Custom Guitar Spotlight - Schecter 30th Anniversary

Thirty years ago, Dave Schecter was part of an elite group of Southern California musical instrument builders when he started Schecter Guitars. Back in the mid-`70s, Schecter, along with Wayne Charvel, Tom Anderson, Lynn Ellsworth (Boogie Bodies), Randy Zacuto (JB Player / Mighty Mite), and one Seymour W. Duncan gave customers high-quality guitars and components that exceeded the offerings of the major guitar brands of the day. Cut to 2006 as Schecter Guitar Research commemorates its 30th Anniversary with a series of 12 one-off, highly customized, no-compromise instruments. One such guitar is the beauty pictured here.

It features a highly figured, oil-finished walnut body with a three-piece, 25 ½" scale, walnut and wenge set neck with Schaller locking tuners, a Micarta nut, and brass side dot markers. The string-through body employs a special TonePros bridge. The pickups are hand-built in the Custom Shop by Seymour, who engraves each cover and signs each pickup. According to Seymour, "I go way back with Schecter and I wanted to create a really special, hand-engraved pickup that celebrates three decades of tone." The controls are volume / volume / tone with a coil-split switch on the tone knob.

If you want one of the 12 guitars, act fast before the collectors snatch them all up. Oh, and have $8,999 handy, because that's what it'll set you back. But at least Schecter will throw in a special anniversary edition case.