NGD: got some midnight sparkles right here

[capoeiraesp]

God I love the old LTDs.
It's a 1999 ESP LTD M207 in Midnight Blue. I scored this one off of Bradthelegend and received it within 2 weeks from the good ol' USA. Thanks dude!
Obviously I haven't had a chance to play it yet and it is definitely in need of a good bit of cleaning and some of my Macgyver upgrades. I look forward to updating this thread in the coming days with some nice pics of a clean and refreshed guitar.
This will be used as an interim 7-string until I go and build my own Multiscale 7 at Ormsby Guitars building course in January.

That some oldness right there.

 

[cronux]

damn, i love those old LTD's

they have awesome necks

 

[capoeiraesp]

Definitely very comfortable necks on these.
I'm about 2/3 of the way through the setup. The frets and fretboard look substantially better. It has a very nice piece of rosewood. I have also installed a Duncan distortion and started stringing her up but I need a 64 guage for the 7th.

 

[LolloBlaskhyrt]

Congrats!! OBG!!

 

[capoeiraesp]

Looking a lot better after a good fret cleaning, removal of old fretboard gunk and some lemon oil.

And we're almost there

Ghetto trem-stopper

And a Seymour Duncan SH-6 distortion

 

[Syriel]

Haha. Awesome tremstopper idea.

And HNGD.

 

[GXPO]

Haha. Awesome tremstopper idea.

And HNGD.

Agreed, I never thought of that...

HNGD dude! Got any other plans for it or are you happy with the cleaning?

 

[capoeiraesp]

Cheers guys. I'm probably not going to do much more to it because I'll probably sell it in a few months to fund my guitar building course. It sounds friggin huge in drop g# and this is the first time I've used a Duncan distortion so I'm a happy camper.

 

[metallic1]

the trem stop is a cool idea dude!

 

[exo]

Genius trem stopper idea.

 

[j0eyaces]

Genius trem stopper!!

 

[capoeiraesp]

It works incredibly well. I actually have found it to be more solid than the one be used before which is a simple L-shape stopper from trem upgrades. Pushing down on the bridge results in no pitch change at all. Most importantly it's brass = moar sustain and brootal tonez.

 

[8track]

congrats! looks great after the clean up

there is an m-207 here on craigslist for $200 i really want to snag, but its like a 6 hour drive one way

 

[RideFour15]

I think I know what I'm doing now instead of buying a Tremol-no! Great idea!

 

[skisgaar]

Harley from Epic Meal Time can provide me with the correct words for that "ghetto" tremstopper: " FUCKIN' SMART"

 

[bradthelegend]

The guitar looks great, man! I'm glad it found a loving home.

And as everyone has said, that latch trem stop is brilliant.