ESP EC-300P

Esp has Really outdone themselves here!!!
24 frets, has a 'Les Paul' shape, beautiful flag Inlays, 3 way pick-up toggle. (2) Volume, (1) Tone Metal knobs. Has a very comfortable playing feel, and the weight is pretty easy going.
Everything you can ask for in a guitar.

Im giving it a (10) because I have a really expensive les paul, which I swapped out the pick-ups for EMG's and it was my favorite till I got this baby! It gets just as Thick and Crunchy to Jazzy and Bluesy clean sound that I look for in my performance.

I have never used P90 pickups, they say its the closest thing to a Strat and Lespaul combined. I only play les paul guitars, playing a strat just doesnt suit my style.

I play through alot of pedals, Peavy 5150II Halfstack, I love the sound I can get from this guitar, Id never go to a gig without it, I am considering buying another one (they are becoming rare to find) If anyone wants to sell please contact me (sickguitarist@optonline.net)

Everying is modeled as it should be for any performing guitarist, quick accessable knobs and switch, everything bolted on tight and steady. It rarely goes out of tune (a definate plus) I have the Beautiful Black Finish and black chrome hardware, In my opinion this is has a more gothy look to it. THEY HAVE REALLY OUTDONE THEMSELVES!

This thing is Great Live.
Seems like it will be long lasting.
I am really careful with my guitars, Im sure it will last.
Everything is bolted perfect.
Very Dependable
I would never go to a gig without a backup, but im pretty sure one wont be needed if you are playing the ESP-300P Baby!

Never had to deal with...
I have a years warrenty with the company i baught it from, doubt i would need it...

I have been playing for 4 years and some change, I own Various Effects units, Les Paul Guitars, Acoustics, If this was lost or stolen, I would definately replace it, and cry until i do...

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This is a les paul styled guitar with 24 frets. you get a volume control for each pick up, a tone control and a 3 way switch. It has a tune-o-matic and stop bar

i play ska, metal and punk. this guitar fits each one of these musical styles very well. it sounds better than average clean but when you distort it its just awesome. I play it through a Peavey vtm60 head and soldano 4x12 cab. for fx i just use a boss ds-1 distortion pedal. you can get a huge variety of sounds out of this. you just have to be pacient enough to play around with it and your amp settings too. i like everything about this guitar.

When i bought it the pickups were a little off and the neck needed a little adjust ment. but the shop i bought it from said to bring it back and theyd fix up any of these problems for free on the spot. I have had this guitar for a year and everything on it is still in great shape. the factory made no errors as far as i can tell when they made this.

This guitar can easily withstand gig playing, i wouldnt even bring a backup with me. the hardware looks like its gonna last for quite awhile too. the finish was also well done. ive accidentily hit on things like walls and ceilings and my bass player......and its held up fine.

ive never dealt with them....but any repairrs were done by my local shop for free.

I have been playing for more than two years and half of it was spent playing this guitar. if i lost it or had it stolen id try to buy another one but i believe esp is discontinuing them so that could be tough. everything about thsi guitar just rocks. i compare to my friends epiphones easily...and its a fraction of their prices! sometimes i wish it had a tremolo just cause those are fun to play with but in all seriousness, it doesnt need it. i may buy another electris guitar in a year or two, but not out of need. just so i can leave 1 where my band practices and the other at my house.

Solid Korean made ESP-LTD product. Not sure of the date of MFR but i bought it last fall ('03) off a private seller on ebay who said he had it 6 months. This guitar was listed in the G.W. Buyer's Guide as a new item for 2002 or 2003 i think. It's a solid body, flat-top very similar to a gibson "The Paul" or "Special II". It does have a belly-cut on the back similar to a strat, and mitred edges in the florentine cutaway and on the ass end of the bottom bout. these angled edges do make the guitar more comfortable to play but make it look thinner than than it is when you view it from certain angles. Body and neck are solid mahogany. body appears to be 2-3 glued pieces, neck is hard to tell. Pickups are passive duncan-designed P-90's (hence the 300P designation). Set-neck attachment with x-jumbo fretwire and 24 frets on a rosewood fretboard with pearloid dot inlays. The neck is a nice moderate "C" shaped thickness. thicker than my strat and Ibanez Artist but thinner than some LP's and Dearmonds i have played/owned. There is a 3 position selector in the traditional Paul position as well as 1 tone and 2 volume knobs traditionally placed but in more of a Strat "line" rather than the Paul "box". The P-90's appear to be mounted directly to the body recesses-no rings here. The body and neck are painted with a nice metallic sparkle gold bullion color but the paint is ALL over, not just a "gold-top" treatment. there is white binding on the neck and headstock (not the body) and the peghead is black. tuners are of a sealed but non-locking die-cast variety with tension/friction screws (which i'm fine with) in the traditional 3x3 pattern. Stop-tail piece and tune-o-matic bridge are present. All metal is bright and clean chrome, including the knobs. It didn't earn a 10 because I am partial to features like seperate tone controls, body binding IF the neck/headstock are bound, carved caps on a Paul-type body, and high-quality electronics. What it is is VERY good for the price point and are MUCH better than what i should have gotten for my money! High marks for the quality of materials, low marks for the aesthetic "frills" it lacks and cheaper "designed" electronics.

i play a mix of blues, alternative, 80's metal, and hard-rock/metal. i play through a smaller Marshall AVT with my only effects coming from a Zoom 606. I didn't buy this P-90 equiped guitar to do everything, only to be a P-90 sounding guitar. It does that wonderfully...clean it rings like a bell with that "different" P-90 sound. It does handle the amp's gain well but there is some feedback when i try the Zoom on settings with distortion. This happens in all 3 positions but more so on the isolated positions. This guitar does sound wonderful going straight into the amp. When i play this i only use the Zoom for tuning. Better FX on my part would probably work fine with these PUPs but the Zoom is my first entry into FX and is obviously a compromise with limited potential. The neck in isolation can sound a little muddier than I expected but I tend to feel that way about most PUPs so take that with a grain of salt. Both tone and volume knobs tend to be an "all or nothing" adjustment. i could use more gradation in their settings...but again, that's a price-point issue so how much can you really complain?

the action was about average in height when i got it. i have some of my other guitars set higher, some lower and i got it used so i'm not sure how the factory/retail store set-up is. However, there remains NO fret-buzz. Further, the fit and finish were flawless in the functionablilty department and a little above-average in the aesthetics. The neck-body joint is very solid but it looks like the sanding wasn't real clean before the paint was applied. The fret-work is actually better in finish and uniformity than many higher-price-point guitars. The binding is also well done. Paint is uniform and well-placed with maybe two tiny imperfections that you don't notice unless you are looking for them and have time to examine closely. The tuning machines are solid and well-placed but one tends to have less tension than the others when tightened up. It isn't loose enough to compromise tuning but is noticeble when tuning. I am REALLY happy with the fretboard, fret-work and neck stability...the bugaboo of many low-priced import guitars! The only real issues i have with the fit-and-finish are tenon-joint sanding (aesthetics) and one tuner's tension (paranoia) so i didn't count off much. This is a VERY well-made guitar!

everything seems solid. i did put on schaller's (straplocks) but i do this out of habit and paranoia, not because this guitar necessarliy needed them more than others. I think it would handle gigging without a backup but i do not really gig and would never do so without a back-up...just not in my nature to be that unprepared for disaster. A little paint-loss on the neck would probably help make it faster, i couldn't care less if that happened, but the finish seems fine also. seems very dependable. Gentle wearing of a finish is NOT and issue for me. I worry more about soft wood or poorly mounted electronics, etc. This guitar seems to have no issues with those types of reliability concerns.

I haven't needed it yet and don't really expect to as well made as this thing is.

i've been playing electrics for about 18 months now but acoustics very casually for about 10 years. i own a Martin D-35, Takamine G-332, Ibanez Artist (80's), DeArmond M-75, DeArmond M-77T, Fender MIM Standard Strat.

My only real criticisms of it are the lack of Paul-like aesthetic frills and the decent-but-average P-90's it comes with. It's a little "plain jane" but is as reliable, functional and even tempered as you would expect jane to be. I only paid $250 for it and feel like I got a $600-700 guitar. IMHO the electronics, multi-piece bodies, and the aesthetic "frills" are where they control costs. But make no mistake, the quality of Korean craftsmanship is right on par with American. This is a good, but not spectacular guitar, overall but it's a great guitar for what it costs you. If you are still learning and want to collect a variety of quality guitars without spending a fortune, this is a great choice for that P-90 niche. I could only upgrade by going with a Guild or Gibson P-90 machine...it's that good. Even then I may hang on to it as a back-up cause there's a little drop-off in sound but almost no drop-off in quality.