the BEST Tom Anderson I have ever played was last nite......

[Bobby D]

.......and it is a SCHECTER :eek:

1981 ex-Dire Straits Tom Anderson made Schecter strat.

maple neck that really reminds me of my old '58 strat.

monstertone pickups and switching assembly.

walnut body with custom hot rod flames paint job.

owned by amp designer/guru George Sholtz.

this guitar is quite possibly one of the best maple neck strats i have ever player......vintage, custom shop, whatever.......it is simply breathtaking.

offered George my '69 strat ON THE SPOT for this guitar, but he just laughed at me :(

anyone else got any of these EARLY schecter tom anderson era guitars??? wow......

no pics, just video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfBEksxezUM

[Droptop]

The old Schecters are magic.

[Bobby D]

here's a pic of it, i made George let me play it again tonite.

how y'all like THAT??? :thud

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y32/lvxnova/tigerstrat2.jpg

[Shark Diver]

Sweet! And the amp/Guitar arecool as well. :rockin

[Bobby D]

Sweet! And the amp/Guitar arecool as well. :rockin

i have never played a better schecter than that one. mark knopfler has good taste. he probably let that one go because the finish is so wild......

but it still has his DNA and tone all up in it. BEAUTIFUL sounding guitar....

[Shark Diver]

i have never played a better schecter than that one. mark knopfler has good taste. he probably let that one go because the finish is so wild......

but it still has his DNA and tone all up in it. BEAUTIFUL sounding guitar....

Must be cool just to be able to play it.

[Bobby D]

Must be cool just to be able to play it.

yeah....funny thing is, i have been friend with george for a decade.

never knew he had such insane guitars, it was always about AMPS when i was there.

one nite, he started pulling out cases.....a schecter from pete townshend....a rick 12 string that belonged to George Terry and was on "461 Ocean Blvd" with clapton....vintage 335.....strats, teles, les pauls, SGs......it's was MIND BLOWING.


but the schecter KILLS me. imagine a REALLY good 57/58 maple neck strat, but one that has been "fluffed and buffed" by someone like Suhr, Tyler, or Sadowky. radius is flatter, better frets, complete hot rod playability.

it's no wonder Tom Anderson went on to be so successful.....these early Tom built Schecters are fantastic guitars.:rockin

[Bobbyoso]

I've got 2 1/2 of them. A 79 Schecter strat with a solid pau ferro neck and two piece paduak body, S/S/H all tapped, hardtail, with the 1/4 inch polepieces. When you play it unplugged you already know it's one of the best instruments you'll ever touch. Plugged in, it's a magic carpet. And it is ridiculously stable. Never touched the truss rod in 30 years, it stays in tune till the strings go south. All bone stock, except I wore out the frets, and had a great local luthier put in SS frets about a year ago. If I had to survive with one guitar the rest of my life, after the trauma of having to make such a decision subsided :dunno, I'd probably pick this one.

The other one is a early 80s tele, I believe it was later named the PT (remember seeing Townshend playing its sister on the "Eminence Front" video years later). Bought this one at Rudy's in the early 80s. Mine's white-well, now more french vanilla--thick rosewood slab board on a quartersawn maple neck, H/H with the pull pots to make 'em singles, also bone stock except for another SS fretjob when I wore this one down too. Not a trad Tele, but it is extremely versatile, sounds as good as any guitar I have ever heard live or recorded, and is as bombproof stable as the Schecter strat. This one's also never had nor needed the trussrod touched--well, unless the luthier did it during the refret.

The "1/2" is a frankenstrat beater I built in '77 with a two piece mahogany body and maple neck, using a black anodized Schecter pickguard assembly I bought new in '76 with the S/S/S tapped 1/4" polepiece stock pups. Just wired it up, and it became my no. 1, in front of a museum-grade '73 L-5S, and a really nice couple of early 60s LPs and 175s. No question, simply a better tool for me.

Maybe it was partly the 25 1/2" scale (which I've been partial to ever since), but tonally it was head and shoulders above the Gibsons for me. And having owned ~20 guitars between '64 and '78, it was also the first really spot-on intoned and stable tuning platform I'd ever played on. What a revelation!

Anyway, even though the homebuilt "mongrel" was rougher around the edges than my two full-up Schecters, it was and is a great, great playing and sounding guitar, and made me extremely motivated to get the other two. The tone and playability of all three is at an extremely high level.

At this point, I've managed to play a fairly large subset of the best marques, owned a lot of them, sold a lot of them too, including the Pauls--kept the L-5S, however :-).

The Anderson-era Schecters (for me) are as good as guitars get. I've got more expensive guitars, and fancier ones. No better ones, though.

[Bobby D]

yes indeed ^^^ to the above post.

george also has a PT tele that is AMAZING.....didn't get photos, but i have some video of it. AMAZING tele.

tom anderson's early work with schecter is REALLY amazing. gonna keep my eye out for these when they pop up for sale....

[Randy]

here's a pic of it, i made George let me play it again tonite.

how y'all like THAT??? :thud

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y32/lvxnova/tigerstrat2.jpg


I have to admit, you're much better looking then I would have guessed.... who knew :dunno

[Bobby D]

I have to admit, you're much better looking then I would have guessed.... who knew :dunno

:roll:roll:roll

i'm such a gear geek, the guitar interests me more than the beautiful girl:phones

[HelloKittyHawk!]

[QUOTE=Bobbyoso;6319687]I've got 2 1/2 of them.

Any photos?

Please.

[franksguitar]

http://c1.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images02/108/l_c63cd1ba56bb4f50bafb4ac9071e7e50.jpg Your guitar is way cool. Here's my pre-production 1988 Tom Anderson custom made just after he left Schecter with Fender style headstock. Great axes.

[Mr Graphic]

http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y280/DAT12/Misc%20Stratocaster%20Guitars/14735c26.jpg http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y280/DAT12/Misc%20Stratocaster%20Guitars/f1221955.jpg I miss this one...

[Bobby D]

mr. graphic, thats amazing!!!! :beer

[HelloKittyHawk!]

[QUOTE=Mr Graphic;643850 I miss this one...[/QUOTE]

Made by Tom Anderson, himself, as I understand it.

The guy who ended up with this has an amazing Schecter/related California Custom Collection.

[Mr Graphic]

http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y280/DAT12/Misc%20Stratocaster%20Guitars/ee405cf7.jpg http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y280/DAT12/Misc%20Stratocaster%20Guitars/15835ae9.jpg The neck/body was cut by Tom, assembled by George Bradfute. Prior owner was Webb Wilder.

[Stefan S]

Amazing guitar!!!:drool

[HelloKittyHawk!]

Hmmm... the guitar, to which I was referring, has an identical body (and history, although I didn't know about the Webb Wilder part), but the neck is not stained or painted, and it has Kluson Gibson-style tulip tuners. Maybe the neck was swapped.

Did you sell it to a guy in Vermont?

[HHB]

here's mine I think it's an 83

http://c4.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/21/l_ec298f8c15657d0fa02e878daabc019f.jpg

[J.T. Guitar]

I played a gig a couple weeks ago... played only my T/A HSS Drop-Top. Didn't bring a tuner, didn't have to touch my tuners all night long, even under lights. I'm lucky enough to have several amazing guitars. No guitar I have ever had are as stable as Tom's. Amazing!

[Mr Graphic]

Hmmm... the guitar, to which I was referring, has an identical body (and history, although I didn't know about the Webb Wilder part), but the neck is not stained or painted, and it has Kluson Gibson-style tulip tuners. Maybe the neck was swapped.

Did you sell it to a guy in Vermont?

Same guitar, I had several necks that I used also. I did sell to a guy in Vermont. Here's my old Goldtop before being refinned...http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y280/DAT12/Misc%20Stratocaster%20Guitars/1bbcacd2.jpg http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y280/DAT12/Misc%20Stratocaster%20Guitars/a2b1da00.jpg

[Mr Graphic]

I was thrilled to find this one...http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y280/DAT12/Misc%20Stratocaster%20Guitars/b9548631.jpg http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y280/DAT12/Misc%20Stratocaster%20Guitars/37be4bbe.jpg

[Mr Graphic]

mr. graphic, thats amazing!!!! :beer Seems that all these Anderson era Schecter's are great instruments.

[Monster Plexi]

Mr. Graphic,

What model is that schecter tele-paul style schecter guitar?

Was it a commercially available model?

What year was it made? Very cool!

[HelloKittyHawk!]

Nice quilted Tele.

If there are any others, please post them, too!

The goldtop wasn't the sunburst flametop, pre-refin', was it?! The exposed wood on the goldtop's worn area looks too dark for maple.

By the way, one week after I bought that chromed Schecter 'guard from you, I got an identical one on eBay for $10.50!! Boy, they're heavy!

[OldSchool]

I truley agree Tom Anderson is the greatest living guitar builder at this time. That guitar reminds me too much of the Corvette Summer Car but it did sound fantasic! He said $4000 in the early 80's!? I can only imagine how much its worth now. You could have bought a Bevy of Vintage guitars back in 1980 with $4000!!:drool