ESP Viper Review

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Overall Rating 4.62

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Features 4.47

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Quality 4.55

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Reliability / Value 4.66

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  • Body Shape: SG  
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  • Number of Strings: 6  
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  • Body Type: Solid Body  
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  • Scale Length: 24-3/4"  
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  • Body Construction: Double cutaway  
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  • Body Wood: Mahogany  
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  • Finish: Gloss  
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  • Binding: White  
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  • Carved Top: Yes  
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  • Neck Shape: U-shaped neck  
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  • Neck Joint: Set neck  
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  • Neck Wood: Mahogany  
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  • Fingerboard Material: Ebony  
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  • Fingerboard Inlays: Abalone Dot  
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  • Number of Frets: 24  
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  • Nut Width: 1.65"  
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  • String Nut: Earvana Compensated  
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  • Tuners: Gotoh  
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  • Bridge: Tune-O-Matic  
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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: Active Humbucker  
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  • Neck Pickup Type: Active Humbucker  
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  • Controls: Volume  
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  • Controls: Tone  
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  • EMG-81 bridge active humbucker EMG-85 neck active humbucker

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ESP just can't get tired of making great guitars! Viper is another fabulous instrument that deserves and gets the highest grades! There's little to be wished for, if anything, with this great sounding instrument. A job well done by ESP!

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 Viper an extremely well featured guitar with which you'll be thoroughly pleased. Highest grades for Viper's features!

If you try playing Viper after an average guitar, it becomes obvious that this ESP deserves to be proud of making it sound so beautifully. It delivers great tone when plugged in to most amps and, versatile as it is, it will allow you to find your own tone that you will be proud of as well. ESP's Viper is surely a world class sounding instrument.

Viper is a guitar that looks great and feels great while playing. Top quality finish is what gives Viper its expensive look and totally great feel while playing. Action is great and easily adjustable and top quality hardware will not let you down. ESP's reputation grows with Viper guitar. This guitar is definitely worth keeping.

Viper is reliable and durable guitar that goes shoulder to shoulder with top built guitars. It will perform well in any imaginable situation, and will stand the test of time, if you take the usual care of your instrument. It is no secret that ESP makes good, quality instruments, and that is surely the case with Viper guitar.