ESP Grass Roots Limited Model electric guitar | Mark's Guitar and Bass Repair and Restoration
- Mark Pickard (ピカード・マーク)
- Oct 1, 2019
- 5 min read
Updated: Jan 18, 2020
2020.01.18 UPDATE:
Today I sold my used Les Paul (LP) Standard-type electric guitar by ESP GrassRoots Guitars, which came with a flamed maple Veneer top, transparent Cherry Sunburst finish, Kluson-style tuning pegs. It's beautiful! It was Made in Korea (MIK).
I sold it for ¥25,000 (about US$230) including a guitar stand, a gig bag (soft case with shoulder straps), a guitar strap (Ernie Ball brand), a new set of strings (D'Addario XL EXL110 Regular Light Gauge "10s"), and a couple of guitar picks (Planet Waves Light .6mm).
* It's a good LP-style electric guitar; as good as my MIK Epiphone Les Paul Standard, but it's built more solid and heavy (4.1 kg; 9 lbs).
* I cleaned it and polished it the best I could. It looks really good! However, it is used, so there are some dents and scratches but they are only minor.
* I worked on the frets - leveled, crowned, rounded, polished - the best I could. The frets are smooth.
* I gave it a setup the best I could: truss rod adjustment (for proper neck relief), bridge height adjustment (for low string action), saddle adjustments (for proper intonation; tuning), etc. It plays really well; it feels good in the hands).
Basically, I gave this guitar lots of love!
*** Check out the specs of this guitar on the ESP GrassRoots homepage
BODY (Top): Flame Maple Veneer
BODY (Back): Mahogany NECK: Mahogany /Rosewood, 22 Frets
SCALE: 628 mm (24.75 inches)
NECK JOINT: Set-neck (glued in)
PICKUPS: 2 GH-1G (Humbuckers)
CONTROLS: 1 Neck (Front) Volume & 1 Bridge (Rear) Volume, 1 Neck Tone & 1 Bridge Tone Tone, 3-way Toggle Switch (Pickup Selector)
BRIDGE: Tune Matic & Stop Tailpiece
COLOR: Cherry Sunburst (transparent)
PRICE (suggested retail): 60,000 yen (without Tax)
**** I sold this guitar for several reasons: I simply have too many guitars, my wife gave me an Epiphone for Christmas, and I bought a few other used guitars and basses recently. Yes, I really love guitars especially electric bass guitars. But, mostly, I'm selling this guitar because I sincerely hope more and more people will start to play guitar or bass or some other musical instrument. The world needs more music, so it needs more musicians. Start playing and make more music!
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Original Post: Here is a photo galley of my Grass Roots Guitars Limited Model electric guitar. Grass Roots Guitars is one of several guitar brands owned by ESP, which is a very famous guitar builder.
The Limited Model is a Les Paul (LP) type of electric guitar. This guitar includes a flame maple veneer top and a cherry sunburst finish. This electric guitar looks beautiful. I own a Gibson USA Les Paul, but I like my my Grass Roots Guitars Limited Model more. Please do not misunderstand my opinion of Gibson guitars. In fact, I love Gibson guitars, which is why I own one. The great thing about this particular electric guitar is that I found it marked as junk at a local recycle shop (i.e., secondhand store) near my home in Okinawa, Japan. I bought it for the extremely low price of 5,400 YEN, which is approximately US$50. The reason this electric guitar was labelled as junk was because one of the tuning machines was missing a key. This was not a problem for me because I had some extra tuning machine keys from another junk guitar that I had bought previously and it was a good match, so that was an easy fix. Anyway, this Grass Roots Guitars Limited Model electric guitar was filthy after obviously being neglected for a long time. Therefore, I cleaned it up and polished the finish to make it glossy and beautiful again. I also cleaned and polished all of the hardware (i.e., bridge, saddles, tailpiece, pickup covers, etc.), so it shines again. For good measure I checked all of the electronic components, which included the potentiometers (pots), the capacitors (caps), 3-way toggle switch, and the output jack. Everything works well, and the humbucking guitar pickups produce nice tones. This guitar sounds good! The frets needed a lot of special attention. Thus, I adjusted the truss rod to give this guitar proper neck relief (just a slight forward bow). I levelled all of the 22 frets. After levelling the frets I crowned the frets. I also rounded the fret ends to make them smooth to the touch of the hand. After rounding the fret ends I polished all of the guitar frets to make them extremely smooth to the touch and to shine. I gave the rosewood fretboard a lot of special attention because it was dried out and dirty. So I cleaned really well and then treated with orange oil. After applying the orange oil I wiped off the excess oil. However, the rosewood was so dry that treated the fretboard three separate occassions with orange oil. I will certainly take good care of this guitar's fretboard from here on out. I have been using orange oil recently on all of my guitar repairs and maintenance jobs because orange oil was what was available in my area. I do like the results I get with orange oil. In the past I have used lemon oil, which was fine. After the orange oil I have runs out I hope to try linseed oil because I have heard it does an excellent jobs on rosewood fingerboards. Of course I put on a new set of extra light gauge electric guitar strings. And with a new set of guitar strings I gave this electric guitar a proper setup which involved tuning the strings, adjusting the tune-o-matic style bridge for the string action, adjusting each individual saddle to set the intonation for each string, the pickup height, and also the guitar nut action. Now this guitar plays beautifully. I love it. Guitars - especially bass guitars - are my hobby. I enjoy learning to play guitars. But I also enjoy searching local thrift shops and secondhand stores (or recycle shops) for old guitars that are either broken or unwanted. I want to fix up these types of guitars and make them available to beginners and guitar students, so the next generation of guitarists will rise up. After all, we all need music in our lives. Learning to play the guitar, the bass, keyboards or whatever is a great idea for each and every one of us. I am certain that you would agree with me that music makes the world a better place. To have more music in our lives and in the world we need more musicians. So start learning to play an actually musical instrument.
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