Schecter Robert Smith UltraCure, Gloss Black

Full Description

Chambered Mahogany Body

Robert Smith's Signature Guitar features a chambered body constructed from high-quality mahogany, delivering incredibly powerful tones and a comfortable light weight. The mahogany wood offers a naturally rich, warm tone, with a good balance of grind and bite to create tights lows and appealing highs. The chambered design of the body increases the overall resonance, delivering an enhanced sustain and projection for an excellent amount of depth. The body has also been designed with a flat top and raised centre, providing players with a smooth surface and a comfortable playing experience.

Smooth Maple Neck & Rosewood Fingerboard

The 3-piece maple neck and rosewood fingerboard feature a thin "C" profile, delivering a fast performance with an incredibly comfortable play. The maple wood provides the guitar with bright characteristics, creating a snappy attack in the midrange and a sizzling high end. When the strings are played hard, the wood adds more punch to the tone, and light or medium picking delivers extra clarity. Adding a rosewood fingerboard helps create a warmer and softer tone, with a sparkling high end and a thick low end. Schecter locking tuners and a Graph Tech tusq nut are also included to improve string stability and enhance resonance and sustain.

Seymour Duncan Pickups

The set of Seymour Duncan ’59 humbuckers feature alnico 5 bar magnets with vintage style coils, providing the UltraCure Guitar with old school tonal characteristics and a big PAF sound. Featuring the bridge and neck models of the ‘59’s, the Schecter is transformed into an incredibly versatile guitar capable of play a wide range of music. While the neck pickup has been designed to offer warm tone, with scooped mids and a bright top end, the bridge pickup delivers a full sound with an articulate treble attack, Scooped mids, and a full bottom end. Both pickups each feature independent volume controls with push-pull functions, providing players with even more tonal variety.

Bigsby Vibrato Bridge

With a Bigsby flat top B50 bridge, the Robert Smith UltraCure can create incredible pitch shifting effects easily, allowing players to deliver variety of effects to enhance their performance. With a classic design, the Bigsby bridge not only bends notes and chords, but also adds a visual aspect to the guitar. The bridge also features a roller tune-o-matic to keep the strings secure, offering excellent string stability with a tight spec tolerance.

The Cure’s Robert Smith

Born April 1959, Robert Smith is an English singer, songwriter, and musician most recognisable as the lead singer and guitarist of The Cure. Being born into a musical family, Robert first learnt to play the piano before moving onto the guitar at a young age. While in school Robert formed a band with his brother and some friends, before moving to another school and formed The Obelisk, the early incarnation of The Cure. Robert Smith is known for his simplistic yet atmospheric guitar playing, choosing effects and sound over technique, and purposefully detunes the top E of his guitar to create unique soundscapes.

About Schecter

As one of the world's premier guitar companies, Schecter create and sell a wide range of electric guitars, 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: Chambered Mahogany
• Contour: Flat Top w/Raised Centre
• Bridge: Bigsy Flat Top B50 w/Roller TonePros TOM TPFR-T8BT
• Construction: Set-Neck w/Ultra Access
• Finish: Gloss Black

Neck & Fingerboard

• Neck: 3-Piece Maple
• Scale: 25.5"
• Profile: Thin “C”
• Fingerboard: Rosewood
• Frets: 24 X-Jumbo
• Radius: 14”
• Thickness: @ 1st Fret- .787" (20mm)/ @ 12th Fret- .866” (22mm)
• Inlays: Mother of Pearl Blocks
• Side Dot Markers: Glow in the Dark
• Nut: Graph Tech XL Black Tusq
• Nut Width: 1.653"

Electronics & Hardware

• Bridge Pickup: Seymour Duncan ’59 SH-1B
• Neck Pickup: Seymour Duncan ’59 SH-1N
• Controls: 2 x Volume (Push/Pull), Master Volume, 3-Way Switch
• Machine Heads: Schecter Locking
• Knobs: Metal Knurled w/ Set Screw
• Hardware: Chrome
• Strings: Ernie Ball Regular Slinky #2221 (.010-.046)
• Case Included: No
• Recommended Case: UltraCure G&G Hardcase (SGR-16UC-VI)