I bought this exact one a week ago and i'm blown away. The sound and build quality is right up there with my Epiphone Adam Jones veil of bees. Yes really. Its a keeper.
@@Steve-th9jn Haha...nice one. I should have said though in my original comment that the Veil of Bees Seymour Duncan bridge and Epiphone custom bucker in the neck do clearly have better tone qualities then the Fireflys alnico 5s. Thanks for the laugh fella.
Good job my man. It takes balls to film yourself and put it out there. Don’t pay much attention to the nitpicking feedback that one guy on the firefly forum gave you. He was gifted 2 free guitars from firefly and that group’s Admins a couple of years ago and could barely be bothered to post a proper thank you video to the members that chipped in to make it happen. He also said his arm was too hurt from work to play them on camera.
Looks nice. These cheaper brand guitars seem like great platforms to upgrade. Hit em with a good setup and put in whatever pickups you like, that's my plan with an EART I got a while back. I love the buttons, like straight up arcade buttons.
Thanks, and funny enough my first EART just got delivered this morning. I got the NK-C3 in red which I plan to use as a mod platform. Unboxing and more to come on that EART soon.
Looks like decently put together mod platform. I'd replace the top button with a kill toggle and change the bottom button to a series parallel toggle. Nice video!
You really don't need to mod anything on Firefly guitars. The pickups tend to be pretty good and the only issue I have had with any of them is they didn't ground my LX properly so I had to do that myself. But other than that, I put locking tuners on my LX and a Bigsby on my 338 and left everything else standard. Their new models come with locking tuners standard.
@@FortessofShred Buckethead's Les Paul guitar is known for having two kill switches. The main reason for this is Buckethead's unique playing style and use of effects. The kill switches are used to immediately cut off the sound from the guitar, creating a stuttering or chopping effect in his music. This allows him to create rapid-fire, staccato-like sounds, adding a distinctive element to his guitar playing. The dual kill switches provide him with more flexibility and control over the timing and patterns of the sound cuts, contributing to his innovative and experimental approach to the instrument.
I just listened to a couple of videos of Buckethead for the first time, and he's brilliant. I know a guy I bought an effects pedal from on the fleabay told me he loved buckethead, and I now see why lol
Yea the guys is an incredible guitarist. Puts out TONS of guitar music as well. I think he's put out over 400 albums and thousands of songs by now lol Seems like he just sits down and records all the time.
The toggle switch is literally turning off the front pickups or turning off the bridge pickups. So, that is why you have a kill for both. And if you have the toggle on the bridge, you wouldn't want to try and kill the neck pickup.
cool review man,also just saying your hands are bigger than you think,my fingers are like 3 inches long lol , stay cool bro and thanks for taking the time to make the vidsgood down to earth content,im gonna order one of these ,really cant beat the deal,thanks again.
Love to see a guy unboxing with an actually good pocke knife instead a gas station knife, or a kitchen/butter knife. I only saw it quickly but its not only a Civivi but a Ben Peterson design? Nice.
Thanks! Yup! it's a Civivi Baby Banter designed by Ben Peterson. I got 3 of em, love those little guys. Another hobby of mine is knives...haven't gotten any recently though because it seems all my hobbies start to get expensive 😂
@@Lyrical-Impact same here. I've got a pretty good collection but the prices have driven me out of buying much of anything lately. Seems like all the $80 knives are now $150 and everything I expect to be $150 - $200 is creeping up next to $300. Just looked the other day out of curiosity and my Spyderco PM2 is apparently now a $200 knife. It's ridiculous. Civivi (and it's little brother brand Sencut) is one of the few brands that I've even considered buying lately, along with Kizer, Bestechman (what a horrible name, lol), Miguron and and some of the cheaper Spyderco. I've been all but driven out of being able to afford the U.S. brands lately. The value offered per dollar just doesn't fit my budget anymore. Fortunately I've already bought many of the classic U.S. models in the past few years whose prices have skyrocketed lately. I did just see another model that Ben did with MKM that I'm going to grab though. The Yipper 🤣. Crossbar lock, magnacut steel edc knife for under $150. Gotta have that.
What puts me off this guitar is the tap buttons. They seem to big, looks funny. I don’t know much about buckethead, but looking at Eddies Van Halen’s Tap button, it’s huge.
Thank you for the review. I’ve got a firefly junior and it’s a great guitar. The P90 is has a nasty tone. I like the dual kills! I was wondering with the 27” scale its in the baritone range so have you experimented with drop tunings? Do you have any thoughts on using heavier gauge strings, say 56’s or heavier? Thanks
this is amazing! after seeing this i tried looking for one of these online and i cant find them anywhere. Do you know if this is a guitar that just came out and sold out or if its coming back in stock or anything like that? or where i can find one for sale by chance? that would be super helpful.
They are officially sold through guitarsgarden.com/. They have drops and then some models will sell out fairly quickly. As of now this current model is sold out but I would imagine they will do another run in the future since it seems to be popular. They do have some LP models they just dropped but I think this current batch does not have SS frets. People still love them from what I hear. I joined a few of the Facebook Groups which have lots of updates on when the company is going to drop another batch. I would suggest joining the FB Group to stay in the loop. That's how I knew when certain models like this one was becoming available and was able to snag one. I think the main one is called "FireFly Guitar Fans" on Facebook.
It's supposed to mimic a mutilayer binding. Gibson custom usually has 7 I think. W/B/W/B/W/B/W. It doesn't look like a real multilayer binding on this example.
Surely the kill switches would be better if they only cut the one pickup when using the two pickups together? Or maybe have another switch that switches on or off the complete sound kill, so you can use them both ways
21:38 bucket head has it set up like that think a neck pickup pickup selector where the top killswitch is different killswitch kills different pickups for a different sound thats how bucket head made it to solo and hit that killswitch also you can hear the killswitch cause your splitting the pickups as single coils so it more noisy and picks up noises more
@@Gothguitarist why would he have it wired that way? and i’ve seen him use the kill switch on the bridge pickup while pressing the killswitch near pots. It literally makes no sense. of both buttons do the same purpose of killing the signal, why wire it a different way? it costs more from gibson and serves no benefit.
@azizlewis have no clue I just know his killswitch buttons work that way and he can even do it with his toggle switch . Or more less he just turned the volume down on his pickup to split the pickups kinda id that makes sense
The tops on their guitars are actually a print that is glued onto the top,I have a firefly LP and took it in for a setup job and the guy actually had an identical fidelity guitar in his shop and I compared the tops side by side to see if there was a difference and to my disbelief their was ABSOLUTELY NO DIFFERENCE WHATSOEVER,they were absolutely identical so in other words the tops are fake.enjoy
the white isn't a vinyl, when they paint the guitars white they have to scrape the paint off to expose the binding, when you can see wood like that it just means that they were rushing the scraping and went a little to far and didn't notice it or didn't care in quality control checks. Hope this helps!
Thank you! And yea someone in the FB Group brought that up as well and I can see how that would happen now. They probably used a very thick coat of paint, and then when they went to scrape the binding it left those more chipped/jagged looking edges. Thanks for the insight 🙌
Very cool I had a buckethead studio years ago long story short my ex wife sold it when we broke up that broke my damn heard I have a tattoo of it on my forearm... but yeah my killswitchs worked in both the same didn't matter the position of the switch the body was oversized like an es gibson and this one only has 22 frets bucketheads is 24 soo close with this guitar if it was 24 frets I'd jump on one of these the electronics can always be rewired
Looks like a lot of buffing compound on the fretboard,,the wood doesn't look dry but you could see the white compound in the cracks,that easy to get rid of, I didn't realize this guitar was an elite, I have a champagne pink metallic elite and I love it,this bucket head model looks great,I have a spalted maple natural 338, so I had to pass on that LP, I like both the thin and the thick neck, and I have small hands too,nothing like having a 58 chunky & 60s slim tapered neck in our collection, I got used to the chunky neck it's just as comfortable as the slim one, fireflys are awesome enjoy,minor blems don't bother me,the guitar looks great over all.
Usually some of the more budget end guitars have microphonic pickups, and some FireFly guitars have them, this one I didn't notice it as much during normal playing as some of the strat style guitars I got from them. But i'll see if i can test it more and probably do a follow up video on this guitar. Maybe a video opening up the cavities as well so people can see what's being used out the factory.
looks like when they taped off the binding for paint they over taped it thats why your seeing some of the wood between the binding and the paint. someone pointed out tha difference between expensive guitars and budget is the time it takes to put them together nad to do fit and finish. take from me taping off binding is a bitch
Well it's just my taste, but no don't think I'll buy it, no offense to anyone but, the first thing I thought when I saw it was is that Bozo's axe? Simply because of the 2 red or orange buttons
Their official site where they sell them through is guitarsgarden.com/ but they sell out pretty quick at times. Right now you might not find a lot in stock on their site; and then they'll do a drop with a bunch of new guitars which some stay in stock longer but most sell out fairly quick.
I love it but , the big but ….. I make a statement of not buying any guitars made in china anymore. I don’t want to give a cut of my hard earned cash to CCP. I’m a Gibson guy and rather put money aside and buy the real thing. But hey it’s beautiful, no joke. I my opinion. I respect anyone who but knock off , it’s their bussiness not mine. Keep the good work 👍🏻👍🏻
It's CPC, not CCP. CCP is the term the dumbo's in the US goverment use. And you really should not believe all the propaganda the western governments and medias spew about China, when you look into it none of it is actually true. I think Chinese stuff tends to be pretty good quality, though I reckon the Chinese squier strats probably aren't as good quality electronically as the old Jpanese squiers (I still have my 94 Jap squier HSS strat). I have an epiphone les paul studio made in Indonesia that seems to be really nicely made.
Funny thing is that China is also doing the same thing to Europe and America. So we are all doing the same anti-trade practices that drive up prices for consumers.
@@ethanadjack5289what does that have to do with a guitar? As far as phones go we don't have a choice where the components are made but as far as guitars go we DO have a choice. I will never buy another Chinese product if I can help it.
lol Just use the timestamps that I put in the video for people who want to jump ahead. It shows both in the description, in the playhead and other areas. There are timestamps for "unboxing", "clean tones", "distortion tones" and more. This was a full unboxing and first impressions so it was not meant to only show tones but go more in depth on the guitar as well. Not sure what else to tell you.
Bro part of me says WTF do you want for $240 and part of me says that’s really crappy QC 🫤 Firefly has multiple manufacturers making guitars for them and each factory has different manufacturing methods 😐
I bought this exact one a week ago and i'm blown away. The sound and build quality is right up there with my Epiphone Adam Jones veil of bees. Yes really. Its a keeper.
A Bee Keeper, if you will.
@@Steve-th9jn Haha...nice one. I should have said though in my original comment that the Veil of Bees Seymour Duncan bridge and Epiphone custom bucker in the neck do clearly have better tone qualities then the Fireflys alnico 5s.
Thanks for the laugh fella.
Good job my man. It takes balls to film yourself and put it out there. Don’t pay much attention to the nitpicking feedback that one guy on the firefly forum gave you. He was gifted 2 free guitars from firefly and that group’s Admins a couple of years ago and could barely be bothered to post a proper thank you video to the members that chipped in to make it happen. He also said his arm was too hurt from work to play them on camera.
I got one a couple weeks ago also. Its a lot better than i thought it would be for the money
Thanks for a UA-cam channel where you are so polite.
Looks nice. These cheaper brand guitars seem like great platforms to upgrade. Hit em with a good setup and put in whatever pickups you like, that's my plan with an EART I got a while back. I love the buttons, like straight up arcade buttons.
Thanks, and funny enough my first EART just got delivered this morning. I got the NK-C3 in red which I plan to use as a mod platform. Unboxing and more to come on that EART soon.
Or an EQ and leave the pickups alone.😊
Straight up from Galaga bro.
Looks like decently put together mod platform.
I'd replace the top button with a kill toggle and change the bottom button to a series parallel toggle. Nice video!
You really don't need to mod anything on Firefly guitars. The pickups tend to be pretty good and the only issue I have had with any of them is they didn't ground my LX properly so I had to do that myself. But other than that, I put locking tuners on my LX and a Bigsby on my 338 and left everything else standard. Their new models come with locking tuners standard.
What's the point of two kill switches? Or is one a phase switch?
@@FortessofShred Buckethead's Les Paul guitar is known for having two kill switches. The main reason for this is Buckethead's unique playing style and use of effects. The kill switches are used to immediately cut off the sound from the guitar, creating a stuttering or chopping effect in his music. This allows him to create rapid-fire, staccato-like sounds, adding a distinctive element to his guitar playing. The dual kill switches provide him with more flexibility and control over the timing and patterns of the sound cuts, contributing to his innovative and experimental approach to the instrument.
I recognize Dancing Through Sunday anywhere. Great review. I was thinking about picking one up.
I just listened to a couple of videos of Buckethead for the first time, and he's brilliant.
I know a guy I bought an effects pedal from on the fleabay told me he loved buckethead, and I now see why lol
Yea the guys is an incredible guitarist. Puts out TONS of guitar music as well. I think he's put out over 400 albums and thousands of songs by now lol Seems like he just sits down and records all the time.
The toggle switch is literally turning off the front pickups or turning off the bridge pickups. So, that is why you have a kill for both. And if you have the toggle on the bridge, you wouldn't want to try and kill the neck pickup.
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Great review! Well done!!
That’s how bucket head has his guitar. Bridge button on bottom and the neck pickup on top.
Is that true? I was watching a trogly video and it looked like either worked in any position
@@Azyndevil5it’s wrong, bucket has it wired for any position. this would wiring setup in the video would make no sense in a live setting
cool review man,also just saying your hands are bigger than you think,my fingers are like 3 inches long lol , stay cool bro and thanks for taking the time to make the vidsgood down to earth content,im gonna order one of these ,really cant beat the deal,thanks again.
Love to see a guy unboxing with an actually good pocke knife instead a gas station knife, or a kitchen/butter knife. I only saw it quickly but its not only a Civivi but a Ben Peterson design? Nice.
Thanks! Yup! it's a Civivi Baby Banter designed by Ben Peterson. I got 3 of em, love those little guys. Another hobby of mine is knives...haven't gotten any recently though because it seems all my hobbies start to get expensive 😂
@@Lyrical-Impact same here. I've got a pretty good collection but the prices have driven me out of buying much of anything lately. Seems like all the $80 knives are now $150 and everything I expect to be $150 - $200 is creeping up next to $300. Just looked the other day out of curiosity and my Spyderco PM2 is apparently now a $200 knife. It's ridiculous. Civivi (and it's little brother brand Sencut) is one of the few brands that I've even considered buying lately, along with Kizer, Bestechman (what a horrible name, lol), Miguron and and some of the cheaper Spyderco.
I've been all but driven out of being able to afford the U.S. brands lately. The value offered per dollar just doesn't fit my budget anymore.
Fortunately I've already bought many of the classic U.S. models in the past few years whose prices have skyrocketed lately.
I did just see another model that Ben did with MKM that I'm going to grab though. The Yipper 🤣. Crossbar lock, magnacut steel edc knife for under $150. Gotta have that.
I wanna hammer on notes with that kill switch so badly. Proper usage of a kill switch
What puts me off this guitar is the tap buttons. They seem to big, looks funny. I don’t know much about buckethead, but looking at Eddies Van Halen’s Tap button, it’s huge.
Thank you for the review. I’ve got a firefly junior and it’s a great guitar. The P90 is has a nasty tone. I like the dual kills!
I was wondering with the 27” scale its in the baritone range so have you experimented with drop tunings? Do you have any thoughts on using heavier gauge strings, say 56’s or heavier?
Thanks
You are a phenomenal player i loved the soothsayer riffs
Loving the neck volute. Why Gibson moved away from that I'll never understand.
Have this and baritone, nice review ff are addictive
this is amazing! after seeing this i tried looking for one of these online and i cant find them anywhere. Do you know if this is a guitar that just came out and sold out or if its coming back in stock or anything like that? or where i can find one for sale by chance? that would be super helpful.
They are officially sold through guitarsgarden.com/. They have drops and then some models will sell out fairly quickly. As of now this current model is sold out but I would imagine they will do another run in the future since it seems to be popular. They do have some LP models they just dropped but I think this current batch does not have SS frets. People still love them from what I hear. I joined a few of the Facebook Groups which have lots of updates on when the company is going to drop another batch. I would suggest joining the FB Group to stay in the loop. That's how I knew when certain models like this one was becoming available and was able to snag one. I think the main one is called "FireFly Guitar Fans" on Facebook.
@@Lyrical-Impact Thank you very much i will join that group for sure
I got one off ali express that was badass... Had to replace all the electonics and hardware, but it's a very good copy of a bh guitar... lol
Thanks for doing these reviews and bro you ain't bad at guitar, stop sayin that 😃
No product link? and Thanks for keeping it real.
guitarsgarden.com/ is the official site for FireFly guitars. This current model is out of stock again, but they seem to have new drops pretty often.
It's supposed to mimic a mutilayer binding. Gibson custom usually has 7 I think. W/B/W/B/W/B/W. It doesn't look like a real multilayer binding on this example.
Surely the kill switches would be better if they only cut the one pickup when using the two pickups together? Or maybe have another switch that switches on or off the complete sound kill, so you can use them both ways
21:38 bucket head has it set up like that think a neck pickup pickup selector where the top killswitch is different killswitch kills different pickups for a different sound thats how bucket head made it to solo and hit that killswitch also you can hear the killswitch cause your splitting the pickups as single coils so it more noisy and picks up noises more
nah, both killswitches do the same task which is ultimately dump the signal to ground. effectively, killing the signal, no matter the pickup position.
@azizlewis you are talking to a guy that owns a real one and played his when I met him
@@Gothguitarist why would he have it wired that way? and i’ve seen him use the kill switch on the bridge pickup while pressing the killswitch near pots.
It literally makes no sense. of both buttons do the same purpose of killing the signal, why wire it a different way? it costs more from gibson and serves no benefit.
@azizlewis have no clue I just know his killswitch buttons work that way and he can even do it with his toggle switch . Or more less he just turned the volume down on his pickup to split the pickups kinda id that makes sense
@azizlewis yes that's correct the killswitchs do disrupt signal when pressed in Any position of toggle switch (besides neck)
The tops on their guitars are actually a print that is glued onto the top,I have a firefly LP and took it in for a setup job and the guy actually had an identical fidelity guitar in his shop and I compared the tops side by side to see if there was a difference and to my disbelief their was ABSOLUTELY NO DIFFERENCE WHATSOEVER,they were absolutely identical so in other words the tops are fake.enjoy
That would be cool if the the kill switch turned one Humbucker to single coil split !
or add a Varitone to guitar.
You shoulda grabbed the John 5 "style" FFTL. The guitar is sick!
10s Guitars also have there own buckethead model I hope u do a review on it
I built one like this on my channel from a guitar kit lol
Omg it's Buckethead himself
Curious. Is the body larger that a reg Les Paul and the scale longer like Bucketheads?
This is not a baritone like the Gibson Buckethead LP. And it only has 22 frets, not 24. Overall size seems to be like most normal LP style guitars.
the white isn't a vinyl, when they paint the guitars white they have to scrape the paint off to expose the binding, when you can see wood like that it just means that they were rushing the scraping and went a little to far and didn't notice it or didn't care in quality control checks. Hope this helps!
Thank you! And yea someone in the FB Group brought that up as well and I can see how that would happen now. They probably used a very thick coat of paint, and then when they went to scrape the binding it left those more chipped/jagged looking edges. Thanks for the insight 🙌
Very cool I had a buckethead studio years ago long story short my ex wife sold it when we broke up that broke my damn heard I have a tattoo of it on my forearm... but yeah my killswitchs worked in both the same didn't matter the position of the switch the body was oversized like an es gibson and this one only has 22 frets bucketheads is 24 soo close with this guitar if it was 24 frets I'd jump on one of these the electronics can always be rewired
Is it a lighter weight guitar? I remember Bucketheads Gibson was chambered.
Looks like a lot of buffing compound on the fretboard,,the wood doesn't look dry but you could see the white compound in the cracks,that easy to get rid of, I didn't realize this guitar was an elite, I have a champagne pink metallic elite and I love it,this bucket head model looks great,I have a spalted maple natural 338, so I had to pass on that LP, I like both the thin and the thick neck, and I have small hands too,nothing like having a 58 chunky & 60s slim tapered neck in our collection, I got used to the chunky neck it's just as comfortable as the slim one, fireflys are awesome enjoy,minor blems don't bother me,the guitar looks great over all.
Where can you get these?
Hey, are they sold out for good or do they restock?
They restock, bit it's a grab bag of what models. They have the baritone version of this in stock as of this post.
soooooo cool
Maybe one or both of the pickups are microphonic? It should be easy enough to see if they have been potted in wax
Usually some of the more budget end guitars have microphonic pickups, and some FireFly guitars have them, this one I didn't notice it as much during normal playing as some of the strat style guitars I got from them. But i'll see if i can test it more and probably do a follow up video on this guitar. Maybe a video opening up the cavities as well so people can see what's being used out the factory.
oof its so sad they put inlays on the fretboard, that clean fretboard is one of the aspects i like the most on the buckethead signature
There momentary not a actual kill switch
From where can I buy it?
looks like when they taped off the binding for paint they over taped it thats why your seeing some of the wood between the binding and the paint. someone pointed out tha difference between expensive guitars and budget is the time it takes to put them together nad to do fit and finish. take from me taping off binding is a bitch
I've been doing this for 2 years, i can help you with the killswitch stuff... :)
if they are tesi switches they will never stick its the cheap ebay ones that stick
the electronic cavities need to be copper shielded
Well it's just my taste, but no don't think I'll buy it, no offense to anyone but, the first thing I thought when I saw it was is that Bozo's axe? Simply because of the 2 red or orange buttons
Where the heck does one even find these? Google is sending me all over.
Their official site where they sell them through is guitarsgarden.com/ but they sell out pretty quick at times. Right now you might not find a lot in stock on their site; and then they'll do a drop with a bunch of new guitars which some stay in stock longer but most sell out fairly quick.
Hate the red switches. Should be black or cream.
Freedom of speech God bless America
OMG NO!!
I love it but , the big but ….. I make a statement of not buying any guitars made in china anymore. I don’t want to give a cut of my hard earned cash to CCP. I’m a Gibson guy and rather put money aside and buy the real thing. But hey it’s beautiful, no joke. I my opinion. I respect anyone who but knock off , it’s their bussiness not mine. Keep the good work 👍🏻👍🏻
Where was your phone manufactured?
It's CPC, not CCP. CCP is the term the dumbo's in the US goverment use.
And you really should not believe all the propaganda the western governments and medias spew about China, when you look into it none of it is actually true.
I think Chinese stuff tends to be pretty good quality, though I reckon the Chinese squier strats probably aren't as good quality electronically as the old Jpanese squiers (I still have my 94 Jap squier HSS strat).
I have an epiphone les paul studio made in Indonesia that seems to be really nicely made.
@@ethanadjack5289 lol even if its an iphone, most of the parts will have been made in China
Funny thing is that China is also doing the same thing to Europe and America. So we are all doing the same anti-trade practices that drive up prices for consumers.
@@ethanadjack5289what does that have to do with a guitar? As far as phones go we don't have a choice where the components are made but as far as guitars go we DO have a choice. I will never buy another Chinese product if I can help it.
...... If you buy an Agile, you deserve to be ripped off.
10 mins in not heard it yet.
lol Just use the timestamps that I put in the video for people who want to jump ahead. It shows both in the description, in the playhead and other areas. There are timestamps for "unboxing", "clean tones", "distortion tones" and more. This was a full unboxing and first impressions so it was not meant to only show tones but go more in depth on the guitar as well. Not sure what else to tell you.
I can cry I missed fuck!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Bro part of me says WTF do you want for $240 and part of me says that’s really crappy QC 🫤 Firefly has multiple manufacturers making guitars for them and each factory has different manufacturing methods 😐
Omg it's Buckethead himself