It was considered at the time and at present to be a very high quality but also expensive guitar and was only sold to twenty retailers across the United States. This was until 1979 when Schecter released it's first full electric guitar, based on Fender designs. Many custom shops were providing customers with guitars made almost exclusively from Schecter parts but the company still had not created any models of it's own. It came to the point where they were producing literally every part for a guitar except the guitar itself. The Schecter repair shop manufactured replacement guitar necks and bodies, complete pickup assemblies, bridges, pickguards, tuners, knobs, potentiometers, and miscellaneous other guitar parts.
He opened up a small repair shop in Van Nuys, California. Schecter was founded by David Schecter in 1976 as Schecter Guitar Research.
