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Used ESP M-1 USA Custom Shop (mid 80s)
Excellent Condition
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$2,499.00
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Pickup Optional
in Keller, TX
Sweetwater's Gear
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Item Description
Serial: 001177
Listed 5 days ago
For your consideration is this stunning ESP M-I Super Strat from ESP's famous USA Custom Shop on 48th Street in New York City!
This one sport one of their earlier serial numbers, unconfirmed but likely a mid-80s build. The guitar has had a very expensive candy blue paint refin looking like it's fresh out of the factory today! It was modded from its original build in that it was originally a dual humbucker body. Incredible work, as it is very challenging to see where the original neck humbucker was, and it takes just the right angle to see that. An incredible neck with minimal fret ware. It is equipped with a premium Wilkinson WVS 50 II K tremolo and a DiMarzio Breed pickup (with coil-tap), Gotoh tuners, and copper shielding in the electronics cavities. This guitar looks beautiful and absolutely screams, and is a truly unique one-off piece of historic gear!
Listing in 'excellent' condition. I did my best to capture not exactly obvious finish issues, and those include: checking on both sides of the middle screws of the pickup cavity; about a 1" check on the bass side where the body is attached to the neck, and about a 1/4" check on the treble side; and a few slight indentations on the backside bass side of the neck near the 12th fret. None of those impact functionality or playability, and all are barely visible.
Your opportunity to own a piece of ESP history! I purchased this rare ESP guitar from the premium instrument collection at Essex Recording Studios (see their video on it in the listing). It will ship in a new, non-original hard-shell case (Gator brand). Amazing to get one of these in this condition.
Specs (per some questions that have been asked about the listing):
Weight is approx. 7 lbs, 1 oz.
Body - is likely basswood. Apparently ESP only used basswood or alder back in the 80's, and my local guitar tech and guitar shop both confirmed this body is likely basswood since it's fairly light weight
Radius: 17"
Nut Width 1.65"
String spacing 1.50"
Profiled "C" shaped neck
1st fret 0.78"
12th fret 0.865"
Freshly set-up with D'Addario NYXL 9.5-44s
Any other questions, please feel free to reach out. Thank you!
This one sport one of their earlier serial numbers, unconfirmed but likely a mid-80s build. The guitar has had a very expensive candy blue paint refin looking like it's fresh out of the factory today! It was modded from its original build in that it was originally a dual humbucker body. Incredible work, as it is very challenging to see where the original neck humbucker was, and it takes just the right angle to see that. An incredible neck with minimal fret ware. It is equipped with a premium Wilkinson WVS 50 II K tremolo and a DiMarzio Breed pickup (with coil-tap), Gotoh tuners, and copper shielding in the electronics cavities. This guitar looks beautiful and absolutely screams, and is a truly unique one-off piece of historic gear!
Listing in 'excellent' condition. I did my best to capture not exactly obvious finish issues, and those include: checking on both sides of the middle screws of the pickup cavity; about a 1" check on the bass side where the body is attached to the neck, and about a 1/4" check on the treble side; and a few slight indentations on the backside bass side of the neck near the 12th fret. None of those impact functionality or playability, and all are barely visible.
Your opportunity to own a piece of ESP history! I purchased this rare ESP guitar from the premium instrument collection at Essex Recording Studios (see their video on it in the listing). It will ship in a new, non-original hard-shell case (Gator brand). Amazing to get one of these in this condition.
Specs (per some questions that have been asked about the listing):
Weight is approx. 7 lbs, 1 oz.
Body - is likely basswood. Apparently ESP only used basswood or alder back in the 80's, and my local guitar tech and guitar shop both confirmed this body is likely basswood since it's fairly light weight
Radius: 17"
Nut Width 1.65"
String spacing 1.50"
Profiled "C" shaped neck
1st fret 0.78"
12th fret 0.865"
Freshly set-up with D'Addario NYXL 9.5-44s
Any other questions, please feel free to reach out. Thank you!
