With the LTD KH-202 ESP Caution, Metallica fans with a small budget can now enjoy an exact replica of Kirk Hammett's most famous stage guitar. Like its big sister from ESP Custom Shop Tokyo, the LTD KH-202 Caution comes in timeless black with the famous "Caution Hot" and "Kirk's Guitar " stickers, which are enhanced with the typical skull inserts in the fingerboard. In addition, the electric Signature guitar features a Linde body, a screwed maple neck with a fast profile, as well as two hot ESP designed Humbucker and the classic Floyd Rose Special Tremolo .
The ESP LTD KH-202 Caution is based on a classic screw-neck construction with Linde body and maple neck, which supports the full Metal suitability of this electric guitar. So this construction method convinces with a fat primary tone, whose loud attack offers the perfect basis for tight riffs and fast solos. The neck has a fast " Extra Thin U" profile so that they can get out of your fingers easily when playing the electric guitar, while the familiar "inserts" provide the best orientation between the 24 Extra Jumbo frets of the Palisander fingerboard.
The ESP LTD KH 202 Caution Hot uses two ESP Designed LH-301 Humbucker pickups, which were developed in-house and convince with their fat sound. The one on LH-301B the bridge delivers a particularly hot sound image that makes the Amp focused midrange and brilliant treble scream and pushes each riff precisely through the band sound, while the one on LH-301N the neck makes solos sing with its warm sound and smooth tone development. Both pickups can also convince in clean applications, where they present chords and melodies harmoniously and transparently.
In addition, the ESP LTD KH-202 security deposit is linked to the Floyd Rose Special Double Locking Tremolo which significantly expands every lead guitarist's repertoire. Whether it's abysmally deep dive bombs or mark shattering squeals, even Double Locking the most aggressive Whammy Bar actions are possible without detuning the guitar. This System also convinces with a particularly smooth handling. The headstock is also equipped with LTD die-cast mechanisms that convince with their precise running.