Exploring The *NEW* Firefly FFLX | Explorer Style Guitar | Now On Amazon!

[Music] well hey there folks it's Jimmy Stewart here hoping this is finding you all doing well well in today's video we got another surprise here folks and honestly it is almost the middle of April already and I neglected to wish everyone a very happy International guitar month yes April is international guitar month so hey give yourselves a high five and thank you for stopping into the channel my apologies for waiting till almost halfway through the month to wish everyone a Happy guitar month however whoa what do we got here it's an empty stand and and celebration of IND theal guitar month it's another new guitar day yes folks it's another new guitar day yes indeed folks we have the empty guitar stand here so I'm going to really quick jump to the b roll show you what came in late last evening and what we got to show you here today on new guitar day let's have a look well hey there folks guess what day it is here at the studio yes indeed it is new guitar day yet once again David Leatherman GNA be doing his job thank you so much David oh yes we got us a styrofoam coffin again this one's a little banged up hopefully everything's okay whoa and you can see the Coffin Case came a little banged up hopefully everything is good all right let's get it into the studio and see what we got folks International guitar month in April so I'm glad we were able to uh bring you a few guitars this month let's take a look at this from our good Folks at Firefly guitars now of course folks I want to show you this guy right here yes it's the new Firefly FF LX one of their Explorer style guitars and it's the first explorer style I've had here on the channel and first one I've ever owned so I'm really excited about it and look at this guys oh my wow this in the blueberry burst and they actually have a couple of finishes of this they have a more purplish one as well but this gu has got the purple in it look at this guitar ladies and gentlemen unbelievable and the reason I really wanted to get this out quickly is because unbounce to a lot of folks this is actually available on Amazon that's right these are now on Amazon for how long I'm not sure but they have whole stock of the FFX the fflv which is the Flying V version are also on Amazon and some SG styles are actually on Amazon as well so uh Firefly been really working hard here they've got all these models currently on Amazon for you to grab and again folks check it out free Prime shipping if you're a Prime member and I actually get this guitar in two days I ordered it late Wednesday evening and it came in last night it was unbelievable so again if you're in the market for something like this Firefly has now got these guys on Amazon for how long I don't know okay and I don't know how much stock they got on there but I wanted to get this out and tell you that these are right now available on Amazon The V style the Explorer style and the SG styles are on Amazon right now so we're going to go over this guitar I mean look at this honestly folks you know when you look at the burst colors and even that you know the chameleon colors that are on the guitar's garden it's hard to judge what that finish really looks like it's it's tough in photographs this is beautiful okay it really is nice this is an all mahogany guitar with a maple neck rosewood fretboard and some updates from the older version we now have this recess cut out here where the recess is right here and you have your guitar output right there and of course the way that it's designed is you got your dual volume controls here with the master tone just offset a bit if you look at a standard Explorer you'll know that those are all in line This is offset a bit and I kind of like it like that this has got your standard Stop Bar two pneumatic style Bridge a set of updated ELO 5 humbucking pickups from Firefly in this the uncovered versions and of course your three-way switches down here on the lower bout uh an Explorer Style again I've never had one I wasn't quite sure how it would balance you know if you're playing it on your lap and honestly it feels great it really does feel good this is the 22 fret guitar they've upgraded this with the stainless steel ball and Frets you've got a bone knut up here uh standard tuners the tuners so far again I just took it out of the box and tuned it up and it's holding tune very very well just feels great so we're going to do the up close and personal on this guitar real quick so you can get a really close good look at it and then we'll do some tone checks let's check it out okay folks so here we are with the up close and personal on the new Firefly FF LX this is their Explorer style guitar this in the blueberry burst and honestly folks um I'm hoping the camera can capture this the Finish is just dropped dead gorgeous it just looks incredible kind of like a purple outline and then it goes into a blue burst on the inside as you can see a couple of the design changes from the older model is that we have now a notch here and your output Jack is accessed underneath and instead of having the threein line controls like you usually find on a Explorer you get your double volumes and your master tone offset down here which I think is a really really nice this is a tunatic style Bridge with a Stop Bar you know similar to almost all uh Gibson style guitars uh this sporting a pair of updated elnico 5 humbuckers they are uncovered and they just look and sound hopefully great your three-way switch is up here on the bottom bout and of course this has got a uh binding around it it's done very very well this is a 22 fret standard Gibson scale 24.75 scale 22 fret uh this is a mahogany body with a rosewood fretboard your block markers at balone style going up this has got the upgraded stainless steel ball and Frets they're just beautiful with a bone nut as we get up to the top of the neck here bone nut your headstock looks really really good painted style headstock with the Firefly logo just a really nice job on this folks look at that I'm going to go ahead and spin the guitar around so you can take a look at the back again the back has got almost like a purplish finish just very cool no locking tuners on this standard tuners it's really nice explor style this is my first explorer style guitar that I have owned here so uh I'm excited about it and again the beauty right now is that these are actually on Amazon so you can buy them right from Amazon free shipping if you're a Prime member and get them quickly I got this in actually two days ordered it Wednesday night and it came in Friday night there it is the new FF LX Explorer style from the good Folks at Firebird music and Firefly guitars what a beauty okay well I hope you like the up close and personal on the uh new FFX from Firebird music and Firefly guitars I will go over all the measurements with you as well that I've took uh weighing this was a little difficult now I've got one of those old weight stands and the because of the shape of this guitar it was very hard to get it to balance on that stand so I had to help it a little bit and keep it balanced uh I applied very if any pressure I was just trying to hold it in place so I think that weight is accurate it's right around the 8 lb Mark uh I did a measurement on the nut width of the neck and of course at the 12th fret and again I'll show you those here also uh I know a lot of people have been talking uh about how flat the radiuses has have become on the Firefly guitars especially the lp models and I've measured all of them I haven't found anything that's really crazy flat in fact on this one I did I did try both a 12in radius measurement and a 14 which is what kind of what I thought it was uh but honestly with the 14 I had just a little bit of uh of light coming through there so I think it's actually closer to 12 uh it feels really really good it feels like a modern C uh shaped neck it is not thick and bulky um in fact it's pretty thin think of a uh Gibson 60 slim that's kind of how it feels to me again you get a bound neck rosewood fretboard and binding around the front of the body uh just a really really cool finish so uh let's plug it in and see what we can get for some tone check shall we and as always folks for doing the tone checks I use a Monoprice 15 watt valve amp and the one watt setting I have a separate uh cusan v30 vintage 30 equipped 112 cab sitting over there and uh I run things through a loop and I have my pedal board but I try to keep things as clean as possible doing clean patches and then if we add a little snot later on we'll do that as well but right now we're going to do the tone checks clean and see what kind of tapering we got here on the [Music] woo pickups are pretty [Music] hot now these uh volume and tone are actually marked right now the tone is all the way up I'm going to keep it up this is your tone control here and your both your bridge and neck volume controls right now I have them right around six [Music] little bit of [Music] Reverb [Music] wow these feel like nines um almost every Firefly I've ever had shipped here uh have felt like tens this feels like nines [Music] George are you sending me guitars with nines [Music] now or maybe youve seen enough with my reviews to know hey maybe we should start sending nines I don't [Music] [Music] know this sounds very very good setup is beautiful right out of the box folks I've taken this out of the box and all I've done is tune it so I'm going to go ahead and check the uh I'm going to go ahead and check the setup on this just to see where it's sitting at because it feels nice feels very low oh yeah I'm between 125 and 1 on the base E string and 125 and 150 on the high E string exactly where I like it it feels very very good again Factory strings everything again this is right out of the box [Music] folks and I know one of the first things I tell everybody is you know go ahead and get rid of those Factory strings when you go to set up your guitar let let it acclimate for a couple of days play it um but if you really need to do some dialing in get rid of those Factory strings and go ahead and dial it in uh these feel very good so I'm just probably going to leave it like it is for a [Music] while I'm going to go to the middle here woo got I have them all the way up right now I'm going to back those off again right around [Music] six it's got some chime to it sounds good [Music] [Music] wow pickup's got some really nice ring [Music] n [Music] [Laughter] very nice that was in the middle let's go up to the neck [Music] yeah back to the middle [Music] into the [Music] bridge wow that sounds great I'm I'm I'm not kidding you here folks that really sounds good I'm going to back the V the uh tone off just a little bit in the bridge [Music] [Laughter] [Music] oh [Music] going to add the tone back now [Music] wow [Music] trying to think of all the famous explorer players I you know I remember um uh what's his name Allen from uh the Almond Brothers band played a uh played an Explorer I know in the early days of course the edge you know with YouTube back in the early days as well um I think David Gro played one with food Fighters for a while again back maybe in the early 2000s uh there's been a few guys oh James Hetfield from Metallica again I'm not a metal guy but you know I know James and I know he played I think it was a white Explorer or something but uh yeah I think most people think of these as a metal style guitar these days but I'm a blues guy so uh I'm sure you can do some blues as well you know what I mean let's put a little uh crank on it [Music] [Music] a [Music] [Laughter] [Music] [Music] [Music] h J [Music] [Music] a [Music] [Music] [Music] he [Music] [Music] [Music] he [Applause] [Music] oh [Music] oh [Music] [Applause] [Music] a [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] wow [Music] sounds really [Music] good folks once again these are available on amazon.com check them out I'll put up a couple of links here uh you cannot get these on guitars Garden right now uh these are only on Amazon so check out the FFX the fflv V and the SG style models that are currently on Amazon uh some really cool colors too so check them out this is the blueberry burst I really really like it [Music] [Applause] [Music] okay well there it is folks it's the FFX from the good Folks at Firebird music and Firefly guitars my thanks to George and all the staff at Firefly thank you so very much for sponsoring the video we do appreciate it guys it is international guitar month for the month of April so congratulations to all those guitar players out there and all your efforts throughout all the years until next time folks it's Jimmy Stewart saying so long take care of yourselves please stay safe please stay healthy be kind to each other hey folks if you're new to the channel and you haven't Subs subscribed come on over to the good side would love to have you on board and we'll talk to you all again very very soon happy International guitar month bye-bye for now [Music] oh [Music] [Music] [Music] oh [Music]

Channel: Jimmy Stewart

Views: 2,097

Keywords: Firefly FF-LX Review, Firefly FF-LX Demo, Firefly Guitar Review

Id: Crk0246mFqA

Length: 29min 49sec (1789 seconds)

Published: Sun Apr 14 2024