I sold my Ibanez RG7421 as soon as I got my Warmoth seven-string built, because the Ibanez had a "Wizard" neck and I simply play better with more meat in my fist. During my 16-month long "Year of Chords" I was drawn more and more to the seven, because they're like, better for that? Alas, the Warmoth has a pretty darn thin neck too, the sevens only come in one size. So, I found out that among the possible, the Schecters had a meaty, manly neck. Then, I found out that the first good Schecter sevens, the C-7+, were made in Korea in 1999. I had a Korean DeArmond M75-T, made in 1999, that had really good wood, pickups, whammy and frets, but (merely) cheap tuners... I traded that DeArmond as part of the booty for Gleamo's body, but anyway:
This is a fine piece of meat too, and even the tuners are good. The fretwork is Schecter's usually-impeccable, Fender-beating quality. Fender and Gibson wander around asking "What can we do to regain market share from Schecter, Ibanez and ESP?" :icon_scratch: Hey, guys - FINISH BUILDING YOUR GUITARS - including frets! Duh. It plays really well, though I'm still dialing it in - I had to steel-wool the frets, this really looks like a guitar that hung on the music store's wall for a decade without being touched. It has "Duncan-designed" pickups, which do, indeed, pick up. I don't switch things willy-nilly, but since it's pretty bassy ("toothless" might be another adjective) I'm most inclined to go to 1 meg pots and a .015 capacitor first, if only to get the tone control to have more than two settings - on & mud. For $300, I don't mind a little tweaking. :hello2:
You can see it's got a real maple top from careful examination of the switch & control insets (well I can), not just veneer, and a great maple neck - did I mention "meaty" yet...
The Year of Chords might've just got an extension. It's pretty cute too, I always though the "SuperStratPaulocaster look" to be kinda suspect, but it had what I wanted, dammit - big, maple, set, seven-string neck; the twinklies are just extra. Honest. :toothy12: For historically-accidental reasons, the only two possible uses for seven strings seem to be howling, having-sex-with-body-parts death metal, and sensitive fingerpicked jazz; I guess I'll have to take a stand here, soon. :icon_scratch: Where do you get body parts*....
*(i'm pretty sure supermarket chicken don't count.....)
This is a fine piece of meat too, and even the tuners are good. The fretwork is Schecter's usually-impeccable, Fender-beating quality. Fender and Gibson wander around asking "What can we do to regain market share from Schecter, Ibanez and ESP?" :icon_scratch: Hey, guys - FINISH BUILDING YOUR GUITARS - including frets! Duh. It plays really well, though I'm still dialing it in - I had to steel-wool the frets, this really looks like a guitar that hung on the music store's wall for a decade without being touched. It has "Duncan-designed" pickups, which do, indeed, pick up. I don't switch things willy-nilly, but since it's pretty bassy ("toothless" might be another adjective) I'm most inclined to go to 1 meg pots and a .015 capacitor first, if only to get the tone control to have more than two settings - on & mud. For $300, I don't mind a little tweaking. :hello2:
You can see it's got a real maple top from careful examination of the switch & control insets (well I can), not just veneer, and a great maple neck - did I mention "meaty" yet...
The Year of Chords might've just got an extension. It's pretty cute too, I always though the "SuperStratPaulocaster look" to be kinda suspect, but it had what I wanted, dammit - big, maple, set, seven-string neck; the twinklies are just extra. Honest. :toothy12: For historically-accidental reasons, the only two possible uses for seven strings seem to be howling, having-sex-with-body-parts death metal, and sensitive fingerpicked jazz; I guess I'll have to take a stand here, soon. :icon_scratch: Where do you get body parts*....
*(i'm pretty sure supermarket chicken don't count.....)
