NGD: 87 ESP Mirage - 48th Street

vultures said:
I can't bring myself to play a guitar with LTD instead of ESP on the headstock. I'd play a knock off with an ESP logo before an LTD. Idk why. I feel the same way about Gibson/Epis and Fender/Squiers.
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James says it’s ok to play LTDs :D

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Speeddemon said:
Was the original 2x volume and 1x tone?
My 2010 Horizon NT-II just has the one volume and tone like the LTD '87 Custom has.

Attached: ebony and ivory together (back when 'ivory' still had 3 Duncans instead of 1 ).
Side note: Kramer seriously effed up the jack placement. Way too high up the body.

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Yes to answer your question on the knobs. And @Nashville Riff Co here is one of the black ones. Not my picture, this is the guy I sold it too who also purchased the '87 white one. I edited out the photo because I took it from his FB page. There's nothing on there that was edited out but a shoe and a cat, but figured why not since the pic was not my property.

And no it didn't have the EMG's in it when I sold it. JB in the bridge and the stock dual rail single in the neck which was a great sounding pup. He also has a picture of the white one's body with blood on it where he cut his finger I guess, pains me to see it. I actually tracked him down a few years ago, hit him up on buying the white one back but he had sold it two weeks before. No clue what happened to my other Horizon and Mirage. If anyone has a Pearl White Mirage Custom with the number 350 imprinted on the last fret, that's mine, hit me up.
 

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@jabps @Nashville Riff Co I found a pic of a GrassRoots (basically ESP's sub-LTD brand, mostly for Asian market) Horizon that I sold ages ago.
It has the 3 knob config *and* the Jackson-style headstock! :eek:
Disclaimer: this picture was from some German auction, but I had the exact same guitar. Any pics of me with this guitar were not digital...
The cheap pickups that came with it sucked, so as an ignorant teen, I had a shop install a pair of Duncans...that, in hindsight weren't the usual suspects for such a shred stick: a Duncan '59 Bridge and a Lil' 59 in the neck position. o_O
I *will* say though, that was the only guitar that could make a screechy JCM900 head in a rehearsal space sound good and full, after the pickup swap.

This was also the guitar that after I sold it, I said to myself "one day, I need the real ESP version of this". My current H-H fixed bridge Horizon NT-II fills that spot, but I wouldn't mind an actual H-S one again. Or my 'grail': Hamer Californian Elite in Aztec Gold.
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Speeddemon said:
@jabps @Nashville Riff Co I found a pic of a GrassRoots (basically ESP's sub-LTD brand, mostly for Asian market) Horizon that I sold ages ago.
It has the 3 knob config *and* the Jackson-style headstock! :eek:
Disclaimer: this picture was from some German auction, but I had the exact same guitar. Any pics of me with this guitar were not digital...
The cheap pickups that came with it sucked, so as an ignorant teen, I had a shop install a pair of Duncans...that, in hindsight weren't the usual suspects for such a shred stick: a Duncan '59 Bridge and a Lil' 59 in the neck position. o_O
I *will* say though, that was the only guitar that could make a screechy JCM900 head in a rehearsal space sound good and full, after the pickup swap.

This was also the guitar that after I sold it, I said to myself "one day, I need the real ESP version of this". My current H-H fixed bridge Horizon NT-II fills that spot, but I wouldn't mind an actual H-S one again. Or my 'grail': Hamer Californian Elite in Aztec Gold.
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i'd convert that to one knob, farthest from bridge and rock the shit out of it!
 
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