Hardware from the Kamikaze models would make appearances in the M-1, MI Custom and Horizon Custom models released that same year. The company used Lynchs popularity to release the Kamikaze as its first signature model available in the United States. This trend continued in 1986 when George Lynch, while on tour in Japan, had a signature ESP guitar built for him. The guitar company hit the shores of the United States in 1983, setting up shop in New York.ĮSP introduced its first line of guitars there for the U.S., the 400 series, which had strikingly similar body styles to the Fender Stratocaster and Telecaster models. Identifying model years based on serial numbers for these ESP guitars can be difficult as the company kept few production records.Ĭompany Beginnings Electric Sound Products was opened in 1975 by Hisatake Shibuya in Japan.ĮSP was originally created to build custom replacement parts for existing guitars, and did not begin producing its own models until 1976.
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