I got the lefty and I pulled out the pick up the change covers and they had wires glued on that came off. Had to take it to guitar Tech but now it works even better.
I do not cover nor mask a guitars sound at all. I have that exact guitar. Pickups are microphonic garbage. Use the chassis, swap out the electronics and tuning system and they are as good as an 800 guitar on the market.
A guy in my 60's band had a 335. I recently bought a Firefly 338. I like the Firefly better than the Gibson. Just my opinion. Shalom/gw. PS Guitars like the Fireflys are teaching us that we've been paying too much for decades.
Nice guitar review. I’ve been looking at one of these from Thomann and they look very nice and I’ve seen several reviews of it . They were all positive. Good video. 👍👍
I've had mine (in "Flip Flop Blue") only for a week now, but I'm genuinely impressed what a price tag that low can offer. The only thing that required actual work on the setup was intonation. At the 24th fret some strings played a whole semitone sharp out of the box, but that's nothing an hour of fiddling with a screwdriver and a tuner wouldn't fix. One thing this guitar offers is a slightly wider (37 mm "from E to e") string spacing than the DIY kit "Stratocrapster" (34.5 mm) I played before this, so it's a better fit for my thick fingers. There's also been slight tuning drift going on, but that may be just the stock strings lacking an extra turn around the tuner posts. Some of the strings started showing signs of slipping after just a few days! I've seen many say to just replace the strings on a new Harley Benton guitar right away. I'm just going to suffer with them for now to get a firmer opinion about them before they get replaced with D'Addario EXL110 set. In the case of the guitar I got the tone control also feels like the capacitor has been hand-picked to resonate with the pickup coils in dual humbucker configuration (switch in the middle position), ie. the tone control initially works as a plain low-pass filter as usual but at the end it makes a mildly resonant circuit with the pickups. It's not clearly evident in clean tones, but driving the amp to distortion shows off the extra "dirt" the tone control can offer when turned fully counter-clockwise.
Wanted to mention based on something you said in your Firefly video: Tube amps are INFERIOR to good solid state amps for many obvious reasons. Or at least they are obvious to anyone with a proper education. But reliability is number one. Sound quality is number two. You go ahead and continue pretending this is still 1988. It's not, and tube amps are as obsolete as vinyl turntables and 8 bit computers. Only losers with too much time on their hands mess with any of them.
Tube amps still continue to command much higher prices because they produce a much warmer tone than solid state. It's the amplifier used by professional performers.
