JB Firebird

2016 Epiphone Joe Bonamassa Limited Edition Firebird 1 "Treasure", serial. 1701200377
When this came out I heard lots of stories about the electronics not working properly so it put me off for a while but I finally pulled the plug on one and its a very cool guitar. For someone who is into vintage over new guitars, its nice to have a new firebird 1 endorsed by a vintage guitar geek. For a single pickup guitar you can get more sounds out of it than say a Junior, when you roll back the tone you can get a nice mellow humbucker sound but if you want to crank it and rip some crunchy blues its more than happy there.
The banjo tuners make this guitar a lot cooler to look at but they make it extremely top heavy so its very unbalanced to hold.
In the end its essentially a Firebird 1 for a tenth of the price.
Yes I put a Gibson truss rod cover on it for my own viewing pleasure but the epiphone one is in its case.
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