The ESP Guitar Company

This guitar blew me away. I was completely expecting to replace the ESP pickups with a Seymour Duncan Custom and Custom Staggered Strat, but the stock pickups, especially the stock middle humbucker, sound great as-is! I especially like positions 2 and 3. I use this middle pickup more than a strat's middle pickup by far. The JB sounds amazing too, but we all knew that already.

This is a fantastic guitar - from tone, to feel, to design, to beauty (although admittedly, if I could find an original green SC-20, I would buy it in a second). The pickup selector switch is perfectly placed with just enough resistance and same for the knobs.   Cant recommend it enough, its the one I pick up every time I want to just play. I love it, my friends love it.  And its a fantastic build for the money, Ive got way more expensive guitars that I go to less than this beauty.

Just going to add this because it's needed but Carl N is an absolute badass, dude is always there to answer questions and to help peeps make a great choice when it comes to adding a guitar to your life. Just bought my first ESP yesterday. Stoked since I've wanted one for over a decade and yesterday, I went for it. Stoked!

Another wasted opportunity. The sonic blue Stef color was miles off from the original and now the burst is miles off from the original. Add that to the lack of a body carve and it makes me wonder who makes the decisions around there. At least try to reproduce Stef’s guitars with the proper color and carve if you want to sell guitars. P.s. Carl N is still a dickhead even though you deleted the sc-20 sonic blue thread. Fuck You Carl! 

An affordable version of this model would be sick, love the color