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unzari
May 30th, 2008, 01:52 PM
I just love fiesta red and salmon/coral strats, so when I saw it for sale online, I had to bite.
It that first time I've ever bought a guitar over the internet, and luckily, things went very smoothly (a big thumbs up to the seller!)
It's an ESP Navigator N-ST-300/R 1964, made in 2004. It was a pretty expensive purchase, but I don't know if I'll ever want to get another strat.
I've had it 5 weeks now, and playing it through my little Tech 21 amp it sounds incredible, so I can hardly wait to upgrade the amplification and see what she sounds like (for some reason, it's a "she").
She's light, around 7 lb 5 oz, and when you pick it up and you just know she was made by true artisans: I wish I could get a good picture of it, but her fretwork is something I've never seen before (not that I've seen thousands of strats, maybe only hundreds :smile: ). One each side of each fret end - which tmeselves are so rounded and polished they feel incredible - the rosewood comes up just a little to meet the fret end, almost like having binding, except the binding isn't plastic, but made of the wood itself.
Pups are Seymour Duncans, either some custom shop jobs (the seller was the original owner and said he was told by the ESP dealer in Japan that they were "beefed-up vintage" pups) or Antiquity II Surfers. I'm kind of inclined to think they're the Surfers because of their incredibly defined, percussive, piano-like tones, but ESP will make anything you want in a guitar; and I know that the paint job is a custom colour so maybe the pups were, too (the seller didn't order the guitar; he just found it in a store, Big Boss, maybe).
What can I say? I'm in love with her!
*edit: I forgot to say the first 2 pics were from the website: I dont have any small-sized pics of the body yet!
It that first time I've ever bought a guitar over the internet, and luckily, things went very smoothly (a big thumbs up to the seller!)
It's an ESP Navigator N-ST-300/R 1964, made in 2004. It was a pretty expensive purchase, but I don't know if I'll ever want to get another strat.
I've had it 5 weeks now, and playing it through my little Tech 21 amp it sounds incredible, so I can hardly wait to upgrade the amplification and see what she sounds like (for some reason, it's a "she").
She's light, around 7 lb 5 oz, and when you pick it up and you just know she was made by true artisans: I wish I could get a good picture of it, but her fretwork is something I've never seen before (not that I've seen thousands of strats, maybe only hundreds :smile: ). One each side of each fret end - which tmeselves are so rounded and polished they feel incredible - the rosewood comes up just a little to meet the fret end, almost like having binding, except the binding isn't plastic, but made of the wood itself.
Pups are Seymour Duncans, either some custom shop jobs (the seller was the original owner and said he was told by the ESP dealer in Japan that they were "beefed-up vintage" pups) or Antiquity II Surfers. I'm kind of inclined to think they're the Surfers because of their incredibly defined, percussive, piano-like tones, but ESP will make anything you want in a guitar; and I know that the paint job is a custom colour so maybe the pups were, too (the seller didn't order the guitar; he just found it in a store, Big Boss, maybe).
What can I say? I'm in love with her!
*edit: I forgot to say the first 2 pics were from the website: I dont have any small-sized pics of the body yet!