ESP LTD EC-10 BLK

Great guitar. Bought it as my 2nd first guitar. Had a squire bullet strat about 8 years ago as a first guitar but it wasnt comfortable for me and kept going out of tune and made me give up.

This is really comfortable to play, the neck is nice and thin and easy to play and it has a fixed bride so less chance for the string to get out of tune.

Looks whise it has the contours of a les paul style guitar but the body construction of a strat (slab body). It has a flat top but a nice belly cut and extra cut for the lower frets.

I can recommend this guitar for any other beginners that might not like the fender style necks.

This axe has such a great tone, able to match Around the Fur and even some Incesticide tones too! The best best thing about this guitar by far though is the body, this thing literally embraces you, chord to chord.

I'm one star short cuz when I got this guitar fresh out the box, the frets we pretty sharp and there was potent fret buzz present around the 11th - 13th fret.

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That aside, this thing is super sigma and is by far one of the best starter and even pro guitars up there with the LTD Viper and some Harley Bentons too!

ESP on top STEPHTONES.

Well, what can I say? I bought this guitar for my daughter as a gift. She loves it. But I think she's just thrilled because she doesn't yet know how a guitar compares to others. I know. But we've all been beginners, and it's wonderful that guitars like this LTD exist. With minimal modifications, the guitar can be very good. I'd change the tuners to locking tuners. The LTD humbuckers aren't bad, but I can see myself replacing them with EMGs.
But it's my daughter's guitar, and I want her to figure out for herself what a guitar should be like.
I had to adjust the string height a bit, but that's it. Sometimes I even play it myself. It's a pretty good guitar.