Schecter Custom Shop USA PT - Pete Townsend - Gold

Schecter Custom Shop USA PT - Gold

In an excellent shape. Small wear. Your string gauge, tuning and setup.
Including case.

Weight:3,47kg

Schecter Guitar Research has solidified its elite status as one of the world’s premier guitar companies, offering electric guitars and basses, acoustic guitars, and USA Custom Shop instruments to musicians around the world in more than 150 countries. Its continually evolving and expanding line of guitars and basses appeals to a broad spectrum of players and diverse musical styles. Its core business practice offers high-quality instruments with professional components at an affordable price. One of the company's strongest assets is its growing roster of high-profile artists, including Disturbed, Avenged Sevenfold, The Cure, Papa Roach, Seether, Prince, Keith Merrow, Nick Johnston, and Zakk Wylde.

With the USA Production Series, Schecter puts custom shop guitar quality within the reach of us mere commoners.

You might have the US-made PT Standard pegged as a doppelgänger of the established Korean-built Diamond Series version. While the slab alder body of conspicuous origin, pickup and hardware layout, and the graceful headstock shape are unmistakable, there are a few things that'll help you pick this guitar out of a line-up.

For a start, the USA PT is top-bound only. The Diamond Series model is double-bound. The US PT model improves on the handling of its more affordable brother with a sculpted neck heel. Plus, in deference to the classic Schecters of the 80s, it has three strap buttons: one on the upper bout, two on the lower.

The PT-H bridge houses one of the guitar's two chrome-covered Schecter SuperRock Vintage humbuckers. Both the bridge and neck 'buckers are routed through a master volume control, a combined master tone pot and push/pull coil-split, plus a three-way pickup selector switch.

While the PT's bolted-on 'Custom C shape' Eastern hard rock maple neck boasts plenty of meat to fill your palm, the 355mm (14-inch) radius Indian rosewood 'board makes for comfortable fretting and butter-smooth string bending across all 22 of its beautiful extra jumbo Jescar premium German silver frets.

While it's easy to be seduced by the all-too-familiar charms of the Seymour Duncan SH-4 JB and SH-1 '59 setup on the PT Standard options list, you're strongly advised to give the Schecter SuperRock Vintage pups a tinkle first. The bridge unit's modest Alnico V-fuelled 9k ohms DC resistance produces a bright open tone that pulls the best from a good valve amp.

Run clean, the SuperRock Vintage sparkles in a way that a slavering overwound metal beast just couldn't hope to emulate. These pickups are designed to nail the Pete Townshend tone of the late 70s and most of the 80s. Job done. It didn't matter how much overdrive Pete dialled in, you could always hear his right hand hit the strings.

That sums up the voice of the SuperRock pickups. String definition on both the bridge and neck 'buckers remains impressive regardless of what number the gain control eventually creeps up to. Splitting the coils gives the PT some blues and country appeal, even if the flat fingerboard takes some getting used to for those acclimatised to an old-school smaller radius.

The USA Production Series is a shrewd move. Yes, the Custom Shop service has been available for many years but we have to wonder how many of you would think to call on their services if you had a few grand to burn.


With thanks of the review on music radar :)