ESP LTD EC-256 FM LD

Bought this 5 months ago to use next to my ESP FX Standard for daily practice.

It arrived playable, action was set fairly high but no problem to adjust to lower action. The finish was not prefect, there was some poly finish on the fretboard just passed the binding but this was easily fixed with some high grid sandpaper. Other than that the finish was fine.

Obviously it is not at the same level as my ESP FX Standard as it is less then a 4th of the price but so far i have almost only used the EC-256 in the past 5 months, which says alot. I love the feel of it, i like the sound of the pickups and it looks great. It has left me wanting another EC or Les Paul shaped guitar.

I would seriously recommend this as a first guitar.

It arrived in really sturdy double box and it was fast for free shipping. Guitar was little bit out of tune and it took 5 minutes to tune and setup. Neck pickup was really low in the body.

Guitar neck is really comfortable and I really like thin U shape and 24.75" scale with 22XJ frets from ESP. I really like stock pickups and they sound pretty good in high gain setting on my Peavey and guitar has really good sustain. Split function on tone knob works really well and I would dare to say that it works and sound better than on my Schecter hellraiser that has emg 89 and 81. Oh yeah and frets were really nicely done and smooth and I was surprised by that because I tried more expensive guitars in store that had really bad fret work and rough fret edges.

Guitar had some minor flaws in finish for example few brown dots under clear coat finish, neck binding seems scraped on few frets on botom side (I guess during fret end smoothening) and headstock side has tiny whiteish line under clear coat. Strings were really old and fingerboard was super dusty but that is an easy fix.

All in all it is really nice guitar for the money, minus cosmetic flaws. Full mahogony body has nice weight to it but it is not heavy, and guitar balance is superb because gitare doesn't have nose dive, it just stays in position I like. It is a good platform for future upgrades like locking tuners, better nut and maybe JB/59 combo.

Very good guitar Only ESP i've owned and first coil split.
Very user friendly and easy to play. Arrived quite well set up out of the box and ready to play. A good clean sound but gets dirty very nicely. Arrived very well packaged. I ony play at home or just small gigs at friends parties. Overall a very good guitar my only gripe is the way I play I tend to turn the volume down slightly when playing due to position of the volume knob.( but to be honest thats more my fault) the knob slightly lower would be good for me. I do reconmend this guitar if your into the warm humbucker sound. and for your info I play blues

First if all, I ordered this color because it was the cheapest in the line - and I'm so happy I did it. Lemon Drop looks amazing in reality!

I've had three electric guitars before - eight string Schecter, Ibanez RG and a Squier strat. This one stands out a lot. Craftsmanship - no visible defects or anything like this. Knobs and push-pull work great. The guitar looks and feels more expensive than it is.
Humbuckers are pretty good, and coil split doesn't sound too bad either. Tuners are okay. Not going to upgrade anything in the nearest future for sure.
Overall, it's an amazing guitar. Can't be happier with the purchase!