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Finishes
Vintage Black
About this model
The Viper-1000 already has a diabolical look with its asymmetrical double horns, and with the addition of the Vintage Black treatment, with a matte black finish and aged-look binding on the neck and headstock, this guitar just got a whole lot meaner. Built at 24.75” scale with set-thru construction that allows smooth access to the highest frets, the Viper-1000 Vintage Black pairs a mahogany body with a three-piece thin u-shaped maple neck. Its Macassar ebony fingerboard has pearloid ESP flag inlays and 22 extra-jumbo stainless steel frets, maximizing the sweet spot for both the neck and bridge pickups to offer their ideal tones. Its premium gold hardware includes LTD locking tuners and a TonePros TOM bridge and tailpiece. The Viper-1000 includes a set of Fishman Fluence Modern Humbucker active pickups (ceramic in the bridge and alnico in the neck), with push-pull control to select voicings and gold covers to match this guitar’s noteworthy aesthetics. Each pickup offers two voices. With the ceramic bridge pickup, Voice 1 is the ultimate high-output ceramic humbucker bridge pickup tone… crisp, searing crunch, tight bass with no mud, and a growl. Voice 2 delivers modern passive attack performance that has superbly organic distortion characteristics with outstanding dynamics and response. The alnico neck pickup’s Voice 1 is Fishman’s modern active high-output tone, offering the ideal active alnico sound: full, round, and boosted, but with unprecedented articulation and dynamics. Voice 2 gives you the crisp, clean and fluid neck humbucker tone you’ve always wanted.
Core specs
- Brand
- ESP/LTD
- Model
- VIPER-1000
- Family
- Unknown
- Series
- Unknown
- Body style
- Unknown
- Body material
- Mahogany
- Top
- N/A (no separate top listed)
- Neck material
- 3Pc Mahogany
- Neck profile
- Thin U
- Neck joint
- set
- Fingerboard
- Macassar Ebony
- Scale length
- 24.75"
- Nut width
- 42mm
- Fingerboard radius
- 350mm
- Frets
- 22
- Fret size
- XJ Stainless
- Bridge
- TonePros Locking TOM & Tailpiece
- Tuners
- LTD Locking
- Pickup config
- HH
- Pickups
- Neck: Fishman Fluence Modern Humbucker Alnico Gold Direct-Mount *(Pull Tone for Voice 2) / Bridge: Fishman Fluence Modern Humbucker Ceramic Gold Direct-Mount *(Pull Tone for Voice 2)
- Controls
- Volume/Tone(Push/Pull)/Toggle Switch
- Switching
- Unknown
Extended specsShow
- Nut material
- Molded
- Hardware finish
- Gold
- Tailpiece
- Included with bridge assembly (see bridge)
- Inlays
- Unknown
- Pickguard
- Unknown
- Factory strings
- D'Addario XL110 (.010/.013/.017/.026/.036/.046)
- Case / gig bag
- No
- Country of origin
- Unknown
- MSRP (USD)
- Unknown
- LH finishes offered
- Vintage Black
- Body finish type
- Vintage Black
Where to buy
| Retailer | Link | Availability |
|---|---|---|
| Sweetwater | Visit Sweetwater | Unknown |
| Reverb | Visit Reverb | Unknown |
| zZounds | Visit zZounds | Unknown |
| Guitar Center / Musician's Friend | Visit Guitar Center / Musician's Friend | Unknown |
| Amazon | Visit Amazon | Unknown |