when a schecter isnt a schecter

[shanklyfowler]

Hello I'm new in this forum and was wondering if anyone would be able to tell me anything about the guitar in the following pictures. I cant find much on line only a little bit of information on the schecter forums about them.
what if anything may be schecter fitted parts, I was thinking maybe the neck, I don't know anything about pickups.

http://i1050.photobucket.com/albums/s406/shanklyFowler/headstock1.jpg
http://i1050.photobucket.com/albums/s406/shanklyFowler/pickassembly.jpg
http://i1050.photobucket.com/albums/s406/shanklyFowler/body1.jpg
http://i1050.photobucket.com/albums/s406/shanklyFowler/back.jpg

This guitar is for sale at the moment, and the seller is saying its fitted with Van Nuys pickups, and he thinks its from the late 70,s. do you think its worth around £300 he's asking for it, its too far away for me to try it out. worth a shot or walk away?

[tom]

it's not from anytime before '84 when i left. we never did big headstock necks. we also never put copper tape around that style pickup. actually we never made tapped monstertone style pickups. we make some now for the current schecter gang, but i'm not sure if we made those.

[shanklyfowler]

thank you so much for your response, I'll walk away from this one then, Ive been playing a £20 chipboard encore for a few years now after my strat, amp and P.A were stolen from a practice room, and dont have a lot to spend to get a good guitar, and hoped this might have given me a strat killer at a bargain price, thanks again for the reply, i'll keep looking and hope someone misspells your name on an ebay listing one day "Tim Andson 1p starting bid and no reserve";)

[pipedwho]

Those pickups with the copper tape look like the pickups in my 1997 era custom shop Schecter. Although, pretty much all the Schecter classic style 'strats' from the late '80s onwards had the Anderson/Suhr style headstock. The lawsuit era headstocks look the smaller Fender '60s headstocks. The one in that picture looks like a Fender '70s era cartoonishly large headstock.

If you like the looks of it, I'm sure 300 pounds isn't unreasonable for a hybrid that's well made. That loaded pickguard alone is probably worth half that.

[shanklyfowler]

thanks pipedwho, if it had been all schecter parts I would definitely have gone for it, I'm still in two minds, but buying without trying is a bit of a risk I'm thinking, just incase the frets are worn down or twisted neck.

the following link is to the schecter forums, these ones are the only others I have found, they do look like the early schecters, the neck on the second one cant be correct though can it, I thought schecter used only 1 piece of wood for the necks back then.

http://http://www.schecterforum.com/showthread.php/1102-Original-Schecter-or-not (http://www.schecterforum.com/showthread.php/1102-Original-Schecter-or-not)

[tom]

link didn't work for me.

[shanklyfowler]

Sorry link should be fixed now, too many http//'s

[pipedwho]

Is that a one piece body? You could always try to get the seller to remove the neck and photograph the markings for you.

On a side note, it's a real pity that Schecter had such a discontinuity in its historical timeline. So much build information has been lost in all the reshuffle(s) of ownership, staff and premises.

I suppose, it could also be seen as a good thing. Otherwise Tom might have never decided to go solo and start his own guitarworks. :)

[tom]

the assembly and bridge on the sunburst one look real, the neck def not.