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ESP LTD Viper 1000 Electric Guitar Vintage Black

The ESP Viper-1000 allows smooth access to the highest frets with its mahogany body and 3-pc thin u-shaped maple neck. Shape its tone with the Fishman Fluence Modern Humbucker active pickups.

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    The ESP Viper-1000 is built at 24.75” scale with set-thru construction that allows smooth access to the highest frets, the Viper-1000 Vintage Black pairs a mahogany body with a three-piece thin u-shaped maple neck. Its Macassar ebony fingerboard has pearloid ESP flag inlays and 22 extra-jumbo stainless steel frets, maximizing the sweet spot for both the neck and bridge pickups to offer their ideal tones. Its premium gold hardware includes LTD locking tuners and a TonePros TOM bridge and tailpiece.

    The Viper-1000 includes a set of Fishman Fluence Modern Humbucker active pickups (ceramic in the bridge and alnico in the neck), with push-pull control to select voicings and gold covers to match this guitar’s noteworthy aesthetics. Each pickup offers two voices. With the ceramic bridge pickup, Voice 1 is the ultimate high-output ceramic humbucker bridge pickup tone… crisp, searing crunch, tight bass with no mud, and a growl. Voice 2 delivers modern passive attack performance that has superbly organic distortion characteristics with outstanding dynamics and response. The alnico neck pickup’s Voice 1 is Fishman’s modern active high-output tone, offering the ideal active alnico sound: full, round, and boosted, but with unprecedented articulation and dynamics. Voice 2 gives you the crisp, clean and fluid neck humbucker tone you’ve always wanted.

    ESP LTD Viper 1000 Electric Guitar Features

    • Mahogany body with set-thru construction
    • Three-piece thin u-shaped maple neck
    • Fishman Fluence Modern Humbucker active pickups
    • Macassar ebony fingerboard with 22 extra-jumbo stainless steel frets
    • TonePros TOM bridge and tailpiece
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    ESP LTD Viper 1000 Electric Guitar Vintage Black Specifications

    ESP LTD Viper 1000 Electric Guitar Vintage Black Specifications
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    ESP LTD Viper 1000 Electric Guitar Specifications

    • Construction: Set-Thru
    • Scale: 24.75"
    • Body: Mahogany
    • Finish: Vintage Black
    • Neck: 3-piece Mahogany
    • Fingerboard: Rosewood
    • Fingerboard Radius: 350mm
    • Nut Width: 42mm
    • Nut Type: Molded
    • Neck Contour: Thin U
    • Frets/Type: 22 XJ Stainless
    • Hardware Color: Gold
    • Strap Button: Standard
    • Tuners: Ltd Locking
    • Bridge: Tonepros Locking Tom & Tailpiece
    • Neck Pickup: Fishman Fluence Modern Humbucker Alnico Gold *(Pull Tone For Voice 2) Direct-Mount
    • Bridge Pickup: Fishman Fluence Modern Humbucker Ceramic Gold *(Pull Tone For Voice 2) Direct-Mount
    • Electronics: Active
    • Electronics Layout: Volume/Tone(Push/Pull)/3-Way Switch
    • Strings: D'addario Xl110 (.010/.013/.017/.026/.036/.046)
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