New ESP Guitars & Basses for 2007

Dord

I decided to take Feylya's suggestion and start a thread on these.

ESP unveiled 54 new models at NAMM '07. Some are revisions of last years and some are new models. Some very very nice stuff. Here's a few of my favourites.


ESP Vintage 4 - like the Fender relics only these look passable! :rolleyes:


George Lynch's new (old) signature. very tasty


I like pointy stuff too :P


so sexy in its simplicity!






and the one that I like the most....

They finally made an LTD Surveyor!! 4 & 5 string! natural ones too! :eek:





Here's the full list folks!
http://www.espguitars.com/news/news_namm07_models.html

feylya

Oooh, that relic is damned nice. Dunno what to think of the PRS rip mind. Got any RRP's for them?

Dord

Well Thomann already have the Surveyor up for sale at €854.

List price for the GL-56 (reliced strat) is $2199 in the US, street of around $1600. In the UK list is £1550 with Guitar Village sellin' em for £1300.

No idea on the prices of the others.

The PRS-ish one is fugly, I just put it there because it was different.

feylya

If they had extended the lower horn (oooh eerrrr missus!) and made it a bit chunkier looking, it would have been lovely. Kinda Kramer-esque. Can't wait to see what appears on Ishi now

DeadSkin

I be liking this;



Tho' that V, Joe Robot, looks like it could do some damage, nice.

unclebill98

Ok, question. I played the ESP P bass in the USA and a Fender P Bass, in the same shop in the same amp. Sounded the same, looked the same and there priced the same.....Don't see the attraction of getting a ESP when it 99% the same as the Fender its copying?

Have a tread on somone feelings with a comment like this?

I ain't dishing the ESP guitars at all, so please enlighten me!

In saying that, I did buy a Bongo.... so some would say what do i know about taste!!!

Dord

IMO ESP are better quality, generally the actual ESP (not LTD) use Seymour Duncan or EMG pickups as standard. Plus you have an ESP which generally have a good resale value.

The Bongo is nice though, I'm tempted by the up-and-coming Bongo 6.
A little fact that most people might not know is that the MM Bongo was actually designed by BMW!

unclebill98

Thats very true. Well its a savage bass. There is some output from it. The HH gives out some kick. got me a 5 String Stingray with HH two. There really top basses.

I know people who want ESP's and they say there better. I am not a guitarist so I can only comment as a bass player and there basses are so so really.

I just felt like i was playing a cheap copy, except it was ESP top bass. So the man in the shop was telling me.

Dord

I'm actually a bass player too, but I like nice guitars (even though I can't play) haha.

Hmmm...Its all about the feel. I couldn't play it if it felt like that.

Yakult

Im more of an Edwards man personally!
The quality is the same and price is better!

But I love this: