PSA: Schecter ex-demo clearout at Guitar Guitar

skullfunkerry

Had an email about these this morning. There are some fairly hefty discounts, if anyone is in the market for a superstrat or 7-string:

https://www.guitarguitar.co.uk/clearance/schecter/

I thought long and hard about the red GT-FR but I can't afford it at the moment...

steer

More tempting pretty things that I really don't need. 

Must resist. 

StefB

This 'classy metal' sector of the market is becoming very homogenised.  

If you look at the body styles alone and ignore the headstock (which most guitar shop ad thumbnails force you to do anyway), it is difficult nowadays to distinguish Schecters from ESP Ltds from Jacksons, especially those with the fade finish flame tops which will look very dated in a couple of years time.  

I presume most of the guitars in this ever increasing, no longer budget price bracket are made in the same factories in Indonesia & China regardless of brand?

fretmeister

LTD and Schecter have been made in the same place for at least 20 years. Obviously then LTD was just called ESP then, but cheaper.

I remember when they had pretty much identical models where just the headstock shape was different.

timmypix

fretmeister said:

LTD and Schecter have been made in the same place for at least 20 years. Obviously then LTD was just called ESP then, but cheaper.

I remember when they had pretty much identical models where just the headstock shape was different.

Well they're owned by the same company, aren't they? Or have I made that up?

Kittyfrisk

^ ESP & Schecter are owned by the same individual (Hisatake Shibuya), but run as completely separate companies (allegedly).

ThePrettyDamned

StefB said:

This 'classy metal' sector of the market is becoming very homogenised.  

If you look at the body styles alone and ignore the headstock (which most guitar shop ad thumbnails force you to do anyway), it is difficult nowadays to distinguish Schecters from ESP Ltds from Jacksons, especially those with the fade finish flame tops which will look very dated in a couple of years time.  

I presume most of the guitars in this ever increasing, no longer budget price bracket are made in the same factories in Indonesia & China regardless of brand?

Is it more or less homogenised than lespaulstratele? 

Jetfire

@StefB ;

https://images.guitarguitar.co.uk/cdn/large/160/181213335999008-5785831f.jpg

There we go, hardly metal really let's be fair

imalrightjack

I had a Schecter Tele with Monstertone pickups. It was genuinely an absolutely top class vintage-style instrument. USA made. The Indonesian PT I had, after upgrades, was also a hell of a good guitar. 

Kittyfrisk

^ Agreed. My C1 Classic has the Seymour Duncan JB/Jazz pickup combination.
Subtle & flexible it is, metal it ain't.

guitargeek62

@Jetfire yep, that's the one I'd get

StefB

I think you probably all knew what I was getting at, and you could have used the Ibanez George Benson & ESP Ron Wood to illustrate the point further I guess.

This is obviously what I was getting at:-

Schecter
https://imgur.com/6ANHJE2

Jackson
https://imgur.com/fj7VIoO

ESP
https://imgur.com/6dhYZMT

Kittyfrisk

^ I'm not being obtuse but all I can see are three pictures of one guitar (even the filename is the same)?

StefB

Kittyfrisk said:

^ I'm not being obtuse but all I can see are three pictures of one guitar (even the filename is the same)?

That's my point, they all look the same!  Post now amended, thanks for pointing it out.

ThePrettyDamned

StefB said:

Kittyfrisk said:

^ I'm not being obtuse but all I can see are three pictures of one guitar (even the filename is the same)?

That's my point, they all look the same!  Post now amended, thanks for pointing it out.

I imagine they are the same, or close enough. 

I'm just pointing out that there are plenty of, say, bolt on double cutaway 3 single coil pickup guitars in 50s car colours with some aging applied from lots of manufacturers also. It's not new, it's just something that's perhaps easier to see with the Internet  

TTBZ

Jetfire said:

@StefB ;;;;

https://images.guitarguitar.co.uk/cdn/large/160/181213335999008-5785831f.jpg

There we go, hardly metal really let's be fair

Really like these, I'm not really a strat guy but they look great and more exciting than another boring old "vintage correct" Fender to me. Love the subtle inlays, vol/tone layout and side jack. It's a shame they don't have a more sculpted neck heel though, that'd make it spot on for me! Quite fancy the HSS one.

Same for the PT, they're just like a more interesting Fender to me, with better specs too.