Hey George. I used to have 2 USA made Schecter Custrom Shop CETs. They were damns nice guitars! Don't even get me started on whay I sold them... I'll check out the Schecter website.
Those USA ones are awesome guitars. I used to live right near their custom shop. We'd go down and watch them work...pretty cool! They have two different models..one looks like a stealth fighter type thing...I don't care for that one. The other one is more traditional looking.
can't go wrong with a gibson, here is my 1982 flying V, had the floyd installed in 83, and put the D-tuna on when they first came out, still a great guitar