The ESP Guitar Company

Alexi Laiho, guitarist and frontman for Bodom After Midnight, recently took delivery of two new guitars made for him at the ESP Custom Shop in Tokyo, Japan. Both of the new guitars are based on the same guitar shape that Alexi has used for his ESP and LTD Signature Series guitars. Alexi is seen above receiving one of the two new guitars from Finnish ESP distributor Musamaailma Oy.

Both of Alexi's new ESP Customs are in Purple Fade finish. One of them features the same single pickup design with similar dual-pinstriping as seen in his previous and current Signature Series models. 

The second ESP Custom that Alexi had us build offers a few variations. One is the irregular striping design that is unique to this custom guitar. Alexi also added a second pickup in this guitar, with an EMG single coil in the neck position accessed with a selector switch, and the guitar also features a scalloped fingerboard in the top five frets. Like Alexi's other ESP signature guitars, both models use neck-thru-body construction, and  include a Floyd Rose Original bridge, an ESP MM-04 Active Boost Switch, and sawtooth fingerboard inlays.