A ESP Navigator Esparto which I got in 2007.

In those days people didn’t pay much attention to Esparto.  Especially Large head models have been unpopular than small head ones.  I didn’t know much of Esparto then but I somehow started collecting them, probably because Navigator’s guitars were imprinted on my memory as special ones by magazine advertisement in the late 70’s.

When I got, it was so-called closet condition.  Its finish looked pure white and neck looked just like newly sawed wood.  Please take a look on the pictures, normal bridge pickup was 2008, replaced pickup was 2016.  You can see 8 years of aging.

I confirmed 3 types of finish, sunburst, natural, translucent and opaque.  Opaque finish seems to have been adapted to only white Espartos.

It has especially fat neck and equips pickups with 10.05mm pitch which seems to have been mounted on the later type.  The later version pickups are easy to distinguish because there is no yellowish change.

The weight is 3.78kg(includes strings), a little heavy. It seems to be constructed by 3 pieces of slab. Catalogue says that they are ash. (Updated 2016.8.25)