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Schecter E-1 Custom Special Edition Electric Guitar - Vintage Sunburst

Solidbody Electric Guitar with Mahogany Body, Maple Top, Mahogany Neck, Ebony Fingerboard, and 2 Humbucking Pickups - Vintage Sunburst
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Familiar Design, High-performance Upgrades

The Schecter E-1 Custom Special Edition solidbody gives you the look of a classic with a modern voice and features that offer a wider tonal range and an incredible playing experience. The E-1 Custom Special Edition is built from the tonewood combination of mahogany and figured maple for their blend of warmth and attack. A set of Schecter USA Custom Shop humbuckers are built to punish the front of your amp. And appointments like coil splitting, a Graph Tech nut, and locking tuners round out the E-1 Custom Special Edition's feature set.

Iconic hard rock construction

The core of the Schecter E-1 Custom Special Edition electric guitar is the mahogany and maple, set-neck design that has found a home with countless rock and metal guitarists worldwide. The tonewood combination offers a sound that has plenty of warmth and bark, but the maple delivers long sustain and a quick attack. You'll notice harmonics and transients explode from the ebony fretboard. But Schecter is far from copying an old design. Thanks to its sharp lines and thin "C" neck profile, the E-1 Custom Special Edition still has a look and feel all its own.

Hot-rodded humbuckers

You'll love the clear but full-bodied tone of the Schecter USA Pasadena humbucker in the E-1 Custom Special Edition's neck position. The Pasadena is great at achieving all of the warmth and top-end detail of great vintage-era PAFs. The Schecter USA Sunset Strip bridge humbucker is a whole other story. This ceramic pickup delivers a huge amount of output, sustain, and dynamics to pull the most gain and harmonic content from your amplifier possible. The two pickups mate perfectly to get a broad range of sounds.

Touches for modern performance

Despite some of its vintage appointments, the E-1 Custom Special Edition is every bit a modern electric guitar. Features like its Schecter locking tuners offer a level of tuning stability not matched by many older models of guitars. A Graph Tech XL Ivory TUSQ nut keeps the string from binding and offers great vibration transfer to the guitar's neck. And the Schecter USA humbuckers can be coil split via a push-pull tone pot to access single-coil sounds. Players at Sweetwater are really impressed with how well Schecter blended the best features of vintage and modern designs in the E-1 Custom Special Edition.

Schecter E-1 Custom Special Edition Single-cutaway Electric Guitar Features:

  • Classic guitar construction with modern design and features
  • Tried-and-true mahogany/maple wood combination
  • Schecter USA pickups are powerful and nuanced
  • Push-pull knob offers coil splitting options
  • Schecter locking tuners keep you in tune
  • Quality TonePros bridge and tailpiece

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Tech Specs

  • General
  • Number of Strings 6
  • Left-/Right-handed Right-handed
  • Body
  • Body Type Solidbody
  • Body Shape E-1
  • Body Material Mahogany
  • Top Material Quilted Maple
  • Body Finish Gloss
  • Color Vintage Sunburst
  • Neck
  • Neck Material 3-piece Mahogany
  • Neck Shape Thin C
  • Neck Joint Set Neck
  • Radius 12"-16" compound
  • Fingerboard Material Ebony
  • Fingerboard Inlay Mother-of-Pearl Blocks
  • Number of Frets 22, Extra Jumbo
  • Scale Length 24.75"
  • Nut Width 1.653"
  • Nut Material Graph Tech XL Ivory Tusq
  • Hardware
  • Bridge/Tailpiece TonePros T3BT TOM & T1Z Tailpiece
  • Tuners Schecter locking
  • Electronics
  • Neck Pickup Schecter USA Pasadena humbucker
  • Bridge Pickup Schecter USA Sunset Strip humbucker
  • Controls 1 x master volume, 1 x master tone (push/pull)
  • Switching 3-way toggle pickup switch
  • Miscellaneous
  • Strings Ernie Ball, .010-.046
  • Case/Gig Bag Sold Separately
  • Manufacturer Part Number: 3105

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Rated 5/5

Great Value! Stuffed with Features! Heavy to mellow tones! Q_U_A_L_I_T_Y!

The Schecter E-1 Custom "Special Edition VSB" - Vintage Sunburst - is an excellent value! The quality of this South Korean constructed guitar is extremely high - I could detect no significant flaws in fit, finish, or construction. There are dark black spots up and down the ebony fingerboard. My understanding is that this is a natural occurrence and isn't a filler or defect but I don't have a definitive answer as to exactly what these black spots are. The consensus is that it is a naturally occurring thing with some ebony boards but isn't encountered all that often. That being said, the fingerboard is smooth and the spots cannot be felt.
The guitar played easily right out of the box with what I call a "standard" setup. A few minutes with some tools and I had the action low (2/64" & 2.5/64") with no trace of a buzz. The neck was dead straight so I added a little relief via the two-way truss rod. Neck relief is necessary if you really want to get the action as low as possible. I had to provide the allen wrenches to adjust the TonePros bridge and tailpiece because they were not included with my guitar. No case or gigbag. The TKL 4732 gig bag works perfectly.
My guitar is a brand new 2020 copy. It's absolutely loaded with desirable features like the TonePros, Schecter stamped locking tuners, Schecter USA Custom Shop pickups, push/pull tone knob for single coil jangle, compound 3 piece mahogany neck radius (12" to 16"), previously mentioned ebony fingerboard, TUSQ nut, mother of pearl block inlays, white single ply neck binding and SEVEN layers of alternating thin white/black binding topped off with a thicker white protective layer. I don't know if the quilt maple top has any thickness to it or if it's a veneer. It appears to be a two piece Mahogany body.
Be prepared to adjust your fretting hand grip if you're not used to X-Jumbo frets. You can easily play out of tune with a heavy squeeze. I had to soften my grip to play open chords in tune but this may not be an issue for you if you're accustomed to tall wide frets.
My copy weighs in at 9.8 pounds. The weight is nicely distributed and the guitar is very well balanced when on a strap. The body gets thin at the waist (about 1") due to a belly carve that feels great.
Now about the tone: The Sunset Strip/Pasadena pickups are fantastic. The Pasadena in the neck has a dc resistance of 8.4K and the bridge Sunset Strip reads 12.6K. This places them both in the slightly hot PAF category. There's a lot of change with just a little movement of the VOLUME knob. The TONE control works from 1 to about 3 then has a flat response up until 10. Rolling back the volume just a tad gives a hard rock riffing tone and that little roll-up from 8 to 10 saturates the amp significantly more (a Vox AC30S1 in my case) for ringing, singing lead tones. This guitar really sustains a note even with no pedals. The Red Rox by Dawner Prince paired up with a Barber Tone Press worked particularly well but the Friedman Dirty Shirley and Fulltone OCD pedals also sounded killer. I also love the grippy volume and tone knobs.
Check this: you could bring this guitar to a blues jam and sonically fit right in because the tapped (or split?) pickup tone available via the push/pull tone knob is to die for. You can go from roaring beast to delicate flower with the pull of a knob. This guitar is far from being a one-trick pony.
Don't hesitate due to quality or tone concerns - this guitar is excellent and can cover a lot of tonal ground.
Rated 5/5

A great guitar

My first experience with Schecter was I think last year when I bought a van nuys , oh my , I was hooked , so I decided to try this guitar and again they hit a home run with this thing , I put a pair of phat cats by Seymour Duncan in it , and between the two I finally hit that clear , old school type tone , thank you Schecter for building a great guitars , and thanks to my sales guy Geoff
Rated 5/5

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Money well spent. $ with the custom hard case. Pick ups capable of dialing in any tone from old school blues,grinding, or blistering hot tones and beautiful cleans. Guitar feels perfectly balanced standing up or sitting. Setup great from Sweetwater. The guitar is pure class with looks to match.
Music background: Avid hobbyist and jammer
Rated 5/5

Wonderful Guitar

I bought the E-1 when it first came out 6 or 7 years ago, maybe 8, whatever. This guitar is worth every penny. Sounds fantastic and is tuff as nails. Pinch harmonics from hell, and cleans of the gods. My only gripe is the push pull pot. If I wanted a single coil I would have bought one. That is just me though. This guitar makes my Gibson Les Paul feel like a cheap toy. I recommend this guitar to anyone. Shout out to Nich my sales guy.
Rated 5/5

Wonderful Guitar

I bought the E-1 when it first came out 6 or 7 years ago, maybe 8, whatever. This guitar is worth every penny. Sounds fantastic and is tuff as nails. Pinch harmonics from hell, and cleans of the gods. My only gripe is the push pull pot. If I wanted a single coil I would have bought one. That is just me though. This guitar makes my Gibson Les Paul feel like a cheap toy. I recommend this guitar to anyone. Shout out to Nich my sales guy.
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