ESP E-II Horizon FR-II, Tigers Eye Sunburst

Full Description

Solid Alder Body, Quilte dMaple Top

Alder is favoured by most players for its incredibly balanced tone, offering the perfect dynamic range suitable for most musical styles. The maple top helps enhance the guitar's natural brightness, while its quilted figuring creates a visually stunning and unique aesthetic. The alder body is perfect for a variety of playing styles, as its excellent sustain and resonance ensures each note is heard. Its bright, sizzling highs, rounded lows, and beefy midrange sets up the foundation of the guitar's overall tonality, allowing players to achieve the perfect sound for most situations. The body also features a contoured design, allowing the guitar to hug the player and deliver an incredibly comfortable performance.

Maple Neck-Through Construction

The E-II Horizon features a 3-piece maple neck to produce beautifully bright tones, with searing highs and strong mids for a dynamic performance. Its thin U-shaped profile is perfect for speed demons, allowing players to easily reach across the entire fingerboard without losing any comfort. The addition of an ebony fingerboard helps to tighten up the neck’s tone, giving it a defined feel, excellent clarity, and a fast attack. The neck-through construction optimises the maximum contact between the neck and body joint, enhancing the guitar's resonance for an advanced sustain. This setup allows superior vibration transfer and sustainability, perfect for when you need notes to ring out for as long as possible.

EMG 85/81 Humbuckers

Equipped with EMG 85 and 81 humbuckers, the E-II produces ferocious tones suitable for versatile guitarists. The EMG 85 humbucker is set at the neck and provides an exceptionally powerful tone, designed with close aperture coils and alnico 5 magnets to provide a muscular growl ideal for creating strong rhythm sections. The EMG 81 is set at the bridge and features close aperture coils and powerful ceramic magnets to deliver a tone designed with detailed intensity. This humbucker provides a fluid sustain and an incredible amount of high end cut, perfect for leads to slice through any mix.

Floyd Rose Original Tremolo

For many years Floyd Rose has been the leading manufacturer and designer of floating, locking tremolos. With a design that has stood strong for over 30 years, the Floyd Rose Original locking tremolo allows you to adjust the string tension and pitch with the removable whammy bar to create unique sounds such as dive bombs. Unlike non-locking tremolo's, the Floyd Rose bridge can make huge changes in pitch but still retain the initial tuning via the locking nut at the end of the headstock.

High-End Hardware

The guitar is finished off with high-end hardware to ensure players receive the best playing experience possible. The Gotoh locking tuners improve tuning stability and reduces string slippage, while the Schaller straplocks protect against accidental strap release, ensuring players can deliver a powerful performance without worrying about dropping their guitar.

About ESP Guitars

ESP is a Japanese guitar manufacturer, established in 1975 under the name Electric Sound Products, primarily focused on the production of electric guitars and basses. Their product range will suit a wide variety of budgets and playing styles, with their popular Signature, Standard, Original, Graphic, Xtone, and Left-Handed series' guitars. The company has a growing number of high profile artists who have designed their own signature instruments, such as Ron Wood, Kirk Hammett, Jeff Hanneman and many more.

Specifications

Body & Bridge

• Top: Quilted Maple
• Body: Mahogany
• Construction: Neck-Through
• Bridge: Floyd Rose Original
• Finish: Tiger Eye Sunburst

Neck & Fingerboard

• Neck: 3-Piece Maple
• Profile: Thin U
• Scale Length: 25.5’’
• Fingerboard: Ebony
• Radius: 12’’
• Frets: 24 Extra Jumbo
• Inlays: Offset Pearloid Blocks
• Nut: Locking
• Nut Width: 42mm

Electronics & Hardware

• Bridge Pickup: EMG 81 (Ceramic/Active)
• Neck Pickup: EMG 85 (Alnico V/Active)
• Controls: Volume, Tone, 3-Way Toggle Switch
• Tuners: Gotoh Locking
• Strap Buttons: Schaller Straplock
• Hardware: Black
• Case Included: ESP Hardshell