ESP 2024

[Albake21]

Hopefully ESP LTD 2024 improves upon ESP LTD 2023 because mine was the worst I've ever owned from a workmanship perspective on a number of levels, starting with this which arrived to me hidden by a painted shim piece affixed with masking tape. Good times.

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Whoa! I would have lost it... What was the resolution with this guitar? Were you able to return it/get ESP to replace it?

 

[SkeletronPrime]

That's shocking. Bad QC is one thing, intentionally hiding a catastrophic mistake is another.

 

[nightsprinter]

Whoa! I would have lost it... What was the resolution with this guitar? Were you able to return it/get ESP to replace it?

Well, a retailer gave me like $150 off and offered to take a look at it. The problems were numerous outside of this and I knew the instrument itself couldn't be improved beyond the firewood which it was. I got so angry about the entire ordeal that I swore off LTD for a lifetime and sold the $1400 instrument on Reverb for like $600 with full transparency and a full fret level crown and polish. Buyer loved it somehow.

I could've raised cane and sorted it I am sure. But I moved forward into a new mentality where I don't accept anything other than what an instrument is being marketed as. If there are problems, it gets sent back immediately. I don't compromise any longer.

 

[nightsprinter]

The likelihood someone would completely disassemble an evertune (like me) was probably slim enough that this "fix" seemed viable. They have to meet volume I guess. I take apart everything I get looking for issues now. I was an OK tech before all this, but I'm a lot better now. So there's a bright side I guess. Unfortunately, I took the L on this one. In retrospect, I should have created an Instagram and posted about it like ive seen others suggest to see if the company would help me out somehow. Hopefully there won't be a next time though. But I'll keep sending stuff back to online retailers when they send me faulty stuff. And I hate to say it, most of what I've gotten in the past year has clear and present issues.

 

[nightsprinter]

Hopefully ESP LTD 2024 improves upon ESP LTD 2023 because mine was the worst I've ever owned from a workmanship perspective on a number of levels, starting with this which arrived to me hidden by a painted shim piece affixed with masking tape. Good times.

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Here we go- I found a pic of what it looked like as-received before I "ripped off the bandaid" so to speak. This entire guitsr was cut with the dullest CNC/drill bits known to man. also, I stand corrected that this was a 2022 model. Time flies, complaint remains the same.

 

[BusinessMan]

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[Zado]

 

[nerdywhale]

He got salsa on his guitar.

 

[Zado]

If they added the spikes in the official production model it could become the cheesiest metal thing ever

 

[HeHasTheJazzHands]

who tf is that

 

[Zado]

Dont recall the name of the guy, he plays in one of those bands with catchy wannabe names. We Did Something might be the band.

 

[HeHasTheJazzHands]

Looks like that's a heavily modded Black Metal EX7

 

[He_Ma]

Slaughter to prevail is his band

 

[somethingsomething]

YOU DON"T WANNA MESS WITH THAT GUY, HE'S THE RABBIT FROM DONNIE DARKO.

 

[Zado]

One can dream.

 

[Yul Brynner]

It's just a broken image link.

 

[Albake21]

Yeah @Zado, your image links have been broken for me for a few weeks now. They weirdly work if I open SSO on Edge, but not on Firefox.

 

[JimF]

Strangely working fine for me...

One can dream.

 

[soul_lip_mike]

use postimg.cc to host images is my go-to

 

[Zado]

Yeah @Zado, your image links have been broken for me for a few weeks now. They weirdly work if I open SSO on Edge, but not on Firefox.

Mmm that's weird. I'll use some hosting sites from now on. Thanks @JimF for posting it again