Schecter C-1 Blackjack

Made in 2004. It has 24 jumbo frets. Solidtop. Volume, Tone and a 5 way switch that gives you a combination of both humbuckers, single coils(both and neck I think), humbucker neck and humbucker bridge. It has two humbuckers...A Seymour Duncun JB and A '59. The body is mahogany, the neck is maple. The finish is high gloss black with cream binding. The bridge style is a tune o matic. It has Grover tuners

Wow. the sounds this thing can make. It can play jazz, blues, country, rock, hard rock, shredding...unbelievable how many different configurations you can get out of this. I play this through a Blues Jr. The guitar is quiet when at rest which I like, my Tele tended to have a little hum. I bought this beacuse it is so capable of playing so many different styles on the fly. I am still new to playing and wanted to have a more versitle guitar to play...this fits the bill.

The guitar was set up great. The pickups are adjusted perfectly. The top and bindings were flawless and smooth(the resaon I bought it). The guitar is solid and straight no flaws hat I could see or hear(again the reason I bought it).

I have only had the guitar for a couple of days but it is a solid ax with a great finish. I did replace the strap buttons with strap locks as I did with my other. I don't play live so I wouldn't know how much it'll withstand...I take great care of them in the house.

Don't know yet. I'll come back and rate this if somethign happens.

I have been learning how to play for about two years so I made the jump to something more versitle than my Tele. This is the best guitar for the price...period. Nothing else had the features or the looks for anything close to this price. If someone took it I'd buy another. I love the playibility of the guitar...it can be used for any genre. Favorite feature is the tone. This guitar has loads of tone and even more in the sustain department...unbelievable in a guitar at this price. I like the 5 way switch better than the coil tap...easier to access. If you're looking to step up from a beginner guitar but don't have the budget for a les paul of strat in the 1000+ range give these a try, they are versitle and well put together...better yet just go play one and you'll know, that's what did it for me.

Amazing features on this product. Grover tuners, SeymourDuncan pickups, 10 gauge strings stock (what guitar ever comes with 10gauge, I always have to put them on and mess with the truss rod and what not), tonepros bridge. In terms of features, you get MORE than what you pay for.

This guitar sounds incredible. It has a full and wonderfull tone. With my MesaBoogie DC-5 I sound exactly like RUSH. I have not heard a better sounding guitar in a long time. It is also incredibly responsive, the sustain lasts forever seemingly and with the pickup selector I can cover a range of 1000000sound with the flick of a switch. Volume pot is not scratchy and works well. Tone pot does not have a lot of range and is basically useless unless want to cut some highs. '59 in the neck does all my clean and jazz sounds perfectly. the JB in the bridge plays anything from megadeth to RUSH and back again. All my notes shine through in a band situation even when playing full powerchords.

By the way, don't base the sound of a guitar with distortion if you are using some shitty BOSS/DOD stompbox. If you use those, you are always going to sound horrible IMHO

Everything was amazing. Plays like a dream. No bow in the neck WHATSOEVER so I need to add a little because the low strings have a TINY amount of fret buzz. perfect fretboard and the frets are well dressed and HUGE, just the way i like it. This guitar is not for shredding. It is for smooth beautiful leads. You can play very fast but not as fast as on an ibanez or jackson persay.

This guitar will most likely withstand anything. Very well crafted and made, solid. Hardware is the same as on $2000 guitars, no problem there. Strap buttons are huge, i could barely get my strap over them but I will soon be buying locking straps. I've had 2 guitars fall because of not having strap locks during a show. One was a squier and the whole bridge popped out. The other time I was playing a friends PRS onstage when it just fell and landed flat on its face. The guitar was not damaged but I seriously shat my pants. There's no way i'm risking anything like that with this guitar. In terms of reliability, i trust it 100% no doubt.

NO idea about this. If the guitar has serious flaws that reveal themself later? I will do something about it. Otherwise I do all my repairs myself or take it to a VERY GOOD guitar repair guy (AKA Luthier). I dont trust anyone with my guitars usually. They always fuck something up. I've had guitars come back from shops WORSE than when they went it. What kind of earplugs were you wearing when u intonated my guitar dumbass. Or, you didnt even hook up the pickup into the series and connect the volume and tone pots, it's just falling out of my guitar!

Best guitar I've ever owned period. I sound like a god. I play through a 5150II halfstack (good for leads ONLY) and a mesa boogie DC-5 hooked up to a 4x12 cabinet (clean rhythm and distored rhythm. I also use a 535Q-Wah on occasion though I am not much of a wah-wah peddle player. Incredible feel and sound. If you need to buy a guitar and have a realistic amount of money (aren't some rich guy) this is THE GUITAR FOR YOU. Also, dont disrespect this guitar by playing some dopey shit on it. This guitar is for a person who KNOWS how to play. Very responsive and "organic" (as the previous reviewer said) guitar. Go get one!

Also, NEVER shop for guitars or amps at guitar center. All the schecters they had were completely messed up. The necks were so bowed it was disgusting, or they all had broken strings, how the HELL am I supposed to buy something I can't play. Then i tried plugging in to multiple boogies and marshalls. They all sounded like SHIT and the boogies all had their tubes blown. Come on guitar center, you SUCK BALLS. I brought my amp into a local (quiet) music store and was far more impressed by this guitar then by $1000 Ibanez's and Fenders. This thing's got something special...

Real Duncans (59, JB, no covers), mahogany body, maple neck, dark rosewood fretboard, Grover-tuners, Jumbo-frets, TonePros bridge, 5 way switch (pos 2 and 4 are identical).

Black, of course :-)

Only disadvantage are the pots (I`ve unhooked the tone-pot, it sucked too much treble). And I will definitely change the volume pot for a better one soon.

For the money this is the sh*t, no doubt. I`ve never had an axe with such an excellent price/quality relation. Period.

Since I`m pretty familiar with Duncans I knew what I could expect. The JB is smoother in this C1 compared to LPs, cause the C1 doesn`t have a maple top, so the high end is pretty smooth. The 59 smokes for Gary Moore-ish playing. The JB simply rocks - AFAIK its Duncans most selled replacement pup - and I guess thats the reason.
The 24 frets are perfect for going fast. Plays like butter - sounds like creme. :-)

Full rock, blues, in-between-Strat(ish) sounds - all included. Perfect live-geetar.

Was set too low (like so many). With 10s on it and the action a bit higher its simply perfect.

No dead spots . . .

Perfect.

No idea.

The website is pretty informative, although some of the (diamond series) schematics are "wrong". I don't care about that - I just like to select between so many options/different axes with that quality for that money Schecter offers now.

I'm playing since almost 30 years now, going thru a lot of axes - my main is still a '76 LP Custom (black) with JB and stock neck pup. Other than that I`ve gone thru a sh*tload of axes (Heritage, Hamer, Fender, PRS, . . .) and compared to a PRS Tremonti SE this C1 BJ is way better built, sounds better and plays better. Since my LPC weights a ton I will use her mostly for praticing and also try her on stage.
Amps are Diezels (Herbert, Einstein) and a '70 Marshall SuperBass. This axe shines thru them - no doubt. Some cheaper guitars are pretty well when played at home, but lack some organic feel (interaction with the amp/speakers) on stage. Not the C1 BJ - really organic axe.

And she looks cool, of course ;-)

More infos about Diezels:
www.diezelamplification.com

List price in germany will be 800 Euros - I was lucky that a friend has sent her to me from the US of A - thanks again my friend !!

2004, Made in Korea. 24 frets, with black pearl dot inlays. Solid Mahogony body. Two passive Duncan pickups: '59 in the neck, JB in the bridge (no pickup covers). 5-way pickup switch allows for single-coil like tones in addition to humbucker sounds. Gloss black finish with creme binding. Neo-strat "classic" body with string-through body Tone Pros bridge. Neck scale is 25 1/2".

This suits my style well, it's a great rock guitar. I use it with a 50 watt class A/B all tube combo (Crate VFX5112), and Maxon pedals (SD-9, CS-9 Pro). The guitar is not noisy, except when I am using to generate my own noise. The sound is generally full and thick. The JB can be piercing on a clean setting, but is great with tube distortion. The '59 is incredibly sweet and well balanced. The 2nd position on the 5-way switch (counting the full neck sound as 1st) gives a great Strat sound: I can evoke Hendrix. The 4th position is okay, 3rd is decent. I also own a C1+, which has a Korean-made JB clone (HB-102b) in the bridge, and gasp, heresy...I slightly prefer that sound to the actual JB in the Blackjack. The JB is darker and has less sustain, but maybe that will improve as I adjust the height. It does sound a LOT better with amp distortion than it does clean. Playing a neck solo through this is astounding, though, and
that blows away the HB-102n Jazz clone in the C1+.

The action was decent when I got it, but there is some fret buzz, okay, a BUNCH of it on the low strings. I think the JB needs to be adjusted in relation to the strings, but the '59 is right on. There are always flaws in Schecter Diamond series guitars--you just have to pick the ones you can live with. This one has some irregularities around the binding, but nothing heartbreaking. Guess I need to get it set up properly.

Guitar feels very solid, but I try not to abuse my instruments. Hardware looks solid. Finish is black, so it needs care, but looks durable. Strap buttons are solid. I wouldn't gig without a backup, but then again, I don't gig anyway. Sort of an academic question, idn't it, then?

I've emailed Schecter twice, and they're getting better. This time they got back to me within a few hours. Last time, it took a few days. I've had the SGR1C case for this on order for a few months, and I was wondering where it got to. Schecter provides a lifetime limited warranty.

I've been playing since 1985. I am currently 31. If lost or stolen, yeah, I think I'd buy this guitar again. I got it at a very black time in my life...my wife is in the hospital for the second with severe depression. Even so, it's not a morbid guitar. You really can't tell from pictures of it, but it's very classy looking. The creme binding is very subtle, and the inlay dots look like eclipsed moons (what PRS tries to give you if you don't buy their doofy bird inlays). This guitar is the color of power and hope, not despair. It's helping me get through my problems.

This guitar complements my (vintage sunburst) 2003 C1+ well. I didn't think I'd ever buy a black guitar. I had actually ordered another C1+ (black cherry). But the 2004 c1+ changed the pickups, now they're HB-103s, which are Korean knock-offs of the Duncan distortion set. They were unbearably muddy, and the other C1+ had screws that didn't fit into the Tone Pros bridge. I ended up exchanging that one for this Blackjack C1. New for 2004, these guitars have the "all access" neck joint, which makes the guitar feel very playable at the high frets. My 2003 C1+ doesn't have it, but that plays fine anyway. I like that this is a different scale (25 1/2") than what I'm used to, it keeps me guessing a little. It feels very long when you strap it on, but there's power in that. It's very easy to access high-fret notes compared to my 24 3/4" scale 2003 C1+. I chose this guitar because I had a connection with it, and it sounded great. Aren't all our purchases emotional?

In sum, this is a beautiful guitar...you don't really get that from the pictures. Schecter puts out a great product at the right price. You just have to do their quality control for them. When it comes down to it, this guitar costs the same as the C1+. With the C1+, you get a nice flame top, elaborate inlays, and cheap pickups. With this guitar, they put in "real" Duncans, so you get a plain black instrument...they've got to save money somewhere. You know what? Schecter might sell a lot of these because they have real dot inlays. Don't get me wrong, I LOVE the vectors on the C1+, too. For a guitar to be playable, I can't have some crappy "Vine of Life" confusing me, like you get in the C1 Classic, or worse, only an inlay at the 12th fret, like in the C1 Elite. This guitar fills a gap in Schecter's product line--A beautiful 25 1/2" instrument with inlays that you can actually use to navigate around the fretboard.