Anyone know much about this? (NGD)

[craig_mccann]

http://edinburgh.gumtree.com/edinburgh/50/51075550.html

I tried searching around and couldnt really find much about it at all. ESP LTD H302, looks great, although I know the pickups will need replace, Duncan Designed.

So can anyone tell me anything about it? wood type, roughly when they were released, value? anything at all. Might go see it tonight.

EDIT: I went to see it last night n was pretty pleased with it, so... I bought it :D

The colour is beautiful, it's my favourite colour for a guitar regardless of shape. The only thing I don't like about it is the headstock shape and the pickups could be doing with being swapped for some BKPs ;)



And finally a little family shot :) All of which are midrange but hell I like them lol

[Jonny]

Best guess, agathis or basswood. And they were quite cheap since it's a pretty low number (unlike MH 1000 or something)

[BigB]

http://edinburgh.gumtree.com/edinburgh/50/51075550.html

I tried searching around and couldnt really find much about it at all. ESP LTD H302, looks great, although I know the pickups will need replace, Duncan Designed.

So can anyone tell me anything about it? wood type, roughly when they were released, value? anything at all. Might go see it tonight.

From what I found here and there googling a bit:

Going-thru maple or mahogany neck (seen both, I'd say more probably maple), rosewood fretboard, mahogany wings, maple top. Made in korea,  released about 5/6 years ago (no idea when the production started nor when it ended), price range (second hand) around €400/500.

HTH

[BigB]

Best guess, agathis or basswood. And they were quite cheap since it's a pretty low number (unlike MH 1000 or something)

Actually, it looks like this model was not that cheap - more like the current MH-401QM I'd say.

[Jonny]

Ah. Woops.

[Sifu Ben]

yeah, there never used to be a 400 series, 300 was the top end of LTD until the 400 series came in about 5-6 years ago (which were really just 300s with EMGs/Duncans as opposed to Hz/DD), before the 401s a couple of years ago.

[Keven]

a local customer has a floyd rosed MH-400 type guitar iirc correctly. solidly built. nice quilt top too. i've done the setup on it numerous times and the guitar seems to hold up well to different string gauge types and setup.

it's like they said, maple set neck with mahogany body and maple top. it looks exactly like the h-1000 guitar i own, except the first time i cleaned the fretboard on that MH-400  it looked like it was tinted to darken it up, as the lemon oil stained my rag burgundy :P

it's not a bad deal at 200£. try it out first though. east asian made guitars are hit or miss sometimes.

[Simon D]

Yep, it's defintely a maple thru-neck with mahogany wings. I had an M-302 - basically a flat-topped, Floyd-loaded version of this guitar. Same colour too! It was £700 new, in about 2003ish.