Start with the elegant, flowing archtop curves of the famed ESP Horizon shape, and then present it in our new Black Adamantium finish that evokes post-apocalyptic weaponry. Built by our acclaimed luthiers in Southern California, USA, the USA Horizon-II Black Adamantium gives you a unique duality of beauty and beast in a finely-crafted instrument. It offers set-thru construction for smooth access to the highest frets at 25.5” scale, pairing a carved-topped mahogany body with a three-piece, thin u-shaped maple neck. Other design features include an ebony fingerboard with 24 extra-jumbo Jescar stainless steel frets and abalone offset block inlays, and a fully bound body, fingerboard, and headstock.

The USA Horizon-II Black Adamantium also includes a set of hand-chosen components curated to offer the highest performance in playing feel and tone. These include Gotoh Magnum Lock tuners, a TonePros locking TOM bridge with string-thru-body design for excellent sustain and resonance, Dunlop Straplok buttons, and a bone nut. Its direct-mount pickups are Fishman’s innovative active Fishman Fluence Modern Humbucker active pickups (ceramic in the bridge and alnico in the neck), with push-pull control to select voicings, and black nickel covers that match the exceptional aesthetics of this guitar. Each pickup offers two voices. With the ceramic bridge pickup, Voice 1 is the ultimate high-output ceramic humbucker bridge pickup tone… crisp, searing crunch, tight bass with no mud, and a growl. Voice 2 delivers modern passive attack performance that has superbly organic distortion characteristics with outstanding dynamics and response. The alnico neck pickup’s Voice 1 is Fishman’s modern active high-output tone, offering the ideal active alnico sound: full, round, and boosted, but with unprecedented articulation and dynamics. Voice 2 gives you the crisp, clean and fluid neck humbucker tone you’ve always wanted.

The USA Horizon-II Black Adamantium includes a custom ESP USA form-fitting hardshell case, and an official Certificate of Authenticity from ESP.