ESP Ltd F-50 Electric Guitar

Body - Basswood
Neck - Maple, bolt-on, 25.5" scale, thin U contour
Nut width - 42mm
Fingerboard - Rosewood, dot inlays, 24 X jumbo frets
Hardware - Chrome, TOM bridge
Tuners - ESP tuners
Pickups - 2 * ESP LH-150
Controls - 1*volume, 1*tone, 3-way selector

ESP's F-50 is a modern classic, with great rock styling, powerful pickups and plenty of metal attitide to satisfy.
With a beautiful bevelled body, ESP pickups and tuners, Chrome hardware and a satin Rock Maple neck, the specs are high as well.
The headstock is a curvy, tapered design, just right for a bit of extra poise, with a gloss black front and the Ltd logo in silver.
The back is satin Maple, with 2 rows of 3 a side Chrome tuners, branded ESP, slightly offset, increasing string tension on the bass side.
The neck is Hard Maple, with a satin finish to the back, making it excellently playable. The 24 fret board is Rosewood, unbound, and has small Abolone dot inlays, with ESP's traditional 12th fret marker, a large Abolone block showing the model number.
Fretwork is, as always on these ESP guitars, very good, a nice height, well polished off, and with the Rosewood itself also superbly polished, the fretboard is a joy to play. Considering this is a sub £200 guitar, it's very impressive.
The neck feels quite slim, with a shallow D profile. Nut width is 41mm, and this guitar has an action of about 2-3mm across the board at the 12th fret, nicely set up from the factory. The neck is bolted onto the Basswood body, 4 recessed Chrome screws can be found around the back, joining the double cutaway body at the 18th fret on the bass side, and 23rd on the treble, so upper fret access is clearly not a problem, and ESP have chamfered this cutaway to improve things even more.
The front and back of the body is quite heavily chamfered on both sides, giving a really smart look to the knobbly knarled pointy body! The F model seems to be one of ESP's more popular shapes, it's certainly got a large following.
The noise is suppled by 2 ESP LH-150 humbuckers, black open coils types, as found on many of the Ltd guitars. They're plenty powerful too, built for your distortion channel of course, but they'll give good clarity for clean rhythm work too, but that isn't what this guitar is going to be used for - is it!
The bridge is a standard Chrome tune-o-matic style, and the F50 has a string through body tailpiece. The controls are easy enough, a master tone and volume, and a 3 way selector switch.
In all, a powerful looking metal guitar, with excellent pickups, a lovely neck and board, quality hardware and plenty of attitude.

£239