Early schecter

[murph63]

1. I have an early (78-79) schecter solid rosewood neck with a koa wood body, originally a hard tail. These both have the schecter logo impressed on the neck cavity and underside of neck. Any idea of how many solid rosewoods were produced and was this a T.A. produced item?

2. In the mid-late eighies, I purchased a neck from Chris Impeliteri, supposedly a custom shop Jackson with a strat headstock and fake fender logo. This is a maple/ebony with the 22nd fret pulled. At the time C.I. was a fender endorsee. Any way to verify it is an actual jackson?

3. Who made the Dimarzio bodies and necks in the 70's?

[tom]

1. most of the koa's had pau ferro necks. are you sure it's rosewood? schecter did about 5 guitars a week during that 78-83 time period. about 1/2-1/3 had exotic necks.
3. they used asorted vendors, canadian, japanese, and someone on the east coast as far as i know.

[murph63]

Tom,
These were ordered separately as parts...neck and body. I worked at the small music store at the time and got a heck of a deal on them. The neck is indeed solid rosewood, it had a slight hairline crack in the back from drilling the machine head holes. Never did expand or amount to anything. At the time the price was very expensive, but due to the crack, I purchased it for $75. The Koa body was supposed to be flamed/bookmatched but came in as just a nice koa body. The store couldn't sell it so I bought it for $150. Both were brand new and clearly imprinted with the schecter logo (not visible when assembled)