Better than Sire Guitars? FGN - Japanese Built Guitars on a Budget
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- Опубліковано 26 сер 2024
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I've tried more@sireguitars guitars than you could shake a stick at. The only guitars that I've found at this price range that I think beat them are...FGN Guitars - particularly the T type which you can get for around the same price as the T7 from Sire....
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Just got my Iliad JIL2CLASHM and it's just perfect, high quality guitar for a ridiculous price. Craftsmanship, neck, frets, finish, tuners, pots, pickups... eveything is top notch
No competition here, FGN all the way!!! Amazing Japanese quality that rivals and sometimes exceeds USA made! 👍
Agreed 👍
Sometimes? Every Japan guitar I played has been phenomenal.
I have that same guitar only in black with a maple board…the frets are perfect, the nut is perfect and the neck shape is perfect…not too thick, not too thin…I put a dimarzio tone zone tele style rail p/u in it and it is a rock machine…think John 5 tele…its my everyday player👍
As usual these FGN guitars are hard to get here in Australia but a couple of shops stock them; the tele with the neck HB are priced at about $1100 AUD which is pretty good considering that all the Fender Players and Epiphones have soared in price over the last two years.
Agree.. I was lucky to get hold of the metallic blue version with the neck HB on eBay here in Australia. Paid just over $857AUD for it with free shipping from eBay seller Strings for Less (AKA Angkor Music) after my Ebay Plus discounts. Very happy with the guitar after an interesting experience with a G&L ASAT Bluesboy semi hollow tribute. To me the FGN has a higher build quality along with some really nice tonal options. Although the FGN` has slightly thicker neck than my Ibanez SA260FM, I love the FGN and so glad I went for it... 🖖
I was fortunate enough to pick up a secondhand FGN neoclassic at my local store. Half the price of the Gibson and frankly , much better made. I have no doubt their single coil stuff will be just as good. Can't wait to try !
As a neo classic owner I can verify it's better than a USA Gibson by almost all regards and aspects.
@@ehsanhaq155 glad you backed me up. No one else believes me !
Good video!
As a Japanese 🇯🇵I’m happy to see you finally introduced FGN (Fujigen) n loved how people reacted at comments.
I think FGN is a one of the best buy guitar for 800~1000$ if you like their tones.
Even now,you can buy FGN J-standard for under 100000yen (744US$) because of money order.
N ofc they are made in Japan n super comfortable to play.
Reason why Fujigen is OEM of Ibanez(prestige,J-custom),Fender Japan,etc…
So many people already know how good they are.
Maybe it’s hard to get them in some countries,but if you come to Japan,you can easily find them at almost any music stores.
It’s always fun to watch your videos John!
Thx for update!
I’d never heard of FGN before moving to Japan but now my main guitar is an FGN Odyssey.
I play it at all the Gaijin bar gigs around this city haha
@@89ji76 that’s sounds great!
Yea Fujigen is not popular in other countries but definitely good quality :)
The best thing about FGN guitars is their terrible resale value for their quality 😅. I recently picked up a used FGN 335 with Gibson quality at an Epiphone price. It plays and feels amazing, glad i went with it over a new Sire.
I agree with you.. I went through about 8 Epiphones before I found a decent 335 amongst them (mind you, the one I have kept is great, a far cry in build quality from the others). Must keep an eye out on the FGN 335 or even a Heritage 335 that others keep telling me about..
stellar playing man.
I picked up a FGN iliad boundary for £175 locally. I've owned many fender teles and this is as good as any of them the neck is so easy to play and absolutely love the neck pickup
I bought a used FGN expert dark evolution from guitar center 6 years ago. It was great for the price then under the radar
I bought one of these a few days ago - Very impressed with the quality, they need more publicity in the UK
I think a better comparison is the Sire T7 to the FGN, Both at about the same price point.
FGN still win in my opinion! 👍
Just to dampen the FGN love in a bit. Anderson's have the T3 for £299 at the mo, the FGN is £549! Hardly the same price! You'd have to compare the FGN to the Flame Maple top, twin humbucker SireT7 at that price. Not so sure the FGN would fair quite so well against that Sire!
Such a happy groove! The FGN sounds killer IMO. Appears to sound and play evenly all across the fretboard.
I Wanna Be Your Lover by Prince
I have a lefty FGN T-type. Contoured Ash body with binding in off white blond, Seymour Duncan Pickups, 4-way switching, Brass Saddles, Maple fretboard, Gotoh tuners and made in Japan in the same factory as many Fender Japan and Ibanez Professional Prestige models (yet retailing at well under 4 figures). Fujigen helped Fender set up the Mexican factory.
The split sounds remarkable good
I sound like a football pundit
@@Arthur_My_Dear it's a split of two halves.
Personally I'd choose that over the sire, loved the tone.
There is a FGN JIL2 ASH coming in to my local guitar store on monday, I can't wait to try it....and if it sounds this good, it's in the bag...
Like youre channel. Have you tried G&L? I am curious how you would review one/some Tribute G&L' s and compare them to others in the price range
I like the looks, color, control layout and tone of the FGN. Quite nice.
What a beautiful instrument
Love the finish!
This guys flow 👌🏼
ahh what a wonderful way to start my Sunday not just great playing but great track listened to it back to back before finishing the video
You should compare a T7 with the Fujigen. I think the T3 is not a fair comparision.
On thomann or in general in europe this fgn model is 980€ and Sire T7 is around 542€ 🤔
@@CiuciumisLuci exactly, quite different price points..
Even against the T7 the FGN is superior in my opinion!!
And the t3 is 400€, squier’s price point
@@CiuciumisLucithe one on Thomann's site is the J-Standard, more expensive that the Boundary Iliad in the video
Oh i forgot to say ...u can hear the higher quality pick ups and of course thar justifies the more expensive price ..
I don't know much about fgn and i've just had a look on the net ...
They seem a proper company with new interesting concepts and generally starting @ 500 pounds mark with their cheaper offerings ... the basses look good although i'm not a rosewood person... would like to try some of their instruments in the future but must contain me gas as i need to see a gassologist or gassoler real soon jeeee
Basswood often is lighter weight than alder or ash or poplar. Ibanez used basswood in the 80s Japanese RG series for years.
I believe the wolfgangs are bass wood…thats what Eddie preferred!!
I had a couple Ibanez Prestige RG’s in the early 2000’s that had Basswood bodies and they were awesome!! BTW made by Fujigen of course!! 👍
@@eddiejr540 basswood with a maple cap - as per a lot of suhr guitars as he regards that as the best tone wood combination
@@tonystartup3817 i had a wolfgang special, just basswood body no maple cap. That also was a fantastic guitar!!
basswood is not an inferior tonewood. People just misconceive that it is because it's used on lower end guitars because it is so cost effective. There are plenty of higher end guitars that use basswood too.
Waiting for the August delivery of FGNs at Richard's Guitars in Stratford (they set it up as well) the 5-string bass I bought at the start of the year is fantastic and set-up in Meshuggah's bass tuning too. p.s. it looks like you dented the front of the FGN - naughty boy.
Nah that was why it was discounted - the shop I bought it from knocked it over during photography or something
Did you get one from Richard? I enquired a couple of months ago and I said I was keen that the fretboard would be nice and dark like all the promo photos, i.e. I hate 'streaky bacon' rosewood. They said I'd have to order one as they don't stock any, and couldn't promise a fretboard I was happy with. So I'd be interested in your experience.
@@marmadukewinterbotham2599 still waiting for the FGN JMJ2ASHDEM to arrive (Anderton's say it's arriving this coming Wednesday) they're less than useless at Richard's with delivery dates. The 5-string I bught earlier in the year is great (it's a maple fingerboard so no streaking rosewood problems). Once the guitar arrives Richard's are first rate but waiting for something on order they're useless - I bought a Reverend from GuitarGuitar in the end but that one's delayed until December too - hey ho.
you make everything sound good. but the FGN is to me a more cutting and versatile toned guitar. i liked the split neck tone, full humbucker for jazz. split neck and bridge would have been nice to hear some funky quacky riffs.
I just kinda panic bought one of these FGN T-styles - the one with the single coil in the neck - from Andertons. Damn flash sales still get me if I'm up late browsing lol. No regrets though! Also, shout out to Sire - I never made it to their T seiries but I really like my H7
Interesting! Cheers.
Princely! :D
Thanks for the content. I bought and am super pleased with the sire t7 I have. After proper setup it plays just as good as 1400 fenders. That fng humbucker t style is tempting. Thanks again.
A Prince inspired jam. All is good
I love my FGN guitars. I have 3, four if I add my Ibanez RGT3020. They play great. I’m waiting to put my hands in another one 😅
Thanks. Hope you can get your hands on their standard series and tell us what you think of it.
The G in Fujigen is pronunced like in gold, not like in Germany. Fujigen Gakki means Fuji (the mountain) + Gen (string) then Gakki (Instruments). I love that company
Thank you for your honest words 🙏
Hope all is well John! 🎉
Basswood Can work, but pickups are important there, funnily ceramic pickups works well with basswood. I had a Squier DeLuxe hotrails Strat with Kent Armstrong cool rails, that combo really worked (with a parallel switching option for each pickup).
I think you really need to play the FGNs - the ones I e tried have their own feel about them - thinner neck - shapes - just a different feel to what you expect - not bad just different. It’s not a guitar to buy online - you need to play. That said - these come from the same factory as American Prestige guitars.
I have 2 fgn guitars and they're keeper's.
Argh, it’s driving me crazy. That was an early Prince song that opened, right? I can check it, but I am almost sure of it.
Yeah, “I Wanna Be Your Lover.”
Yap that’s my next guitar. FGN
What is the weight difference? I like em light
I still think the Ibanez AZES' are the bang for the buck. The pickups don't need swapping, roller string trees are like $10 a pair, the nut is pretty well cut as is on mine but having it touched up isn't expensive. The fret work is especially good for the pricepoint. The bridge isn't the best but is totally usable with a good set of tuners and the nut-work mentioned. And best of all unlike every Mexican fender Ive ever played, not the slightest bit of fret sprout even after 2 years of seasonal changes. I picked one up barely used for $250. $75 for locking tuners, and then maybe $200 for a full setup, nut file, and fret level/crown and at barely over $500 you have a perfectly functioning 25" (the perfect) scale length utilitarian beast that won't break your bank or your back.
Is that FGN the Burgundy Mist colour?
FGN guitars look good, but I have a concern with the circular fret system (or whatever it's called). The frets themselves are curved in two dimensions; firstly for the neck radius, and secondly to account for the tuning. My question is; what happens when it's time to re-fret? Will normal fret wire fit in the fret slots? And if regular fret wire dies fit, will my local guitar tech be able to re-fret it without botching the job completely? I don't know...
A friend of mine is sponsored by FGN. He’s had his guitars refretted a couple of times and his luthier uses normal fret wire. It’s perfectly possible. But they can’t go through a PLEK machine due to the curved frets. However, after owning both types of frets I have to admit the circle fret thing does sound very crisp and clean. You can’t feel the difference playing it but you can hear it.
That fgn sounds real good ...the pick ups are real crisp ... not keen on the headstock though...
It's a deal breaker unfortunately ahahs...
I’m the total opposite, I really like the FGN headstock shape and I think the Sire headstock is horrible!! 😂
I 'm not too keen on the sire either ahaha
Oh not keen on ibanez nor suhr ahahaj
@@giovannibonapace4250 what headstock shapes do you like?
I love fender, both basses n guitars .. prs ... gibson...ibanez basses only ahaha
It's fujigen, not fujijen. It's a hard g. It's like saking saki instead of sake. And yes, they're f'in great guitars!
Can i have full name of both guitar please ?
You think?
I thought the Sire sounded a bit 'flat' compared to the FGN.
hi :) do you have any experience with Fame instruments (forum iv modern) ? like euro-made prs copies
Right away in your introduction I noticed that for a Tele style guitar the pickups ( or what sounded like the overall sound) was quite dull in the Sire: when you switched to the FGN, the sound brightend immediately... which was odd because they both had the "rosewood" fretboard. If the sire used a chesper bit of wood that could be the reason for dullness, but it would be interesting to hear a maple fretboarded T style from Sire to see if the pickups sound different( then again probably not).
Is that the #t21 model?
None of them compare to China’s Shijie . Their classic series are USA Fender quality at the same price as a mex whilst the pro series are more specified out like a Suhr classic model . By the way just found you channel John you a hell of a player . Subscribed
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The Sire sounds more bright, this is more the telly style.
Do you know if the FGN own-brand pickups are ceramic or AlNiCo?
They used to do seymour duncan pickups on the odyssey models and iliad models. Not sure what they do now. Probably their own pickups.
I think that they do both ceramic and alinco on different models.
Neither one are available at the local stores around me, I would have to order either one... From my speakers I prefer the sound of the Sire. Some of the top end is lost for me on the FGN. Also, in my area the Sire is substantially less than the FGN.
Fuji GEN, not Fuji Jen
I do have a Sire T7, Which is Very Good However Can i Suggest You Check out The Jet JT350.. Which Has a Neck To Die For.. Which is a Roasted Canadian Maple , With Rolled Edge's. and Plays Like a Dream, I won't mention The Price. But You Will be surprised.
FGN is vastly superior to anything Sire do.
even the higher end sire stuff?
I prefer sire over this
anything is better than my Sire.. what a pile of crap