Epiphone Firebird VII

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firebirdThe Epiphone Firebird VII Electric Guitar was originally produced in the 1960’s. It underwent a reissue when Epiphone recently re-released the guitar.

The Firebird features a long stylized 3 piece body accompanied by a 24 ¾ inch scale set neck with 22 medium frets on a rosewood fingerboard. The guitar has gold plated hardware, three mini-humbuckers, a tune-a-matic bridge with a vibrola (Bigsby style) tailpiece. There is a volume control for each pickup coupled with a master tone control and the usual 3-way toggle switch and angled headstock.

The Epiphone Firebird has seven possible pickup combinations, there is a volume control for each pickup with the neck and bridge pickups being connected to the toggle switch. The middle pickup can be mixed in or out with its own volume control. This enables the guitar to have lots of versatility from punchy piano like highs to rich lows. As often with Epiphone guitars – the mini humbuckers, to the purist, may need upgrading at some stage – but for the average player will do the job fine.

It could be argued that Epiphone Firebirds are demanding guitars, the Vibrola tremelo can have tuning issues, the nut and slots in the bridge have to be very well machined and lubricated to mitigate tuning problems and the guitar needs to be set-up carefully. As usual with Bigsby style units the Vibrola works best with heavy gauge strings.

The Firebird looks great, has a broad range of tonal options, and whilst not the most comfortable guitar (it’s fairly heavy) it’s enjoyable to play.

For more information on the Epiphone Firebird – visit the Epiphone guitar website

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  1. teleholic on October 13th, 2009 9:36 pm

    Er, the Gibson Vibrola tremolo is completely different to a Bigsby tremolo - it has no spring, but uses a curved piece of steel to provide the tension, whereas the Bigsby has a short spring, which drops out if you tremolo up. Gotta say the Vibrola on my 65 SG Jnr stays well in tune - maybe it’s the moulded bridge as opposed to a tune-o-matic - but yeah, the Bigsby on the old Guild semi does get a bit moody…

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