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[eelblack2]

There are two guys that way more ESP’s than me, if you can belieedat. Scott for sure, he’s that guy with the “he and George photos”, and there’s the other guy I bought those Jackson 7 Deadlies from….he has all the high end CS’s, too. I usually Dodge him at NAMM by staying near the exhibitions, but he always gets the cool Pirate themed ones….

 

[Genocyber]

My babies...

 

[MaxOfMetal]

I’m super confused by the ESP USA configuration tool on their site. For some reason, I can’t select gold EMG pickups for a USA horizon. However, I can select gold EMG’s for the M-II (direct-mount) and the Eclipse (ring mount). Can anybody think of a logical reason other than an oversight with their web app that this would be? I’d get it if it was a direct-mount vs ring-mount thing but the other models seem to allow it.

Example:

The web configurator is kinda junky.

If you email a dealer they'll get you the full options list for everything. There's nothing really interesting not on the web.

 

[Ikke]

Disclaimer: These are not my ESP's. Putting the photos here so others can find them in the future, since these are long since gone at this point.

@Samark

Here are the photos you requested. I've included one other reversed-teardrop, Mirage-body custom.

 

[Ikke]

@Samark

 

[Ikke]

@Samark

The second fancy one I've seen pop up many times over the years. Changed hands a few times.

Anyways, cheers.

 

[Samark]

Thanks a lot @Ikke
Really appreciate it

 

[Creature]

My first post here on SSO. Here's my first ESP which is this 2002 Horizon-CTM I got a few weeks ago:

 

[Lan]

Wow, the top on that is amazing. It’s in really great condition, and the frets seem great for 2002 as well!

 

[smithsdot]

Looking into being an ESP owner soon, saw this, which looks like a late 80s 48th st NYC lawsuit mirage deluxe. Has had a refret and has an original floyd instead of the original sinclair trem, and duncans. Seems to be in ok condition with a ton of paint swirl, and not too many chips and dings. Definitely a players guitar and not clean

Asking $1999 for it, but I feel thats a bit steep, even in todays market. What do people think? Could get the LTD 87 series mirage for half the price new...

 

[Creature]

Wow, the top on that is amazing. It’s in really great condition, and the frets seem great for 2002 as well!

It's almost flawless, really. There's two tiny dings on the top and a couple of small cracks on the pickup rings, but no scratches or any other signs of damage/wear that I can see. Those little protective plastic sheets are still on the Gotoh locking tuners:

 

[AMOS]

 

[soul_lip_mike]

I wish they stopped doing pickup rings on Horizons. I think they’d look better without.

 

[narad]

I wish they'd just stop making HH horizons. Or stop putting all he nice quilt tops on the HH ones. A horizon is in its idealized form when it's HS, with a pickup ring around the humbucker. Or even better, slant S with 27 frets.

 

[Lan]

Horizons can be frustrating like that. I want a string through, black ESP original series, but they just don’t make them string through, or with any sort of body binding.

The standard series does have body binding and string through, but doesn’t have that awesome looking top carve that the originals do.

The ESP usa horizons, have the string through, middle of the road top carve (which is fine!) and body binding, but are impossible to find in any color that isn’t super crazy rainbow neon burst

I just want to have my cake and eat it too, without having to make a custom order for said cake, and wait three years haha

* Edit - I’d buy a hard tail Horizon I hands down, no questions asked, but the only option on those is FR

 

[John]

 

[Andromalia]

Haven't played that girl for years, time for some spring cleaning and back into the rotation she goes.

 

[narad]

Haven't played that girl for years, time for some spring cleaning and back into the rotation she goes.
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Ooooh that's cool

 

[eelblack2]

Yo Narad….

 

[narad]

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That looks insane but at the same time I'm really confused they're calling it liquid metal green. It really looks like a different process? This looks different than liquid metal pink/red/silver/blue. Did you ask them to mix in multiple colors?

EDIT: I actually might be going to ESP tomorrow to drop off another Horizon for a green refinish. Was thinking to do kawasaki green metallic... now I'm torn. The metallic green looks super nice, but this definitely looks more custom or expensive. It has an immediate exhibition model look.

EDIT 2: Dude, gloss black back next time ;-)