My #1 Rivera M100, I purchased from a smoker.
It took 6 months, a garage quarantine, and bottles of febreeze, to get rid of the stench in the furry cabinet covering.
I’m not going to disagree.
I had an el-34/100w SLX.
It was the hot rodded Marshall I’d always wanted.
The coolest tone I ever got out of it, was Blackmore’s “Made In Japan” tone.
Holy crap. It sounded fantastic.
But, that was the SLX completely dimed, and the preamp and sensitivity rolled back...
I believe the story goes, that George made a guitar, in his garage, like this, and ESP asked if they could make a duplicate model to bring to market.
George said “yes”, under the conditions that it was a small run, and it would be affordable.
I recall it being ~330 units, and about $800 when...
Probably have to go with my LTD/Lynch “Burnt Tiger”. @Fiesta Red owned it, and he let me play it one day. I almost immediately told him that if he ever was going to sell it, let me have the first crack at it.
There’s just something about it that works for me.
The LTD guitars I have, the Lynch Kami 4, the Lynch Desert Eagle, and the Lynch Burnt Tiger, are all fantastic guitars. I have zero complaints about them in comparison to my ESP Lynch Sunburst Tiger.
I have swapped out the anemic single coil neck pickup in the Kami 4, and put in a Duncan 1/4...
I was going to order a white Charvel “Frenchy”(USA model) last year, from Sweatwater. They told me it would be a minimum of a year wait time.
Fuuuuuuuuuck that.