Schecter C-7 LE Diamond Series

Same as the other reviews, except this one is finished in natural walnut gloss. black floyd, black hardware etc. 2 Duncan designed humbuckers. ( i installed series/parallel toggles for each). beautifully finished. nice binding, cleanly done.
I got this on ebay as well, no case etc.

This guitar really surprised me by the sound. Schecter says the pickups are the equivelent of the JB and the '59. all I know is they sound great, and they are well positioned on the body to get a nice variety of sounds. with the series/parallel switches i installed, I can get a slightly quieter, cleaner signal for clean sounds while still maintaining humbucking. I have Duncan pickups in mst of my guitars, and these sound just as good and useable as the actual duncans. I also have a 007 Elite. (I reviewed it as well) for some reason, the pickups on the c7LE sound much better to me. maybe its construction methods, placement, I dont know. whatever. bottom line is they sound great

The construction on this guitar is excellent as well. the finish was flawless, the neck is excellent, the frets are excellent as well. I tweaked the setup a bit, and it plays like a dream. even with the wide 7 string neck, the playability doesnt suffer. The only thing I would take issue with would b the clunky neck joint, which makes it fairly difficult to get to the upper frets. I can understand they need to securely mount the neck, as 7 strings have a lot of tension. It seems that most of the diamond series are pretty clunky in the neck joint department. maybe they think most people who buy them will be playing their Korn and Bizkit riffs on the first few frets with the one finger bar, and dont need to go up that high. that maybe the case, sometimes, but they could contour it a bit better for those of us who also like to solo.

Built like a brick shithouse. Even the cheaper floyd they use stays in tune very well. Kinda stiff, but hey, as long as it stays in tune! I would trust this thing as a main guitar, or a weapon.

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this thing surprised me. I bought the 007 Elite first. just to try the seven string thing. then I saw this, and for the price, I couldnt pass it up. it is by far the best value-to-$$ 7 string with a whammy out there. I actually like it better than the 007, which I bought new for a little over $400 Its a great looking, great sounding, well built guitar and costs less than most piece of crap clone imports out there. I own many guitars, including japanese and korean Ibanez, USA Hamer, Washburn, Epi, Gibson, Other. this is right up there with the best of them. Hell, if this one got stolen, I'd buy 2 more. (IF i could find them)

This is a likely to be 2000-2001 Diamond series, C7 model, seven string, made in Korea designated on the back of the headstock by a gold sticker. It features:

Strat style Ash body w/ arched top,
2 Duncan designed humbuckers,
24 fret maple neck, rosewood board, 25.5 scale.
liscensed floyd rose bridge and nut,which looks similar to gotoh style),
grover tuners, 5 on top, 2 under.

The body is ash and is heavy, the neck is an unfinished maple w/ rosewood and is bolted on via 4 bolt plate. The fretmarker inlays are diamond shaped mother of pearl. The body is strat shaped with arched top and creme binding (which looks to be like plastic). 2 Duncan designed humbuckers H/H (passive..low noise, non active) , 3 pos switch, 1 Vol, 1 tone. All hardware is black finished.

I play all styles but focus mainly on Rock. I tried this through just a Johnson J-station for now as I just got it and the tone was full and heavy on the rectified and brit stack channels as it should be.. the duncans delivered nice note articulation, grind, and output..just like a beefed up standard humbucker, good for lead work.. good edge but not excessive. I cant say if it was quiet at loud vol as I didnt play it through a half stack.. but I feel confident that it would fair well. It played clean well enough on the black face setting, but since this hasnt fully tested in both personal and live situations w/ a variety of amps.. I can only say it seemed fine/ok... the volume rolled off well as did the tone. I like the 3 way switch, simple. I'm sure aftermarket EMG active 707's would sound very nice in this. I also really like the set in stylized edge to the pots and switch.. it adds character.

This was a eBay buy but it was like new and still had factory backings as well as it's stickers but no warranty. Says it was setup in z~ USA. I spend about 30 minutes adjusting the Floyd which was a major concern to me as to how well the trem would stay in tune given the rather off balance of the 7 strings. The bridge block looks cheap...would probably increse sustain if replaced with an aftermarket. The neck seemed machined well as did the finish, which is like a satin pewter, I believe it's called a satin charcoal, very flat color but still has a dull sheen. The binding does look like plastic which is cheap, but it seems to blend well with the finish as far as color and not stick out like a sore thumb. The job of fitting the binding to the body shows a couple slight edge cracks peeking where it adheres to the body. (the body shows through) The frets are jumbo's, very well done and the guitar is setup alright from the factory as far as intonation, most of it was ok except for the floyd's ability to stay in tune..which I corrected. I also lowered the action to about 3/16 on the treble and close to the same on the bass..guitar is very well adapted to lower action w/o any buzz. The Floyd trem needed some help to stay in tune but is now pretty close to perfect return during agressive use. The diamond inlay fret markers, the points are cut slightly uneven on some.. but no gaps show seems to show in the inlay/fretboard. The Grover tuners turn smoothly and the pickups seemed adjusted fine. Good sounding electronics. The finish, well.. I've seen much nicer Schecters in the plus series, but it looks as though it will handle some use and abuse no problem and still has enough show for go. The bridge saddles are only adjustable for intonation, not height, just as a standard floyd does. The bridge height adjusted easily through the pivot posts and the nut has 4 allen screws to adjust the 4 blocks (takes a standard floyd 3mm wrench)

Seems good and most importantly, it sounds good! Ahh.. the finish looks tuff and the floyd stays in tune now. I havent tipped it over yet.. but it should handle at least that. The body weight is quite heavy, probably 10-11 pounds, but delivers good tone.

NO eperience to relate or reflect

I wanted a 7 string for some heavier sounds and had shopped the Ibanez 7420 after reading about it's flawless manufactering process in GP but ultimately decided on this w/o playing it because of price. This Schecter keeps up with the Ibanez but is a differing guitar and superior in some respects..,arch body, neck dimensions, etc, it seemed more PRSish than the Ibanez, which seemed more stratish..for the money the Schecter is a solid buy. I've been playing 20+ years and have owned many older classics as well as a few new and customized guitars.. this guitar plays very well overall. The neck is rather slim but not as slim as the Ibanez 7420's but still fast. The floyd nut is 1 7/8's" at zero fret and the neck widens to a 2 3/8's" at the twelfth fret. It could use a better binding material but that is cosmetic. It was like new for 225.00, but no warrenty. Spend 25.00-50.00 for a used strat style case and you got a complete decent quality 7 string guitar setup for less than 300..not a bad deal. I will consider buying the schecter C7 plus if I have the need for another 7, the only reason I didnt buy one of those is due to the Floyd and slightly higher cost w/o knowing what the schecter could do.

Made in 2001 in Korea. 24 frets, Duncan designed humbuckers, Floyd Rose licensed tremolo. The finish is transparent red, with a nice little cream strip running along the edges. Jumbo frets, strat-shaped, Grover tuners, mahogony body, maple neck, rosewood fretboard.

I bought this thing to play Dream Theater/Liquid Tension Experiment/Steve Vai songs. The pickups are dead quiet even with the volume on my 120W 5150 relatively high. The only problem is that the notes on the low E and B strings get somewhat muddied when palm muted. Other than that, it's amazing.

Factory action was a little high, but easily correctable. The guitar is in PERFECT condition...It has no flaws whatsoever.

The only problem I could see is possible chipping due to the rather sharp edges...Strat-style guitars with sharp edges seem to have a bad habit of chipping rather than denting. Other than that, you could definitely drop this thing off the top of a building and it wouldn't crack...the body is the most solid I've ever played.

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I got a deal and a half on this thing. $120 less than the standard C-7, and this thing has a Floyd Rose. I love eBay. I'm just kind of pissed because I can reach higher notes much easier, and with more sustain, than my Ibanez JS100, which I spent $700 on. If I had to, I would probably spend $500 on this guitar. I was absolutely amazed that a guitar company could make a guitar like this for that price. Schecter should be lauded for their efforts, and they are definitely one of my favorite guitar companies.