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Originally Posted by PepticDust
I play a lot of alternative rock. Nirvana, Bush, Creed, Static-X, Collective Soul, Finger Eleven and some metal too. The weight isn't a problem, I have a LP copy, the weight was hard at first, then I got a wider strap.
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Wow... OK, those bands play a pretty wide range of guitars. I tallied up 16 guitars used by those bands, and got: 6 Fenders, 3 Gibsons, 2 Agiles, 1 Yamaha, 1 Mosrite, 1 ESP and 2 custom-made.
There was one LP, one LP-like Agile, two ES335s, and an ESP-made Gibson Explorer lookalike.
Three Strats or Fat Strats, two Telecasters, one Jazzmaster. (Cobain's two custom guitars were also Fender-like, one Strat-shaped with a single humbucker, one a weird mix of a Fender Mustang and a Jaguar.)
If I were to make any generalizations about that, it would be that the rhythm players tended towards Gibsons and more laid-back sort of Fenders (like the Jazzmaster), and the lead players leaned towards more mainstream Fenders or other single-coils. Which is pretty normal. A fairly high percentage of them liked unusual-looking guitars -- only 7 out of 16 looked like Strats, Teles or LPs.
None of them played 7-stringers that I noticed. No comment on the Schecter -- they seem to be fine guitars, but I don't really know whether a 7-stringer works in your musical niche or not.
I'd point more in the direction of the Epi if you were going to play more rhythm, the Strat if more lead, or the Mustang for lead + a fashion statement. Out of the ones you've picked, anyway. If you're handy with a soldering iron you could consider something like a Hamer or Agile and have enough left over to buy a couple of ultra-premium pickups, but that path isn't for everyone.