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About 10 years ago, I got a call from my favorite guitar shop to let me know they had an unusual instrument I might be interested in. They thought it might be a Schecter parts-o-caster, but weren't sure. It smelled like the real deal to me, and it played like buttah, so I plunked down my $300 and walked out the door with her. Flash forward 10 years, and I finally got the spare time to take the beast apart. In addition to the clearly visible Schecter external components (bridge, neck PU, black/aluminum pickguard), the two-piece mahogany body was branded with the Schecter logo in the neck PU cavity, and the mystery-wood neck was similarly branded where the sun don't shine.
Here's the mystery, though: there are no serial/model numbers in the heel joint of the body, and the serial/model numbers in the neck are unknown to me. They also turned out to be unknown to Kelly Cash, a prominent Dallas-area guitar wizard and former early-80s Schecter employee.
Apr 21, 2014 Assembled By Rudy's Music Stop in NY, Pre Dream Machine.Body one piece KOA, One piece SHEDUA neck, Two Monstertone pickups and brass.
While he said he was certain the guitar was '90% Schecter' (the 'wrong' bits: 1970s Fender tuning keys, mystery lead PU, mystery volume/tone control panel), he was flummoxed by the model numbers that there were on the neck, and that there weren't in the body. His best guess was that it was a '76-'79 guitar made up mostly of extremely early Schecter parts, possibly pre-dating their catalog and its numbering system. I'm going to try to post some pics in the hope that one of you Schecter nerds can help ID what I've got here. I really appreciate it!
HVB Links to images. The neck appears to be pau ferro. The number is its serial number, and those were sequential. The missing number would've been the wood code, and these omissions seemed to happen, years into Van Nuys production.
According to early-Schecter employee (and TGP member), Brad Hodges, ' Dave made his first three Schecter necks by hand for the 1977 Anaheim NAMM show. It took almost two years after that to produce the first Schecter production necks!'
Shevelev matematika dlya doshkoljnikov. For pre-school age. The novel 'Cave lion' as his first novel, 'the prehistoric series' 'Struggle for fire', takes readers from the stone age, when primitive people were forced to fight for survival. You know the best stories about the Buttermilk of the novels 'Uncle Fyodor, dog and cat', 'Winter in Prostokvashino', 'uncle Fedor's Aunt' and 'Favorite girl uncle Fedor' collected in this great book! So many events happening every day! Joseph roney-Senior (1856-1940), the author of many fiction and 'prehistoric' novels and stories, is a classic of French literature, a writer with a world name.
His threads on Van Nuys Schecter history are remarkably detailed, and are a definitive resource. Great deal, by the way!! Hey guys, sorry to catch thread late but what you have here is: a hodge podge of: pre 79 genuine schecter body: they didnt have numbers in those years in neck pocket, and this one has EARLY features probably circa 1977, yet surprised to see it may be an OFFSET 2 piece body that would be really low end for schecter even back then. Circa 1980 genuine schecter neck (2xxx serial) neck plate: NON schecter tuners: non schecter pickguard: schecter possibly control plate: non schecter neck pup: schecter bridge pup: non schecter bridge: schecter it's not surprising to find such parts guitars, it was a wild 'grab and make yourself a guitar' era. Still a very cool guitar, and worth much more than $300 cheers disclamer: I collect schecter van nuys guitars, and actively seek to buy them when possible, however that does not make me the definite expert, but I have seen and owned many many.
It's hard to tell with Schecters from that era - it looks legit from the Dallas era which was circa 1984-1987ish. I'm going by the 22-fret neck; the Van Nuys era were all 21-fret necks per Tom Anderson (who was a Schecter empolyee from 1977-1984). The early Dallas era used both 21 and 22 fret necks so it could be from any time during the Dallas era.
Schecter went out of business sometime in 1987-1988; it was around the time they got a cease and desist letter from Fender to stop using their headstock shapes. Their current owners bought the name and brought the company back to California, and they use that more generic headstock shape. Click to expand.Interesting - wouldn't that make it post-Dallas, or did the Dallas production linger on a year or so later than I thought? I was thinking the Dallas production was done by 1987 and they never wound up using the Fender headstock shapes post-Dallas. I've done a bit of research on these, but I have never really gotten good info on the end of Dallas production and the sale to the current owner (who is - or at least was - also one of the three owners of ESP) and the move back to California.
I kind of lose the timeline a bit after the move to Dallas in 1984. Interesting - wouldn't that make it post-Dallas, or did the Dallas production linger on a year or so later than I thought? I was thinking the Dallas production was done by 1987 and they never wound up using the Fender headstock shapes post-Dallas. I've done a bit of research on these, but I have never really gotten good info on the end of Dallas production and the sale to the current owner (who is - or at least was - also one of the three owners of ESP) and the move back to California. I kind of lose the timeline a bit after the move to Dallas in 1984.
About 10 years ago, I got a call from my favorite guitar shop to let me know they had an unusual instrument I might be interested in. They thought it might be a Schecter parts-o-caster, but weren't sure. It smelled like the real deal to me, and it played like buttah, so I plunked down my $300 and walked out the door with her. Flash forward 10 years, and I finally got the spare time to take the beast apart. In addition to the clearly visible Schecter external components (bridge, neck PU, black/aluminum pickguard), the two-piece mahogany body was branded with the Schecter logo in the neck PU cavity, and the mystery-wood neck was similarly branded where the sun don't shine.
Here's the mystery, though: there are no serial/model numbers in the heel joint of the body, and the serial/model numbers in the neck are unknown to me. They also turned out to be unknown to Kelly Cash, a prominent Dallas-area guitar wizard and former early-80s Schecter employee.
Apr 21, 2014 Assembled By Rudy's Music Stop in NY, Pre Dream Machine.Body one piece KOA, One piece SHEDUA neck, Two Monstertone pickups and brass.
While he said he was certain the guitar was '90% Schecter' (the 'wrong' bits: 1970s Fender tuning keys, mystery lead PU, mystery volume/tone control panel), he was flummoxed by the model numbers that there were on the neck, and that there weren't in the body. His best guess was that it was a '76-'79 guitar made up mostly of extremely early Schecter parts, possibly pre-dating their catalog and its numbering system. I'm going to try to post some pics in the hope that one of you Schecter nerds can help ID what I've got here. I really appreciate it!
HVB Links to images. The neck appears to be pau ferro. The number is its serial number, and those were sequential. The missing number would've been the wood code, and these omissions seemed to happen, years into Van Nuys production.
According to early-Schecter employee (and TGP member), Brad Hodges, ' Dave made his first three Schecter necks by hand for the 1977 Anaheim NAMM show. It took almost two years after that to produce the first Schecter production necks!'
Shevelev matematika dlya doshkoljnikov. For pre-school age. The novel 'Cave lion' as his first novel, 'the prehistoric series' 'Struggle for fire', takes readers from the stone age, when primitive people were forced to fight for survival. You know the best stories about the Buttermilk of the novels 'Uncle Fyodor, dog and cat', 'Winter in Prostokvashino', 'uncle Fedor's Aunt' and 'Favorite girl uncle Fedor' collected in this great book! So many events happening every day! Joseph roney-Senior (1856-1940), the author of many fiction and 'prehistoric' novels and stories, is a classic of French literature, a writer with a world name.
His threads on Van Nuys Schecter history are remarkably detailed, and are a definitive resource. Great deal, by the way!! Hey guys, sorry to catch thread late but what you have here is: a hodge podge of: pre 79 genuine schecter body: they didnt have numbers in those years in neck pocket, and this one has EARLY features probably circa 1977, yet surprised to see it may be an OFFSET 2 piece body that would be really low end for schecter even back then. Circa 1980 genuine schecter neck (2xxx serial) neck plate: NON schecter tuners: non schecter pickguard: schecter possibly control plate: non schecter neck pup: schecter bridge pup: non schecter bridge: schecter it's not surprising to find such parts guitars, it was a wild 'grab and make yourself a guitar' era. Still a very cool guitar, and worth much more than $300 cheers disclamer: I collect schecter van nuys guitars, and actively seek to buy them when possible, however that does not make me the definite expert, but I have seen and owned many many.
It's hard to tell with Schecters from that era - it looks legit from the Dallas era which was circa 1984-1987ish. I'm going by the 22-fret neck; the Van Nuys era were all 21-fret necks per Tom Anderson (who was a Schecter empolyee from 1977-1984). The early Dallas era used both 21 and 22 fret necks so it could be from any time during the Dallas era.
Schecter went out of business sometime in 1987-1988; it was around the time they got a cease and desist letter from Fender to stop using their headstock shapes. Their current owners bought the name and brought the company back to California, and they use that more generic headstock shape. Click to expand.Interesting - wouldn't that make it post-Dallas, or did the Dallas production linger on a year or so later than I thought? I was thinking the Dallas production was done by 1987 and they never wound up using the Fender headstock shapes post-Dallas. I've done a bit of research on these, but I have never really gotten good info on the end of Dallas production and the sale to the current owner (who is - or at least was - also one of the three owners of ESP) and the move back to California.
I kind of lose the timeline a bit after the move to Dallas in 1984. Interesting - wouldn't that make it post-Dallas, or did the Dallas production linger on a year or so later than I thought? I was thinking the Dallas production was done by 1987 and they never wound up using the Fender headstock shapes post-Dallas. I've done a bit of research on these, but I have never really gotten good info on the end of Dallas production and the sale to the current owner (who is - or at least was - also one of the three owners of ESP) and the move back to California. I kind of lose the timeline a bit after the move to Dallas in 1984.
...">Schecter Van Nuys Serial Numbers(30.03.2019)About 10 years ago, I got a call from my favorite guitar shop to let me know they had an unusual instrument I might be interested in. They thought it might be a Schecter parts-o-caster, but weren't sure. It smelled like the real deal to me, and it played like buttah, so I plunked down my $300 and walked out the door with her. Flash forward 10 years, and I finally got the spare time to take the beast apart. In addition to the clearly visible Schecter external components (bridge, neck PU, black/aluminum pickguard), the two-piece mahogany body was branded with the Schecter logo in the neck PU cavity, and the mystery-wood neck was similarly branded where the sun don't shine.
Here's the mystery, though: there are no serial/model numbers in the heel joint of the body, and the serial/model numbers in the neck are unknown to me. They also turned out to be unknown to Kelly Cash, a prominent Dallas-area guitar wizard and former early-80s Schecter employee.
Apr 21, 2014 Assembled By Rudy's Music Stop in NY, Pre Dream Machine.Body one piece KOA, One piece SHEDUA neck, Two Monstertone pickups and brass.
While he said he was certain the guitar was '90% Schecter' (the 'wrong' bits: 1970s Fender tuning keys, mystery lead PU, mystery volume/tone control panel), he was flummoxed by the model numbers that there were on the neck, and that there weren't in the body. His best guess was that it was a '76-'79 guitar made up mostly of extremely early Schecter parts, possibly pre-dating their catalog and its numbering system. I'm going to try to post some pics in the hope that one of you Schecter nerds can help ID what I've got here. I really appreciate it!
HVB Links to images. The neck appears to be pau ferro. The number is its serial number, and those were sequential. The missing number would've been the wood code, and these omissions seemed to happen, years into Van Nuys production.
According to early-Schecter employee (and TGP member), Brad Hodges, ' Dave made his first three Schecter necks by hand for the 1977 Anaheim NAMM show. It took almost two years after that to produce the first Schecter production necks!'
Shevelev matematika dlya doshkoljnikov. For pre-school age. The novel 'Cave lion' as his first novel, 'the prehistoric series' 'Struggle for fire', takes readers from the stone age, when primitive people were forced to fight for survival. You know the best stories about the Buttermilk of the novels 'Uncle Fyodor, dog and cat', 'Winter in Prostokvashino', 'uncle Fedor's Aunt' and 'Favorite girl uncle Fedor' collected in this great book! So many events happening every day! Joseph roney-Senior (1856-1940), the author of many fiction and 'prehistoric' novels and stories, is a classic of French literature, a writer with a world name.
His threads on Van Nuys Schecter history are remarkably detailed, and are a definitive resource. Great deal, by the way!! Hey guys, sorry to catch thread late but what you have here is: a hodge podge of: pre 79 genuine schecter body: they didnt have numbers in those years in neck pocket, and this one has EARLY features probably circa 1977, yet surprised to see it may be an OFFSET 2 piece body that would be really low end for schecter even back then. Circa 1980 genuine schecter neck (2xxx serial) neck plate: NON schecter tuners: non schecter pickguard: schecter possibly control plate: non schecter neck pup: schecter bridge pup: non schecter bridge: schecter it's not surprising to find such parts guitars, it was a wild 'grab and make yourself a guitar' era. Still a very cool guitar, and worth much more than $300 cheers disclamer: I collect schecter van nuys guitars, and actively seek to buy them when possible, however that does not make me the definite expert, but I have seen and owned many many.
It's hard to tell with Schecters from that era - it looks legit from the Dallas era which was circa 1984-1987ish. I'm going by the 22-fret neck; the Van Nuys era were all 21-fret necks per Tom Anderson (who was a Schecter empolyee from 1977-1984). The early Dallas era used both 21 and 22 fret necks so it could be from any time during the Dallas era.
Schecter went out of business sometime in 1987-1988; it was around the time they got a cease and desist letter from Fender to stop using their headstock shapes. Their current owners bought the name and brought the company back to California, and they use that more generic headstock shape. Click to expand.Interesting - wouldn't that make it post-Dallas, or did the Dallas production linger on a year or so later than I thought? I was thinking the Dallas production was done by 1987 and they never wound up using the Fender headstock shapes post-Dallas. I've done a bit of research on these, but I have never really gotten good info on the end of Dallas production and the sale to the current owner (who is - or at least was - also one of the three owners of ESP) and the move back to California.
I kind of lose the timeline a bit after the move to Dallas in 1984. Interesting - wouldn't that make it post-Dallas, or did the Dallas production linger on a year or so later than I thought? I was thinking the Dallas production was done by 1987 and they never wound up using the Fender headstock shapes post-Dallas. I've done a bit of research on these, but I have never really gotten good info on the end of Dallas production and the sale to the current owner (who is - or at least was - also one of the three owners of ESP) and the move back to California. I kind of lose the timeline a bit after the move to Dallas in 1984.
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