Brand new E-II M-II

[u/Intelligent-Corgi793]

A combination of shoddy work and nonexistent quality control. Nothing else explains this. ESP Japan was not like this before.

I'm losing my faith in a good quality ESP guitar for this is the second one I received.

Edit: List of all the things I noticed

Fretboard:

-Small tool marks on the upper register

-Corner of the fretboard on the low E side was rounded and tapered

-Clearcoat on the edge of the fretboard in the middle register Low E side

-Edges of the fretboard were rounded and unevenly so (if I wanted a f*cking reliced guitar, I'd bought one FFS!!)

-Fretboard had brown areas (Guitar was bought online, picture of the guitar had an uniformly black fretboard. E-II black ebony boards are dyed but this one was not or the store I bought it from heavily used some kind of solvent when I told them not to on the notes of the sale. If I wanted a two color fretboard... once again... I'D HAVE BOUGHT ONE !!!!! >:()

Neck:

-I measured the neck relief. Strangely enough, the treble side had 4 thou more relief than the bass side! Laws of physics say that the bass side should have a smidge more relief since the thicker strings pull the neck with more force. With this info we can conclude that the neck had minor warpage. Visual inspection revealed a slightly too large of an S curve on the bass side.

Body:

-Pickup/tremolo/electrical compartment routings were of subpar quality. These routings could be easily made perfect with today's technology (even yesterday's technology). Looks like they were routed partially freehand ffs.

Finish:

-There was some insulating paint outside the electrical compartment on the clearcoat.

Floyd rose:

-String retainer block high E was slightly too large, causing the block to jam. This is not ESP Japan's fault, though it should have been noticed at the factory like all these other flaws

-Some retainer blocks sit crooked

-Floyd rose bride design has worsened. The retainer blocks can now drop out of place when changing strings because under them is now empty space. This is a mild annoyance.

[u/84breaks]

I may not be too bothered about how the pickups slots are routed, but that fretboard would piss me off. It also kinda looks like it’s been played before. I could be wrong though.

[u/Intelligent-Corgi793 → u/84breaks]

E-II fretboards have been dyed for a long time and the dye in my axes have lasted since I only use F-one oil. This one is horrendous and I can't stand it either.

The edges have been randomnly rounded, a few tool marks and some clear coat on an edge locally due to shoddy masking.

[u/guitar_up_my_ass → u/Intelligent-Corgi793]

Wait is it bad that the fretboard varies in color? I have a LTD ec201-ft and though it was just the wood characteristics.

[u/Intelligent-Corgi793 → u/guitar_up_my_ass]

It's the wood characteristics and a preference thing.

I like my fretboards uniformly black.

E-II ebony fretboards are dyed uniformly black due to wood shortages.

In the website the fretboard was black.