ESP EC-50

Made in China in '07. Yes, China. Beautiful Tobacco sunburst. Agathis body. Stock ESP pickups are great sounding and won't be replaced, although a guy wrote he replaced his with SD JB and '59 and this sounds like a great combination as I have put these on an Epi LP std plus top nickel covered and on a Schecter C1 E/A that also has an acoustic piezo pup system in the bridge saddles. The stock pickups however sound really good to me and I will keep them in there for a long time. This is one of my favorite guitars and it cost only 198 US brand new. Nice LP style. Tuners stay in tune better than any of my other guitars, or at least as well as the best of them and this is very surprising. They are ESP tuners. Highly playable neck, not thin like my Fender strats but roundish and plays really well and I really like it a lot even though I prefer the thin necks as measured between the surface of the fretboard and the back of the neck where you place your thumb. This one is not thin but is easy to play and comfortable. A great set of features for a great guitar, just judging it against itself and not comparing it to an Epi top of the line LP.

Superior sound for a variety of styles from easy, relaxing, rythym strumming; to blues biting; to rock whomping; including great chord note separation and super chording in general. It's hum bucking. Real full sound, highly able to apply my techniques to project my soul and heart thru this guitar into the world thru a variety of amps, currently mainly my Fender Super Champ XD. This guitar is very likeable and not dislikeable.

I don't play any metal other than Led Zep type things so as far as thrashing goes, I'm not into it and don't find much musicality in thrash, unless Neil Young is thrashing it.

Set up perfect by the shop before I bought it. Extremely high quality guitar considering it is the bottom of the EC line. It sounded better than the EC 400 to my ear. It's a clean, simple, great sounding, super well built guitar, even though it is a bolt on neck it sustains forever. What a quality guitar for the price! More people should check it out. There are a lot of great guitars out there for not a lot of money.

Had it for about a year with no problem, playing it several times a week for one to three hours at a time.

Great support every time I called ESP for info on their guitars. I even bought an ESP H-101FM because they were so helpful. Another great guitar. I put SD "hot rodded" humbuckers in it: JB bridge and Jazz neck.

Been playing a long, long time. I am mainly a drummer but always messed around with guitars. Five years ago I retired from a regular job and bought my first really good electric guitar and started taking lessons sometime later because that is how you get 1000 times better 1000 times faster. Since then I have been collecting amps and guitars, most of which I have kept because they are really nice. There are some really nice inexpensive amps available: like the Vox pathfinder 15R (u have to order it from MF or somewhere else) usually not found in stock at stores, the Crate Palamino V8 tube amp, the Fender SCXD, Epi VJr and cab (also have the Epi So. Cal. 4 by 12 cab that the five tube watt VJr pushes really well, super great sound, also super great sound with my new Blackheart Little Giant 5w head), Crate Flexwave 15R 100 dollars US with a 12 inch speaker, Behringer GM110 analog modeling amp 98 US at audioallies.com and hard to find otherwise - a great amp, really great. Expensive amps include a ltd ed Fender Hot Rod Deluxe tweed with Jensen P12n speaker, and a 279 Fender Super Champ XD tube amp.

I've played this guitar thru all of these amps and it sounds better through the better amps. That shows the quality of this excellent guitar. It sounds super good thru super good amps.

I'm not about name brands and flashy guitars. I found I like demure guitars, the more laid back looking ones, although I have some candy apple red SX strat copies, also great inexpensive guitars. I also have two Fender Hwy One's an sss and an hss. And three Epi's; a '66 gibson sg copy in cherry stain highly varnished, and two LP standards.