Schecter Guitar Research, commonly known simply as Schecter, is an American guitar manufacturer. In 1976, David Schecter opened Schecter Guitar Research, a repair shop in Van Nuys, California.
The modest repair shop manufactured replacement guitar necks and bodies, complete pickup assemblies, bridges, pickguards, tuners, knobs, potentiometers, and miscellaneous other guitar parts.
By the late 1970s Schecter offered more than 400 guitar parts, but did not offer any finished instruments. In 1979, Schecter offered, for the first time, its own fully-assembled electric guitars.
These guitars were custom shop models based on Fender designs. They were considered to be very high quality and very expensive, and were sold only by twenty retailers across the United States.
Today, the company mass-produces its own line of electric guitars, bass guitars, and steel-string acoustic guitars.
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Heres a little history of some popular Vintage Fender Bass Guitars. Fender introduced the Precision Bass (P-Bass) in 1951. The P-Bass was the first electric bass and was a smash hit. The Precision bass included a Slab double cut away ash body, a single coil pickup, one piece 34" neck (Maple). The early P-Bass also featured large Kluson tuning machines heads which were later replaced by conventional geared tuning machines.
In 1957 the pickup was upgraded to a split double coil pickup and a wider head stock was added. The Fender Jazz Bass was introduced in 1960. The Fender Jazz Bass was designed to provide a mellower tone and featured 2 pickups and a 34" neck. The fingerboard was tapered and narrower than the Precision bass and the body was Alder rather than Ash.
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Vintage Fender Electric Guitars - Heres the line of guitars that all the other Electric Guitars Famous. Although Fender was not the first to manufacture an electric guitar they did make it popular. Heres a little history of Fender Guitars...
Fender offered the first mass-produced solid-body Spanish-style electric guitar, the Telecaster; the first mass-produced electric bass, the Precision Bass (P-Bass); and popular Stratocaster (Strat) guitar. While Fender was not the first to manufacture electric guitars, as other companies and luthiers had produced electric guitars since the late 1920s, none was as commercially successful as Fender's.
Furthermore, while nearly all other electric guitars then were either hollow-body guitars or more specialized instruments such as Rickenbacker's solid-body Hawaiian guitars, Fender had created versatile solid-body electric guitars. These guitars were and still are popular for musicians in a variety of genres.
The core of the Fender instrument line — the Telecaster, Stratocaster, Precision Bass and Jazz Bass, remain largely unchanged from the 1950s and 1960s originals (Roberts, Jim 2003 American Basses: A Illustrated History).
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Schecter Guitar Research, commonly known simply as Schecter, is an American guitar manufacturer. In 1976, David Schecter opened Schecter Guitar Research, a repair shop in Van Nuys, California.
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