Epiphone Explorer vs Flying V 2020 Part 1 - Which Shape Is Best?
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Epiphone are celebrating the iconic '58 Explorer and Flying V in 2020 with their all new Inspired By Gibson Collection! Which is your favourite? Let me know what you think!
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My 2020 Epi Explorer will be at my door tomorrow morning. Yes!!!
What was your impression?
I've had my Explorer for 2 months now. I have fallen in love with it. It's got a nice chunky 50s profile. The fretboard looks great. Nice and dark and plays and sounds great. Very well worth the price. The pickups are awesome. I love the gloss black finish. Epiphone is kicking ass!
@@roosterj2599 Damn thanks for the follow up comment
You are most welcome. Those were all the answers I was looking and I just decided to bite the bullet and buy one. Damn glad I did.
I have both these guitars sitting side by side and I go to pick up the explorer and end up with the v in my hands 90% of the time I need to give the explorer more time I do like it but it's hard when the v draws you like a magnet I will just add that the finish and feel playability and sound of both are excellent frets spot on tuners work great demo Oli
Im the exact opposite. I will grab my V, but I always end up goin to the Explorer.
Explorer vs flying v? More like hetfield's guitar vs mustaine's guitar
Mustaine played a b.c. rich Bich in the days they played together. Those are even better than anything Gibson can throw out there, they look cooler too.
@@zzzhuh Albert Lee and Jimi Hendrix played the blues on V's, others too.
As of November 2020, I’ve got six electric guitars, five of which are solid body. As much as I absolutely, desperately *DO NOT* need another solid-body electric guitar - the V is wailing at me!
Just Based off of iconic players who played each shape guitar. What would be your choice? I gotta go with both lol
I like the explorer and all the players who used one ! Neil young used one of these too, the tweed amp sound reminded me of when Neil young played the explorer and V into tweeds !
As I’ve said before, the VA is the one which is tempting me as of November 2020. It wouldn’t be strictly because of heroes (the only classic players I can name other than Albert King are Jimi Hendrix and Dave Davies). The only artist who’s guitar playing I’ve zeroed in on that plays one is Tom Dumont of No Doubt.
Where I grew up in the Hudson Valley section of Upstate New York, one local legend I know of who played the V was Bill Perry. The last time I saw him before we lost him was in June 2000, when he played with his own band and then accompanied Richie Havens at a local festival. Remember correctly, his V was the one he played slide on.
When I purchased my Explorer, it was largely because of Tommy Shaw. During the last two records made by the classic lineup of Styx in the 80s, Tommy was playing 76 Explorer with a couple of custom mods.
@@OliRoyer james hetfield😂
I am a bassist since 86, but recently I started to trying to learn guitar too. At the present I use an Eko Les Paul copy that belongs to my brother, but if I ever will I make it to learn... Then I will buy an electric guitar for myself and there is not the slightest doubt that it will be a Flying V! It's, in my opinion, the most iconic shape for Hard Rock/Heavy Metal, and I always liked it since I was a teen (... when dinosaurs 🦕still walked the earth 😆! ): I mean, Michael Schenker/Rudolf Schenker! KK Downing! Wolf Hoffman (and the other guitarists of Accept too), Hetfield & Hammet! Michael Denner & Hank Shermann! Andy Powell! Jerry Fogle! Lips! ...and these are just a few names... How can a guitar shape could be more iconic, for Hard Rock/Heavy Metal ? 😄 It's like, for basses, the Rickenbacker 4001 (my weapon of choice since 88) 😄! Greetings from Italy!
Great video, Oli! I'm thinking about getting a V--would you recommend buying this guitar? How does it stack up to a Gibson? Also, how did the Epi Firebird feel (quality-wise) to your Gibson Firebird?
Get the Epiphone version in Korina wood, probably a better guitar and 1/3 the cost of Gibson production version. The mahogany versions are cool too, but korina is what Gibson used back in 1958/9, because mahogany made them too heavy. My new korina V and explorer weigh 6 pounds 9 ounces for the Flying V, and 6 pounds 10 ounces for the Explorer, they are both VERY resonant. I can't stop playing them. Every "inspired by Gibson" epiphone guitar I have are excellent instruments, possibly better than Gibson USA models from what I've seen and read. I never had the "pointy" Gibson models until this year, now I have Epiphone version of the Gibson guitars designed to keep-up with Fender's innovation with the Stratocaster, later Jazzmaster and Jaguar...or did Gibson inspire Fender to design those? Competition is healthy, Rockerfeller said it was a "sin", and now look at what's happened to the world!? ANYways, I now own an SG Custom, Korina Explorer, and Korina Flying V... I need a Firebird to complete the group, or should the Firebird be separate since it isn't "pointy"?
Dude, haven’t seen your content in years 😬😅 good to see you showing up in my feed again 🤘
I want the epiphone 1984 in white can’t find them in a reasonable price I think I’m going to get the black explorer and throw a Duncan distortion and 59 for the neck oooh boy
Explorer, hands down. Just a personal preference, but the explorer has always spoke to me. The V is cool, I just don't feel drawn by them at all.
I couldn't decide so I got a dean ml
Mine have seymour Duncans(SH-6) installed on it. In love with mine :D
I ordered a the explorer and it was absolutely terrible out of the box. Action was to high, the frets buzzed, the pickups are low output AF, the bridge should have been a graftec or tonepros bridge for 650 dollars. The bridge posts and the inserts are super wiggly. The electronics, turners, nut are great. The graphite nut really was a good choice. I changed the pick ups, set up the action and adjust the truss rod and it a pretty pro guitar. If I could go back I would save a little more and got a Gibson Les Paul tribute.
I see you have a Gibson Firebird, so you must like that model more? I want a Firebird too, but have Firebird pickups in humbucking housings to use. I think Firebird pickups would be more popular if they weren't used in a rather unpopular guitar, although more popular than Explorer or Flying V. It's 2 years later now 2022, and I just bought new Epiphone Flying V and Explorer guitars, natural antique finish on African Korina/Limba wood, and gold hardware. Gibson went to Korina wood on these models, because using mahogany was making them too heavy. These guitars are flawless, and dead nuts copies of the Gibson 1958 models, including the narrower frets Gibson used until 1959. The bodies several pieces of wood glued together (as we expect from Epi at this price), but the neck is mainly one piece, a scarf-joint at the headstock and heel cap. The fretboard is pau ferro instead of rosewood, but looks good and plays great - I prefer pau ferro to the other rosewood substitutes. The Flying V weighs 6 pounds 9 ounces, and the Explorer - which is bigger than the V, is 6 lbs. 10 oz., only one ounce more! Besides being light weight, they are very resonant, and the new Epiphone classic pickups sound much better, not as overwound as in the past, more clarity. You have "pro-buckers" in those black mahogany models, which are made differently I think, but likely not too much different. I have a 2011 Wilshire Pro (killer guitar, '59 neck!) that sounds great, but these newer AlNiCo V "classic" models sound a little better to my ear. The hardware all works great, the Explorer has Grover mini-tuners and an almost straight string pull, so it stays in tune, the Flying V does too - I just lubricate the nut slots, especially the angled slots on the 3rd and 4th strings. I love playing both of them, the Explorer is more comfortable and better balanced, but the V gets most of my time, maybe because I'm and Albert King fan? The Firebird pickups in humbucker mounts will likely go in the Explorer to use for slide playing, because it has a more solid sound and clarity because of all that wood. For $599USD shipped off Reverb (Zzounds special run), I couldn't resist. I never thought I'd ever own either of these two iconic guitars, but now I do, and you should too?!
I have both shapes. Explorer for more comfort, V for more sex appeal!
*EXPLORER FOR THE WIN*
BORING
I like the Explorer better. They're like having a table for your arm to rest on..
Got this V yesterday
is it good or bad? I'm deciding between the Korina explorer and the Korina flying v.
@@pitdroid9105 it’s amazing! Haha
used it on an orange amp and it came crunchy like I expected to \m/
The prices on that site are double what you can find everywhere
@@OliRoyer hm yes possible.
However it costs less at thomann (590 eur vs 725 eur (1159 aud))
Which to get, one of these or the Gibson b-2?
Whats the amp you play?
V
tune it
I could support the idea of buying either one of these, but both..? As a set?? Nah!! I would *MUUUUCH* rather buy one Gibson of either model than both of Epiphone.
Hey, but we're all different. Perhaps you fancy quantity over quality....🤨
You’re ASSUMING the Gibson will be better. Not very wise. ....unless you’re taking about an older Gibson. I’ve owned 3 Gibson Explorers over the years...an ‘83, a ‘96, and a 2005 model. Mid ‘90s and earlier were fine guitars. 2000s up are spotty at best. I currently own various Gibsons, and 3 2020 Epiphones....two Vs, and a Les Paul Custom. I’m here to tell ya, BUY THE EPIPHONES. Seriously.
.....unless you’re considering ponying up for a Gibson Custom Shop instrument. THEN we’re having a completely different conversation. Ask me about my ‘03 R8 Figured Top Les Paul, my ‘01 Les Paul Custom Black Beauty, or my ‘07 Les Paul Jr R8. ....those guitars are in a different league than production guitars.