ESP Ltd AX-104 Bass Guitar

Body - Basswood
Neck - Maple, bolt-on, 34" scale, thin U contour
Nut width - 40mm
Fingerboard - Rosewood, dot inlays 24 X jumbo frets
Hardware - Chrome, ESP DB-4 bridge
Tuners - ESP tuners
Pickups - 2 * ESP SB-4 with ESP ABQ 2-2 Band Active EQ
Controls - 1*volume, 2*tone, 1*blend

The AX104 is a proper metal bass guitar from ESP with plenty of poise, purpose and attitude! Big and heavy with an all over gloss black finish, plenty of points and powerful pickups to produce driving bass lines, perfect for rock and metal music.
The AX104 has a nicely shaped headstock, with 2 a side black chrome ESP tuners, these are of a good quality and keep pitch without flaw, no matter how much abuse is dished out. The gold 'LTD' logo shines out on the front of the headstock, otherwise it's plain black to the front and rear.
The neck is noticable slim, just 40mm at the nut, just about the smallest neck we've seen on a bass guitar. Finished in gloss black to the rear, the neck is great for fast and light fingered fretting, and if you've got small or large hands, you'll find the it a beauty.
The 24 fret Rosewood fingerboard is unbound, with neat and tidy fretwork and a good, tight grain. Small dot's provide the position markers, with ESP's traditional block 12th fret inlay, displaying the model number.
The neck is bolted onto the glossy black body by 4 recessed black chrome screws.
The body is a double cutaway type, with excellent access to all 24 extra jumbo frets, and some nice chamfering makiing things up there easier. The chamfering continues around the front and back edges of the body, giving a more comfortable playing position and improving looks, giving it a kind of bevelled, stand out shape.
The straphooks are found on the back of the top upper bout, and on the edge of the lower top bout, again giving good balance and a decent playing position when stood up, you don't want to play this sitting down!
The bridge and 4 control knobs are all in matching black chrome, all good quality stuff. The 2 pickups are EMG's own SB-4's, with active circuitry so you have more control over the tonal response. The guitar is capable of a broad range of sounds, not just metal mayhem, the pickup system can give subtle jazzy and funk tones through to powerful driving rock lines.
A suprisingly versailte bass guitar with great looks, quality sounds and plenty of playability.

£319