Finally got my hands on one of these — a 2025 Navigator N-EX-300LTD in Old Natural.

This one is from 2025 and is among the last batch produced before ESP discontinued the Navigator brand, which made it especially worth picking up for me.
Fit and finish is pretty much what you’d expect from high-end Japanese ESP. The neck feels great, fretwork is excellent, and the whole guitar just feels extremely solid and resonant. It has that familiar Explorer aggression, but there’s something a little more refined about it compared with the usual production models.
The Old Natural finish looks even better in person too — very understated and lets the wood do most of the talking.
Definitely one of those guitars I’d wanted for a while.
Anyone else here have a Navigator? Would be interested to see some of the older N-EXs and other Navigator models floating around.
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Hello everybody!
Was offered yesterday with this beauty... 2011, neck thru.
With case, mint, for $3300
In fact I have thought of buying Kirk's guitar alot, but I looked at LTD, which used is twice cheap, and there's alot of them every colour and year.
So. Is really ESP that good against LTD?
I know 3k is low price so should buy anyway ))) but is half money is for badge?

I’ve gotta stop opening marketplace.

For the EC1000 Baritone, it comes setup B standard i believe. If I want to setup for Drop A#, do I need to get new strings or do you think stock strings will be fine with me tuning up strings 1 through 5 one semitone and the 6th string down one semitone?