Guitar Tremolo Vibrato Bridge Tailpiece Archtop Compatible with Jazz Les Paul LP Style Hollow Body Electric Guitar Chrome.

based on all the hype around Firefly guitars, especially their super cheap but extremely high quality ES-335 knock off, the FF338, I was cautiously optimistic. At $200 for semi-hollow body electric that (supposedly) rivals at least Epiphone quality I figured what did I have to lose? Well... I can say that from a luthierie perspective, the quality of the word work, paint and binding on the guitar is nearly flawless. once I opened up some of the cavities I found some things like polishing compound they didn't clean up, and a little bit of paint over spray inside the f-holes. At $200, those are things I can easily overlook. Now, clearly where Firefly is keeping their costs down is on the hardware. The stock pickups were - first and foremost - a matched set. And no, I don't mean "a match made in heaven", I mean they were a matching set of neck pickups with an impedance of 12.1 ohms each, which meant that the neck pickup was incredibly unbalanced and hot. also, the stock pots were scratchy, and the tuners would not stay in tune for more than about a day.I planned on replacing/upgrading all those parts anyway, so it didn't bother me much. I put a set of locking Gotoh knock off tuners on (they work great, make changing strings a breeze and they stay in tune just fine). I replaced the pickups with knock off PAFs. I also installed chrome pickup covers on the PAFs, wax potted and did a "Fralin partial coil split mod". Basically, you just add a resistor in series between ground and the second coil in tapped mode so you don't have such a dramatic drop in impedance (and thus volume and tone). In my opinion it makes it sound more "stratty" on the neck and bridge since it's keeping the impedance much closer to proper single coil levels, although you do lose a tiny bit of the "quack" sound in parallel humbucking mode (middle position). Upgraded all the electronics - A500k push pull volume pots, A500k tone pots, 0.47 uF orang drop caps. Completely rewired, more or less copying modern Les Paul wiring (with individual coil splits).now for the Bigsby. If you go with a Bigsby, you're probably going to want to go with a roller bridge. I swapped out the stock for a rolling tune-o-matic style bridge. I can say that unlike literally every single Strat I've ever played, the roller tune-o-matic keeps the strings in tune, even after wailing on the bigsby, whereas you can throw a Strat out of tune just by looking at the whammy bar wrong.Installing the Bigsby was pretty straightforward. You just bolt it up to the bottom strap button hole and it just kind of aligns itsself. You'll have to drive two screws into the body of the guitar, and then you'll be left with the two grommits in the body for the original stopbar. The ghetto way of covering this up even on actual Gibson guitars is that "custom made" placard you see on my guitar. The other options would be either fill the holes with dowels and paint over them, or just deal with the holes. I kind of like my solution.All in all, the Bigsby dramatically changes the look of the guitar. In my opinion, the Bigsby is the nicest of any tremolo system available on guitars. I have an Ibanez Jem with a Floyd Rose, I've played MANY strats with the ubiquitous whammy bar, and I've played a handful of Jazz guitars with other types of tremolos, and in my opinion the Bigsby is the smoothest and most "natural" sounding of them all. That being said, don't expect to be doing crazy dive bombs like you can on something like my Jem, but... that's not what the Bigsby was designed for. It has a great sound for rockabilly, jazz and blues.if you have an inexpensive jazz guitar you're looking to convert to a Bigsby, you can't go wrong with this one. If you have something like an actual Gibson ES-335, I'd recommend spending the extra money on a real Bigsby and having it installed by a luthier who knows what they're doing. But you really can't beat the bang for your buck on this unofficial Bigsby trem.

Was much cheaper, than the "Name Brand".

Great product and Great price.