80s ESP BananaCasters - Could use help to ID a neck

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Hey Guys,

This week, I came across an awesome looking guitar on the private German eBay that I just had to get. It's a partscaster with an 80s ESP neck and a custom-made flame maple body with a nitro finish. It has a genuine 80s Floyd Rose and 3 80s Seymour Duncan Pickups, the humbucker being a 59B-M with 8k output, which I immediately replaced haha. I'm looking for an ESP SH-100 for the neck.

It looks to me like the neck was a non Floyd neck and was then converted to the locking nut. I know that the truss rod was once modded to a wheel and then returned to stock, hence the replaced rosewood square and the slight cutout in the maple underneath. The logo sits on top of the finish and doesn't have the copyright "R". The rosewood fretboard is notably thinner than the one on my M1 Reverse and the original neck screw holes are also all aligned which means it wasn't on a body with the contoured neck joint like on the M1 Reverse. What do you think this neck was on?

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Cool guitar. With that "ESP" ink stamp on the heel it was probably sold as a neck only. ESP sold bodies and necks with that stamp in the 80's.
 
Cool guitar. With that "ESP" ink stamp on the heel it was probably sold as a neck only. ESP sold bodies and necks with that stamp in the 80's.
Cool, thanks for the info. Would make sense to me as the custom body also seems old and with all the hardware being from the 80s...
 
Hey Guys,

This week, I came across an awesome looking guitar on the private German eBay that I just had to get. It's a partscaster with an 80s ESP neck and a custom-made flame maple body with a nitro finish. It has a genuine 80s Floyd Rose and 3 80s Seymour Duncan Pickups, the humbucker being a 59B-M with 8k output, which I immediately replaced haha. I'm looking for an ESP SH-100 for the neck.

It looks to me like the neck was a non Floyd neck and was then converted to the locking nut. I know that the truss rod was once modded to a wheel and then returned to stock, hence the replaced rosewood square and the slight cutout in the maple underneath. The logo sits on top of the finish and doesn't have the copyright "R". The rosewood fretboard is notably thinner than the one on my M1 Reverse and the original neck screw holes are also all aligned which means it wasn't on a body with the contoured neck joint like on the M1 Reverse. What do you think this neck was on?

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Hey man nice to see you post on here! Awesome guitars too. I somehow came across your YouTube channel the other day and I immediately subscribed! Amazing tones and playing in your videos. Love the tones!!
 
Hey man nice to see you post on here! Awesome guitars too. I somehow came across your YouTube channel the other day and I immediately subscribed! Amazing tones and playing in your videos. Love the tones!!
Thank you! I really need to get back to making more videos, but I've got a lot going on right now, and the way I rearranged my room a while back makes it pretty inconvenient to film new videos. I didn't think of that when I rearranged it lol. The ESP Partscaster needs new frets and some work done on the Floyd to make it stable again before I'll make a video of it. I'm also thinking about getting an 80s Duncan Custom for it or buying a new one.
My new '93 Fender CS setneck is also getting new frets right now. I'll make a video of it when I get it back.
 
Not sure what it could have been on but nice guitar, love the banana head stock. Since they made Kramer guitars in the 80’s for Kramer, perhaps they made some of their own branded necks with the banana head stock?
 
Looks like the post spacing on the floyd on the flamed one is way off for the bridge.
 
Looks like the post spacing on the floyd on the flamed one is way off for the bridge.
That was just in the picture where it's disassembled because of the spring tension pulling the trem away from the posts.
 
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