ESP LTD EC-1000 T CTM, Tobacco Sunburst Satin Overview
This model is part of the Limited Deluxe EC-1000 Series, which combines quality with affordability, featuring professional-quality features, while also being great-looking guitars.
‘CTM’ stands for ‘Custom Traditional Model’, with Traditional referring to the full-thickness, chambered mahogany body, which provides weight relief. It also has a maple top, a 3-piece mahogany neck with a thin ‘U’ profile making it comfortable to play, topped with a 24 stainless steel frets on a macassar ebony fretboard. It also features LTD locking tuners and a Tonepros Locking TOM and tailpiece, which improves intonation, sustain and tuning stability.
This model has a pair of Fishman Fluence Open Core Classic humbuckers which provide tight lows, a vocal midrange, and unreal highs, with a new 3rd single-coil voice which provides a clear vintage tone.
To complete the look is black hardware to complement bold Tobacco Sunburst Satin finish.
Overview by ESP
Guitars in the LTD Deluxe EC-1000 Series are designed to offer the tone, feel, looks, and quality that working professional musicians require in an instrument, while remaining affordable enough for serious players. With the EC-1000T CTM, the “T” stands for “traditional”, referring to this model’s full-thickness body that’s chambered for weight relief, with no waist-cut like the typical EC-1000 model. It also features multi-ply body/headstock binding on body top and back. This guitar offers a mahogany body with maple cap, and set-thru construction at 24.75” scale. The sound of the EC-1000T CTM is powered by a set of Fishman Fluence Open Core Classic Humbucker pickups with push-pull controls to select between three different voicings, offering the tone and response of both active and passive pickup varieties (voice 1 & 2) as well as single-coil varieties (Voice 3). Other features include a TonePros locking bridge and tailpiece, and a Macassar ebony fingerboard with 22 extra-jumbo stainless steel frets.