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jgregerjgreger Posts: 6
edited September 2006 in Musicians and Gearheads
anyoe know where i can pick up a guitar similiar to ed's 96 schecter tele?
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  • miskinmiskin Posts: 278
    id try internet auction sites if i were you. welcome to the board by the way
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  • HailHailVitalogyHailHailVitalogy Posts: 5,205
    It's an original Schecter from the 80's, you can find them on ebay every once in a while
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  • He_Who_ForgetsHe_Who_Forgets Posts: 200
    HailHailVitalogy wrote:
    It's an original Schecter from the 80's, you can find them on ebay every once in a while

    not the goldtop he's playing in svt.
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  • HailHailVitalogyHailHailVitalogy Posts: 5,205
    He_Who_Forgets wrote:
    not the goldtop he's playing in svt.

    He didn't say that he was looking for the goldtop
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  • jgregerjgreger Posts: 6
    HailHailVitalogy wrote:
    He didn't say that he was looking for the goldtop


    Well I’m looking for basically that body style. I know I can get a Fender Tele but they don’t look exactly the same. There is a metal piece below the strings which looks odd IMO. Pardon me but I’m not experienced with guitars and amps and the related terminology. Also what are your opinions between Fender and Schecter, between strats and tele’s. I’m sure it mostly personal preference right? The reason why I ask is because I am taking guitar lessons soon and want to buy a guitar of reasonable quality and at a good price.
  • Champagne BreakfastChampagne Breakfast Posts: 1,526
    Schecter still makes a model similar to ed's. I got mine about 2 years ago. Its called a Schecter PT Tele. (Pete Townsend). It looks very similar but its a bit cheaper. I love it. I think it sounds cooler than it looks. Check their website.
    I wish Ed still played that guitar, both of his were killer.
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  • keeponrockinkeeponrockin Posts: 7,446
    Ya, Shecter PT, you can get them easily. There not like Ed's though.
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  • samquigleysamquigley Posts: 220
    Ed's black one was given to him by Pete Townshend (PT), was custom made by Roger Giffin and is from the eighties, when Schecter was still just a parts company. The goldtop was a later model, presumably ordered from the Schecter Custom Shop by Ed. Schecter are no longer permitted to use the headstock shape you see on Ed's guitars, as it's a Fender registered trademark.
  • Pacomc79Pacomc79 Posts: 9,404
    gre2974 wrote:
    Well I’m looking for basically that body style. I know I can get a Fender Tele but they don’t look exactly the same. There is a metal piece below the strings which looks odd IMO. Pardon me but I’m not experienced with guitars and amps and the related terminology. Also what are your opinions between Fender and Schecter, between strats and tele’s. I’m sure it mostly personal preference right? The reason why I ask is because I am taking guitar lessons soon and want to buy a guitar of reasonable quality and at a good price.


    Schecter is a custom shop they used to be a parts company, it's where some other custom builders like Tom Anderson (who designed the original pickups in that guitar) got their start. Ed's guitar has Seymour Duncan pickups, (a fairly common modification)

    I LOVE Fender. I am a tremendous fan, but you want a Schecter and they offer very nice guitars and an excellent bang for the buck.

    Internet Auctions and garage sales are your best bet to find one exactly like Eds, unless you use the Schecter custom shop, which will cost you plenty.

    Schecter does offer a diamond series PT which is similar and they even have a version with seymour duncans already added, I've played it and it's excellent. That's a good way to go. An original might run you 800 bucks or so generally the super rock pickups are still in there, a used PT Diamond Series black jack will be substantially cheaper at maybe 400 or less. If you have to have that headstock, you can always get warmoth who are officially licensed by Fender to build you one and have a luthier put it on, but that's down the road I'm sure.


    Schecter Diamond Series are made in Korea and they are of very good quality and the price is very nice. Now all you need is a Dave Reeves Hiwatt Stack. :D

    DR504 - good luck with that.

    after you find some prices and recover from the shock, come back. We'll find you a 50 watt Sovtek and a decent 4x12 cabinet and get you close.

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  • jgregerjgreger Posts: 6
    Thanks for all you help you have been very informative.
  • Milhouse VanHoutenMilhouse VanHouten Posts: 755
    those things sound amazing, at least ed's did on the 2000 tour. i remember the fingerpicked intro to "betterman" sounding particularly good. the pt's sound had the perfect combination of meaty thickitude and an almost glassy top end "shhhlang" sound. humbuckers in a fender-scale guitar usually sound pretty neat.

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  • Drop the LeashDrop the Leash Posts: 220
    biffhardon wrote:
    Ed's black one was given to him by Pete Townshend (PT), was custom made by Roger Giffin and is from the eighties, when Schecter was still just a parts company. The goldtop was a later model, presumably ordered from the Schecter Custom Shop by Ed. Schecter are no longer permitted to use the headstock shape you see on Ed's guitars, as it's a Fender registered trademark.


    it looks custom because of that dead black color it is and am i wrong or is it a black fret board? i didnt think fender made one
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