Edwards Flying Nighthawk LF "Little Fire" 2016 Vanishing Starlight Noël Model

You are looking at a ESP Edwards 2016 Flying Nighthawk LF "Little Fire" Vanishing Starlight Noel Model electric guitar.

This model is a signature for REVO, the artist behind the Japanese bands Sound Horizon and Linked Horizon. This model is specifically the Edwards version of the ESP Flying Nighthawk, played by Noel of the parallel-universe band Vanishing Starlight in the Sound Horizon 9th Story Concert "Nein" and subsequent 3-song EP "Vanishing Starlight". The V-shaped alder body, reminiscent of a flying nighthawk, features a three-dimensional design with a wing and fire pattern motif. It features more frets than you ever thought necessary with an astonishing 29-fret design so you can impress all your friends. Inlays include a Noel logo at the 12th fret and even though there are four knobs two of them are dummy controls leaving you with one master volume and one master tone. These were already pretty rare before but are no longer in production.

This is overall in pretty good condition. I purchased this used here on Reverb a few years ago with the Seymour Duncan TB4 already installed and it sounds amazing. This is actually the pickup that normally would come installed on the higher-end ESP version so it is definitely an upgrade. There was one issue with this guitar when I received it, which I've learned is a common problem with these bolt on V's. Essentially the neck screws had stripped a bit over time allowing the neck to shift in the pocket throwing off the string alignment to where the low E (bass side) was too close to the edge of the neck. I had the best luthier in the southeast do the repair which consisted of a machine-screw mod to the neck meaning instead of screw into wood, it is now bolts screwed into metal inserts so there is no chance this issue will ever happen again and it has been rock solid ever since. A bonus surprise is that this repair actually increased the sustain and made the tone on this beauty even better than it already was. This is the second one of these guitars I own and I have had the same mod done on my other one to "future-proof" the neck from shifting and honestly just because the tone was so much better afterwards. I am simply selling this one now because I've decided to thin my collection out and get rid of doubles.

Cosmetically there are some hairline cracks in the plastic parts, hairline finish cracks at the neck joint, some white marks on the guitar, and a few corrosion spots on metal parts that I have pictured. I did my best to capture everything These are all simply cosmetic and do not affect the playability of the guitar.

Guitar Specifications:

BODY : Alder
NECK : Hard Maple 3P
FINGERBOARD : Rosewood, 29frets
INLAY : Noël Logo at 12th fret
SCALE : 628mm
NUT : Bone (42mm)
JOINT : Bolt-on
TUNER : GOTOH SG360-07
BRIDGE : Wilkinson WVP2SB
PICKUP : Seymour Duncan TB-4 JB Model Trembucker Bridge Pickup
CONTROL : Master Volume, Master Tone, Dummy × 2
COLOR : FLYING NIGHTHAWK