DISC ESP KH-2 Kirk Hammett, Purple Sparkle

Full Description

Solid Alder Body

Alder is favoured by most players for its incredibly balanced tone, offering the perfect dynamic range to suit most musical styles. The ESP KH-2’s alder body is perfect for a variety of playing styles as its excellent sustain and resonance ensures each note is heard. Its bright, sizzling highs, rounded lows, and beefy midrange sets up the foundation of the guitar's overall tonality, allowing players to achieve the perfect sounds for most situations. Kirk Hammett’s Signature KH-2 Guitar is finished in a striking purple sparkle and black hardware, creating a captivating appearance that will stand on any stage and in setting.

Maple Neck-Through Construction

This Signature ESP features a 3-piece maple neck to produce beautifully bright tones, with searing highs and strong mids for a dynamic performance. The rosewood fingerboard enhances the overall tone with a soothingly warm character, opening the mids up to create a sharp punch. Its extra-thin U-shaped profile is perfect for speed demons, allowing players to easily reach across the entire fingerboard without losing any comfort. The neck-through construction optimises the maximum contact between the neck and body joint, enhancing the guitar's resonance for an advanced sustain. This setup allows superior vibration transfer and sustainability, perfect for when you need notes to ring out for as long as possible.

Limited Edition EMG KH Bone Breaker Pickups

Kirk Hammett has been delivering tone crushing riffs in Metallica for over 30 years, and his guitar needs to be as versatile as possible while still deliver killer cleans and powerful distorted soundscapes. The limited-edition Bone Breaker set is the result of taking the iconic Metallica sound and infusing it with new elements without sacrificing gain for clean or vice-versa. Designed with EMG’s high-quality construction and Kirk Hammett’s excellent taste in tone, the KH Bone Breaker humbuckers combine alnico V and ceramic magnets to create the perfect tone-beast. With slight preamp adjustments and a ceramic bridge and alnico neck, the KH-2 Signature Guitar can deliver everything from crisp, crushing leads to smooth, rounded rhythms. As an added bonues, these pickups feature signed pickup covers to create something special.

Floyd Rose Original Tremolo

For many years Floyd Rose has been the leading manufacturer and designer of floating, locking tremolos. With a design that has stood strong for over 30 years, the Floyd Rose Original locking tremolo allows you to adjust the string tension and pitch with the removable whammy bar to create unique sounds such as dive bombs. Unlike non-locking tremolo's, the Floyd Rose bridge can make huge changes in pitch but still retain the initial tuning by addition of the locking nut at the end of the headstock.

Gotoh Tuners

The KH-2 Signature Guitar is finished off with a range of high-end components to ensure players receive the best playing experience possible. The Gotoh tuners are designed to improve tuning stability while reducing string slippage, delivering a truly quick and easy way to tune.

Kirk Hammett

Few Guitarists have been at the peak of interest for as long as Kirk Hammett. As the guitarist for the legendary band Metallica, Hammett is renowned for playing extremely fast, technical and motivated pieces. Having toured the globe, Hammett’s guitars have to be rugged enough to last on the road. Hammett is regarded as an icon of metal music, and this signature will inspire guitarists to follow his path.

About ESP Guitars

ESP is a Japanese guitar manufacturer, established in 1975 under the name Electric Sound Products, primarily focused on the production of electric guitars and basses. Their product range will suit a wide variety of budgets and playing styles, with their popular Signature, Standard, Original, Graphic, Xtone, and Left-Handed series' guitars. The company has a growing number of high profile artists who have designed their own signature instruments, such as Ron Wood, Kirk Hammett, Jeff Hanneman and many more.

Specifications

Body & Bridge

• Body: Alder
• Construction: Neck-Through
• Bridge: Floyd Rose Original
• Finish: Purple Sparkle

Neck & Fingerboard

• Neck: 3-Piece Maple
• Profile: Extra Thin U
• Scale Length: 25.5''
• Fingerboard: Rosewood
• Radius: 305mm
• Frets: 24 Extra Jumbo (Scalloped on 17-24)
• Inlays: Signature Skull & Bones
• Nut: Locking
• Nut Width: 42mm

Electronics & Hardware

• Bridge Pickup: EMG KH Bone Breaker Limited Edition
• Neck Pickup: EMG KH Bone Breaker Limited Edition
• Electronics: Active
• Controls: 2 x Volume, Tone, 3-Way Switch
• Tuners: Gotoh
• Strap Buttons: Standard
• Hardware: Black
• Strings: D'Addario XL120 (.009, .011, .016, .024, .032, .042 Gauges)
• Case Included: ESP Form Fit Hardshell
• Accessories: Certificate of Authenticity