Why would I get a Firefly Telecaster?
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 15 ก.ย. 2024
- In this video I talk about a new guitar I purchased. These are my own thoughts and opinions. I hope you get something out of it.
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I’ve bought three Firefly guitars in the past 18 months and am happy with all of them. I haven’t played my Fender Strat since.
Man that's beautiful and you got a screaming deal!!! I just got my first FF last year (Madcat tele) and love it. Its every bit as nice as my Squier Classic Vibes. My Squier CV days I thinknare over.
Nice video bud...you covered it very well. I recently bought a Firefly Tele and completely overhauled it. I noticed the same lack of ground wire to the bridge. I haven't noticed any negative consequences of it though. Nice guitar.
I also swapped out the bridge for a Van Dyke Harms stainless steel bridge with compensated saddles. Well built bridge...pricey though...and changed the whole tone of the guitar. Cheers bud
Nice! I actually ended up putting the original bridge back on this one and am thinking of getting compensated saddles to make up for intonation. I honestly like the traditional tele look too. So it’s been cool to have the “modern feeling” one. Enjoy yours! :)
Tell ya what , I’ve got the firefly goldtop w p90s and that thing is such a nice playing and sounding guitar!! The cheap p90s for some reason sound great. I think they’re around 5.7k too
The headstock looks a ton better in your video than their website photos.
That was the biggest thing for me.
Thanks! I definitely like the softer, but modern look to this headstock. Pretty nice!
Try compensated saddles, Gotohs are the best, easy $40 fix. Wilkinsons need the witness point edge burnished and the strings will wander side to side.
Awesome! I will try those!
@@Bruddermane As you discovered not all Tele bridges are created equal. I've found on FF Teles keeping the bridge, swapping saddles for compensated or filing compensation slopes into the grooved saddles there are the first part. Second is replacing the odd brass back plate on the pickup for copper plated steel, check Mojotone. If you're not running complicated switching strap the backplate to the negative lead of the pickup. Strapped backplates ground the bridge plate, running an additional ground lead can create a ground loop.
Put a piece of masking tape over the pole pieces to isolate them from the back plate.
For 4 position selectors w series switching run a separate ground lead to the backplate. In either case the pickup adjuster screws ground the bridge plate.
The plastic bobbin bridge pickups on these are actually pretty good! I've found the neck pickups sound best without the cover. There's a thick gobby layer of silicone between the cover and the pole pieces, and the cover is too tall to install with the best (very slim) distance between them. To ground an uncovered pickup similarly use a steel baseplate for a Strat pickup, Mojotone again, piece of tape over the pole pieces, bathtub silicone, strap the plate to the negative lead or run a separate ground lead for 4 and 5 position selector switching.
Bootstrap sells fantastic handwound Tele pickups for unbelievable prices btw.
Why wouldn't you? I've got two...a 338 and a DCD w/P-90s. Both are way better than the price implies. Nice playing, btw.
Yeah more of a rhetorical question to get click 😅 hahaha but thanks for the compliment
Great review and details. Where would you find that model? I wanted a neck P90 and all the firefly that I see are SS…
It was a limited run, like pretty much all their guitars since they make them in batches, but it might pop up again, which I hope it does because it has been killer!
Going to update us? Curious to know it's final state--
Sounds “scratchy”. Listening on Grado Prestige 125x over ear open headphones…
Are the frets polished or do they scratch against the frets?
AlNiCo pickups or ceramic magnets?
Cheers!
The frets were a tad scratchy till I polished them, then they were buttery smooth. The demo song was made right out of the box. And alnico pickups. Pretty cool guitar.
it's a guitar. Not a very good one, but a guitar