rodzimguitar68
Fractal Fanatic
I also own 2 8-string guitars and have owned several.
The schecter has great build quality and plays and sounds great.
I didn't have any trouble at all setting it up with low action without fret buzz
I bought a Schecter Hellraiser FR Limited about 18 months ago online. Mine was a Pro Guitar Shop only model. Special in the fact that they had used a Reverse EMG in the neck position, that leaves the neck-most coil on, when in single coil mode. This allows for the two outside coils to be on if both pickups are selected AND in single coil mode, allowing better phase cancellation, than would be possible with a standard EMG neck pickup. I want another one, in fact I would love to have 2-3, each with different style pickups. It is heavy and has a huge neck on it. It is constructed like a neck through Les Paul, that is shaped like a Strat and has a Floyd Rose.
I don't have plans to play an 8-string, but I wanted to jump in and say, that my Schecter looks and feels like a guitar 2-1/2 times the price I paid. Mine has a heel-less neck thru joint, sort of like the neck joint on the Les Paul Axis, which was developed in collaboration with Neal Schon.
I highly recommend Schecter guitars to anyone who will listen. A lot of my friends are Gibson/Fender purists, but their guitars are not as true or stable as mine. I went to a rehearsal last night. I pulled the guitar out of the case, where it had been all week, and it was right on the money, in tune. I didn't have to touch a tuner. Pretty impressive with winter cold climate change and a fully floating bridge.
Keep rockin' all you 8-ers and 9-ers....