Any of you who know me, know how much I HATE selling instruments like this. I never buy an axe I don't intend on keeping forever, but sometimes you just gotta thing the herd.
For Sale/Trade: Discontinued Schecter Blackjack Tempest from the Diamond series. This is a KILLER! Looks, feel, versatility, this is about as good as it gets from Schecter. Two Seymour Duncans that scream or sing, vol/tone/vol/tone knob cluster with the Les Paul-style pick-up switch on the upper bout. Has the full Cadillac electronics package with push-pull coil tapping for both pick ups! They didn't make these for long, (I have NO idea why!) and this will not last long at this price. Sold new for over $700, and current models in the series sell for the same. This one is in great shape except for 2 very minor flaws I did my best to show in the pics. One tiny ding smaller than a pea on the body face down below the string ferrules (circled in pic) and a small crack in one of the pick up rings around the screw hole. Still rock solid, no wiggle in any way. Very, very, light hairs of buckle rash on the back, so faint I couldn't get them to show up in a pic.
There is no way a craig's list pic can do justice to how good the white-on-black binding looks on this baby! You will NOT be disappointed in the look/feel/sounds of this guitar, it is a total class act from top to bottom.
Here are the company specs:
Construction: Set-Neck with Ultra Access
Body: Mahogany
Neck: Maple, 3-Piece
Fingerboard: Rosewood
Scale: 24.75"
Frets: 22 X-Jumbo
Inlays: Dot
Binding: Multi-ply
Pickups: Seymour Duncan® JB/'59
Electronics: 2 Volume, 2 Tone (Push/Pull Coil Tap), 3-way Switch
Bridge: TonePros Tune-O-Matic with Strings Thru Body
Nut: Standard
Tuners: Grover
Hardware: Black Chrome
Finish: Gloss Deep Black w/Cream Binding
You could show up at a church gig with this, or you could show up at a Metal Church gig with this, and you would be the man both times.
Just try and find one of these for sale. Current ebay listings show only ONE, (completed listings show zero) and it is a New-Old-Stock item with a BIN of $665 no case. I have this craigslisted locally for $400, but I'll do $350 +actual shipping for a TBer/TBer's guitard player. Shipping should be about 20-25 to the 48, if it's more I'll eat the balance. It comes with a very nice, well-padded, little gig bag. While obviously not worth what I paid for it right now, this is one of the only guitars I own that may actually go back up in value, lol. This is a player's player, and deserves to be PLAYED, but my back just can't take the Les Paul-oscity in the weight department anymore.
This is a total gem and steal of a price, and I'd love it to stay in the TB family. I'll even throw in the DOD Grunge distortion pedal I'm also selling so you can shred paint the second you plug it in.
