“It’s crazy that White Pony was 25 years old this year, even crazier that one of our fans owns one of the ESPs used to record it”: Stephen Carpenter’s ESP Horizon Custom from Deftones’ Back to School video has been valued at $55,000

Stephen Carpenter of Deftones holds his green ESP Custom Horizon backstage at a Vans Warped show in 1998. On the right, the Horizon he used to track Around the Fur and White Pony.

Now here’s a story that speaks to the market appreciation of an electric guitar, when the instrument in question tracked not one, but two genre classics – and was in a music video that was on regular rotation on MTV.

Yes, we’re talking about Stephen Carpenter of Deftones and the HHS ESP he used to track 1997’s Around the Fur – a guitar that has just been valued by Christie’s for a cool $55,000.