MH-1000
MH-1000
BLACK OCEAN
Guitars in the LTD 1000 Series are designed to offer the tone, feel, looks, and quality that working professional musicians need in an instrument. For a truly spectacular example of the MH shape, the MH-1000 delivers it with an outstanding arched quilted maple top in a transparent Black Ocean finish. White binding helps define the outline of this excellent guitar, and ties into the look of its chrome hardware. Using neck-thru construction, the MH-1000 pairs a mahogany body to a three-piece extra thin u-shaped neck. The neck features a compound radius for maximum speed and comfort. Its Macassar ebony fingerboard features 24 extra-jumbo stainless steel frets and offset white pearloid block inlays. Components on the MH-1000 include a Floyd Rose 1000SE bridge with stainless steel screws, Grover tuners, and a set of direct-mount Fishman Fluence Modern Humbuckers (alnico in the neck position, ceramic in the bridge), with a push-pull control to activate each pickup’s second voicing, and brushed stainless steel covers.
I ordered one in Nov ‘24 and the dealer received it about a week ago. Unfortunately, the quilted maple looked nothing like what is seen on the pictures here. After some research i realized that all the tops that looked good were Made In Korea, mine was Made In Indonesia. The “LTD” logo on the headstalk also was crooked. I was so disappointed after waiting that long and what would have cost me $2500 CDN. I took home home an EC-1000T Charcoal Burst instead since that one looked much better. But even this EC-1000T has a bit of unfinished painting between the neck pickup and under the fretboard. I can live with it, but it’s pretty crazy how expensive these guitars are now with these discrepancies.
I started playing guitar in 2002 with a ESP Viper baritone. I then shortly added the explorer…. Ex350 maybe? I was happy with them but thought the quality wasn’t the best. I ended up selling them for Gibson. I still have my gothic explorer and Les Paul to this day and absolutely love them. I ended up swearing off ESP.
I now own 4 Gibsons (2 Les Paul’s and 2 explorers, one of which is a 83) and was itching for a 5th with a whammy bar. I was intent on Ibanez and found, and played some, that were great but nothing that “sold me” on them. So I started to cast a wider net.
the ESP andromeda colors caught my eye and loved how the EC played- but no whammy bar. I then saw the mh1000 black ocean and fell in love with the eye candy. I wanted standard frets, other than that, this was everything I was looking for, and it had the mojo (as slash says) that I was looking for.
I’ve owned this guitar for a little bit of time now and it fills the need that I wanted it for flawlessly. Whatever was going on in the early 00s with my experience, the thing that held me back from buying more ESPs, doesn’t appear to applicable to this solid guitar. Very happy with my choice!
This guitar caught my eye months ago so once it was in stock I had to have it. Just delivered a few days ago and I cannot stress enough how beautifully crafted this guitar is. Flawless in every way. It plays fast and smooth and the arched top makes it incredibly comfortable. Combined with the perfect body are the Fishman pickups that makes every note resonate warm but bright when clean, crisp but obtuse when distorted. The push-pull feature gives you a little more to play with as well. By far the greatest guitar I've ever played.
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