There you go
like i said please ignore my german commentary. i made this vid for a friend of mine who couldnt go to NAMM.
Thanks! Those are incredible. I really like that outer space paint on that V.
There you go
like i said please ignore my german commentary. i made this vid for a friend of mine who couldnt go to NAMM.
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Love the new Black Metal additions and the Mirage Deluxe ‘87 may be in my future when they start coming up used...but damn them for not releasing this one:
Damn so then what does it actually cost for ESP to make an Original Series or Custom Shop guitar? How much does a dealer pay? I kinda already thought that markups were pretty crazy but I had no idea they were that crazy. Are the luthiers being paid in peanuts? Then again, I shouldn't be surprised. ESP went corporate a long long time ago.Yea, the guys going around at NAMM and taking them all are dealers, and the dealer markup for ESPs is crazy. I don't know what it's like on exhibition models, but if I had to extrapolate, they're probably paying about $5k for those $12-15k models.
But I'm just talking about here in the ESP shops. I've seen like 8 or so exhibitions, come in the next week, 3 are gone. Ask what happened, find out one dude from China just came in and grabbed them all.
Guitars that are that extravagant defy conventional commercial wisdom. I might think to myself, who wants a macbook studded with swarovski crystal? No one. No one has $100k or something to spend on something so stupid....and yet if I go searching...
It's an exhibition piece. Over the top build with an over the top price.
This isn't something meant to sell. It's to be photographed and shown off like an art piece.
The dealer who got it is The Axe Palace. I assure you he got it to sell it. He's in business not collecting. Now if the eventual buyer plays it or just displays it is a different question. Also have you confirmed the price with the dealer? If you're actually seriously interested contact them and discuss what they can do on price.
Is it just me or there is no updates at all to the EII range this year?
What I mean is, these are built sort of like halo cars. They're more about showing off what the Custom Shop can do, then simply selling.
Folks are going to post pictures and talk about these guitars for years, regardless of who buys it and when.
It's not just you. No change to the E-II line at the moment.
I read on the ESP instagram that the reason why there are no E-II releases so far is because they have a humongous backlog of orders they have to fill from last year. That same post said that they would release the new E-II models in July or sometime around then depending on when they are up to date with their back orders.
just saw this E-II M-II Seven (Black with Red Binding) on the Big Boss JP E-II Page. https://bigboss.jp/store/products/detail/10797![]()
Yea, the guys going around at NAMM and taking them all are dealers, and the dealer markup for ESPs is crazy. I don't know what it's like on exhibition models, but if I had to extrapolate, they're probably paying about $5k for those $12-15k models.
But I'm just talking about here in the ESP shops. I've seen like 8 or so exhibitions, come in the next week, 3 are gone. Ask what happened, find out one dude from China just came in and grabbed them all.
Guitars that are that extravagant defy conventional commercial wisdom. I might think to myself, who wants a macbook studded with swarovski crystal? No one. No one has $100k or something to spend on something so stupid....and yet if I go searching...
just saw this E-II M-II Seven (Black with Red Binding) on the Big Boss JP E-II Page. https://bigboss.jp/store/products/detail/10797![]()
Now, this is a bummer. At thomann the LTD M Black Metal WITH floyd is 739€ atm. However, the new LTD M Black Metal WITHOUT floyd is listed for 1099€. I find this, please excuse the expression, absolutely outrageous: The guitar has the exactly same specs, is (most likely) made at the same factory and only differs in one point: A hardtail bridge instead of a floyd. This is less routing work to be done and the Hipshot bridge is surely less expensive than the floyd.
The 739€ for the floyded guitar is nice, but 1099€ for the hardtail is just stupid. Sorry, had to vent a tad. Realy liked the hardtail version, but not for this money.
Thomann does this with a lot of shit. Their prices fluctuate like the stock market. They have guitars of the exact same models that cost 50 euros more for the white version over the black version.Now, this is a bummer. At thomann the LTD M Black Metal WITH floyd is 739€ atm. However, the new LTD M Black Metal WITHOUT floyd is listed for 1099€. I find this, please excuse the expression, absolutely outrageous: The guitar has the exactly same specs, is (most likely) made at the same factory and only differs in one point: A hardtail bridge instead of a floyd. This is less routing work to be done and the Hipshot bridge is surely less expensive than the floyd.
The 739€ for the floyded guitar is nice, but 1099€ for the hardtail is just stupid. Sorry, had to vent a tad. Realy liked the hardtail version, but not for this money.