{"id":1568,"date":"2011-12-05T04:05:22","date_gmt":"2011-12-05T04:05:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/?p=1568"},"modified":"2011-12-05T04:05:22","modified_gmt":"2011-12-05T04:05:22","slug":"schect-it-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/?p=1568","title":{"rendered":"Schect It Out!"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nMeet my early birthday present to myself!<\/p>\n


\nThis is the Schecter Omen Extreme-6 FR in See-Thru Black, part of the Diamond series (which means that it is not a custom Schecter guitar.)<\/p>\n

(Pictures of myself with guitar, credits to Waifon.)<\/p>\n


\nBolt-on neck – though this is slightly angled which makes it nice to lean your head on when it is in a gig bag.<\/p>\n


\nObligatory 12th-fret shot.<\/p>\n


\nSo you might ask – why not an Ibanez with a humbucker-single-humbucker (2-1-2) setup? You get 5 positions in that switch.<\/p>\n


\nI get a 3-way switch between 2 humbuckers…<\/p>\n


\n…but multiply those options by 2 since the Tone knob can be pulled up to switch to single-coil mode.<\/p>\n

Of course, this means I don’t get a single\/humbucker mix like in positions #2 and #4, but I get a single coil sound at the neck, or bridge, or both.<\/p>\n

Although I’ve always hankered for a Ibanez Gio SA in butterscotch, I was deeply saddened to find that it had only 22 frets<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Also, Ibanez’s necks tend to feel a bit cold and impersonal to me. Maybe it’s the finishing of the back. The Schecters generally come with thicker necks – not size 0s.<\/p>\n


\nThe FR in its name is for Floyd Rose – it has a licensed Floyd Rose Special floating bridge. I picked this for my love of Pantera!<\/p>\n


\nSomehow, the idea of your strings being held by a metal block is a bit eerie.<\/p>\n


\nTuners. I reckon I could turn those pegs any way I like…<\/p>\n


\n…since the double-locking nuts are already in place. Gotta dig the 1st fret inlay too!<\/p>\n


\nGuitar strap.<\/p>\n

Those of you with sharp eyes might notice that the low E string is missing! This was because I tried doing a divebomb, then pulling it up to see how far it would go… and I snapped the low E string! Who would’ve thought?<\/p>\n

And so, I learnt how to tune a Floyd Rose and adjust the back spring tension. It wasn’t that hard, though tuning up takes forever! So the low E string you see in other pictures is actually an Ernie Ball 0.042 Slinky.<\/p>\n

In retrospect, since the string broke at the bridge, I could actually feed it into the block again. Alas!<\/p>\n


\nWhen I got it from the shop it was leaning slightly back – here I’ve reduced the spring tension so the bridge is floating parallel to the body. Though it does make for stiffer action.<\/p>\n

I bought a set of Ernie Ball .008-.038 Extra Slinkys to replace the strings when they wear out (and D’addario XL’s in .009-.042 – like the ones that came with the guitar). I learnt my lesson when breaking a string on my first night – to stock up!<\/p>\n

All pictures with the Sony DSLT-A77 with Sony Carl Zeiss Distagon T* 24mm F2.0 ZA SSM.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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