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ESP LTD EC-1000 Duncan Electric Guitar, Vintage Black

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Color: Vintage Black


Style: Duncan


Features

  • Designed to offer the tone, feel, looks, and quality that professional musicians need, while still being affordable
  • Consistently one of ESP's most popular guitars due to its combination of incredible looks and great performance
  • Offers a vintage looking body/neck/headstock binding and gold hardware and includes premier components
  • Features LTD locking tuners, a Tonepros locking TOM bridge and tailpiece, and classic Seymour Duncan JB/59 passive pickups
  • Also offers set-thru construction with a mahogany body, 3 pc. mahogany neck, and 24-fret Macassar ebony fingerboard

Description

Guitars in the LTD EC-1000 Series are designed to offer the tone, feel, looks, and quality that working professional musicians need in an instrument, along with the pricing that typical musicians can still afford. The EC-1000 VB Duncan is consistently one of the most popular guitars due to its combination of incredible looks and great performance. It offers a vintage looking body/neck/headstock binding and gold hardware, and includes premier components like LTD locking tuners, a Tonepros locking TOM bridge and tailpiece, and classic Seymour Duncan JB/’59 passive pickups. It also offers set-thru construction with a mahogany body, 3 pc. mahogany neck, and 24-fret Macassar ebony fingerboard. Available in Vintage Black finish.

Brand: ESP GUITARS


Color: Vintage Black


Top Material Type: Mahogany Wood


Body Material: Mahogany


Back Material Type: Mahogany Wood


Neck Material Type: Mahogany


Fretboard Material Type: Ebony Wood


Guitar Pickup Configuration: H-H


String Material Type: Alloy Steel


Hand Orientation: Right


Item Weight: 10 pounds


Product Dimensions: 44 x 4 x 16 inches


Country of Origin: Korea, Republic of


Item model number: LEC1000VBD


Is Discontinued By Manufacturer: No


Date First Available: January 31, 2018


Back Material: Mahogany Wood


Body Material: Mahogany


Color Name: Vintage Black


Fretboard Material: Ebony Wood


Guitar Pickup Configuration: H-H


String Material: Alloy Steel


Top Material: Mahogany Wood


Neck Material Type: Mahogany


Number of Strings: 6


Guitar Bridge System: Tune-O-Matic


Size: Duncan


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Top Amazon Reviews

    • Great guitar!
Color: Vintage Black Style: Duncan
Super fast delivery! And the guitar is great!
Reviewed in the United States on May 6, 2025 by Amazon Customer
    • This is an awesome guitar!
Color: Tiger Eye Style: Fluence
Review Image by gourdsFan gourdsFan
First, the stock photos don't really do the "tiger eye" justice. The color is more of a fiery orange than a brown that stock photos indicate. The flamed maple has almost a 3D look with the look of the grain changing with the angle of viewing. She's a beauty, but loves fingerprints. The Fluence pickups are supremely quiet, loud and clear, if that makes sense. My guitar teacher was impressed with the sound despite being an old-school guy when it comes to gear. I like the Fishmans, but you should try them out at a store first. The tuners are slick, sensitive and locking. The XL frets make bends easy and smooth and the neck is very comfortable. All in all this has a lot of nice touches and everything says quality. It's fun to play and really resonates in your hands, giving you feedback. I think this could use a longer scale length neck to go with the 24 frets, if I have any quibbles. This version is made in Korea. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on June 5, 2020 by gourdsFan gourdsFan
    • Poor Indonesian QC
Color: Black Style: Fluence
Review Image by The Critic The Critic
ESP used to make some really high quality guitars in the LTD line. That being said, this is when they were still being made in the Korean factory. In a momentary lapse of reason, I purchased this, $1100, Indonesian made, EC-1000S and was instantly regretful upon it's arrival. With the myriad, of inexpensive, high quality, import guitars now available, I can no longer recommend LTD instruments. After the pandemic, we saw a major price hike on everything, and frankly, a downturn in quality. Sad to say, even luxury items, such as import guitars were not immune to these quality problems as I am sure there are less workers with any experience making these dreadfully, low quality instruments. On to the guitar I received... First off, the seller shipped the guitar in the, inner, triangular container which is only enough to protect the guitar in a music store back room, definitely a very poor choice when shipping a guitar. The outer container was absent. Upon unboxing, right away, I noticed a massive, paint flaw on the front face of the instrument (pictured). Clearly, when the guitar was painted, an airbubble didn't escape, causing it to pop during the drying period, and leaving an appropriately BB sized divot, in the finish, right on the front face of the single cut horn. Ridiculous that something as big as this was not caught in in the paint shop, and then a second time in the supposed US inspection facility. This is clearly a B-Stock instrument. Sloppy paint, sloppy binding, uneven, ripply, clear coat. Poorly cut nut... What exactly makes this guitar worth $1100??? The LTD name? Laughable... This is a $400 guitar with flaws and expensive pickups. I plugged the guitar in to hear the Fishman pickups, and they were comically thin sounding with extremely low output. I am guessing this guitar sat for a long while, and the battery was dead or there was something else wrong with the pickups themselves or the wiring. Having been told Fishman makes their pickups in China, this is not surprising. A dealer informed me that a lot of Fishman's arrive in these guitars DOA. I didn't bother to swap the battery as the guitar promptly made it's way back in the shipping box and back to the returns depot. Simply resting on the laurels of a name like ESP, just does not cut it these days. Save your coins... If you are looking for an affordable, lower end guitar with mid tear components, check out Schecter. I don't particularly care for their brash designs, however, I can vouch that their QC is much higher than LTDs, currently. I can no longer recommend LTD instruments and I can honestly say that this guitar has quelled my desire to own anymore LTDs. I attached a picture of the ridiculous paint flaw in this Indonesian made, $1100 guitar. I didn't bother photographing anymore of the issues as it is extremely difficult on a gloss black guitar. I think think the hole on the front is quite enough to support my review. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on November 13, 2022 by The Critic The Critic
    • ESP LTD EC 1000 Duncan
Color: Vintage Black Style: Duncan
Overall very well made. Pickups and control knobs working properly. Would have been a keeper, but had some finishing issues. Had to return.
Reviewed in the United States on June 10, 2024 by Charlie
    • Fantastic Guitar
Color: See Thru Black Style: Piezo
I took this guitar on an airplane a few days after it arrived it had a good set up on it. I did a weeks worth of outdoor gigs in Florida it performed flawlessly. The piezo system is excellent. It stayed in tune well. I then flew back to Minnesota with it and did a gig in 90 degree heat in direct sunlight. Once again it performed flawlessly and stayed in tune. The neck didn't change at all in those temperature extremes. It is worth the money. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on June 20, 2022 by Ray Gilman
    • Meh
Color: Vintage Black Style: Duncan
Strings are buzzing against the fret board and the intonation is off, needs work right out of the box. For the price, this guitar should be ready to play. Fret board was very dirty too, I don't feel like its worth the price at all. The neck feels small, maybe because its 24 frets on a 24-3/4" neck, probably should be 22 frets. Nice looking guitar though. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on May 9, 2024 by Trish G.
    • Just buy it you want regret it
Color: Tiger Eye Style: Fluence
Nothing bad to say about this guitar . I’ve own many American made guitars and wasn’t sure about Ltd plus coming from a online retailer what was it gonna be like . The guitar arrived fast and packed ok. The neck is really stable feet work is good miner fret buzz at a low action . The body was pristine, the locking tuners are very touchy high ratio . The Fishman pick ups well if you love EMG’s your gonna love these clarity of each string is unreal . I can also say this is the loudest resonating guitar I’ve ever seen ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on January 27, 2020 by Robbins2587
    • Love! It!
Color: Black Style: Fluence
I could not be happier with this guitar. It is so fun to play. Quality of the guitar body and neck are amazing as are the parts. This is my first guitar with Fishmans and they are great. They have a very hot and bright signal but you can back them off with the more passive pickup style by popping the tone knob out. The tuners are very slick and adjust easily. I frequently change to various non-standard tunings and the guitar adapts very well. The neck is slim and slick. The ebony fretboard is so smooth. It plays like a dream! All 24 frets of it. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on December 8, 2018 by mikeK

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