This might be the best looking guitar I have ever seen

LastMantra

Lovely finish. 

PhilW1

Looks like a 70s sideboard.

Fuengi

PhilW1 said:

Looks like a 70s sideboard.

Exactly!

Sarge

Those who like this clearly still love their 70's furniture.
Hideous beast. 

sgosden

My nan would love that 

TonyR

Seriously???!

Fuengi

Sarge said:

Those who like this clearly still love their 70's furniture.
Hideous beast. 

This is my coffee table 

Nikc

er yuk

Jonathanthomas83

ICBM said:

Fuengi said:

The one I have played looked far better than it played. 

As will that one, because you can see in the pic that the neck angle is too steep so the bridge is about half a mile up in the air.

Given that it's a through neck, that can't be accidental due to a badly-fitted neck joint either, it must be designed in. Hence, they will all be like that...

Do we know why they decided to "design" it in? Bonkers. I've not looked at Gibson's the same since you told me about that. Fortunately, the newer Les Paul's I've seen don't tend to have that "design" (issue).

ICBM

Jonathanthomas83 said:

Do we know why they decided to "design" it in? Bonkers. I've not looked at Gibson's the same since you told me about that. Fortunately, the newer Les Paul's I've seen don't tend to have that "design" (issue).

No idea, but I’ve seen a modern Firebird V like it too - so extreme that the pickup rings had spacers under them to get them up to enough height. The bridge was literally half an inch off the body.

Older Firebirds are not like that at all, so someone must have made a deliberate decision to change it. Why, I have no clue - it makes the guitar just feel completely wrong.

maltingsaudio

The guitarist in the first band I ever saw (curved air) used one and that was the only guitar I ever wanted ..... until I played one. Now does nothing for me

breakstuff

phil_b said:

I guess beauty is in the eye of the beer holder

Yep, definitely a ten pinter. 

Fishboy7

Looks like the Clapton one

https://www.gibson.com/Guitar/CUSSK4171/Eric-Clapton-1964-Firebird-I/Vintage-Sunburst


I think they were about £7k and sold pretty quickly 

axisus

I can't see anything to like there personally. Literally everything looks wrong, placement of pickup, bridge, knobs, input jack. Scratchplate unnecessarily long. It's not a shape I like either. Still, it's a nice hunk of somebody's sideboard.

I'm happy for others to like it ...

MattNovak

Lovely guitar, but I'm with @ICBM on the bridge angle issue. I'm building its non-reverse relative (any excuse to post a pic of it):

saltyseadog

Here's Allan Darby playing one.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xflmlPkh4g

bbill335

MattNovak said:

Lovely guitar, but I'm with @ICBM on the bridge angle issue. I'm building its non-reverse relative (any excuse to post a pic of it):

uhhh, dibs on the flip? 

Philly_Q

@WezV built a similar one-pickup Firebird a few years back but I can't find a picture of it.  I'm guessing it didn't have the neck angle issue.

PhilKing

@WezV ;; just built me this one, it's a fanned fret reverse firebird and has mojo pickups:

Blueingreen

Eye of the beholder and all that.  Not a guitar I much like the look of myself.