ESP LTD KH-OUIJA Kirk Hammett Limited Edition Guitar, Natural

Full Description

Solid Alder Body

Alder is favoured by most players for its incredibly balanced tone, offering the perfect dynamic range to suit most musical styles. The alder body is perfect for a variety of playing styles as its excellent sustain and resonance ensures each note is heard. Its bright, sizzling highs, rounded lows, and beefy midrange sets up the foundation of the guitar's overall tonality, allowing players to achieve the perfect sounds for most situations. The body also features a contoured design, allowing the guitar to hug the player and deliver an incredibly comfortable performance.

Maple Neck-Through Construction

The ESP LTD KH-Ouija features a 3-piece maple neck to produce beautifully bright tones, with searing highs and strong mids for a dynamic performance. Its extra-thin U-shaped profile is perfect for speed demons, allowing players to easily reach across the entire fingerboard without losing any comfort. The neck-through construction optimises the maximum contact between the neck and body joint, enhancing the guitar's resonance for an advanced sustain. This setup allows superior vibration transfer and sustainability, perfect for when you need notes to ring out for as long as possible.

EMG 81 & 60 Pickups

The Signature ESP LTD incorporates a set of powerful EMG 81 and 60 humbuckers, constructed from close aperture coils and ceramic magnets to deliver advanced detail and a truly meaty tone. EMG pickups are favoured by many professional musicians due to their unbeatable tone, active circuitry, high output, and low noise performance. Setting the guitar into the bridge position with deliver the thick, punchy tonality of the EMG 81, while the neck position produces the warm, crisp tones of the EMG 60.

Floyd Rose Tremolo & Locking Nut

Kirk Hammett's Signature Guitar features a Floyd Rose tremolo bridge and a locking nut system, providing a range of unique sounds and accents to enhance your sound. The bridge can create amazing dive bombs and pitch bends, while the locking nut ensures the guitar retains its original tuning while enhancing tuning stability for the ultimate performance.

Kirk Hammett

Few Guitarists have been at the peak of interest for as long as Kirk Hammett. As the guitarist for the legendary band Metallica, Hammett is renowned for playing extremely fast, technical, and motivated pieces. Having toured the globe, Hammett’s guitars have to be rugged enough to last on the road and survive everything he throws at it. Hammett is regarded as an icon of metal music, and this signature will inspire guitarists to follow his path.

About ESP Guitars

ESP is a Japanese guitar manufacturer, established in 1975 under the name Electric Sound Products, primarily focused on the production of electric guitars and basses. Their product range will suit a wide variety of budgets and playing styles, with their popular Signature, Standard, Original, Graphic, Xtone, and Left Handed series' guitars. The company has a growing number of high profile artists who have designed their own signature instruments, such as Ron Wood, Kirk Hammett, Jeff Hanneman and many more.

Specifications

Body & Bridge

• Top: Quilted Maple
• Body: Alder
• Thickness: 45mm
• Binding: Black
• Construction: Neck-Through
• Bridge: Floyd Rose Tremolo
• Finish: Natural w/Ouija Graphics

Neck & Fingerboard

• Neck: 3-Pc Maple
• Profile: Extra Thin U
• Scale Length: 25.5’’
• Fingerboard: Macassar Ebony
• Radius: 14’’
• Frets: 24 Extra Jumbo
• Inlays: Pearloid Moon & Stars
• Nut: Floyd Rose Locking
• Nut Width: 42mm

Electronics & Hardware

• Bridge Pickup: EMG 81 (Ceramic/Active)
• Neck Pickup: EMG 60 (Ceramic/Active)
• Controls: 2 x Volume, Master Tone, 3-Way Blade Switch
• Tuners: LTD
• Hardware: Black
• Strings: D’Addario XL .009 - .042 Gauges
• Case Included: KH Ouija Form Fit Hardshell
• Accessories: Certificate of Authenticity