The Fake ESP Thread
The Fake ESP Thread
Pushead and I are here to help verify ESP and LTD guitars. If you have, or are looking to buy a guitar that you're unsure of, post pictures and questions in this thread. Please post clear pictures of the front and back of the headstock, the fretboard, and the front and back of the body. Preferably before you buy anything.
Anyone else is free to offer suggestions on authenticity. If you answer a post, please tell us why you think it's real or fake.
THank you, sorry for a late reply but I am a little bit worried do. Purchased the guitar. it plays really nice but two things nags me. One is the binding, it looks really bad to be honest. Might be that it's just played a lot but still. The other one is the case. I have never seen one with the plate with ESP written on it together with the URL. Might be that it was standard in 08. I hate the nagging feeling of that I might have purchsed a dud.
Hi Everyone, (First post so sorry if I get anything wrong here!)
So I'm looking to purchase an ESP Horizon...looks like a 2007, and I can't see anything in particular that tells me it's a fake, but obviously there's some great helpful, knowledgable people here that I'd love an opinion from too! Interestingly, it looks like it's a see thru black with a Floyd Rose and Seymour Duncans. I can't find anything that resembles that spec in the ESP catalogues until 2012 - might that be an issue?
Thanks everyone in advance!!
From now on, when someone sends pictures like these, with the headstock cropped out of most of the photos and terrible framing, I'm just going to assume that the guitar is fake. It can't be that hard for anyone who has ever looked at a photo of a guitar online to realize they need to put the entire guitar in the photo.
It's probably fine, but there's something about the rounded edge of the headstock that bothers me. It's likely a legit 2009 MH-1000.
Alexi looks good to me.