Need help valuing this 80's Schecter PT (Saturn?) Tele
Thank you for the add. I love finding passionate nerds like myself haha
I think I bought this guitar in 1986 when I was living in Houston.
The first thing I did when I bought it was take off the locking tremolo system and replaced it with a simple Badass. I wish I still had it but alas ....................
I believe it to be - based on info I got from people on the tdpri.com forum
(https://www.tdpri.com/threads/help-dating-this-80s-schecter-tele.1009629/)*
"a Dallas-era Schecter with the 22-fret neck and having had their locking trem system (made for them by Schaller) as the original bridge so that makes it roughly late 1984-1987-ish when Fender revoked their license for the headstock shapes and hit them with a C&D, forcing Schecter to change the headstock shape. For what it's worth (given all the hubub about C&Ds thanks to Gibson vs. Kiesel, and Kiesel vs. Harley Benton) this was the correct thing to do; Schecter had been granted a license to use the headstock shapes for replacement parts (like what Warmoth and the other parts companies have), but Schecter switched their focus to building production guitars instead of supplying replacement parts."
Currently, it has a '75 Fullerton Herbie Gastelum Strat neck on it and is one of the most unique and groovy guitars I have ever had but - because I don't play it very often and would like to thin the herd, so I am looking for help in assessing it's value.
Thank you in advance,
E.J.
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*additional notes from the TDPRI forum
"It's my understanding that these are probably a mixture of parts brought from Van Nuys and parts made in Japan by Schecter Japan (which was a joint venture there). Per Tom Anderson they didn't make any 22-fret necks in the USA; they were all MIJ. But of course Tom left Schecter when they moved to Dallas in late 1984."
"It's an overlap - the 22-fret models were called the Saturn also. The name "PT" didn't come about until after the company was sold to the current owner and they moved back to California, which was circa 1988.
Plus even though they used MIJ bodies and necks they were assembling in the USA in Dallas; the pickups look like the covered SuperRocks."