Key Features
- Designed for Luke's meaty and anthemic playing style
- EMG pickups deliver crushing tones and incredible detail
- Smooth mahogany body offers comfortable playing feel
- High-quality hardware provides a stable performance
DISC ESP LTD LK-600 Luke Kilpatrick Parkway Drive, Black Overview
The Signature LK-600 Guitar is equipped with a set of EMG humbuckers. These powerful pickups provide you with an incredibly versatile performance, letting you create meaty rhythms and aggressive leads with ease. The ESP LTS LK-600 also features high-quality hardware, ensuring that no matter how hard you play you'll always receive a stable performance.
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View Full DescriptionEMG Humbuckers Deliver the Perfect Metal Tone
To achieve that iconic crushing Parkway Drive sound, the LK-600 Signature is equipped with a set of powerful EMG humbuckers. Both pickups are constructed from close aperture coils and ceramic magnets to deliver the incredible detail and meaty tone ideal for metal. EMG pickups are favoured for their high output and low noise performance, ensuring you always get a strong, crisp sound.
The Bridge is equipped with an EMG 81, letting you deliver a variety of thick, punchy tones. The neck sports EMG's 60 humbucker, producing plenty of warmth and crispness. Switch between these pickups to give your rhythm sections extra power and low-end growl, or create sharp solos and striking leads.
Built for Comfort and Speed
Luke Kilpatrick's Signature ESP is crafted from a strong mahogany body, with its smooth contours offering an incredibly comfortable playing experience. The body is coupled with a thin U-shaped neck, letting you deliver speedy solos with ease - especially at the higher frets. A Macassar ebony fingerboard is also added to offer an incredibly smooth feel for extra sonic clarity.
The LK-600 also features a neck-through body construction. This design helps maximise the contact between the neck and body, improving the overall resonance for an advanced sustain. This setup is ideal for letting notes ring to add extra dynamics to your performance.
High-Quality Hardware for a Stable Performance
With Luke's incredibly powerful playing style, his guitar will need to be extra stable to survive any type of life with him. The addition of a TonePros locking tune-o-matic and ESP's locking tuners help remedy that.
The TonePros improves upon the standard tune-o-matic design, featuring a bridge that locks down to the posts with 2 small screws. This results in an increase in sustain and playability, while also letting you find the perfect intonation. The TonePros also has a string-through body setup, which optimises the transfer of vibrations from the strings to the body - improving the overall sustain and resonance.
Back in 2008, ESP introduced their own locking tuners on many new and existing LTD Signature & Deluxe series instruments. Ease of use and elegant design were their key goals in designing these keys. They help eliminate the need for wraps on the tuner shaft, improving tuning stability, reduce string slippage, and simplify the restringing process.
About Luke Kilpatrick
Luke Kilpatrick is the rhythm guitars of Australian metalcore band Parkway Drive. Their use of aggressive and rhythmic sound requires Luke to have a guitar that can handle everything from the most brutal riffs to big, anthemic sections in a flash. Luke has been relying upon ESP since 2005 to help deliver his killer performance, and his signature model needs to be versatile and reliable.
About ESP Guitars
ESP LTD is a Japanese guitar manufacturer, established in 1975, primarily focused on the production of electric guitars and basses. Their wide range of products will suit all budgets and playing styles, from the high-quality LTD series to the Japanese built E-II series and hand-built Original series.
The company has a growing number of high-profile artists who have designed their own signature instruments, such as Ron Wood, Kirk Hammett, James Hetfield, Stephen Carpenter, and many more. ESP also have their own custom shop, providing you with access to your own personalised guitar – either a modified version of an existing ESP or a completely new and unique design.
Specifications
Body & Bridge
- Body: Mahogany w/10mm Maple Cap
- Bridge: TonePros Locking TOM w/String-Through
- Construction: Neck-Through
- Finish: Black
Neck & Fingerboard
- Neck: 3-Piece Maple
- Profile: Thin U
- Scale Length: 25.5''
- Fingerboard: Macassar Ebony
- Radius: 350mm
- Frets: 24 Extra Jumbo
- Inlays: Parkway Drive Symbol at 12th Fret
- Nut: Moulded
- Nut Width: 43mm
Electronics & Hardware
- Bridge Pickup: EMG 81
- Neck Pickup: EMG 60
- Electronics: Active
- Controls: Volume, Toggle Switch
- Tuners: LTD Locking
- Strap Buttons: Standard
- Hardware: Black Nickel
- Strings: D'Addario XL110 (.10, .013, .017, .026, .036, .046)
- Case Included: No
- Recommended Case: MH Guitar Form Fit
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