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ESP LTD SN-1000 FR - Black Blast

Solidbody Electric Guitar with Swamp Ash Body, Maple Neck, Maple Fingerboard, H/S/S Pickups, and Floyd Rose Tremolo - Black Blast
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Sandblasted Snapper-style LTD with Genuine Floyd Rose Tremolo

With its classic body style and sandblasted finish, the ESP LTD SN-1000 FR is an instant head-turner. Its stunning good looks will catch eyes, while it fills up ears with an exceptionally focused and harmonically rich tone. A powerful HSS configuration of two Seymour Duncan Hot Stat single-coils and a Seymour Duncan Pegasus humbucker excels for aggressive rhythm playing and searing lead work. For truly pyrotechnic players, the LTD SN-1000 FR sports a super-fast Thin U-profile roasted maple neck with hearty stainless-steel frets and upper scalloping. And, the LTD SN-1000 FR is equipped with a Floyd Rose 1000SE tremolo bridge, so you can pull off massive dive-bombs without throwing your guitar out of tune in the middle of a performance. Guitarists at Sweetwater are impressed with the LTD SN-1000 FR’s value ratio — it packs a ton of high-performance features into an affordably priced package. Find out for yourself why people are buzzing about the LTD SN-1000 FR!

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Brilliant tonewood combo and deluxe hardware

A total knockout, the LTD SN-1000 FR has a stunning sandblasted swamp ash body in ESP’s traditional Snapper guitar shape. Not only does it look incredible, but it also projects a bright, crisp tonality, with a punchy midrange, and a tight low end. Complementing that is a gorgeous roasted maple neck, with an ultra-comfortable Thin U profile, and a pleasant snappiness. Shredologists will appreciate the upper scalloping starting at fret 17, which enhances articulation in the higher registers.

Aggressive and blistering HSS configuration

The LTD SN-1000 FR comes loaded with two Seymour Duncan Hot Strat single-coil pickups and a Seymour Duncan Pegasus humbucker. In the bridge position, the Pegasus has impressive sonic clarity, due to its custom-wound coils and Alnico V magnet. The Hot Strat single-coils transforms the shimmering Strat-style high-end into a punchy, humbucker-like growl. This formidable combo is ideal for grinding out thick power chords and face-melting solos.

ESP LTD — value-packed axes with ESP quality

ESP LTD guitars were created to bring a more affordable version of the classic designs and quality of ESP guitars to a new market. The entire ESP LTD line features premium tonewoods, quality pickups, and solid hardware for a lifetime of use. An exacting eye for detail and quality means that every instrument is ready to rock when it leaves the factory. An impressive list of signature guitars by some of today's biggest guitar heroes shows the popularity and respect held by ESP LTD. If you're looking for the perfect rock or metal guitar, then you need to check out ESP LTD guitars.

ESP LTD SN-1000 FR Electric Guitar Features:

  • Traditional ESP Snapper body shape with a striking sandblasted finish
  • Speedy, ultra-comfortable Thin "U" roasted maple neck
  • Upper fretboard scalloping enhances top-note articulation
  • Genuine Floyd Rose 1000SE tremolo bridge
  • Searing and aggressive HSS Seymour Duncan pickups
  • 22 stainless steel frets; 25.5-inch scale
  • ESP quality in a budget-friendly axe

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Tech Specs

  • General
  • Number of Strings 6
  • Left-/Right-handed Right-handed
  • Body
  • Body Type Solidbody
  • Body Shape LTD SN-1000
  • Body Material Swamp Ash
  • Body Finish Satin
  • Color Black Blast
  • Neck
  • Neck Material Roasted Maple
  • Neck Shape Thin U
  • Neck Joint Bolt-on
  • Radius 13.7"
  • Fingerboard Material Roasted Maple
  • Fingerboard Inlay Abalone Dots
  • Number of Frets 24, Extra Jumbo, Stainless Steel
  • Scale Length 25.5"
  • Nut Width 1.653"
  • Nut Material Locking
  • Hardware
  • Bridge/Tailpiece Floyd Rose 1000SE Locking Tremolo
  • Tuners Grover
  • Electronics
  • Neck Pickup Seymour Duncan hot Strat Single-coil
  • Middle Pickup Seymour Duncan hot Strat Single-coil
  • Bridge Pickup Seymour Duncan Pegasus Humbucker
  • Controls 1 x master volume, 1 x master tone (push/push coil-split)
  • Switching 5-way blade pickup switch
  • Miscellaneous
  • Strings D'Addario, .009-.042
  • Case/Gig Bag Sold Separately
  • Manufacturer Part Number: LSN1000FRMBLKBLAST

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Don’t look further. This is the guitar.

I am still, to this day, a year and some change later, blown away by how great this guitar is. It's amazing the quality that is put into the instrument at this price range. Stainless steel frets, AND you get scalloped frets 17-24???? This is a no brainer. I constantly get compliments on the body of the guitar and the roasted maple neck looks amazing. I would purchase this directly from Sweetwater, mostly because of the 55 point inspection since you know you'll be getting an instrument that's been looked over at by at least 3 people before shipping. 10/10. I would buy this guitar again (actuslly, I have, I bought the Snow White version now LOL).
by Andy Gonzalez from Miami, FL on

Best Guitar I’ve ever played

I'm a big metal head, but I have a soft spot for bands like Pink Floyd, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Stevie Ray Vaughn etc… so I was looking for something versatile. Coming from a Les Paul and this being my second guitar, it took a bit of getting used to the Floyd Rose, Scalloped Frets and all that. When I first got it, I felt like a beginner again. That being said, it didn't take long for me to start playing better than I ever had on my Epiphone. If you already have a guitar I would definetly recommend this, but if you're a newer guitar player or looking to get your first, I'd look elsewhere.
by Brandon from SLC on
Music background: Bedroom Warrior

Budget Friendly Rock Machine: ESP LTD SN-1000FR Black Blast

In one sentence, this relatively budget-friendly rock machine is an impressive combination of high-quality sounds and solid construction. It is made in South Korea – its two-piece swamp ash Strat-style body is sandblasted and painted black, its bolt-on roasted maple neck (25.5" scale and 13.8" fretboard radius) features 24 stainless steel frets with scalloping from the 17th to 24th frets (which greatly facilitates your vibrato and soloing finesse in those positions) while the 1st–16th fret positions remain unscalloped for easier chording. The guitar's Grover tuners work smoothly and the roasted maple fingerboard is decorated with abalone dot inlays at frets 3, 5, 7, 9, 12 (double dot), 15, 17, 19, 21 and 24 (double dot). These features together with the neck's "Thin U" contour makes this neck one of the most comfortable and fastest-playing necks I've ever come across.

The fine-tuning screws of the Floyd Rose 1000SE tremolo's bridge do not work as smoothly as, for example, the fine-tuning screws of the Japanese-made Gotoh Floyd Rose tremolo bridge [indeed, it is no accident that very expensive Suhr guitars with floating tremolos use exclusively either the Gotoh Floyds (locking) or the Gotoh 510 bridges (nonlocking) made in Japan]. However, there is absolutely no problem to turn the Floyd Rose 1000SE fine-tuning screws with your fingers and a tiny drop of oil on each screw's thread improves the screw's movement dramatically. This is in contrast to many fine-tuning screws in some Chinese-made Floyd Rose bridges, which you cannot initially turn with your fingers even if your life depends on it (initially, you really need a pair of pliers and lots of oiling to get them going).

The guitar's versatile H/S/S pickup configuration consists of one Seymour Duncan Pegasus humbucker in the bridge (one of the best-sounding passive bridge pickups I know of) and 2 great-sounding Seymour Duncan Hot Strat single-coils (they sound similar to the Kinman's Woodstock Plus single-coils). The guitar has one volume pot, one tone pot (with a push-push coil split function – please, don't pull it, otherwise you may break it!) and a 5-way blade pickup switch, all of them functioning nonproblematically as they should.

My guitar was a demo model at Sweetwater so I changed the strings, re-intonated the new strings (all strings intonate on all frets really well), adjusted the string action and neck bow and began to enjoy playing this slick neck with no sharp fret edges, which plays exceptionally fast and with an incredibly low action and no buzzing.

In conclusion, it would be nice if other colors than black were available. However, in spite of this minor 'color-choice deficiency,' I should perhaps stress that even if this "that's-a-steal" guitar was several times dearer, I would still give it '5 stars' for its truly great sounds and superb playability. If you are looking for an amazing H/S/S configuration Strat-style guitar – I believe your search may end right here!
by Sweetwater Customer on
Music background: Gigging musician

All in one

A do it all axe at a great price. Great hardware and pickups, very solid guitar. I did upgrade the tuners to hipshot barrel head tuners. I put them on all my guitars.
This competes with the charvel dk24 but with a floyd rose instead of the gotoh.
So far it performs flawlessly.
by Sweetwater Customer from OH on

Practically perfect

The feel of the neck was the most important thing to me. I had tried out plenty of other necks where I didn't like the profile, or there were fret sprouts, but this neck profile feels amazing with the satin finish, and the fretwork is perfect. As far as the pickups go, I usually play exclusively humbuckers, but it's cool having the different tonal options in the single coils that I'm not used to having. This is my first Floyd, and it hasn't given me any real problems since I've had it (3 months). The sand blasted finish of the body looks really cool. There's no neck dive whatsoever. 24 frets. It can play heavy metal or some mellow blues, and anything in between.

The only two things worth noting as (small) cons:

-Fine tuners don't turn as smoothly as I'd like, but maybe they'll break in.
-I wish I would've noticed that it doesn't have glowing side dots.. probably still would've bought it though if I'm being honest, but its the one feature I wanted that I forgot to make sure would be on it
by Tre from Fountain Hills on
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