r/Fireflyguitars

I've been rotating through my guitars so they all get played and nobody feels left out... And when I come back to this one... It's just awesome. The stock pickups are friggin awesome. I play metalcore, thrash, emo, screamo, punk, etc. anything fast and heavy. These pickups are great.

My other ffsp is better fit and finish, slimmer neck, awesome looking, but this one is just... better. This is the one.

Not my first fireflies so I knew the necks would feel great.

Everything is good as usual. Neck needed a little tweak on the truss rod. Now it’s playing amazing. Sounds as country as you can get, & some pretty killer punk tones using a Boss Katana. Super happy with the color. I need the surf green start now to complete the pair.

I'm curious what "rosewood composite" means with this guitar.

I gave her my top 3 from the GG site and included this in the 3. If it had been priced similarly to the other brand’s LPs I wouldn’t have risked it. For what it’s worth, my other 2 picks were the blue Tak M and the Slash LP.

It does not disappoint, looks so much better in person than on their site. Neck is great, fretwork perfect, finish immaculate, intonation spot on and sounds amazing. Only change I’ll be making to it is swapping the strap buttons for Schaller S-locks.

(The bridge pickup is gold, it looks red because of my shirt)

after seeing a ton of relic flamed maple necks and loving the look I attempted to do it to my firefly cause i already know it plays very nice and I don’t wanna pay thousands for a relic so I did the work on the neck and then next thing I knew I got a little carried away…scraping the finger board, checking the entire surface and removing chunks of paint lol… but I’m actually really happy with it and it makes me want to pick it up and play it more. I also de badged it to give it a parts-tele look… and yes I’m aware a poly finish would never ever in a million years would look like this but idc lol it’s my guitar….theres a ton of before and after shots mixed in obviously u can tell which is which

I like to take the acoustics (like the coco) and do some work the befits what I would like to have

Here is a list of what I did (not in order)

1. Rolled fretboard edges

2. Cut new bone nut with lower height profile and mimicked 1 3/4” spacing.

3. refret with nickel frets and I had never had a chance to do one where tangs are exposed and it looks awesome and came out good. The rosewood itself is a bit rough and meh, which is why I did 4.

4. Darkened fretboard and bridge a bit with India black ink. Re sanded lightly to bring back natural color but the shade is more of what I prefer (almost all my keepers are ebony it’s just my preferred)

5. Sanded neck and bridge to smooth as glass. Took bridge down a few thousandths with cabinet scraper and careful sanding

6. De-shined tuners to make it look more like Taylor builders edition tuners. Just a look thing.

7. Re strung with daddario bronze strings which actually was an accident I grabbed the wrong pack and was like “what the heck let’s try them”

Next thing I may do is go under and scallop the bracing bit more which a builder I know has done to edit some of the responsiveness. I may throw in a baggs Hifi if I ever wanna take it out. Anyway. I love Koa and for the price it is, it’s a solid instrument. Ofc it doesn’t measure up to my k24ce builders but at. A fraction of the price and solid wood, can’t go wrong!

I ordered one of these recently and it is supposed to arrive in a few days. before i bought it, i looked and found basically zero info on it. I decided to pull the trigger anyway as I was recently asked to fill in for a band that uses baritones and had wanted one anyway.

as i wait for it to arrive, i keep looking for some reason and still not finding anything. anybody here have one and have any opinions on it? i know offsets and gretschs are all the rage in the baritone world rn so i imagine this one would be less popular, im just surprised i cant find anything on it other than the headstock legal issues a little while back (they have clearly changed the headstock this time around).

My firefly collection.