Product:
Schecter TSH-1B 6-String Guitar

TSH-1B Suggested Retail: $699.00

Hairball Music TSH-1B Retail: $519.99

Schecter TSH-1B Diamond Series Basic Features-

• Construction: Bolt-On (Semi-Hollow).
• Body: Mahogany with flame maple.
• Neck/Fingerboard: Maple neck with rosewood fingerboard.
• Bridge: Bigsby Tremolo.
• Tuning Heads: Chrome Grover tuning heads.
• Headstock: Angled back with logo.
• Inlays: Diamond.
• Neck: 1.6” nut width, 14” radius with 22 extra jumbo frets.
• Scale: 25.5”.
• Binding: Body and neck.
• Electronics: 2 Duncan Design humbuckers.
• Controls: Master neck volume, master bridge volume with shared master tone that is also a pull out switch for single coil pick-up option (not available on all TSH guitars), 3-way toggle switch.
• Other Features: Silver sparkle finish. Immaculate construction and attention to detail.
• Origin of Manufacture: Korea.

This is not your typical run-of-the-mill Schecter guitar. You will not find a Powerman 5000 or Papa Roach endorsement for this guitar. This is a true Rock-A-Billy guitar with bright clean sound. Don’t expect to shred on this guitar. Schecter had the Byrds, Tom Petty and Brian Setzer in mind when they designed the TSH-1B.

The guitar is visually striking with an incredible silver sparkle finish on the body. The cream body binding and black pickguard highlight the guitar. The silver sparkle is unmistakable under stage lights. The guitar is fitted with a Bigsby tremolo that would make Brian Setzer proud. The body is a standard Schecter T-shaped body hollowed out under an oblong shaped diamond opening in the upper portion of the body. The neck finish is a natural satin that is very comfortable and the fretting is exceptionally good for an import guitar. The headstock is angled back with 3-heads per side. This guitar comes standard with 9-gauge strings but is better suited for 10-gauge strings (I prefer DR String Zebra series) for an extremely clean and bright sound.

To put this guitar through its paces, I plugged into a Hughes and Kettner Vortex halfstack utilizing a 4x12 speaker cabinet. The first thing you notice on this guitar is the complex overtones and solid midrange. Switching to the single coil pickup configuration enhanced the overtones and produced a bright Byrds and /or Tom Petty sound with the standard mild single coil hum (this single coil feature is only available on early production model TSH guitars and not available in later production runs). Adding echo from a DE-1 Danelectro Echo pedal produced a very distinctive Brian Setzer type sound. Add in the Bigsby tremolo, and it was the Stray Cats revisited.

I then switched back to the double coil configuration and added a DO-1 Danelectro Overdrive pedal to test the blues content of this guitar and was surprised at the rich mellow sound produced from the humbuckers. Clearly, the TSB-1B is a more versatile guitar than I expected. I enjoyed this guitar so much that I would add the 6-string and 12-string versions to my collection.

Schecter also offers other hollow body guitars featured in their Jazz-6 and Jazz-7 series. This series features a semi-hollow full bodied jazz guitar for that true Brian Setzer look and sound.

And now for the Lighter Guy rating of the Schecter Diamond Series TSH-1B, 8.0 lighters out of a possible 10 lighters. For the money, a great buy for a unique sound.