I previously presented a tabacco sunburst Esparto, but this is a different guitar.

Excuse me for blowing my own trumpet, but I am proud of this site which let people know what the Esparto is.  If it were not for this site, Esparto probably would fade out in Japanese guitar history.

In those days, of course there were people who knew Esparto.  But they might be few because ESP was a small garage shop in Shibuya Tokyo where provinces people hardly went to then.  Only guitarists who lived in the capital region may know Esparto and understood Esparto.  

One piece body of ash or sen(Japanese ash).  Scattered casting off of fingerboard looks cool.  The tremolo unit and pickup assembly seems to have been changed but no additional screw holes were observed on the body.  DiMarzio FS-1 as neck pickup, HS-2 as bridge pickup and Greco Excel pickup engraved 31276 on its bobbin as center pickup.

Among many Japanese old guitar, Espartos are one of rare guitars which have gene of potential vintage. 3.49kg(includes strings). (Updated 2016.8.25)