ESP LTD EC-1000 T CTM, See Thru Black Cherry Overview
This model is part of the Limited Deluxe EC-1000 Series, which combines quality with affordability, featuring professional-quality features, while also being great-looking guitars.
The ‘CTM’ stands for ‘Custom Traditional Model’, with Traditional referring to the full-thickness, chambered mahogany body, which provides weight relief. It also has a maple top, a 3-piece mahogany neck with a thin ‘U’ profile making it comfortable to play, topped with a 24 stainless steel frets on a macassar ebony fretboard. It also features LTD locking tuners and a Tonepros Locking TOM and tailpiece, which improves intonation, sustain and tuning stability.
This model has a pair of Fishman Fluence Open Core Classic humbuckers which provide tight lows, a vocal midrange, and unreal highs, with a new 3rd single-coil voice which provides a clear vintage tone.
To complete the look is gold hardware to complement bold See Thru Black Cherry finish.
Overview by ESP
Guitars in the LTD Deluxe EC-1000 Series are designed to offer the tone, feel, looks, and quality that working professional musicians require in an instrument, while remaining affordable enough for serious players. With the EC-1000T CTM, the “T” stands for “traditional”, referring to this model’s full-thickness body that’s chambered for weight relief, with no waist-cut like the typical EC-1000 model. It also features multi-ply body/headstock binding on body top and back. This guitar offers a mahogany body with an outstanding flamed maple top, and set-thru construction at 24.75” scale, with a satin-finished mahogany neck. The sound of the EC-1000T CTM is powered by a set of Fishman Fluence Open Core Classic Humbucker pickups with push-pull controls to select between three different voicings, offering the tone and response of both active and passive pickup varieties (voice 1 & 2) as well as single-coil varieties (Voice 3). Other features include gold hardware, a TonePros locking bridge and tailpiece, and a Macassar ebony fingerboard with 22 extra-jumbo stainless steel frets.hogany neck with a thin ‘U’ profile making it comfortable to play, topped with a 24 stainless steel frets on a macassar ebony fretboard. It also features Grover tuners and a Floyd Rose 1000SE bridge.
For pickups, it has an EMG 66TW at the neck position and an EMG 57F at the bridge, with a splittable neck pickup using the push/pull control. These pickups are which are great for playing metal and hard rock as they provide more output and gain, with great clarity and definition.
Other features include black hardware to complement the striking See Thru Black finish.
Overview by ESP
Guitars in the LTD Deluxe EC-1000 Series are designed to offer the tone, feel, looks, and quality that working professional musicians require in an instrument, while remaining affordable enough for serious players. This EC-1000FR model adds a Floyd Rose 1000SE bridge with stainless steel screws, along with a great-looking flamed maple top on its mahogany body. Its set of EMG 66TW (neck) and EMG 57F (bridge) active pickups offer outstanding tones, with a push-pull control to split the neck pickup. It also includes 24 extra-jumbo stainless steel frets on its Macassar ebony fingerboard.
