LTD - MH-103QM STB

A little history ...
all began in 1975 when the young Hisatake Shibuya opened in Tokyo, a small spare parts shop for the audio, or music, under the name Electric Sound Products (ESP).
few years later, following the boom of the electric guitar, it sells spare parts and guitar accessories.
This leads him, two years later, to provide copies Fender or Gibson CBU.
It is not then quantity production but custom-made models to customer demand.
Do little time to ESP to carve a reputation, multiply signs and provide the best brands including Kramer and Schecter particular.
He begins to produce its own original models marketed in Japan under the ESP and Navigator titles initially and then, success helping, the USA with the support of renowned musicians (Vernon Reid, Kiss, Ronnie Wood ...) .
Until George Lynch discovered the brand during a Japanese tour, a meeting that will bring a long and fruitful collaboration.
Just have the young entrepreneur to settle in the US and open a plant in Japan.
We are in 1987. That same year, Hisatake Shibuya bought the brand Schecter brand of Texan investors but the two companies maintain their perfect independence.
Man accomplished deal, he also offered the prestigious music school Musicians Institute (formerly Guitar Institute of Technology) in Los Angeles.
In the early 90s, ESP opened a shop in California and in 1996, the demand for cheaper models being felt, the LTD subsidiary is created to provide strict copies of original models, this time manufactured in Korea and Indonesia.
Strongly challenged by Jackson, ESP still reaping the benefits of redemption of such marks by Fender in the early 2000s, countless guitar heroes denouncing their sponsorship contracts to join (ESP Dave Mustaine, and Alexis Laiho, in particular).
Over thirty years ESP his mark on the world of rock guitar and big sound.
We will not complain, especially as the brand continues to hold center stage with models rarely certainly renewed (but changes are we a winning team?) But still sexy. A success that applies both to its flagship models (Signature) for their versions marketed under the name LTD.