2000 ESP Custom Shop MX250 Explorer Made In Japan All Original James Hetfield Metallica stomp under foot It was directly inspired by

It was directly inspired by the pickups in an especially excellent Jazzmaster owned by our good friend and neighbor

a feature Takanaka favored

for the octave to allow an additional method of quick and radical tone shaping

The area around the body-neck joint is cut away and the mounting plate is omitted to offer high playability and better resonance

2000 ESP Custom Shop MX250 Explorer Made In Japan All Original James Hetfield Metallica stomp under foot It was directly inspired byMaker: ESP Custom Shop Model: MX250 Condition: excellent Description: An all original, very clean 2000 ESP Custom MX250 crafted by the ESP Custom Shop in Japan, imported directly from Tokyo. Identical to the famous all black model as played by James Hetfield throughout the late 80s and 90s. This most likely belonged to a collector and seems to have seen almost no use. ESP stopped taking orders outside of Japan for these "forbidden headstock" models