ESP LTD JH-600 Jeff Hanneman Signature Electric Guitar

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Custom-designed by Slayer's Jeff Hanneman, this neck-through-body guitar is loaded with EMG 81 and 85 active pickups to create every shredder's dream tone.

What's special about this item?

Feature: What it does:
EMG 81 and 85 active pickups Aggressive, full tone; great sustain and dynamics
3-piece maple neck Improved strength and stability; clear tone
Neck-through-body construction Longer sustain; strong midrange; smooth feel
Kahler Hybrid tremolo Consistent string/saddle contact for smooth bends

As one of the "Big Four" in thrash metal's onset, Slayer has undoubtedly been a leader in style and tone. And Slayer's Jeff Hanneman has designed his very own ESP LTD JH600 signature axe to bestow his metal sound onto you. Equipped with EMG 81 and 85 active bridge and neck pickups, this baby is ready to tear up your game. The JH600's three-piece maple neck and ebony fingerboard are smooth, fast, and attractive with an eye-catching white binding that goes all the way up to the headstock. You'll get nothing but the best of what this no-nonsense thrash metal axe has to offer.

Endless Sustain with Neck-Through-Body Construction

The ESP LTD JH600's three-piece maple neck is cut into a comfortable extra-thin U shape for your hand to easily wrap around. The ebony fingerboard is slick to the touch as you tear up this axe's two octaves of extra-jumbo frets, and an extra-relief lower cutaway allows unfettered access to the highest registers of your 24-fret fingerboard. Hanneman's choice of neck-through-body construction -- where the neck continues through the entire body -- makes it feel like your guitar is one solid continuous piece of wood. The result is longer sustain and more secure intonation.

An Arsenal of EMG Tone

You want a full and thick lead tone? You got it. Want a little more grittiness and edge for lightning-fast power-chord chugs? Not a problem. The JH600's EMG 81 bridge humbucker is the guitarist's best friend for palm-muted low-end riffs and power-chord infused read more sonic explosiveness. Meanwhile, the EMG 85 neck pickup fattens out your sound a bit for a howling lead. Your three-setting pickup selector blade will let you mix these babies together at your leisure.

The Tonal Security of a Kahler Hybrid Vibrato Bridge

Neck-through-body construction will certainly assist in maintaining longer sustain and intonation, but you get even more security with the Kahler Hybrid vibrato bridge. This baby will keep your strings vibrating longer in tune over extended periods of playing, even when you dive low or bend your notes high. You'll achieve the edges of the tonal spectrum in ease and confidence with this far-reaching mechanism of metal.

Features:

- Contoured alder body
- EMG 81 bridge and EMG 85 neck active humbuckers
- Master volume and tone knobs; three-way pickup selector switch
- 24 extra jumbo frets
- Ebony fingerboard
- Three-piece maple neck in extra thin U shape
- Attractive white biding on neck and headstock
- Neck-through-body construction for longer sustain
- Kahler Hybrid vibrato bridge
- Jeff Hanneman's signature on headstock

Designed in cooperation with one of the kings of thrash, the JH600 is like a runway for riffs!
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- Construction: Neck-thru-body
- Scale: 25.5 in.
- Body: Alder
- Neck: 3-piece Maple
- Fingerboard: Ebony
- Pickups: EMG 81 (B) / 85 (N) active
- Controls: Volume & tone w/3-way toggle
- Hardware: Black
- Bridge: Kahler Hybrid Bridge
- Binding: White on neck & headstock
- Frets: 24 XJ

For support or warranty questions, please contact the manufacturer:
Phone: 800-423-8388

ESP LTD JH600 Jeff Hanneman Signature

ESP Guitars has introduced the LTD JH600, a Signature Series guitar created from a custom design by guitarist Jeff Hanneman of Slayer. The JH600 features neck-thru-body construction for killer sustain, an alder body, 3-piece maple neck with an ebony fingerboard, EMG 81 and 85 active pickups, white binding on the neck and headstock and a Kahler Hybrid Bridge. This guitar really is the total package.

Reviewers gave this product an overall rating of 5 out of 5 stars. (16 ratings)
Submitted September 26, 2014 by Jeff H in Bosque Farms, NM

"Does way more than just thrash..."

Overall: 5 out of 5 stars
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I usually stay away from signature guitars because most of them are gaudy with designs and artist autographs all over them. This leaves no room for your own identity on stage if you choose to gig with it. Generally leaves you looking like a fan boy...but I digress. I bought this guitar for several reasons: 1) EMG 81/85 active pups 2) Long scale neck 3) Eboney finger board 4) Jumbo frets 5) Grover machines 6) Use of Alder instead of Basswood 7) All around good looking black guitar I have only owned a couple guitars over my 30 years of playing that had tremelo systems. Those were all original Floyd Rose tremelos. I was a little leery about the Kahler system after reading so many poor reviews about them. Maybe I got lucky or Kahler has fixed whatever problems they had with these cause mine works flawlessly. It doesn't go out of tune after dive bombs etc. It's smooth as silk as well. Being the hybrid model, you can use the manufacturer supplied tools to tighten the set screw which locks the tremelo into a fixed position. I do this when I'm recording songs that don't require the use of a floating tremelo. After being loosened and tightened on several occasions, the Kahler set/lock screw shows no signs of stripping, loosening or other wear issues. The brass rollers on the Kahler give the guitar a deep, bassy tone, similar to a Les Paul. I know this cause I own a few Les Pauls and this guitar comes closest to their sound than any other clone or super strat style guitar I've ever played. read more The cool thing as well is the fact that Kahler sells replacement rollers in aluminum and steel to brighten up the sound and give it more sustain. They also sell a drop in fixed bridge if you decide that you want to go hard tail with this guitar. Pretty versatile in my book.The EMG pups are...well, they're EMG's . People either love them or hate them. I'm on the love side. They are great for high gain music and they are extremely quiet for recording. No buzz or hum when not playing. It's great because you don't have to turn the volume down on the guitar while waiting for your cue to begin playing. Battery life is good if you unplug when your'e done playing.The set up from the factory was alot better than I had expected for being a mail order guitar. It had no fret buzz even for being set up with extremely low action. I like my action low but not as low as it was from ESP. So, 2 minutes with the supplied hex wrench and I was off to the races. The guitar came from the factory tuned down a half step (Cause that's how most Slayer songs are tuned) and had some fairly crappy strings on it, but that didn't bother me since I always change strings right from the get go. So, a new set of Dunlop 10's and a standard tune and it was perfect. I've owned this guitar for almost a year now and waited this long to give a review on purpose. I wanted the honeymoon period or buyers remorse to subside before writing the review. I can assure you, there was no remorse involved. For a $1k guitar, the features and quality are superb. The fact that it is assembled in Korea means nothing here. Whoever ESP has manufacturing this LTD line, takes pride in their work and it shows. There wasn't a single flaw anywhere on the guitar. Unlike my Gibson LP standard which had many. I've recorded two full length albums using only this guitar and I constantly get compliments on the tone. When I tell folks I'm playing a Korean guitar and not a LP, the quickly soil themselves in disbelief. I'm positive there are some poor quality guitars coming out of Korea, but ESP has chosen a good supplier for the LTD line for sure.

Sound
The sound is unbelievable. With the brass rollers, it has a deep bass sound to it and I have found no need to layer recordings due to the full tone of this guitar. Whether I run this through Line 6 recording gear or mic my Marshall 2203, the sound is insanely incredible. The 85 neck pup is a little bright at times but nothing the tone knob doesn't fix. I may go to a 60 neck pup later down the road.

Features
The selection of components for this guitar is excellent. It seems that they all compliment each other and if you were to change one (except the neck pup) the guitar just wouldn't be he same. When you price all of the features of this guitar separately, you see what a value the guitar really is which is why I chose this guitar. I'm not a big Slayer fan so the fact that it was a Hanneman model didn't really play into my decision for buying it.

Ease of Use
Low action, smooth Kahler, Ebony fret board. Jumbo frets, Grover machines...need I say more?

Quality
Second to known at this price. This guitar, for being a plain glossy black, is freaking beautiful. From the white binding to the finish of the paint, you can see that whoever built this guitar had pride in his work and didn't just look at building guitars as just a job. In one word...SMOOTH !

Value
Yes. I've played and own guitars that cost two and three times what this did and don't play or look as good. Great value for the money.

Manufacturer Support
Haven't needed them but will update if I ever do.

The Wow Factor
I'm probably one of the few people that can look at an all black guitar and say, "WOW' hahahaha. It is an intimidating looking guitar when placed next to others.

Musical Background:
Guitar and piano for 33 years, gigging and recording musician

Musical Style:
Rock and heavy metal, Blues
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