First Act Guitar Review – Trash or Treasure?
I recently found my “garbage” First Act guitar that I’ve had for many years. Is it total trash, or is it something worth owning? Let’s find out!
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00:00 Intro & How I Got My First Act Guitar!
02:30 Guitar Specs & Overview
07:08 Gut Shot – Inside the Control Cavity
07:46 Sound Test – Setup
08:22 Sound Test – Clean
10:53 Sound Test – Overdrive
14:59 Final Thoughts & Recommendation
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Originally posted by UCt8-946USr5mcwyzG3uW2wQ at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aHM6Xow0mmg
Sounds like the people at church need to rethink their relationship with God. Many of those "cheap" guitars sound great. Everyone has to start somewhere and not everyone can afford to start with a Gibson, Fender or any of those big brand guitars. I started with an old harmony guitar. I have some nice ones now and my SG and my Tele are my main go to guitars but I sound just as bad on any other guitar as I do the good ones.
I sort of love the way it looks.
Get a Lola ce340 all mahogany set neck. Great guitar
First Act ME-416.
I have a VW Garage Master.
restore that beauty!!
I own a few first act guitars and I use them in my gigging herd. I love it when I see people who just laughed at first acts that are now asking me if I nodded them. I own 7 and only were molded only because the pups was dying. I love cheap guitars and how they can be worked on to sound great and play like butter.
I would stay far away from first act guitars but today I bought a first act VE 591 and I have to admit it not only looks good but sounds much better then I thought it would. It needs some work but what I thought it was going to be just a looker now I'm excited about getting it dialed in. I had no clue. I like the look of your guitar. Very cool acually.
It looks like my guitar. ME478. Mine is black with skulls and crossbones. My pickups are black. I wish I could play like
You. I am
Just starting out. But after watching that video in its entirety,
I am sure it is a ME478.
DUDE IT SOUNDS AMAZING !!!!!
The radius is 12 inches. That's what she said
I'm leave it just like it is, make it playable and enjoy it. It's a childhood memory
Great video. YouTube inspired me to redo my ME953ā¦. sorry the church folks have you a hard time. You rock.
First Act guitar company started out as serious guitar builders, here is a link
to a YouTube documentary called "The making of First Act guitars" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z56nnVBosL8
They were later bought by a toy company, that's when they turned to trash.
The early ones are defiantly treasures,
I used to wonder who were the people who painted guitars like this….almost speechless. Regardless, I have First Act guitars and imo they are decent guitars made with cheap materials. their tele copy is a decent guitar imo
It's a 222 on nut AL4042
I don't usually pick on kids but man, even as a dumb kid that is a terrible paint job lol. I've done some bad ones too. I wish we could both go give you ger you a hug and try to prevent this from happening lol š
I inherited a ME543, and found a Triple Deuce in the trash! I ā¤ them. ???? rocks!
YES''' He Get's it! A modern Day Danelectro'''' Perfect!
Sounds good my old ears, has a nice "jangle" to it.
I've seen a few first acts at garage sales, and they go for cheap, might have to pick up a couple.
there a nice one in marketplace, a 1959. for 20 bucks. lol
I have a couple of older First Act guitars that are great guitars. One is a hollow body I think called a Delia. The other is kind of Telecaster-ish looking but with a big single coil in the neck and a splitable humbucker in the bridge. I think called a Sheena. Both pretty nice actually.
i have a first act me4017 – i love it
Check out K Butler Guitars. He's the Gibson luthier that FA convinced to run their custom shop. The FA pickups are designed from Kent Armstrong's that they used for their custom shop guitars unless you ordered another specifically.
It looks like an ME4211 that's been repainted from the original pink with white vine design to the wine red. But the pickguard looks like it's from a model 222. Someone doesn't like the way your guitar looks? Screw them. Remember the EVH Frankenstein guitar?
That is an ME434
Hey love the video i love first act guitars theres some that are not built very well and there is alot that are built very very well those pickups are super nice even the electric guitars that are built cheap have the real super nice pickups in them i own about 12 first act electric guitars and 2 first act bass guitars and they all have realy good sounding pickups some were free others were 2.50,5,10,12,15,20, dollars except one bass was 60 bucks there all the consumer ones that people would of got at walmart they all had to be worked on a little to play nice but they are absolute gems i say leave the pickups in your guitar and play it like that
You can restore it.
I remember seeing a band years ago that was sponsored by First Act. Their guitars were of very high quality.
How does it sound good and shitty at the same time?
Great story about the guitar. Years ago I picked one up at walmart too. I think it was like $99. I jumped from that to an Ibenez and then to a PRS SE Bernie Marsden. I still have it in the basement. Just yesterday I was thinking about whatever happened to the company. Found a video about the factory and that they went out of business. Now I want to restore it and upgrade it. Please check out some guitar resoration videos and restore it.I think they are going to be worth something someday.
People can say what they want to about first act but they are some really good guitars
ME 434
I stumbled across your video, and just wanted to give you a shoutout for the Ubuntu Linux sticker. I make animations under Linux, so big ups from me. š
I have an ME 431 . It has the same body as yours but it has the "bottle opener" in line 6 tuner head stock and just a bridge humbucker . I also have an ME 636 . I love First Act guitars .
You could do a Fret Job … actually easy to do… Strip the paint sand it down after tearing it apart. Then repaint it… Are assembly…
Just bought a used like new first act electric with a decent zip up bag for a whopping 12 dollars. For the price of two big macs i will learn to love it!
It looks exactly like the 222 Adam Levine single humbucker model (AL4042) but has 2 Humbuckers and was wine red instead of black, super interesting. š
News flash and possibly educational 1) No longer "First Act" it sold to a toy company in 2016, so actual first act is pre 2016 pretty much no longer exist. Just a toy company well peddling subpar of the original First Act they were not more than a beginner guitars then. Now after 2016 more of a plastic kids guitar needlessly marked up
Your guitar still look cool i don't mind if is ugly or not ????
This could be a fun project guitar. Strip it and refinish it. Fix the frets. Put some better pots and a nice switch in it. Iād watch!