ESP LTD MH-100QMNT Electric Guitar, See Thru Black Cherry

My son started guitar club after school. He is a high school senior and had never played around with guitar. My wife is a classical pianist/teacher, but he would not have any part of that. Figuring he would not stay with this he took my wife's really old, half broken, Decca electric guitar to guitar club. Amazingly, he was playing it, so we started looking for something that would look and sound good to keep his interest.After much reviewing, we got this. It is beautiful I must say. His guitar teacher loved it and asked to leave it with him during the day before club started. It got passed around to all the good players at club and they were all shocked at the price.I am happy to say my son practices nearly every day... Guitar lessons for xmas!

When I received the guitar the strings were laying on the Fretboard. Spend a few bucks more and pick up an Ibanez Rg for 399 world of difference in overall quality. This was not a good purchase sent it back.

great sound

This guitar was worth every penny. The color shines nicest in sunlight, in regular room lighting at times it can look almost black. Frets are very well made, requires little pressure to actually hit the note. The knobs and tuning pegs have a dark finish on them that also looks very nice. Definitely recommended.

oh my god... so beautiful, I may have been too rough and the jack input is busted, but easily fixed with super glue and duct tape, the steel strings that come with the guitar are very tough if you haven't built your calluses yet. I'm intermediate, and the guitar is inexpensive compared to others, and I can imagine good for beginners to build strong fingers. I mainly bought for look and fret board #, but I love ESP LTD MH's, the sound, I wish it came in a nayua wood color, but the red tiger stripe burst is beautiful. My style.

Perfect for me

Purchased this guitar used on eBay (for $135 used in good condition, which I consider a steal) because I wanted a second guitar to keep in lower tunings (usually switch between C standard, drop A#, or B standard). Anyone that's played metal/rock knows it's a huge hassle switching between E standard and anything more than about a one step drop to D standard due to having to switch string gauges and messing with the action/truss rod/etc to get it to play properly. Guitars I've owned or had in my possession for extended times over the years include a both a Fender mexican strat and telecaster, both an midrange Ibanez SA and RG series, PRS SE Custom 24 (my other current guitar), and this one, so I've got a decent amount of guitars to compare it to.I've had this guitar for about a month and haven't been disappointed. Stays in tune great, handled the thicker strings with only a minimal adjustment to the nut for the lowest string, and once I got it properly setup has little very little fret buzz. When it comes to sound, I would say this is definitely geared towards hard rock/metal, but can handle other genres as well. The cleans are definitely better than I expected, but you're not gonna get your typical fender single-coil clean tone out of it from a stock setup. I've swapped between Ernie Ball Not Even Slinky (0.12-0.56) and D'Addario EXL148 (0.12-60) and both work great depending on the tuning you're using (I prefer the EXL148 due to the thinner G-string and preference towards drop A#/B standard). I have never had it tuned to E standard so I can't comment on this, but I imagine it would sound great with the proper strings. Neck feels good (although slightly thicker than the Ibanez necks that I had previously played) and has good access to the higher frets. I would say the overall build quality is good and the finish looks good. My biggest complaint would be the stock pickups are pretty mediocre and would definitely be the first things I considered changing, but that's pretty common among guitars in this price range.Overall, I think it compares very favorably to the Ibanez RG/SA models in the same price range. I would definitely recommend anyone who is looking at an Ibanez try out one of these at your local shop or Guitar Center because you might find you like how it plays better.

I've played 20+ years, studied theory and technique, can play guitar and bass to high level. MH100 NonTrem are my live guitars. The pickups are amazing with my analog distortion. Far superior to my other metal guitars. I detune to Eb, if you need to play standard consider 9's as string tension can be high. The extra jumbo frets are amazing. Some of my super clean 80's clean chorus/flange are a bit dirty, but who cares when your drive signal resembles recorded music (what I've sought all these years). I have loads of guitars, USA made, basses, Marshalls... rock/blues traditional guitar.