My '54 vintage Strat...

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From what I've read, I could see George Lynch liking these necks. I really love fat necks, I'm talking Warmoth fatback profiles, but this V shape is a bit different. I've played old strats before and it feels exactly like this, but I've never spent any time with one before. Plus it has those damn skinny frets [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]

It's hard to see in the photos, but the paint has really faded and become almost pearlescent in some areas.

Another question, why didn't ESP clear over their logos? [img]/images/graemlins/scratchhead.gif[/img] I guess they just got the parts from Japan already painted and assembled them.

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I saw an original 48th street ESP that wasn't cleared over either. My 83' Pacer had a neck profile very similar to a vintage Fender strat right down to the tint like yours.

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This is the second one I've seen where the logo wasn't cleared over.

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new york is right...they owned a basement? or a flat or summin in new york that was the esp bit in the US very early on before they expanded

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Yea, it was 48th Street guitars and they pumped out 48th Street logo'd guitars and ESP's specifically for pro's.
I think that they were all made to order and not alot of them were made.

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Hey John, are you talking about the strat head graphic Kramer you had, that was very cool guitar. Did it have skinny vintage style frets?

I used to have an '84 Pacer with the classic headstock. I don't remember it having the V neck profile.

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Hey John, are you talking about the strat head graphic Kramer you had, that was very cool guitar. Did it have skinny vintage style frets?

I used to have an '84 Pacer with the classic headstock. I don't remember it having the V neck profile.

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That was one of them. I don't recall the fret size but they weren't jumbo's. My early 80's Pacer strathead was a 2 hum with a metallic red body, 22 fret maple neck with a chrome OFR. The neck was a V-neck profile but the Kramer logo was cleared over. It was a great guitar. I think you have a real keeper there.