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This thing is so much lighter than a regular Les Paul, and sounds amazing. Unplugged it's a vocal guitar, and plugged in the pickups sound great, and not just good for stock pups but great in general. Electronics are staying as is unless something breaks or fails. Plays terrific right out of the box, and intonation is spot on. The flame maple is obviously a veneer, but holy smokes does it have depth, and the wide flame makes it look super three dimensional and moves around in the light a ton. This axe feels way better than you'd expect for how cheap it is. The only finish flaw is in the neck/body joint, but you can't see it when you're playing it. Weighing 6.9 pounds for a Les Paul makes the finish flaw easy to overlook, on top of the total price. Its the most 'boomer' guitar i have lol.

This thing is truly a semi hollow, and the owner of Firefly furnished a picture of what the inside looks like during the construction process. My back/shoulders love this guitar.

Sounds great, pretty loud unplugged, the pickups are nicely balanced side-to-side and bridge to neck. Intonation is great, and plays very well OOTB, and it does the neck volume trick quite well. I love the veneer they used for this, it moves around in the light a ton which completely flabbered all of my ghasts. I was expecting to get the normal tight flame maple, so I'm extremely pumped that it's the wide kind; it's got so much depth it looks like wrinkled fabric. I might upgrade the tune-o-matic, tuners and stop-bar in the future, but I'm not doing anything with the electronics unless something breaks.

Snagged the very last one they had in stock, and it's been heavily modified, not much outside of the body/neck/frets is stock anymore. Modifications are as follows:

Guyker titanium roller bridge and stop-bar. EMG 'Het set' in brushed black chrome. 32mm oversized aluminum volume knob. '24 Volt Mod' solderless toggle switch. Cream humbucker rings. Black strap buttons, and most screws. Black Guyker locking tuners.

All it needs now is a setup done, but it should be pretty easy as I got everything pretty close to where it needs to be. Unfortunately, I had to reuse some of the stock screws, some of the black replacement screws were too thick or long; I didn't want to cause any cracks from getting overzealous with murdering out the hardware.

Already have an EMG alnico T-set going in, with an EMG Pi2 pot in the volume, and an EMG SPC pot for the tone.

14lb Mystery Box from Bowlingworld

With the exception of the Phorcydes PH-4B, the rest of these were purchased on Amazon. Starting from left to right:

Type B Flieger by Boyarca w/NH35

Heimdallr SKX007 homage w/NH36

Version 2 of the PH-4B w/ST2130

Heimdallr Titanium SKX homage w/NH35

The PH-4B got here a day earlier than the stated delivery date, otherwise this wouldn't have been a 4 watch day. Only wound the PH-4B, slow as heck, 3 winds and the winds needed to screw the crown in after setting the time, then gently rocked the watch back and forth while I watched an episode of The Boys.

The bezel on the Titanium SKX is not nearly as nice as the steel version, but it is serviceable. The bezel on the PH-4B feels coarse, but it really makes it feel very sturdy and every adjustment of it feels intentional; I honestly prefer the feel of this over many of my other watches.

14lb and ready to throw.