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The ESP LTD Viper 256 Electric Guitar features mahogany set-neck construction in a mahogany body for the ultimate in sustain and tonal clarity. The thin-U neck makes for a very comfortable playing experience all the way up the 24 XJ fret rosewood fingerboard. ESP LH-150 humbuckers and a worn finish makes the Viper 256 both look and sound like a vintage guitar.
ESP LTD Viper 256 Electric Guitar Specifications
- Construction: Set-Neck
- Scale: 24.75 in.
- Body: Mahogany
- Neck: Mahogany
- Fingerboard: Rosewood
- Nut: 42mm
- Neck Contour: Thin U
- Frets: 24 XJ
- Hardware: Gold
- Tuners: ESP
- Bridge and Tailpiece: TOM Bridge and Tailpiece
- Pickups: ESP LH-150
- Controls:
- 3-Way Toggle
- Master Volume
- Master Tone with Push-Pull Coil Tap
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| Quality |
| Would you consider this product to be made well? How dependable? |
| This guitar is built like all of the SG style / Guild S100 style guitars, mahagony neck and body with a rosewood fretboard, set neck construction, a proven design that is very solid.
as with any guitar, if taken care of properly, it will last a long time. |
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| Reliability |
| How has it stood up over time? |
| I just got the guitar, and it seems to be very solid and well built, it should last a long, long time provided if it is taken care of properly and not abused. |
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| General |
| Your general opinion of this product. |
| I have the see through aged cherry finish version, the aged finish is ok, they could have left some red stain in the worn areas like a real sg would have, just make those areas dull, the electronics are ok, the humbuckers sound like gibson 490's in some aspects, they are a little tinny sound wise, will replace them when I get the chance, otherwise the hardware and such are OK for a guitar in this price range, the tuning keys work well and so does the bridge and tail piece. |
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| Playability and Feel |
| How does it feel, Heavy, Fast, Chunky? How was the neck? Are the controls easy to get to while playing? |
| the guitar is not neck heavy if you are "USED" to playing a guitar of this type, it feels like a 60's gibson neck crossed with an Ibanez neck, smooth and fast, I had to do a setup on my guitar, ernie ball super slinky 9's and low action, the action was good on the guitar, but I don't care for 10 gauge strings. |
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| Tone |
| Bright and snappy? Dark and smooth? Were the pickups hot, mellow, thick, thin? |
| this guitar should have had two tone controls to balance out the sounds between the two pickups, the pickups sound too close to eachother tone wise which doesn't leave too much room for a variance in tone between the neck and the bridge pickups, as I said they sound similar to Gibson 490 pickups, a little tinny tone wise |
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| Finish |
| How did the stain or paint job look? |
| The finish is nice for a relic or aged look, but Esp needs to looks are real SG's that have aged and seen how the cherry fades on areas that has a lot of contact, it would be more faded in those areas and not have the cherry finish missing showing what appears to be bare wood, remember the actual cherry finishes are stained into the wood, and the areas where the finish comes off would be dark and weathered, but aside from that it's pretty good for this price range and beats the gibson faded finishes where you can feel the wood grain. |
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| How was the action out of the box? |
| out of the box, Esp and or American Musical Supply did a nice job on the setup, I don't use 10's so I redone the setup with 9's to suit my needs, got this guitar as a gift this past holiday season. |
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