ESP NAMM 2020 thread

[Musiscience]

These are my favorite Exhibitions this year. The Indigo Snapper is the inverse of my Horizon. Very neat.

The Snapper is the star of the ESP booth IMO. Also your Horizon is probably the most beautiful ever made. I was looking for a picture of it to link in another thread last week and couldn't find it anymore for some reason.

 

[Ikke]

The Snapper is the star of the ESP booth IMO. Also your Horizon is probably the most beautiful ever made. I was looking for a picture of it to link in another thread last week and couldn't find it anymore for some reason.

Thanks for your kind words. There’s a picture here.

https://www.sevenstring.org/threads/esp-custom-club.313510/page-20

 

[iLike myMetalBlack]

Thanks for your kind words. There’s a picture here.

https://www.sevenstring.org/threads/esp-custom-club.313510/page-20

That’s not a guitar top that’s a glacier. Must be 400,000 years of history in it.

 

[Deep Blue]

Thanks for your kind words. There’s a picture here.

https://www.sevenstring.org/threads/esp-custom-club.313510/page-20

When I look at this I immediately think "sand dunes". It almost looks like a satellite image, I love it! Never would have thought of a finish/colour combo like that.

 

[bassplayer8]

This reverse kiesel bevel (bevels revealing flame maple underneath) makes me feel very uncomfortable for some reason. It just seems wrong.

 

[sunnyd88]

This reverse kiesel bevel (bevels revealing flame maple underneath) makes me feel very uncomfortable for some reason. It just seems wrong.

It's a sad waste of beautiful wood like who is gonna buy this for $15K, who even plays nine strings. It's just gonna sit in a dealer's stock for years and years and years until it inevitably sells for $3k

 

[sunnyd88]

This reverse kiesel bevel (bevels revealing flame maple underneath) makes me feel very uncomfortable for some reason. It just seems wrong.

Seriously, this Horizon would be freaking smoking hot if it were a six string.

 

[cardinal]

I love that guitar but at $15k, it isn't going to happen for me

 

[c7spheres]

I don't understand why it's $15k. I'm guessing a highly skilled luthiers name is attached?

 

[MaxOfMetal]

I don't understand why it's $15k. I'm guessing a highly skilled luthiers name is attached?

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.

 

[Necky379]

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:

 

[narad]

It's a sad waste of beautiful wood like who is gonna buy this for $15K, who even plays nine strings. It's just gonna sit in a dealer's stock for years and years and years until it inevitably sells for $3k

You don't understand the market for these. Random guys come into exhibition shops and grab multiple $10k instruments up at once. Sure, some will sit, but there's no rhyme or reason to what sells and for what. They certainly don't ever discount these significantly, and most will be gone within the year.

 

[yiti]

You don't understand the market for these. Random guys come into exhibition shops and grab multiple $10k instruments up at once. Sure, some will sit, but there's no rhyme or reason to what sells and for what. They certainly don't ever discount these significantly, and most will be gone within the year.

That is true. I was actually at the ESP booth near the start of Namm this year, and there was a guy who already there putting in his name to buy a large number of the exhibition models they had. 'I'll take this one, that one, that one, that one...' There was another guy with a clipboard keeping track. This is within the first 15 minutes of Namm on the first day it was open to the public. It could have been a dealer, but those guitars get snapped up quick that is for sure.

 

[eggy in a bready]

It was a dealer. All 4 of those NAMM models are on Reverb right now

 

[narad]

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...

 

[KnightBrolaire]

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...

Hey if Damien Hirst can sell a skull crusted in diamonds for millions of dollars to some chump then 15k for a guitar is nothing

 

[RBadel]

I was at NAMM2020 and just wanted to see what ESP has at their booth. Man they went totally nuts this year! there are so many crazy guitars in there! i made short booth run through video. if you guys want i can upload this vid here. (if you dont mind my german commentary )

 

[c7spheres]

I was at NAMM2020 and just wanted to see what ESP has at their booth. Man they went totally nuts this year! there are so many crazy guitars in there! i made short booth run through video. if you guys want i can upload this vid here. (if you dont mind my german commentary )

Yes! I'd like to see ESP's

 

[Hollowway]

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...

Dang, I didn’t realize the markup was that high. Now I wanna become a dealer just so I can buy more guitars.

 

[RBadel]

Yes! I'd like to see ESP's

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.