![]() Those artists ranged from Lynch to Vernon Reid to Vito Bratta to Paul Pesco. As you can see, the neck pocket doesn't have the ESP stamp, however as noted by JT76, it has the clear markings typical of the 48th Street shop, the same shop who assembled and customized guitars for the best of the best ESP artists back in the peak of 80's rock and metal. The Purple/Sunburst Tiger body was one of George Lynch's early Tigers. See the pictures I uploaded to see a few examples. If that's not there, pull the neck off, and there should be a period correct ESP "Electric Sound Products" or Craft House/Custom Shop stamp on both the back of the heel of the neck and often in the neck pocket. If you ever run across one of those and question its authenticity, you can flip it over and look at the back of the headstock to see if it has the old school ESP block letters pressed into the back of the headstock. Also something obvious as you get up close to those older guitars, many ESP logo's were simply a decal that was applied to the headstock, many known for peeling off over the years. Many call them "pre-golden years" since they didn't have the prominent gold shadowing that followed in the mid-80's. All of the super early ESP logos were actually just one color. Yeah, you don't see them often, but they're around.
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