Help with my Explorer USA Custom
Help with my Explorer USA Custom
HI All, first post!!!
I have had this ESP Explorer USA Custom for ages now but I have no history and not seen anything like it anywhere else.. I paid £1000 about 10 years ago from a music shop in the UK.. It was second hand then??
It has a number I think its a "081" Stamped on the fretboard?? So I dont think this is a one off custom and may have been one of a number of guitars??
Came with a ESP hardcase.... Its also a bolt-on neck??
Anyone have any ideas??
If you need any more info and photos just ask, I would really like to know this history and age of this guitar???
Thanks again!!
Hmm, can't say as I've ever seen an ESP USA Explorer.
The bolt-on is reasonably common. The MX-II (or MX-250II) was never really released in the US. The only production model that made it here was the EXP model, which was a bolt-on model with ESP Custom on the headstock. It was the same body and neck design as the LTD models, and came out in the 97-2000ish time frame.
Does it say USA custom at the headstock? I've never seen one like that.
However, a US based shop ordered a few (10 comes to mind) natural EXP guitars in the late 90s or so. Drum City Guitar Land is the company, perhaps you could send them a few pictures and ask if your guitar is one from their run.