Monday, January 27, 2025
ElectricGuitar

Firefly’s COOLEST Guitar Yet? Brutally Honest 1 Take Review


Triple humbuckers, stainless steel rounded ball end frets, locking tuners, bone nut, and a beautiful silver blue sparkle finish!? All for $200? Firefly Guitars knocks it out of the park again! This has an amazing, beefy tone and might be one of their coolest guitars they’ve ever made! In this brutally honest, 1 take, unedited review, we’re going to unbox this and test it, take measurements, and here on the Guitar MAX channel, check it out!

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Rubric: -5 points for Danzig references. -5 points for not reading the description. -5 points for not watching far enough into the video to answer your own question. -5 points for misquoting me in your comment. 20 points possible. Everyone starts with an A!

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Originally posted by UCN–LUAhUtNekrhRIC24J_A at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xpecZhX5jZ4

41 thoughts on “Firefly’s COOLEST Guitar Yet? Brutally Honest 1 Take Review

  • Your playing is over the top , your channel is the goat and man , did you ever thought of doing radio or voice over for animation or cinema. You have a really good deep bass voice . My dad pass near me and said this guy has it all , good looking , play like a beast and a voice to wake up Snow White ????????????????. Crack me up

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  • You probably shouldn't ship a guitar in tune because of the tension and possible humidity conditions.

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  • Hahahaha 1:39 '' Someone honking in the back ground, See that's the kind of stuff that i would normally edit out but I'm not gonna do it. Now.." (hot unplugged guitar cord goes ape shit and feeds back like alien transmissions on independence day) "HEY calm down hold on i gotta mute this thing" Im dying you cant make this stuff up! No edits are the best! Bluepers are my favorite

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  • i was doing the comment thing about trying the guitars on a clean setting right when you went to a clean setting, so your rite…ill watch the whole video first…lol

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  • What a BEAUTIFUL, THICK Tone. I would have loved to hear more clean jazz from it, but your rock orientation is fine.
    It seems like a split-single-coil pickup switch might be VERY interesting, even if only on the middle pickup (or all of them). I can't help but wonder…
    This just seems to be MADE for MODS! Thanks for showing – and plating – this great instrument.
    I may also pick the Boss IR-2 as well, as it seems to be really flexible, and I love hands-on control, without diving into menu levels so deep you forget what you were looking for.

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  • Hi Max! Starting to really like the videos, especially the non editing ones. Looking in the background I have a question. What's your call sign? ????️????️

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  • Thorough and fun review as always. You take all the shame out of budget guitars. We didn't have these options in the 90's.

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  • Hey max was wondering if you check intonation on these guitars i may have missed that part while I was working. Thanks

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  • I appreciate your videos. I have made a purchase based on them and learned some sweep picking arpeggios that i applied to songwriting. still not fast at sweeps but i learned how to do it and improved my playing from your videos and some lessons

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  • So, I purchased a Fire Fly FFLPS Elite in emerald with a quilted top three years ago. It had major issues. The post holes for the bridge and tail piece were drilled over sized. Causing both to be loose. The saddles for the bridge were cut wrong and way too deep. The nut was nut wrong and the string spacing for the D&G string were not spaced evenly. The D&G string were too close to each other. The tuners would slip and the neck had a back bow. The guitar guitar would not hold tune. The back bow was so bad that I had to crank the truss rod in the counter clockwise direction way past the zero slack point to bring the neck straight. So thankful it had a double action truss rod in it. There were dead spots along the fretboard as well. The woods were not as advertised. The neck and body is all maple. The guitar is heavy. I was able to fix all the issues but I would not purchase one ever again. I replaced the nut, tuners, bridge and tail piece and all the electronics. I doweled the post holes and drilled to the proper size. I did a level and crown on the frets too. The guitar is ok for what it is. After a proper set up, it stays in tune now and plays and sounds great after all the repairs. The guitar looks beautiful with the emerald quilted top too. I didn't even talk about the finish issues which I was able to fix as well. I recommend not purchasing if you do not know how to fix the issues yourself. It would not be worth paying someone to fix a guitar that cost you anywhere from $189 to $240. You are better off purchasing an Epiphone Les Paul, Michael Kelly Patriot, Vintage V100 or any ESP/LTD Eclipse models. Hell, I purchased a Les Paul husk from Guitar Fetish for $150 and it is one hell of a guitar. I got all the hardware from their site as well to build it. The only major thing I had to do to the neck was set the string height at the first fret and polish the frets. I put Dimarzio's in that bad boy!

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  • I've been buying lots of guitars before Trump becomes president. You might want to do a show with one . I've got a one of one custom v neckthrough v 7 made out of elm wood . It was handmade a year ago. It's beautiful

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  • Max, when you said mirror pickguard it made me think that Firefly needs to make a John Sykes looking Les Paul. Hopefully that will eventually happen.

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  • Considering it's not a Gibson, the Firefly is an amazing replica of the Ace Frehley model, right down to the Mirror covers for the volume and tone pots cavity, and for the toggle switch. You were mentioning the construction of the neck. That's a set neck versus a neck thru body construction. Great review and killer playing as always. I wish you and your family a happy Thanksgiving, brother!

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  • Hey bud,
    Can you do a review on the Firefly Buckethead white les Paul type guitar,
    $240
    Would love to know your opinion,
    ????????

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