ATX V-1 FR, Blackjack V-1, Damien V-1, Damien V-1 FR, Hellraiser V-7, Hellraiser V-7 FR, Hellraiser V-8
- Solo Series = Solo-6 Classic, Hellraiser Solo-6, Hellraiser Solo-6 FR LIMITED EDITION (2009)
- Semi/Hollow Body = Corsair, Corsair Bigsby, TSH-1, TSH-1 Classic
- 7 Strings = C-7 Blackjack, Damien-7, Hellraiser C-7, Loomis-7, Loomis-7 FR, Omen-7, Omen-7 Extreme, 007, 007 Elite, C-7 Diamond Deluxe
- Baritones = C-1 Blackjack EX Baritone
- Sun Valley Super Shredder Series = FR, FR S, PT FR
- Sun Valley Super Shredder III = 6, 7 String
- Apocalypse Series = C-1 Red Reign, C-1 Red Reign FR S, C-7 Red Reign, C-7 FR S Red Reign, Solo-II Red Reign, Solo-II FR Red Reign, V-1 Red Reign, V-1 FR Red Reign, C-1, C-1 EX, C-1 FR, C-1 FR S, C-7, E-1, PT, V-1
Acoustics[edit]
- Royal Acoustic
- Orleans Acoustic
- RS-1000 (Robert Smith signature model)
- GLP-1 (Grant Lee Phillips signature model)
- Hellraiser Studio Acoustic
- Hellraiser Stage Acoustic
- Omen Extreme Acoustic
Basses[edit]
- 00 Series = 004 Series
- C Series = C-4, C-5
- Damien Series = Damien-4, Damien-5
- Diamond J = Diamond J
- Extreme Basses = Stiletto Extreme-4, Stiletto Extreme-5
- Hellraiser Series = Hellraiser-4, Hellraiser-5
- Model-T = Model-T
- Omen Bass Series = Omen-4, Omen-5, Omen-8
- Stargazer Series
- Stiletto Series = Custom-4, Custom-5, Custom-6, Deluxe-4, Deluxe-5, Elite-4, Elite-5, Stiletto Extreme-4, Stiletto Extreme-5, Stiletto Stage-4, Stiletto Stage-5, Studio-4, Studio-5, Studio-6, Studio-8
- Riot series= Riot-4, Riot-5, Riot-6
- ELITE .elite 4, elite5
Schecter Van Nuys Serial Numbers 1
Amplifiers[edit]
- Hellraiser
- Hellwin
Discontinued instruments[edit]
- Banshee
- 00 Series = 006 Elite (2008), 007 Elite (2000-2007)
- C Series = c-1 Classic, C-1 Tremolo (2006 Only), C-1 Jolly Roger (2005 Only), C-1 30th Anniversary Model (2006 only), C-1 Exotic (2005–2006 only), C-1 Custom XXX (2005 only), C-1 Shedevil, C-1 Shedevil FR (only 100 made, 2009) C-1 E/A (2008), C-1 Elite (2008), C-1 Special (2007), C-1 Stealth, CB-2000 Celloblaster, C-7 Plus (discontinued), C/SH-1 (2007), C/SH-12 (2007 only), C-1 +
- S Series = S-1 DLX, S-1 PLUS (2001–2002), S-1 30th Anniversary Model (2006 only), S-1 Elite (2008), S-1 Hot Rod, S-1 Scorpion Tribal Doubleneck, S-1 'Bada Bling', S-1 'Black Widow' (2005 only), S-1 'The Devil's Rejects' (2007 only), S-1 'Vampira' (2003 only), S-1 Blackjack (2004).
- Hellraiser Series = Avenger Hellraiser FR (available exclusively at Drum City – GuitarLand, Inc. And 30 White models were made for special order through any authorized Schecter retailer in 2010)
- Avenger Series = Avenger 'The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning' (made only in 2007)
- Banshee Series = Banshee (2007)
- Damien Series = Damien-7
- Gryphon Series = Gryphon Limited Edition (2008), Gryphon-7
- Hellcat Series = Hellcat (2008)
- Hot Rod Series = Hot Rod '39
- Artist Series = Jerry Horton C-1, Jerry Horton Tempest (2007 Only), PT 30th Anniversary Model (2006 only), PT Custom, Synyster Custom (White w/ Gold Stripes, only 100 made), Vengeance Special (2008), Vengeance Standard (Zacky Vengeance signature model, 2007 only), Pete Dee Diamond Series (White on Black, Black on White)
- PT Series = PT Elite, PT Blackjack
- Aviation Collection = PT 'Flying Tiger' (2004 only), PT 'Bomber Girl' (2004 only), S-1 'RAF Spitfire' (2006 only), Tempest 'Midway' (2006 only), PT 'Bottoms Up!' (2006 only), Ultra 'P-51' (2006 only), Tempest 'A-10 Warthog' (2007 only), Ultra 'F-117 Stealth' (2007 only)
- Tempest Series = Tempest 30th Anniversary Model (2006 only), Tempest Deluxe, Tempest 'New Orleans Saints NFL Katrina Relief' (only made in 2005), Traditional 30th Anniversary (2006 only)
- TSH-1
- Unknown Series = V-7, A-5X Celloblaster, A-7, SW-3500 (2007), T-1M33
- Jazz Series
- Jazz Elite (last made in 2005)
- Jazz-6 (last made in 2002)
- Jazz-7 (last made in 2001)
- SW-Classical
- SW-1000
- SW-2000
- SW-2500
- SW-3000/RW
- SW-3000/QM
- Acoustic Elite (2008)
- Diamond ACS Acoustic (2008)
- Gryphon (Limited US 'Guitar Center' run)
- Ultrabass, C-4XXX (2005 only)
- 004 Series
Custom shop[edit]
- House of 1000 Corpses
- Tempest Tartan
- Dawn of the Dead Tribute
- CS-1 #26
- PT Nashville
- CET Flame Koa
- Hollywood Classic
References[edit]
Schecter Van Nuys Serial Numbers Lookup
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- ^'Artists'. Schecter Guitar Research. Retrieved April 27, 2013.
- ^Wright, Michael (2009-12-14). 'Schecter Yngwie Malmsteen'. Vintage Guitar® magazine. Retrieved 2018-02-21.
- ^Molenda, Michael (August 2006). 'Schecter Turns 30'. guitarplayer.com. Archived from the original on 2007-09-27. Retrieved 2007-04-15.
- ^ abSchecter Guitars Website, http://www.schecterguitars.com/index.asp, accessed 18 December 2008, 21:00
- ^ abItems not present on Schecter Guitars website, http://www.schecterguitars.com/index.asp, Items are shown in discontinued section and in the past catalogs, accessed 25 February 2012, 06:50
- ^Displayed on the Schecter Guitars Custom Shop page, http://www.schecterguitars.com/custom.asp, accessed December 18th 2008, 21:40