ESP Guitars USA Custom Shop Tour! - Crazy Finishes & Legendary ESP Designs!

Just north of Hollywood, You'll find ESP's USA Headquarters & Custom Shop! Dagan takes a tour of this amazing place with ESP's director of artist relations Tony Rauser!
Watch the bodies get shaped into their new legendary final form and put together, the incredible paint work and finishes that ESP put on their guitars all the way through to final fit and assembly. This is a very special place to be!
Not only can you get a unique one off guitar built for yourself here, but this is where artists get their custom guitars built! The likes of James Hetfield, Kirk Hammett, Gary Holt, Will Alder and George Lynch all get their guitars from this awesome workshop!
Grab your own ESP or LTD Guitar at PMT Online here - bit.ly/3waeuDR
Check out our rundown of the new 2022 ESP & LTD from their Hollywood Showroom here - bit.ly/3LiZEiR
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Check out our USA 2022 Road Trip playlist here (It'll get updated every Tuesday, Thursday & Saturday!) - bit.ly/3M6UFCv
00:00 Intro
01:35 Final Assembly
06:58 Wood Room
10:15 CNC With Gill
13:47 Bare Necks And Fingerboards
16:14 Raw Wood
17:23 Painting With Ryan
24:37 Final Thoughts With Tony And Miguel
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[@MrJeffGCU]

I had to sell both kidneys to do it, but I had them build me an M-1 in a satin LynchBurst about two years ago. I'm almost afraid to play it because it's so beautiful. Unbelievable fit and finish. If you can swing it financially, it's an amazing musical investment.

[@dresixx92102]

how much did it run you

[@laurajane4541]

@@dresixx92102ha!😱🤣

[@eightfifty2309]

​@@dresixx92102enough to sell both kidneys. Just looked it up and they're like at least $3500.

[@namelesstemple]

How much did it cost and how long did it take them to make it? I am seriously considering doing this

[@cfh13]

Affording a custom shop is so far from reality for me. I count myself extremely lucky to have bought my dream guitar in 1999, a '94 KH2. Still my dream guitar all these years later.

[@michaelgallegos8811]

Dagen this was amazing man ,yup ESP is the bomb already configured mine a few times 😆 I Will make one mine some day soon 😀

[@hyperbolekid]

Those gold splatters are straight 🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@wolfsguitarden740]

My fav esp is the full body eclipse..theres so sick

[@justicia8393]

There is only one original ESP and that’s ESP 🇯🇵 since 1975

[@rajvirsingh5754]

Really love those gold and blood splatters they have right now

[@JLCwakeboardingFL]

Gold splatter is DOPE

[@TungstenOvergaard]

What a series of videos! Very interesting and very special for those loving guitars.

[@PMTVUK]

Glad you enjoyed them Antonio, thank you for watching! 🤘

[@wolfsguitarden740]

Ok that black an gold splatter is a dirty boi

[@renesalinas3109]

Hey my friend works there awesome place great friendly people who really care and go above and beyond to do our guitars

[@fredshred8397]

50 Cent approves the Candy Shop. :) Phenomenal work at ESP USA Studio.

[@Rocktalk101]

ESP are my other favorite guitars out there for me it is Schecter and ESP love both guitar companies and guitars! thanks for the video!

[@PMTVUK]

A truly awesome brand! 🔥

[@Rocktalk101]

@@PMTVUK yes they are!

[@RubenSerranoCHEK]

Beautiful guitars , I have an early 80s , ESP Japan from48th St customs NYC , the best !

[@HandOfMetal]

Heyy, my LTD-MH1000 has exactly that paintjob on it. 23:19

[@OmarBhoo]

Great video man. Let me tell you, I have always admired ESP but the necks never moved with me. Maybe its all from my bro in high school who had an ESP 7 string that just didn't feel right to me. But to be honest I'm a Jackson and Carvin guy.

[@shanewalton8888]

"Trickles down to the Japanese stuff." My good sir, you have it the wrong way around.

[@coltthompson8111]

ESP was started in Japan in 1975. USA 2013... I think he had it right.

[@erickvelez7942]

Does anyone know how they put graphics on guitars such as the ones seen on Signature Models? Such as Kirk Hammett's guitars (particularly the KH-3 Spider, Karloff Mummy, and White Zombie guitars), Will Adler's Warbird, and George Lynch's Kamikaze? Would love to know for my own projects...

[@lexdemonica]

Dagan custom when?

[@PMTVUK]

😱👀

[@UnpleasantDog]

Is it still possible today to order a black Explorer MX 2 model, exactly the same as those used by James Hetfield in the early 90s?

[@cMaXeJIJIo]

I'll second the "what a series of videos" comments-my jaw literally dropped! I was about to buy a vintage natural USA ESP Eclipse, but the the Russian Invasion happened, which, trust me, is a lot more violent than the British one 🤣 Lost my business, the guitar price went up 40%. At least there's not a huge line of folks to buy that guitar haha!

[@american_psycho1147]

Genuinely surprised to see how small the facility is

[@allensaunders449]

Some customers have to wait for upto 2 year's for their USA custom. Hand made not many are built each year. Don't need a large factory

[@bipolardjinnjer5331]

I’m gonna have them design me a guitar based on the nevan from dmc3

[@hangman960]

Nice to hear Gary Holt Mentioned

[@kenwayaiden4535]

The price… impossible for me

[@ericcarr1648]

Such awesome guitars. Just sucks they are so far out of reach for the average Joe to ever afford. But they are beautiful none the less.

[@mattiesinns595]

Does esp do nitro finish?

[@MrJeffGCU]

Nope. Nitro is far inferior to polys. You'll never seen a modern ESP turn yellow and crack within 5 years.

[@greekfreak1980]

Custom shop my arse. The Japanese ESP custom shop is a real custom shop, they will build you anything as long as you pay a small fortune for it. The US pseudo- "custom shop" doesn´t even allow you to get certain specs on your builds. For example, the Horizon model is only available with a hard tail here, while the Japanese, proper custom shop lets you choose whatever type of fixed or tremolo bridge unit you want. Same with pickups and many other specs.

[@IMPULSOESTATICO]

Noice!!

[@shanewalton8888]

19:00 Dagan reveals his true self again.

[@eightfifty2309]

I swear since they both got masks and long hair it's almost like they're twins except one has a British accent and the other has an American accent lol.

[@logandowdy9887]

ESP is the shit!

[@PMTVUK]

Oh yeah! 🤘

[@NunYa953]

I love how masks are more important than safety glasses. 🤣

[@flaviobarretto]

Why are they wearing masks?

[@eddieschneider1947]

the masks look stupid. i understand people don't know how useless masks are, like rice being thrown through a chain-linked fence.

[@thegamersgalaxy2855]

LOL....essentially GLP design, ripoffs! Fucking unreal...

[@Lukejmts1]

Take the damn masks off!

[@thatguy6387]

Wood doesn’t mean anything in guitar tone. I am so tired of non pro people acting like it’s that big of a deal….😂 just kidding. Someone immediately got triggered though and was ready to jump. 😅

[@shanewalton8888]

Tone wood is a myth.

[@theodoreloring9166]

Good grief with the masks

[@burnsZY85]

How does one go about acquiring one of these in the UK?

[@Lachancharinaldi]

Why are they wearing masks?

[@MrJeffGCU]

It's CALIFORNIA. They haven't figured out Covid's been over for more than a year now.