Circa 2006 I became interested in seven string guitars. Not knowing much about the subject I did some web research and found that for jazz guitars I would have to spend more money than I paid for my last car. Then I saw this Schecter in a Musicians Friend catalog.
The first thing I noticed when I unpacked it was that it is very well made. Everything fits, nothing wiggles or is lose. Top notch fret work. It also wears very well – good balance.
I also realized that I needed a little pick guard to rest my pinky when flat picking Ok, that wasn’t hard to build.
The two major problems for me with this instrument are that it sounds a bit ‘peculiar’. There is not as much bottom. Doesn’t sound as full as I’d expect. I have read that is because this instrument has 24 frets – two full octaves per string. And all positions are usuable, great neck! But the 24 frets require that the neck pickup is ‘off’ from the sweet spot and loses some fundamentals of the strings (or something like that). The other, bigger problem for me, is that the neck is not much wider than a six string neck and therefore the strings are very close together. Some chord voicings are all but impossible because my fingers are too fat. Also using a pick or finger picking is greatly affected, although with more practice I could work around that.
But this is still a great guitar to try the world of seven strings.