ESP Shinigami Custom V

cpnhowdy · 04-19-2008, 04:46 AM

I was in the Shibuya Crafthouse the other day and one of the staff had the snake guitar also showed at Namm next to Shinigami. He said the snake took about a year to build and cost was I believe close to $30,000. If I remember correctly Shinigami was about that much too. I asked him if it was built for anyone famous and he said no. Just someone with a lot of money

Apophis · 04-19-2008, 07:23 AM

^^ looks cool

any better quality pictures of that ??

Esp Griffyn · 04-19-2008, 09:48 AM

Seems like a bit of a waste of time to install a good bridge and do all the fretwork and whatnot on something thats never meant to be played. Leave art to artists and let Custom shop luthiers make guitars I say.

You can still make an instrument artistic and functional, bass luthiers espescially prove this with their work all the time.

CrushingAnvil · 04-29-2008, 09:25 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by trv

This has probably been posted before, but I did a search and nothing came up.

Anyway, today I was looking at the custom shop section of the ESP website and I saw this:

After a little searching a came across a bit more information...

Source: guitarnoize.com

ESP are well known for their crazy creations out of their Custom Shop but how about this one to kick off 2008! The Shinigami, it reminded me of the Masaki Kyomoto Special also from ESP. Unfortunately there are no details currently available for the Shinigami but I will update this post as and when information comes in.

UPDATE: Shinigami first appeared on the header bar of ESP Japan site in December. It was produced by the Craft House. The guitar is likely to retail at over $20,000!

Soooo Pretty much 20,000 bucks for a guitar that looks silly and by the closer look, it seems like you'd feel even sillier playing it on stage unless you were Alice cooper or Gwar...

Shawn · 04-29-2008, 09:59 PM

That is wild. I kinda dig it.

DaemonSvek · 05-04-2008, 02:28 AM

freakin amazing man, totally wild, the Shinigami is totally playable, they played it at Namm i think
what about micheal angelo batio's ambidextrous x-shaped guitar with the four original floyd roses, four necks, six pick ups, 24 tuners, freakin crazy!?!?!?!

Bigeeboo · 05-06-2008, 12:18 PM

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Originally Posted by Battousai

stuff like this while looks erm.. lets say unique... cant even be called an art piece.. a guitar is meant to be played... hence the frets being accurately spaced, the original floyd rose machine heads, pickups volume knob. etc...

if you want to make a piece of art make a sculpture or a painting . not something with working electronics wasted on a hunk of wood never meant to be played.

could you imagine how mad a lot of guys would be if this was a seven with an original floyd rose.. its bad enough you can barely find one but to see it on a showpiece guitar ... heh

* i hope i dont get flamed for saying this*

I couldnt agree more ... I HATE the whole concept of it ... ANY guitar should be played, its a waste ... and not to mention this shits gonna hold up the ESP Custom shop even more

auxioluck · 05-08-2008, 07:50 PM

I guess the good news is that know we know there is ONE custom ESP DIDN'T fuck up...

Metal Ken · 05-08-2008, 07:53 PM

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Originally Posted by auxioluck

I guess the good news is that know we know there is ONE custom ESP DIDN'T fuck up...

The Scythe was supposed to be silver.

auxioluck · 05-08-2008, 07:57 PM

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Originally Posted by Metal Ken

The Scythe was supposed to be silver.

Well.....fuck. Shot down again.

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