ESP MX-220 or MX-250

Frans M.Frans M.
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    ESP MX-220 or MX-250

    Hi!

     

    Can someone teel me if my ESP MX-??? is the MX250 or the MX220. I have, as you see in the pictures a 1998 ESP EXP that has a bit different shape, ecpecially the lower "wing" wich is a bit rounder than in the EXP. As I seen here on the Forum I think it is made in -94 but unceratain of that too. You could also see that the pots and hum swith are in line contrary to most of the ESP MX´s I´ve seen before. Could this be a 80´s MX? or what is it? When looking on pics of Hetfeilds "Fuck 'em" black Explorer it seems most similar..?

    Compare the Check out the knobs, not as the others I¨ve seen29 aug 1994, number 63 that day?

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    Pushead
    Pushead wrote

    It's a 220 body shape.  I don't know the year.  It knob layout is similar to Gibson, but the earliest MX designs I'm aware of have the same step at the neck joint as a Gibson as well.  It wasn't until later that they moved to a level neck-joint.

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      Frans M.
      Frans M. wrote

      The headstock looks more of an ESP MX-250 doesnt it? the 220 is more of a banana if I recall?

      Think its made 23.08.1991 and it´s the 463 guitar made..?

       

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        Tondog
        Tondog wrote

        First time I've seen that knob layout on an ESP. The headstock is definitely a 250 type. 

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          GuitarsCollector
          GuitarsCollector wrote

          Yes is a mid 250 and mid 220...

          Like the Hetfield's:

          "FUK EM UP" for example...

          Or identical to Hetfield's "Seymour Duncan"...

           

          Great guitar...

          If it was a "good pot scheme" it would cost a lot of money!!!

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            Tondog
            Tondog wrote

            Nah. FUK EM UP was a 220 that he got in late 1988 or early '89. I saw that one first-hand in June of 1989.

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              GuitarsCollector
              GuitarsCollector wrote
              Tondog wrote:

              Nah. FUK EM UP was a 220 that he got in late 1988 or early '89. I saw that one first-hand in June of 1989.

               

              Look carefully at the headstock of fuk em up...no banana'!!'

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                Tondog
                Tondog wrote
                GuitarsCollector wrote:

                Nah. FUK EM UP was a 220 that he got in late 1988 or early '89. I saw that one first-hand in June of 1989.

                Look carefully at the headstock of fuk em up...no banana'!!'

                That is correct but the banana headstock was really only a product of the EET FUK style explorers and there were others with the 200 body style but had the later smaller headstock....like the one above.

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                  Frans M.
                  Frans M. wrote

                  It has everything the "fuck em up" guitar has except for the pots/knobs/switch that looks identical to the mx250 SD u linked. It has ebony fretboard for example.. So I reckon a late mx220 that seems unusual or rare seeing the knob scheme..?

                   

                  thanx for the links

                   

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