ESP Custom Club!

[1b4n3z]

My Original Series M-II with Duncan Loomis pickups (fantastic)

And my order made (not my order though) M-II from 1998

She has Duncan Custom with a big ceramic magnet - awesome pickup. Doing drop Bb magnificently

 

[wiretap]

The Custom Custom and the Custom are some of my go-to's. Killer pickups. Now I just need to try the Custom 5, haha.

 

[feraledge]

I dig those M-IIs!
Isn't the Custom 5 pretty far from the Custom and Custom Custom? I had the Custom 5 in the LTD Elite Horizon III I used to have (wish I still did). I was fine enough with it to leave it in, but if that guitar was still around I would have probably gone with something else. The Custom remains pretty appealing for me, but I don't recall playing a guitar with it in person. We need an SSO pickup swap meet.

 

[wiretap]

I dig those M-IIs!
Isn't the Custom 5 pretty far from the Custom and Custom Custom? I had the Custom 5 in the LTD Elite Horizon III I used to have (wish I still did). I was fine enough with it to leave it in, but if that guitar was still around I would have probably gone with something else. The Custom remains pretty appealing for me, but I don't recall playing a guitar with it in person. We need an SSO pickup swap meet.

Yeah, they are both very different. Custom Custom I like a little more (it's not ceramic like the Custom, and also less output), I've got it in various guitars including my custom eclipse in this thread. But I like both of them a lot, probably my favorite Duncan humbuckers I've tried despite being quite different from each other. There's also some Duncan forum user-created variations of the customs with different magnets (I think one they refer to as the custom 8, but you gotta do the mod yourself)

For what it's worth my bands previous record, Wrongdoers, I recorded almost all my guitar tracks with an Eclipse II with a Custom in it, so you can hear it on those recordings (we don't layer our main tracks like some bands so it's a decent enough representation).

 

[bhakan]

Here's my original series. I really gotta get some quality pictures of it.

http://s1341.photobucket.com/user/bhakan/media/100_4967_zps8bef3298.jpg.html

 

[feraledge]

Thanks for the tip Wiretap, will listen to that.
Awesome Viper! Is that a more recent Original Series?

 

[bhakan]

It's from 2006, they haven't made it for a couple years iirc.

 

[Ikke]

My Original Series M-II with Duncan Loomis pickups (fantastic)

And my order made (not my order though) M-II from 1998

She has Duncan Custom with a big ceramic magnet - awesome pickup. Doing drop Bb magnificently

Your M-II's are gorgeous!!!!!

 

[Ikke]

Here's my original series. I really gotta get some quality pictures of it.

The Viper is soooooooooo pretty!

 

[Ikke]

My Original Series SL7. Mine is from 2004. Best guitar I've ever played. And it's ultra heavy (just the way I like it).

Thanks for the tip Wiretap, will listen to that.
Awesome Viper! Is that a more recent Original Series?

They haven't made SL7's for a while I think. Mine (and Bhakan's) don't have any stamp/seal on the back like the newer OS guitars.

 

[bhakan]

My Original Series SL7. Mine is from 2004. Best guitar I've ever played. And it's ultra heavy (just the way I like it).



They haven't made SL7's for a while I think. Mine (and Bhakan's) don't have any stamp/seal on the back like the new OS guitars.

That thing is sleek, looks amazing. Mine is super heavy as well, I always wondered if that was just mine in particular or the model in general. I was worried when I got it that the weight would be a problem but it just feels right. Makes everything else feel like a toy.

Also, mine does not have the stamp either, just a serial number.

 

[feraledge]

Ikke, string thru Viper 7 in red with arch top just popped up on the ESP feed. Is that your secret build??

 

[Ikke]

Ikke, string thru Viper 7 in red with arch top just popped up on the ESP feed. Is that your secret build??

 

[feraledge]

Sweeeeett!!! Is that like the SG Diablo carve?

 

[Ikke]

I don't know lol. I just asked them to make me Viper with some horizon curves lol

 

[feraledge]

The most trusting person on earth! Who did you order it through?

 

[Ikke]

There were some details that had to get worked out but it all eventually got figured out. And I went through a local dealer. I didn't go through an internet based dealer

 

[Ikke]

I'm gonna pick it up tomorrow. Expect an NGD. Would've picked it up today but I'm at a concert as I post this

 

[feraledge]

I'm gonna pick it up tomorrow. Expect an NGD. Would've picked it up today but I'm at a concert as I post this

Awesome!! Really stoked to see and hear more about it. Very curious to see some profile shots of that body too and know how it feels. My Viper FR GAS is hot right now.

 

[wiretap]

That viper you got is cool, it does have the kind of Diablo style arch, but I think the viper looks way better.

Here's the Diablo: