Firefly FFMN EVH Multiple Guitar Quality Control Comparison 

Thanks for this review 👍.

Awesome review. I learned some things 👍

I had an OLP tabacco sunbust finish with a clone floyd rose...that thing played and sounded Amazing I think it cost about $400 back in 2007...totally regret selling it.

$159 to $249 price range for a Firefly with nice woods, beautiful finishes...even if you do some mods or have to have a tech set it up it's a no brainer. Also a great price range for someone wanting to learn how to set up or mod their own guitars. I've bought several Fireflys and most haven't really needed anything done.

A 1000 grit Sanding block will reveal the true slickness of those gritty frets in one pass. It did on my Firefly

Ive seen reviews of expensive Gibson's and fenders with some of the same issues as the budget brands. Just because it cost a lot of money doesn't mean your going to get a perfect guitar

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Great review! For the price, it would be totally worth it for me to replace the electronics, pickups and even put a real Gotoh 1996 on there. As with Chibsons, they put 90% of the effort in the aesthetics. I mod most every guitar I own anyway so this would be no exception.

Thankd for the review! I just got mine. The Locking Tuners are messed up though (locking mechanism crossthreaded), so I'm going to replace them. Question though? Are there special ones for the Music Man (aside from 4/2)? Because they look like standard Les Paul style tuners. Do you know if I can I just buy the standard 3L/3R package (plus 1)? Also, which side is Left and which is Right (which one is the 4 side/2 side), so I know which one (L or R) to get an extra one of, please? Thank you for your help! 🙂

Got a 338 about a week ago. When I got it there were no issues with fret buzz. Now I am having an issue with the B and G string at the 14th fret. Not sure what is going on there, think it may be a relief issue because the frets seem to be level all the way down. If anyone out there has any insight that would be appreciated

I bought six of those before the EVH brand. The thickness of the black stripes is incorrect and grabs my eyes on the ones you have in the ones I purchased made it really hard to resell and that’s why I bought them.

can't find it on the website. is it for sale yet?

Hammer home the fact that buyers need to set these up out of the box before deciding they're "defective." The first 2 numbers of the serial number are the factory where the guitar was built. Factory 60 produces relatively solid instruments. Folks should get rid of all that factory lead free solder when reworking the electrics, solder sucker and braid, clean it all out.

So YOU are the one who bought out all of Firefly’s stock of this model on their last run! (Just kidding!) 😂 Wonderful review!!!! Your observations on this model AND the IYV IPF-300 seem about in line with what I’ve seen on my IYV IPF-300 and my Firefly FFTL, too. In short: I’d say Firefly is possibly a bit better than IYV in terms of overall fit and finish on the woodwork, but both Firefly and IYV have middling to poor quality electronics and solder work. I absolutely love my Firefly FFTL overall, but the soldering work really does look poor. It works well enough for home practice though, so I’m not planning to upgrade it unless I start gigging with it. The pots and electronic components do seem decent enough, but the solder joints in particular seem VERY sloppy and amateurish, to put it kindly. It’s almost as if they had people with little or no proper training, plus I almost wonder if maybe they used RoHS-compliant solder, but didn’t use a higher temperature soldering iron, which RoHS compliant solder often requires. I absolutely agree with you about those roasted flame maple necks though-they are absolutely AMAZING looking! I am almost tempted to pick one up just for that alone!

My buddy has 3different and the neck s are amazing

Do you think a string retainer bar would work better than the string trees?

It's a shame we can't get them here in the UK. I'd love one of these to compare against my USA Peavey Wolfgang.

As someone who use weird old trems like bigsbys burns and jazzmaster(which stays in tune forever) i am bemused at idea of advanced modern locking trem that almost returns to tune

So what replacement Floyd will fit with this guitar?

I just got one, a strat style. The ground wire wasn’t soldered at all. Easy fix, but terrible quality control. Not to bad for a beater to throw around

It's a silk screened design, the reason it's not exactly the same is because the screen print will stretch and mis-shape over time. There's like four or five screens that they use to get that entire graphic and they won't be placed in exactly the same position every time, which kind of makes it look handmade but it's not, believe me. It would be extremely tedious and labor-intensive to mask that off exactly the same or as close to exact as they are. They're screen printed. Fooled you though didn't it?

They look great…but who makes a VH guitar with a floating Floyd?! I woulda bought one if they hadnt blown that detail.

Can't find 'em anywhere 🤷

People like you kill me buy two of the same guitar so nobody else gets any lmao😂

Well...needs a neck reshaping, refret, new wiring harness and pickups, new trem system....what a piece if crap....looks good though

Eddies Van Halen blocked his trem so there’s that

the more you put this out! The more the price jumps up! They were about 200 something ,but now they have doubled! So, STOP IT!

How is it even legal that they’re selling a pirated brand knockoff?

HIARIOIUS! EVH butchered up his OG Frank like he was on drugs, and now quality control is a worry?

Too bad Firefly has been out of these for quite some time

Honestly, they look cool, but I can’t bring myself to buy a Chinese knock-off of an American brand guitar. They’re constantly stealing our IP and technology and buying their junk just encourages them to rip us off.

Junk

You’re delusional, you expect a firefly to be perfect?

Damn... everything is garbage with this guitar

they look cheap and awful. definitely not hand made. it's so obvious

So how does that USA Crate 15 treating you???