Firefly FFST Heavy Relic Electric Guitar Deep Dive Review

In this video I take a close look at my new Firefly FFST heavy relic'd electric guitar. I bought this, my second Firefly, after purchasing another one a week earlier. I expected to be very disappointed but the opposite happened, I felt like I been missing out on an amazing modifications platform. This is the first in a 2 part series on this guitar. Please check out the next video where I walk through all the modifications I have planned for the instrument. Please subscribe, comment, and like the video as it helps me to know I am making the content you want to see.

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Note on Affiliation: I have no affiliation with Firefly Guitars and purchased the guitar with my own money as an experiment and was pleasantly surprised. I give my opinions on it and I do plan on purchasing more of these guitars as a result since I love to tinker with them.

Note to Novice Guitarists: If you are a beginner, this is a great guitar IMO IF you take it to be professionally setup. You would want to do that with any new guitar. There are some issues I noticed (and expected) which I will easily fix in the process of making this my custom instrument.

Note on the Wood Used: In the video I refer to the wood as "swamp ash" because I love to say "swamp ash". However, the vendor calls it "Ash Wood" which to me is the same thing, although I am not a wood expert. However, I do know ash wood is an incredible tone wood, my personal favorite for the way it vibrates so much.

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Chapters

0:00 - Introduction
1:14 - Relic'd Guitars, My Thought Process
1:48 - Bitten by the Firefly Bug, One Thing Leads to Another
2:53 - Close Look at the Finish
4:32 - How Much Was It? Good Modification Platforms
5:32 - Strap Buttons and Solid Connection Points in General
6:24 - Very Resonant Woods Used
7:40 - The Jack Situation
8:44 - The Vintage Style Bridge
9:58 - Nice Alignment Across the Instrument
12:10 - The Pick Guard
12:34 - Knobs and Switches Feel Good
14:10 - Clean Routing and No Commitment to Relic'd Thing
14:48 - The HSS Pickups
16:52 - Spoke Wheel Truss Rod Adjuster and Guitar Setup Thoughts
18:42 - The Rosewood Fret Board and Stainless Steel Frets
19:30 - Checking the Fret Levelling With the Fret Rocker
23:12 - The Headstock
23:42 - The String Trees Situation
24:50 - Wrapped Posts on the Locking Tuners Out of the Box
25:25 - Close Look at the Back Finish and Body Construction
26:40 - The Cut Away Heel
27:23 - Cheap "Stickers" on Guitars
27:46 - Close Look at the Neck
28:18 - Tuners and Vintage Size Holes
30:58 - The Bone Nut
32:04 - Looking Under the Pickguard
33:43 - Wrestling With the Pickguard
34:25 - Tremolo Claw Screws in the Front Cavity
35:10 - Pots, Wire, and Soldering
40:05 - A Quick Rotary Tool Modification to the Pickguard
41:18 - Looking Under the Tremolo Plate at the Claw, Block, and Grounding
43:09 - Measuring the Fretboard Radius
44:24 - Final Thoughts

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