FSG-60 Electric Guitar Solid Body (Flame Maple Black)

Wow- This is a gorgeous, very well-built guitar. The paint job is beautifully done. All parts work well. Came with a bone nut and also large potentiometers instead of the small dime size pots normally found on budget guitars. This is not a budget guitar- well built and it’s way nicer than my Epiphone SG that was the same price. You’re getting some bang for your buck.The alnico 5 chrome PAF humbuckers sound really good which I definitely was not expecting. I already had a set of white Vanson hexbuckers (UK) ready to put into the guitar so I swapped the pickups. Keeping the 5 wire stock humbuckers to put in another guitar- they sound that good. I put on a black bridge/tailpiece and had black machine heads ready to go, but the stock chrome machine heads are 1:18 ratio. They are very smooth and stable. The stock chrome bridge is thicker than most found on other lower priced guitars.I re-wired with vintage wire but kept the pots. I was planing to completely gut the guitar and replace everything along with a complete re-wire/components upgrade. I didn’t need to do that at all.Finally, the neck is really nice, smooth, and comfortable to my hand. Rosewood fretboard is gorgeous. The rounded end stainless steel frets are smooth as butter and are absolutely perfect. I’m shocked actually. I have about 7 other Fogil guitars of different body types- all have had multiple high frets which I had to then level, crown, and then polish which took a lot of time and effort. It was nice to find a perfect neck/fretboard. I didn’t even need to adjust the truss rod. I usually always have to make those adjustments on new guitars.I have about 80 guitars which I’ve upgraded fully. I know a nice guitar when I see and play one. This guitar was perfect right out of the box- the action (string height) was also perfect. So this guitar is perfect for someone starting out while it’s also a perfect guitar to mod out. I’m really impressed with this guitar- by far my nicest looking SG out of about 15 in my guitar collection which includes a bunch of Firefly’s. This guitar is easily as nice as any of my Firefly SG’s.

The media could not be loaded. Lots of positives! Finish was flawless. Very well constructed. Neck is comfortable…NOT a chunky neck profile, but not a thin shreddy profile either - kinda in-between. Full size pots and a quality made toggle switch. Frets were all level and dressed well with no sharp or uneven edges. A few frets were a little gritty but I played them out in about an hour. Pickups sound surprisingly good. I measured the output on the pickups too (bridge 9.7k, neck 7.1k). Sounds great clean and overdriven. On really, really high-gain, the bridge pickup is a little microphonic but not uncontrollable. Tuners are solid and turned smoothly. Guitar held tune nicely once strings were stretched out & seated.I would give this guitar a 5-star rating if not for one thing…the lower horn. It curves back in toward the neck and it’s too long. My fretting hand collides with it at the 17th fret meaning it’s going to cause you to mess up your leads up in that area (see 1st photo). Fojill needs to correct that design. If you’re a rhythm guitar player and will never be playing in that upper register, then no worries. For you lead guitarists, you’re going to need to saw or sand that off and maybe stain/paint/refinish. I’m taking it into the wood shop to remove everything to the right of the yellow tape in the second photo. Nevertheless…this is a KILLER axe punching WAY ABOVE its price point. Great value. And it looks bad-ass. **UPDATE: see pics 3, 4, & 5 where I sawed off lower horn & stained it black to get clearance.

You cannot beat the price and quality of this guitar. Bone nut, stainless frets, good tuning machines, good pickups, quality strings. Truss needed zero adjustment, nut was perfect, needed lowering of the action very little (two bridge screws 1/2 turn) and playability is superb. A bit in the heavy side but I've never picked up a genuine SG to compare.

Delivered on time and packaged really good with lots of foam. Once tuned, it was playable out of the box. Set-up, of course, was necessary.Neck was good, Steeper than all my guitars, needed slight adjustment. Truss rod turned easily.The bridge was a lot higher than I'd like, due to the STEEP Neck angle. The tailpiece was all the way down putting the string on a sharp angle. I lowered the bridge (for the best action) and raised the tailpiece.Checked the NUT and it was GOOD. No high or low strings, just right. No buzzing.Pickup height needed adjusting after lowering the bridge. I lowered the Bridge pickup, so the intonation screws were more easily accessible.Intonation, the bridge is backwards. Or, depending on how you look at it, the saddles are backwards.The high E had the saddle with the deepest groove and the low E had the slightest groove. Some of the bridges I've used have the same groove depth, not this one. So, I needed to turn the bridge around having the screws face the tailpiece (Nashville style) which I'm happy with. Orrrr coulda flip each saddle to the opposite side. Yes, all the saddles are backwards, not just the E strings. So, I say the bridge is backwards.I notice another review here, with pics. If ya look close, the A string is Out of the saddle and that bridge is backwards also. Wonder if they all are?So, even though my bridge is now turned around, the saddles on the E,A & D strings also needed to be turned around to give a little extra space for intonation. Now all the saddles are facing the same way. I always have a hard time with these saddle springs. Make sure to check a how-to vid before doing it. Once these things were done, intonation was doable and completed.Raised the pickup back to the right height.Smooth responsive (large) 500k pots, .047uf green capacitors, good pick up switch, tuners stay in tune and are smooth, pickups are a bit microphobic but good. The Shape, feel, paint, color, just Awesome!Definitely worth More than the going price.Couple days later, removed stock strings, polished Frets, restrung top wrapping due to the bridge still being high because of the steep neck. Definitely better top wrapped.Oh, the reviewer who posted the video of him sawing the guitar? Crazy good job! But he's right. Soloing high, that horn will probably get you. I couldn't do what he did without cutting off a finger, so mine will stay as is.🤘😝🤘