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2012

new guitars released in 2012

ESP Horizon FR-II

ESP Horizon FR II

By 2012, New Release No Comments

ESP Horizon FR II has hot new looks for 2012. By popular demand, ESP has great new finishes for the Horizon line – the FR II is now available in Dark Brown Sunburst, Black Aqua, See Thru Black Cherry, Reindeer Blue and See Thru Black. The ESP Horizon FR II is made in Japan and has a mahogany body, maple neck, ebony fretboard, 24 frets and 25.5” (645mm) scale. The pickups are USA-made passive Seymour Duncans, JB in the bridge position, and 59 in the neck position.
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New Volcano Red finish

ESP Horizon FR

By 2012, New Release No Comments
ESP Horizon FR upgraded with hot new looks for 2012. By popular demand, ESP has great new finishes for the Horizon line – the FR is now available in Mystic Black (MYBLK) and Volcano Red (VR). ESP Horizon FR has an ash body, maple neck, ebony fretboard, 24 frets, 25.5” (645mm) scale and 2 stonking EMG pickups.
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Gibson Kirk Hammett Flying-V Ebony Aged

Gibson Kirk Hammett Flying-V

By 2012, New Release No Comments
Gibson Custom introduces the Kirk Hammett Flying V, a meticulous recreation of Kirk’s own Flying V and trusted companion throughout his playing career with Metallica. This tribute to Kirk Hammett’s achievements will be produced in strictly limited numbers: 50 guitars will be aged and signed by the artist himself, with a further 100 guitars aged only.
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BC Rich Pro X Bich 2012

BC Rich Pro X Bich 2012

By 2012, New Release 4 Comments
The Pro X Bich is dark, sleek and sexy, this Bich will drop jaws wherever you take it. A Shadow complexion contrasts with a TonePros Tune-o-Matic bridge and Grover Super Rotomatic tuners. EMG 81 (bridge) and 60 (neck) pickups provide the voice while a 24 5/8 inch scale and 24 jumbo frets on any ebony fingerboard provide the touch. Available in Shadow and Black Cherry Burst.
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Dean Michael Angelo Batio Speed of Light MAB1

By 2012, New Release No Comments

New for 2012 from Dean Guitars – the Michael Angelo Batio Speed of Light MAB1. Michael has collaborated again with Dean guitars to create the Speed of Light MAB1 – the 9th in his top-selling MAB signature guitars. The solid alder body is covered in a magnificent custom Speed of Light artwork finish that is sure to turn heads wherever you perform. The MAB1 is loaded with 3 EMG active pickups and has a Floyd Rose original tremolo bridge, nickel hardware, and Grover tuners.
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Epiphone Black Royale Dot

Epiphone Black Royale Dot

By 2012, New Release One Comment
New for 2012. The Black Royale Dot gives the ES-335 Dot tradition a whole new makeover with a metallic black finish. The Dot Royale is constructed of premium laminated Maple including a Mahogany center block and a hand-fitted, glued-in Mahogany neck. Other details include a Rosewood fingerboard with traditional “Dot” inlay, historic metal Epiphone name “badge” on the headstock, and heavy-duty output jack.
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Flaxwood Voima HSH-T Tobacco Burst

Flaxwood Voima HSH-T

By 2012, New Release No Comments
To bring you the best of two worlds, the Flaxwood Voima (voima = strength, vigour, fortitude, force) features two humbuckers and one single coil pickup, all Seymour Duncan. Like the Laine, the Voima also comes equipped with a blender pot, which gradually blends the neck pickup signal with that of the bridge pickup, giving you a virtually limitless sonic palette from which to find your sound.
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Mayones Maestro

By 2012, New Release No Comments

The Maestro presents Mayones craftsmanship at its finest. A combination of semi-hollow body with two separate f-shaped tone chambers, 11-ply neck-thru construction, thick Mahogany body and artist-grade Flamed Maple arched top gives the guitar a warm mellow tone with exquisite resonance capabilities. For jazz, blues and other obsessions…
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ESP LTD EC-1000

By 2012, New Release No Comments

The ESP LTD EC-1000 is built to dominate for rhythm and lead players. The EC-1000 is built with a quilted maple top, a mahogany body with a set neck, a white bound rosewood fingerboard and EMG 81 and 60 pickups for a wide range of sound – from sweet warm tones to raw rock ‘n’ roll.
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Gibson Paul Landers signature Les Paul Satin Ebony

Gibson Paul Landers Les Paul

By 2012, Artist Signature Models, New Release No Comments
Paul Landers has always displayed a knack for extreme tones and subtle heavy styling — both of which are captured in spades by the new Paul Landers Signature Les Paul by Gibson USA. This supercharged new guitar takes the traditional elements that have made the Les Paul Standard a favorite among rockers for more than five decades, and totally upgrades them for the no-nonsense metal merchant.
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Hagstrom Viking Rex-Tone

By 2012, New Release No Comments

The Hagstrom Viking Rex-Tone is a new generation semi-hollow thinline guitar with bold retro styling. Viking Rex-Tone The heart of a Viking, and the soul of the Swede. Vikings took no prisoners and neither will this versatile and elegant instrument. The all-rounder, it covers all genres, from blues to rock/fusion, jazz – and back.
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Cort X-11

By 2012, New Release No Comments

Introducing the new Cort X-11. With a sleek body contour, fast modern U shape neck profile, and double locking tremolo, the X-11 puts the X in extreme. Available in Black Cherry Sunburst & Trans. Charcoal Grey finishes.
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Richmond Dorchester Bigsby

By 2012, New Release No Comments

The Richmond Dorchester gets even more sonic versatility and vintage flare with the addition of the Bigsby Tremolo bridge on select models which include the Natural HG and Solid Cream HG finishes. This Tone Giant features a 25 ½” scale, two classic sounding Lace Alumitone humbucker pickups, housed in a double cutaway chambered body with a silver leaf maple center and poplar wings.
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PRS Series III Collection McCarty Semi-Hollow

By 2012, New Release No Comments

For the third installment in PRS Guitars’ Collection Series, Paul Reed Smith and the Private Stock team have designed the Series III Collection McCarty Semi-Hollow electric. The PRS Series III Collection McCarty Semi-Hollow is made with the most exacting methods and the most prized components in the company’s possession, including pernambuco necks and fingerboards, which are exclusive to the Collection program.
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