Well, the thing is that the Schecters are covered in a million acre thick layer of murky, yellow-tinted clearcoat that doesn't reveal what is actually underneath. You can't see any grain or colour variations so it ends up looking like featureless opague paint rather than maple. The Suhr actually shows signs of being made from actual wood.
I don't often post here, but I thought this one might deserve it: a confirmed Steinberger GM-4TA prototype with a "black cherry" finish. "Prototype" here refers to experiments with various finishes and exotic woods, which were done - exclusively by U.S. luthiers - during the late Music Yo days. The bad news: they never made it into series models. The good news: a few of these prototypes exist