ESP Kamikaze-1 Review

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Overall Rating 4.25

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Features 4.29

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Quality 4.23

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Reliability / Value 4.21

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ESP Kamikaze-1 Specs

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  • Body Shape: Soloist  
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  • Number of Strings: 6  
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  • Body Type: Solid Body  
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  • Scale Length: 25-1/2"  
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  • Body Wood: Maple  
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  • Neck Shape: U-shaped neck  
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  • Neck Joint: Bolt-on  
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  • Neck Wood: Maple  
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  • Fingerboard Material: Ebony  
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  • Fingerboard Inlays: White Dot  
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  • Number of Frets: 22  
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  • Locking Nut: Yes  
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  • Tuners: Gotoh  
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  • Bridge: Floyd Rose  
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  • Hardware: Black  
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  • Fret Size: Extra Jumbo  
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  • Number of Pickups: 2  
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  • Pickup Switch Type: 3-way Pickup Selector  
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  • Bridge Pickup Type: Humbucker  
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  • Neck Pickup Type: Single Coil  
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  • Controls: Tone  
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  • Controls: Volume  
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ESP's Kamikaze-1 is a nice sounding instrument that plays well. Most musicians feel that, overall, it's a fine guitar. Not much to be asked for feature-wise, ESP delivered what's expected: a sturdy, quality instrument at a fair price.

This guitar is fitted with all the features you could possibly wish for, for a playing style that goes with this kind of instrument. Carefully chosen features leave no guitar player's desire unfulfilled, which makes ESP's Kamikaze-1 an extremely well featured guitar with which you'll be thoroughly pleased. Highest grades for Kamikaze-1's features!

Tone delivered by ESP's Kamikaze-1 makes it a serious sounding instrument that gives ESP a lot of reasons to be proud of it. Somewhat limited when playing certain music styles doesn't mean that Kamikaze-1 will make your tone to sound poor, quite the opposite, because Kamikaze-1 provides rich and versatile tone that you'll be happy with.

Ready to play out of the box, ESP's Kamikaze-1 is easy to set it up even more precise than usual, thanks to great hardware pieces it has built in. Handling and playing this kind of guitar is a pure joy as it stays in tune 90% of the time, regardless of the level of usage. It feels reliable and it really is, as ESP put great deal of time and effort to produce such a good-looking guitar that is behaving well, as Kamikaze-1 does.

Playing live, Kamikaze-1 will perform well and will not let you down. It is fairly reliable instrument both in studio and on stage, and will be a long term companion, as it is built to last. ESP has made a solid instrument that you will be happy with, and can depend on right from the start. Needs no backup as it has proven to be built really well.