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Schecter PT Special Electric Guitar - Purple Burst

Solidbody Electric Guitar with Swamp Ash Body, Maple Neck, Rosewood Fingerboard, 1 Single-coil Pickup, and 1 P-90-style Pickup - Purple Burst
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T-style Guitar with Snarling Vintage Tone

If you're spying a vintage-flavored electric guitar with undeniable style and snarling tone, then you must plug a Schecter PT Special into your favorite amplifier. Built from a solid slab of swamp ash, this T-style axe simply bleeds harmonic resonance, while a custom set of Diamond pickups serve up classic, muscular-sounding tones by the truckload. You also get a push-pull that toggles between series and parallel pickup wiring, providing access to a multitude of mind-bending tones. The easy playability of the PT Special’s satin-finished, rosewood-capped maple neck and top-shelf hardware, including Grover Vintage tuners, put the finishing touches on the PT Special.

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Stunning PT-style construction

The PT is one of Schecter's most identifiable models. Since its beginning in the hands of Pete Townshend, the PT has been a dyed-in-the-wool rocker while tipping its hat to a retro platform. The PT Special’s swamp ash body yields a balanced, musical blend of brightness, warmth, and harmonic-soaked midrange. The guitarists here at Sweetwater really dig the PT Special — it’s a top-shelf vintage-inspired electric guitar.

Two custom pickups, tons of amazing tones

Schecter didn't just give their PT Special any set of pickups, they outfitted it with a pair of their innovative Diamond pickups. The Diamond VT-1 bridge single-coil yields a vintage-tinged blend of clarity, twang, and muscle. The Diamond V-90 neck pickup exhibits a P-90-style tone that’s chock-full of snarling treble and meaty midrange. There's also a push-pull built into the PT Special's tone knob that enables you to toggle between series and parallel pickup wiring.

Just-right playability

This Schecter PT Special’s neck is expertly carved from a piece of rock-hard maple. Rosewood caps the neck with a 12-inch radius. Its "C" neck profile is an exquisite balance of hand-filling comfort and fleet-fingered playability. Add a fingerboard outfitted with extremely durable extra-jumbo frets and a TUSQ nut that ensures your strings never bind, and the PT Special plays as beautifully as it looks.

Schecter PT Special Features:

  • Swamp ash body produces a balanced, musical blend of brightness, warmth, and harmonic-soaked midrange
  • Diamond VT-1 bridge single-coil pickup yields a vintage-tinged blend of clarity, twang, and muscle
  • Diamond V-90 neck pickup exhibits a P-90-style tone that’s chock-full of snarling treble and meaty midrange
  • Push-pull enables you to toggle between series and parallel pickup wiring
  • Satin-finished neck with comfortable "C" profile
  • Fast-playing rosewood fingerboard with durable extra-jumbo frets and a TUSQ nut
  • Stable Grover Vintage tuners
  • Stunning semi-gloss finish

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Tech Specs

  • General
  • Number of Strings 6
  • Left-/Right-handed Right-handed
  • Body
  • Body Type Solidbody
  • Body Shape PT Special
  • Body Material Swamp Ash
  • Body Finish Semi-gloss
  • Color Purple Burst
  • Neck
  • Neck Material Maple
  • Neck Shape C
  • Neck Joint Bolt-on
  • Radius 12"
  • Fingerboard Material Rosewood
  • Fingerboard Inlay Dots
  • Number of Frets 22, Extra Jumbo
  • Scale Length 25.5"
  • Nut Width 1.653"
  • Nut Material Graph Tech Tusq XL
  • Hardware
  • Bridge/Tailpiece Vintage Ashtray with Staggered Brass Saddles
  • Tuners Grover Vintage
  • Electronics
  • Neck Pickup Schecter Diamond V-90 Single-coil
  • Bridge Pickup Schecter Diamond VT-1 Single-coil
  • Controls 1 x master volume, 1 x master tone (push/pull for series)
  • Switching 3-way blade pickup switch
  • Miscellaneous
  • Strings Ernie Ball Slinky, .010-.046
  • Case/Gig Bag Sold Separately
  • Manufacturer Part Number: 667

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Super solid, stage worthy

Nice high end in the bridge and a warm, thick 90 in the neck. Great feeling neck I'd say just slimmer than a medium C. Perfect fret work both dressed and polished! That alone goes a long way because in my experience that makes or breaks a guitarists first impressions. Schecter is well known for their fit and finish so I was happy to see the consistency and sustainability even in the import models. Great experience through SweetWater per usual.
by Austin Wilkens from Fulton, IL on
Music background: Playing for 15 years, currently play weekends at church.

Weird, but wonderful

As others have said, this looks like a tele, but doesn't sound like one. Nor does it sound like Schecter's other, weighty guitars (that are pretty much designed for metal). It's something a bit different, but it's exactly what I was looking for - has lovely clean tones (NOT twangy!) and a lot of bottom end for chunky rhythm work.

Also, this looks SO much better in real life - the photos here are very pink, and a bit washed out - the actual colours are much richer.
by Gavin from Seattle, WA on

Schecter PT Special

This guitar is a absolute beauty. Can't believe the tone of the P90. No regrets for the money spent. Usuallly buy high end-teaches me to be more open minded on my instruments. Can't put it down right now. Thanks Seeetwater and my man Chris Nunley


Dan aka Musicman
by Daniel Franke from Indianapolis, IN on

Almost perfect

My wife got this for me as a birthday gift. I love the look of a T-style body, but I am used to playing my PRS which has fantastically comfortable body ergonomics. Other T-style guitars have always felt wrong either in the body contours or in the neck joint. This guitar is one of the most comfortable guitars I've played and easily feels as good as my PRS SE guitars. The satin neck is thin but still quite comfortable. The frets are perfect and had no issues. They were nicely finished on the ends. The body is light and I love the satin finish. I do woodworking as a hobby and I have always felt that a nice satin finish is the best way to show off a piece of wood. The purple is a bit funky but I like that it is something unique. The pickups sound good. As it was adjusted from the factory the bridge pickup was very high and thus very hot. I have lowered both pickups significantly to allow them to blend better. The neck P-90 is very full and clear sounding as long as the tone knob is up. I did replace the saddles with Gotoh intonated brass saddles. The stock ones were fine and intonated well, but I preferred the look of these and it was a cheap swap.

So why did I dock it half a star? The factory tone knob is just OK. While it does allow you to use the series wiring via push-pull, the taper had all of the tone adjustment from around 0 to 0.5 or 1 on the dial at the very beginning of its rotation. Dialing back from 10 to 1 had almost no perceivable difference in the tone. This is a problem because the bridge pickup is much brighter than the neck pickup and needs to have treble tamed if you're running a bright amp like my Marshall. I could dial in a nice bridge tone or neck tone, but trying to swap from neck to bridge was a hassle because there was only a small pint in the rotation that sounded right. I have now swapped out the pot for a CTS 30% taper pot from Sweetwater and this guitar is immensely more enjoyable. This only cost me about $10 and some time with a soldering iron. The wiring diagram is easily found on Google. I will be replacing the knobs while I'm at it, but I am sure I could have made the original knob work with a few minutes and a drill bit (it was just a bit too tight to fit on the new CTS pot). With the new taper on the tone pot I can set the tone around 7 or 8 and it sounds great on both pickups.

TLDR: This guitar is great, I love it. I would recommend swapping the tone pot. I want another one now to convert to regular telecaster pickups.
by Jared Hall from MADISONVILLE, KY on

Not a tele but something else

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Pros:

Amazing specs, Tusq Nut, hot rodded pickups, beautiful neck, great tone, well built.

Cons:

This is subjective, but this is no tele.
Pickups are super hot they're not enough for modern metal but they could play some 80s thrash.
The clean tone just isn't twangy like a tele.
The feel for me was just off. The fretboard felt sunken in like an Ibanez and really put me off on this guitar.
But none of this makes it a bad guitar!

If that's your style you'll love this instrument, if I could change the feel of this guitar I'd deal with the hotter pickups.
by Tyler from PA on
Music background: Guitar Instructor
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