2001 ESP KH-2 Kirk Hammett Signature relic guitar, #18 of 100

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Legions of Metallica fans will probably want to lynch me, but I'm sorry, it has to be said...

HOW MUCH for a Japanese-made Super-Strat?

Currently listed on eBay UK with a Buy It Now price of £3,999.99.

Blimey!

[NOTE: I have nothing against Japanese guitars. In fact I think they often represent the very finest production-made guitars on the planet, and I have owned many. What I am really astonished at here, is the super-inflated price for a guitar that is essentially a "super-strat", just a very basic guitar. I'd like to know how that price tag is justified. Is this actually the recommended selling price (in which case in seems that Metallica fans are being ripped off big time) or is it a price that has been created by demand?]

G L Wilson

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Brandless Stratocaster with EMG-ESP pickups, pitch black finish and lots of chrome

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For a while now (and yes, it's been a while since I've posted here, sorry, but don't worry, I've been playing guitar a lot in the meantime), I've been wanting to post about a stratocaster - even if I'm not a fan of this guitar, it would be bizarre not to show once in a while the most iconic electric guitar in history on a blog that is dedicated to all guitars. Not so easy though, because there's not often something new or exciting about strats, neither about Fender models or any of their innumerable copies or clones...

And then I saw this one! And, surprise!, I not only find it worth writing a post about, I even like it a lot, I could have one like this - yes, even with the EMG pickups. It's said to have been 'reconstructed' but it doesn't say what was the original guitar, but I assume that you don't put expensive hardware and electronics on a total cheapo. I had already noticed that a chrome pickguard makes a strat look much cooler (here), and the tele knobs make it even better (if I'm not wrong some G&L custom strats have a similar combination).

Despite its EMG pickups - clearly metal oriented - one cannot call it a superstrat, it keeps the classic design and electronics, two humbuckers strats have been introduced by Fender themselves in the 1970s as fat strats - let's say it's a heavyset strat... A super cool heavyset strat!

Bertram

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Godin LG EMG

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I like how this sober standard design of Godin guitars is used for very different models - from MIDI nylon-strings guitars to this metal oriented Godin LG EMG with black graphite finish and EMG active humbuckers, via semi-hollow jazz guitars or strat-esque 3 single-coils/trem ones. And this design fits to all!

There is definitlely a Godin on my must-have guitar list...

Bertram

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