Firebird GAS, how's the Epi version?

[Johnny the Kid]

Re: Firebird GAS, how's the Epi version?

I'm a big fan of Epiphones personally, but a lot of people feel the need to replace every single piece of hardware and electronics on it to make them play and "sound" better. The bodies are usually mahogany on the middle and upper lines, probably not some exotic species of mahogany found on Gibsons though.

In my experience, pickups and bridge are probably the only things you'll "have" to change because they are subpar (you may find that the bridge is more than suitable, I did). As for the pots and all that other crap, they are fine. They have full sized pots and the switches are good enough to not have to replace till it breaks or something. The tuners are usually Grovers so no worries there either (although I think those have different ones).

/rant

I played one the other day and really liked it. Like I said, pickups would probably have to go, but other than that I thought it was dope.

This. If mine hand't been on it's last leg when i bought it, I wouldn't have ever changed the bridge out, but when i was changing everything else I figured why not and put a Tone pros on it.