I own one, unmodded, and its a very nice guitar, I've played a few gigs with it, but I'd change the pickups and the tuners. The neck is thick, which fits me well, its not too heavy but not too light, and its got a thick tone to it. I have some pics of mine, my avatar is the 12th fret marker.
George fisher has a tree trunk for a neck. he resembles my uncle. haha. for how low they tune they should just use sevens. at least for their most recent stuff.
I've been wanting to get my hands on an 8 string, I don't know how well I'd do with it. for some reason the link didn't work for me, but I'm not on my home computer so I'll try it later.
I never really paid much attention to In flames, but now that I think about it, their sound changed drastically. I saw them when they were on Gigantour with Megadeth and when the played one of their old songs back to back with one of their newer songs, there was a significant difference. I don't...
I'd go with the ESP, but I'm not a big Ibanez or Schector fan. I play an H-207, and for the money, it's a wonderful guitar. I can't say much about the SC-207, besides the fact that I've never really played an ESP I haven't liked. Some more than others, but you get my point. Esp's seem to come...