Texan ownership and mass production, 1983–1987īy 1983, had reached its custom shop production limit and could no longer meet demand. They were considered very high quality and very expensive, and were sold only by twenty retailers across the United States. In 1979, Schecter offered, for the first time, its own fully assembled electric guitars. The shop manufactured replacement guitar necks and bodies, complete pickup assemblies, bridges, pickguards, tuners, knobs, potentiometers, and miscellaneous other guitar parts. In 1976, David Schecter opened Schecter Guitar Research, a repair shop in Van Nuys, California. Schecter Custom Guitars are made in Burbank, California with the Diamond Series made in Korea.
[The company was sold in early 80s and moved to Dallas, Texas.īy 1988 it moved back to California and in 1989 it was purchased by its current owner Hisatake Shibuya.
Schecter was established as a component manufacturer in California in 1976 by four partners – David Schecter’s sounded the best.
