Schecter Blackjack ATX C-1 FR Electric Guitar, Vampyre Red Satin

Full Description

Mahogany Body with an Arched Top

Schecter's Blackjack ATX is a well-balanced guitar from aggressive crunchy sounds to rich, clean tones, perfect for the modern day player. The Mahogany’s arched top provides a great resonance, enhancing the natural tones of the body wood. The Mahogany body offers naturally warm tones, with a touch of bite for creating tights lows and appealing highs. With black binding, black chrome hardware, and a Floyd Rose bridge, the ATX is given a vampyre red finish to create a stunning guitar that reflects the tones it can produce.

Mahogany Neck, Ebony Fingerboard

The 3-piece Mahogany neck and Ebony fingerboard has been designed with a thin "C" shape for a smooth, fast play. The Mahogany/Ebony combination produces tight, warm tones that are defined and open with a fast attack. The two woods provide the guitars sound with a muscular, controlled bass and snappy, sizzling highs. It also comes with many other features including Grover machine heads and glow in the dark side dots.

Seymour Duncan Pickups

Feature two powerful humbuckers form Seymour Duncan know as BlackOuts, the Schecter Blackjack can produce warm, complex chording and singling leads. The neck pickup uses alnico 5 magnets to produce an extended frequency range, giving the guitar an organic feel that’s very responsive and lets the guitars natural tone shine through. The bridge pickup uses ceramic magnets to produce a powerful tone with a full bodied punch. Its high output level provides an organic feel with an open tonal response, allowing the guitars characteristics to be apparent in the overall tonality.

Floyd Rose Special Tremolo

Floyd Rose are one of the leading manufacturers of guitar bridges, using top of the range design techniques to craft outstanding quality parts. With a design that has stood strong for over 30 years, the Floyd Rose 1000 allows you to adjust the string tension and pitch to create unique sounds such as dive bombs. The bridge works in tangent with the locking nut for increase string stability and prevents the strings from detune after excessive bending.

About Schecter

Schecter is one of the world's premier guitar companies, creating and selling electric guitars and basses, acoustic guitars and USA Custom Shop instruments to musicians around the world. They combine quality with affordability to suit a variety of different players and diverse musical styles. The company has a growing number of high profile artists playing their instruments, such as musicians from Disturbed, Avenged Sevenfold, The Cure, Papa Roach, Seether and more.

Specifications

Body & Bridge

• Body: Mahogany
• Contour: Arched Top
• Binding: Black Multi-Ply
• Bridge: Floyd Rose 1000
• Construction: Set-Neck w/Ultra Access
• Finish: Vampyre Red Satin

Neck & Fingerboard

• Neck Material: Mahogany 3-Pc
• Fretboard Material: Ebony
• Number of Frets: 24 X-Jumbo
• Scale: 25.5"
• Fretboard Radius: 14”
• Thickness: @ 1st Fret- .787" (20mm)/ @ 12th Fret- .866" (22mm)
• Nut: Floyd Rose
• Nut Width: 1.625"
• Side Dot Markers: Glow in the Dark Dots
• Neck Shape: Thin 'C'

Electronics & Hardware

• Bridge Pickup: Seymour Duncan BlackOuts AHB-1
• Neck Pickup: Seymour Duncan BlackOuts AHB-1
• Controls: 2 x Volume/Tone/3-Way Switch
• Knobs: Metal Knurled w/ Set Screw
• Machine Heads: Grover
• Hardware: Black Chrome
• Battery Compartment: 9-Volt Clip-In
• Strings: Ernie Ball Regular Slinky #2221 (.010-.046)