ESP LTD H3-1000, See Thru Purple Sunburst

Full Description

Flame Maple Topped Mahogany Body

This ESP LTD’s body is crafted from mahogany and features a flamed maple top, enhancing the guitar's natural brightness and creating a unique aesthetic. The mahogany tonewood delivers a soft tone, with plenty of grind and bite to keep it well-balanced and create plenty of depth. The guitar’s appealing high end and full, tight low end ensures the overall tonality remains thick and firm, offering plenty of dynamics to accommodate a variety of musical styles.

Maple Neck, Ebony Fingerboard

This guitar is equipped with a 3pc maple neck and ebony fingerboard, delivering warm, bright tones with plenty of depth and dynamics. The maple offers roundness to the tone, providing bright characteristics and an excellent amount of sustain. . 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 maple and ebony combination creates a sparkling, sizzling high end, a muscular controlled bass response, and a snappy midrange with extra presence in the lower mids.

Seymour Duncan Jazz & Custom 5 Pickups

The ESP H3-1000 Guitar is equipped with a jazz neck humbucker and a custom 5 bridge humbucker, delivering loud, bright tones that can remain clear even under extreme distortion. The Jazz neck pickup offers a bright, versatile tone suitable for almost any musical style, with its vintage output, alnico V bar magnet, and special coil wind creating a glassy treble response, a full, tight low-end, and a scooped midrange to allow each note to sing clearly, even under extreme distortion. The custom 5 humbucker offers a high output tone with an even bass and treble response, making it perfect for a wide range of musical styles.

Push/Pull Coil Tap

Also equipped with a push/pull pickup coil tap, the ESP LTD Guitar offers a huge amount of tonal options to choose from, ensuring players can deliver the perfect sound for most situations. This function allows players to switch the pickup settings from a standard humbucking mode to a single coil, making it an extremely versatile guitar ideal for live situations when an array of tones are required.

String-Through Body TonePros Locking TOM

The TonePros bridge is a simple yet innovative improvement to the standard tune-o-matic bridge, allowing the bridge to be locked down to the posts using 2 small set screws located on either end of the bridge. The result is increased sustain, exacting intonation perfection, and better playability & tuning thanks to better bridge stability. The string-through-body setup optimises the transfer of vibrations from the strings to the body, improving the ESP’s overall sustain and resonance.

Locking Tuners

Back in 2008, ESP introduced their own locking tuners on many new and existing LTD Signature & Deluxe series instruments. Ease of use and elegant design were their key goals in designing these keys. ESP tuning keys eliminate the need for wraps on the tuner shaft to improve tuning stability, reduce string slippage, and simplify the restringing process.

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: Flamed Maple
• Body: Mahogany
• Binding:White
• Construction: Set-Through
• Bridge: TonePros Locking TOM w/String-Thorugh
• Finish: See-Through Purple Sunburst

Neck & Fingerboard

• Neck: 3-Piece Maple
• Profile: Thin U
• Scale Length: 25.5''
• Fingerboard: Macassar Ebony
• Radius: 350mm
• Frets: 24 Extra Jumbo
• Inlays: Offset Blocks
• Nut: Moulded
• Nut Width: 42mm

Electronics & Hardware

• Bridge Pickup: Seymour Duncan Custom-5
• Neck Pickup: Seymour Duncan Jazz
• Controls: Volume, Tone (Push/Pull), 3-Way Toggle Switch
• Tuners: LTD Locking
• Strap Buttons: Standard
• Hardware: Black
• Strings: D’Addario XL110 (.010/.013/.017/.026/.036/.046)
• Case Included: No