The ESP Guitar Company

wow, that's an awesome looking guitar!

Awesome looking....never seen one like it before.

That thing is sweet man :) That neck is more than likely a leftover from when ESP was building necks for the Kramer Focus line... same headstock shape and the same super-comfy neck profile. Very nice score though, I likey! Welcome to the board btw.

Thanks for the feedback. This would explain why I haven´t managed to track it down anywhere. I always thought it was a "plain" version of the earlier M-I George Lynch models. Would be fun to see more photos of the earlier ESP models on the forum in addition to the few that are up here already.

If those guitars have the NYC neckplate, they were more than likely assembled at the 48th St shop... around 1990-1991 they used those particular neck plates.

Nick,

Any with a NYC neckplate means 48th shop?

Not completely... ESP moved its entire US operation to NYC around those years so pretty much any US market guitar had that neckplate, at least from what I've observed...whether or not it was a NYC custom built or a Japan assembled guitar. I think.... :p

Awesome axe! I see it has the Synclair bridge too! I love that bridge, just as good as an OFR, at least all the ones I have played have been.

As for the 48th, if it has the plate chances are it was assembled in the 48th shop completely. If they guitar was a 48th custom made guitar, it had some form of 48th street written on the headstock instead of ESP. The 48th-plated ESPs were all ESP parts stock, just assembled in the shop, while the customs were ESP hardware, but completely crafted here in that shop.