The ESP Guitar Company

Bought this guitar a month ago and can’t stop playing it.

it’s a beauty from all aspects.

the fingers on the fretboard just slide along.

im playing it through a peavey 6505mh and just sounds perfect.

I hsve owned a few ESP guitars this is the first non custom shop and i am very impressed it plays just as good as my alexi scythe custom shop only thing i find strange is my pots dont have push pull which is weird but maybe its not supposed to it has the satin neck so it cant be that old thinking it sat for a while and its an older model but the satin should be on the newer models maybe someone had them switched and changed their mind and didnt buy it on a layaway kind of deal who know but its a great guitar. 

I have this guitar. It is incredible. It has the best non custom shop fret work I have ever seen. The ebony fingerboard is so well polished I can see my reflection in it. The only down side I should have considered before buying it is that it has a sticky painted neck. BUT..the perfect frets and fingerboard are so smooth together one forgets about the sticky neck very quickly. This is my FIRST ESP product. I thought the neck was going to be half as thick as it actually is. "Thin U shape"? The thickness is fine but that description of it is quite a reach. The PUPS sound incredible. Came with outstanding hard case.

Is this guitar still in production? If so, any chance it'll be produced with a satin neck? Thanks!

Carl I just got my delivery today. (Also bought and ESP USA from sweetwater a couple months ago - I'm in love with your brand!) Wow. This E-II...What a rock and metal machine. It plays amazing. Really, vicious tones and great, great feel. But...here's the thing.

If you notice, string 1 and 2 and 3 are literally touching the TOM bridge, literally like riding it, behind the saddle. I think this is a no-no, right?I worry about the down-angle. I mean...the whole point of a string-thru-body design is to increase sustain...which is clearly being infringed upon. Isn't this angle too steep and my strings - especially 1, 2 and 3 are bottoming out at the back of the bridge. This adds MORE friction points to the strings (bad for tuning stability & sustain) – and I'll be breaking more strings, right? It's creating like a little string "plateau". I can actually hear the strings rubbing the bridge back there (when I touch them back there, I can hear a rubbing sound where they will soon wear the bridge finish!) When I tune I hear PING! and it's coming from the bridge, not the nut.

I would also add that a really steep break angle, beside deforming the bridge, also tends to make the guitar's action a bit stiff...as a general rule a less steep break angle gives you a slinkier, easier to play feel. And, strings touching the back of the bridge, beside creating sonic and intonation problems also increase the likelihood of breakage. (PING!)

Now...the thing is set up beautifully and intonated really well...so...is this normal? And Yes, I have lowered the bridge already to adjust string height to taste...I can't lower it anymore without riding on the frets...I have never had a string-thru the body before and I wonder...did the luthiers mess up and put the string thru holes too close to the bridge....or, the bridge too far back? It's really weird and I've heard, at least in the world of les pauls, this is NOT something you want, so I'm concerned. It wasn't a cheap guitar to say the least, and it's my dream metal machine! - Andrew (help!)