The ESP Guitar Company

What a beautiful guitar.. 

Thank you ESP for providing Stainless frets on these models. What a great idea.. Killer.. Thanks again!

I just received this beautiful guitar this morning after 8 months of waiting, hallelujah! I live in France and the local distibutor chose not to sell this model, so I purchased it online in Germany and it is a korean model. Except minor scratches and some glue residue, the finish is quite nice, fretboard is smooth and the color is darker than in pictures. I did a short test and everything is working good, next step: explore the sounds of the Fishman which is new for me after several EMGs .

I've had mine for two days.  Obviously, very easy on the eyes.  The Fishman Fluence Open Core pickups are the sh$t.  Truly three distinct and awesome tones out of each pickup.  The classic PAF and 'Hot Rod' are great, as expected, but best of all for me, the 'single coil' voice is FANTASTIC!  'Funk #49' never sounded so good, at least from my hands   Fit, finish, fretwork...all perfect on my unit.  My expectations have been greatly exceeded, and they were pretty high after staring at the pictures for 6 months.  

Well done, ESP.

I received this gorgeous guitar Friday 5-21-2021! The fit and finish is immaculate. The action was a tad high but I set it down and it can get really low. So low in fact that I raised it back up some to my preference. Now the negative points. Issue #1 - The fluence open core classic pickups have 3 voices. PAF, Hotrod, and single coil. My guitar was wired to have only voices one and two. No single coil. The single coil wires for each pickup wasn't even wired in. The neck volume pot push/pull worked the neck pickup and the tone worked the bridge respectively for voice two, only. I find that a little bizarre. I rewired it and now it all works as intended voice wise. Issue #2 and the biggest issue - The neck pickup has barely any routing clearance under it. Once I set the action down I had to completely remove the foam pads from under the pickup in order to get it low enough to not touch the strings. The neck pickup is completely bottomed out atm and needs to go even lower but it's physically impossible. The way it sits right now the top of the neck pickup is almost dead even with the top of the fret board. I can't do anything about that because I'm not routing it deeper or paying to have it done. I'll remind that this is AFTER removing the foam under the pickup. It is manageable now but needs more travel because at this height the neck pickup is too loud. Photos will show the neck pickup bottomed out and the two wires taped together (blue & yellow) that control voice three aka single coil mode per pickup. 

Can you tell me if the maple top is a figured maple veneer over a maple top on a mahogany body or just a veneer on a mahogany body with no actual 'top'?