2000s Edwards by ESP E-LP-98LTC Custom Black Beauty, Ebony Nitro Lacquer w/ USA Seymour Duncans, Japan

Up for sale, a 2000s Edwards by ESP E-LP-98LTC in excellent, 100% original condition and in perfect working order. A discontinued instrument produced in Japan by ESP under the Edwards banner, this guitar is a faithful iteration of the LP Custom Black Beauty platform with a genuine ebony fretboard, mahogany body, carved maple cap, a nitro lacquer Ebony finish, and all-gold hardware.

The guitar is loaded with its stock pair of USA-made Seymour Duncan humbuckers, with an SH-1 ‘59 PAF in the neck position and SH-4 JB at the bridge. The SH-1 ‘59 neck pickup was designed in the spirit of the original PAF, with sweet singing sustain, wound to deliver full-sounding chords and midrange-forward attack. The SH-4 JB bridge pickup is Duncan's original hot-rodded humbucker: the low end is full and powerful, the highs are crisp and detailed, and there’s an upper-midrange bump that adds crunch and chunk to heavy chords that translates to a singing, vocal-like quality when playing single notes or solos. This E-LP-98LTC weighs 11lbs 1oz, professionally setup here at Mike & Mike’s Guitar Bar with 10-46 strings, low action, and accurate intonation.

Neck Specs:

• Wood: Mahogany
• Shape: Baseball bat ‘50s-style C, measuring .935” 1st fret, 1.060” 12th fret
• Fretboard: Ebony, 12” radius, block inlays
• Frets: Medium jumbo, leveled/crowned, no wear
• Scale Length: 24 3/4”
• Nut: 1 11/16”, bone
• Headstock: “Open book,” multi-ply binding
• Tuners: Gotoh

Body Specs:

• Wood: Maple, Mahogany
• Pickups: Seymour Duncan SH-1 ‘59 (N), SH-4 JB (B) humbuckers
• Harness: Noble pots
• Hardware: ABR-1-style bridge, stopbar, switch tip
• Plastics: Witch hat knobs

The gloss Black lacquer finish is framed by multi-ply ambered binding, with some minor finish scratches and a few shallow dings on the back at the bass-side lower bout. The smooth nitro gloss on the neck profile is flawless.

A padded gigbag is included.