Darn you, Schecter! Darn you all to heck!

[Rickenjangle]

So I go over to my local store, Sound Source - and what to my wondering eyes did appear...

Schecter 12-string

Schecter is making these in a "fireglo" and a "jetglo" finish. Oh no...MUST...keep...wallet...in...pocket!!!

[Don]

Is that the link that you intended? It doesn't point to a guitar.

[chuckocaster]

i'm guessing he meant this.

http://www.amazon.com/Schecter-Starg.../dp/B0002E1J9K

[Rickenjangle]

Yes, Don and Chuck, thanks. I posted a pic of it on my facebook page - didn't realize that everyone could not navigate to it as I could, being logged in...

I fixed my link and posted the one to the black one (Jetglo-ish). Chuck's link goes to the red sunburst one. (Fireglo - ish)

[NeoFauve]

On that Fire-glo-ish one: "Diamond Adjustable 12 bridge"

When a screwdriver just isn't enough.

[Rickenjangle]

I hear tell that Andy Johns uses the Schecter 12 string in the studio (or, perhaps, he has the artists he produces use the guitar). He says it intonates so much better than the Rics he's used in the past...

[Gravity Jim]

Yes, but it appears to sport humbuckers. I borrowed a friend's Gibson 335-12, and it was completely boring and un-12-string like... I chalked it up to the HB's. YMMV.

[NeoFauve]

Schecter makes plenty of stuff that's zazzy looking, yet "meh?" to play.
But I played a Solo 6 Vintage a few months back, and really liked it. Fond memories of my DeArmond, plus coil splitting.
Seen some demos of other members of the Solo 6 line, that sounded pretty sweet.

If the Stargazer leans more toward the Solo 6, cort of classic outlook than the doomy style stuff it could be cool. I read a favorable review of it somewhere.
I bet I'd leave the tone pot on the tapped position a lot.

R'nJ- Do you still have that Strat 12?

[Offshore Angler]

I'm going with the idea that a 12 with 'buckers is .... not optimum. Really, since you aren't soloing with a 12 - unless you're playing Eight Miles High - an acoustic with a Fishman is the best option live. Back when electric 12's were introduced the object was to get them to sound like an acoustic. Nowadays we have electrified acoustics so why not cut out the middle man?

[Rickenjangle]

Neo, my buddy bought the Solo 6 the other day - the Hellraiser version with the EMG's. It's a real screamer and played and intonated well. I sold the Strat XII because I never fell in love with the guitar, and it was quite a bit "thinner" and "quieter" than my other guitars...

Chuck, the pickups are cleaner and brighter than DiMarzio Super Distortions (lol) and the coils can be tapped. It was an exceptionally well-balanced sound whether in humbucking or single coil mode. The bridge humbucker really sounded like a slightly beefier, modern Ric pickup (not the toaster-tops)...and I hate trying to keep a cheap acoustic 12-string in tune - and I WOULD solo with the 12 string - got some songs that I wrote that had solos written for 12 string...