Hello friends and welcome back. It is holiday shopping time so we're going to continue on with our series of favorites under five. Some of the favorite guitars we've gotten our shop under $500. And one thing I should probably point out is that these guitars that we're featuring right now, there are cheaper options to be had. The reason that I really like this price point and these guitars I'm showing to you is because not only are these priced to where they are good options for first time guitar buyers or you know absolute beginners but the construction quality, the component used in here are good enough. These guitars never going to become an obstacle to getting better on guitar as you learn. And these guitars are also great options for second guitars. They're a person who's adding to their guitar collection that it just might be a different style, a different sound than what they already have. These are really nice guitars. All of them that I'm showing you, this one in particular I do love. This is the ESP LTD EC256 and it comes in for our advertised price $449. Great, great deal. It obviously you know we're not you know giving away any secrets here. This is based on the Les Paul design. It has a Mahogany body, Mahogany neck which you know great guitar woods just from the get go on here. It has the same two piece bridge combination of a stop tail and a tunomatic bridge so that each string can be individually intonated to perfection. It has a roasted jatoba fretboard which is a wood that I'm really coming to like. It's got a little bit of a bright snappy sound to it. It feels a lot like Abity. Very very hard, very dense wood. This should hold up well and it's one of my favorites of the new materials that they're using for fretboards. This guitar is 42 millimeters at the top. This would be just perfect for someone with smaller hands and for me, even though you know I've got fairly big hands. It's very very comfortable and so easy to play. Two humbucking pickups on here and the neck pickup. A very good rich sound and this is another guitar in this series. It is very versatile as far as being able to play. You know many styles of music on it. Good mellow sound if you wanted to do jazz on it. Both pickups together. The bridge pickup. Very nice. Another option that this guitar has is the ability to coil split the pickups. So basically with the tone knob pulled up here and it does have a volume control for each pickup. A tone knob that is shared by the two. When you pull it up it splits the coil. So basically what you're doing is using half the pickup and it gets a sound. It's much more reminiscent of what people might think of for strata casters, for country music. And the neck pickup. And both pickups together. So maybe you're thinking well that's a pretty sounding guitar but the person I'm thinking about buying this for is really into rock music and that doesn't sound like the kind of music they listen to at all. Well ESP and their brand LTD. That brand was born out of the hair metal era of the 1980s. So their guitars were made to rock. Just a great range of sounds out of this guitar for $449. Available at more guitars or more music in Evansville, Indiana. Give the guys here a call. They'll help you find the perfect gift for the musician in your life. That is their mission. They're the experts on every brand they sell. So give them a call. Talk to them about what you need for this holiday season. And until next time y'all stay safe. Have a great holidays and don't forget to shop at mortgottars.com.