Schecter was still using S and T headstocks, which Fender had allowed when they were a parts company. All guitars have the "Lawsuit" peg heads (two small marks on back of headstocks). Eventually, the T-style guitar became known as the "Saturn", and the company's S-style guitar became known as the "Mercury". Although Townshend never endorsed this model, it was known unofficially as the "Pete Townshend model". The most popular of these guitars was a T-style guitar similar to those that Pete Townshend played. At the 1984 winter NAMM show, Schecter introduced twelve new guitars and basses. The investors moved the company to Dallas, Texas, where they produced above-par quality guitars using both imported parts and Schecter parts under the Schecter name for less than five years. That year, the company was purchased by a group of Texas investors who wanted to build upon Schecter's reputation for quality. Texan ownership and mass production, 1983–1987īy 1983, Schecter 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.Schecter guitars and parts have been used by, among others, Pete Townshend, Mark Knopfler, Ritchie Blackmore, Chris Poland, Synyster Gates, Richard Patrick, Jinxx, Jake Pitts Tommy Victor, Dan Donegan, Robin Zander, and Shaun Morgan. In 1979, Schecter offered, for the first time, its own fully assembled electric guitars. By the late 1970s Schecter offered more than 400 guitar parts, but did not offer any finished instruments. Eventually, Schecter began supplying parts to notable guitar manufacturers and to Robert Talbot repair shops. 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.
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