Can confirm. Have bought 3 FGN guitars within a month. Plot twist: I can barely play guitar

Yet it doesn't seem to really be affecting eBay prices for Tokai, Greco and Burny guitars much if at all though

what companies did you have bad ones in your hands?

@@toledo2983 epiphone has been the worst one by far. Did have a couple of bad squires (rare though), had unluck with a couple of ESPs, and believe it or not (since they are know for their extremly high quality) i did have a couple of not so great yamahas aswell. Never had a bad ibanez, never had a bad fender, never (and prob never will) had a bad PRS

@@Driftuner have you played an epiphone in the last couple years ? I was always down on epiphone but the last two I’ve tried have been pretty awesome. I played about a 2021 lp standard and then just last fall a LP custom silver burst and it might have been the nicest 800 dollar guitar I’ve ever held. I’m an Ibanez guy and agree that I’ve never played a bad Fujigen built guitar and in fact prefer the Japanese fenders, but I have to admit epiphone is building some nice guitars wherever they are made now.

@@brandonjackson5865 to be fair to epiphone: no, i havent played any recent models. And yes you are not the first person that hear saying that they've gotten much better lately. Guess i need to give them another shot sometime

The ash ones can be absolute boat anchors

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I was hoping they were gonna point those out but they didn't. They're gonna fully crap their pants when they get the Expert series in their hands.

You must of heard of Tokai, they came out of the Fugi-Jen factory

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And cars, baseball, food, etc., etc.

Same here. I have a 2017 antique white odyssey standard with seymour duncan pickups. I absolutely love it. Would never sell it.

I read so many good things about Fujigen and FGN and with their history (Fender, Orville, Epiphone Elitist, Ibanez Prestige) I had to try one, I ordered a Iliad J-Standard and it's flawless

What is the neck profile like?

@@Jake24378 it's somewhere halfway between vintage and modern. I find it really comfortable, much more so than most Made in Mexico fender for example. It's not that thin but it's not a baseball batt either. Probably a bit similar to ibanez Az for example.

I got a heavily gigged one for ~750 USD a couple years ago - I'll still put it against any other single cut made (I could still sell it for 1200 no problem but I'm keeping it). The fretwork is astounding and it plays like buttered butter even though it's rashed and oxidized af otherwise. It's a rock machine. People joke when they say stuff like that but it's no joke and you can vouch. A lot of guitar; that's 110% accurate. Not for the money, but that's a heck of a nice bonus on top of a unit that is already custom shop quality, fit and finish. I have been letting go of instruments worth 3x this one because I just don't need them now. I'm scared to buy another because what if I just got lucky with this one? This could be a unicorn.

@russellzauner it could be a unicorn, but in that case, mine was too! I did sell mine and made money on it. I am tempted to get one the less expensive ones now, to see if it stacks up to my AZ!

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youre 96 orville ,was made by fujigen

Japanese pride in work!

@@elbib2446 were the Japanese Epiphones made in Fujigen as well ?

@@brandonjackson5865 yes they were

@@elbib2446 thanks I thought they were, I’d love to run up on a Japanese open book epiphone lp custom , or even one of the nicer Orvilles. Any Japanese LP really and part of the reason is because Gibson doesn’t want me to have that option in the US but that just makes it sweeter how good some of them are.

What is the neck profile like?

@@Jake24378 It's a U neck, but not a big old chubber like a Fender U, it's a comfortable handful (I've got medium hands) but there's enough meat there that you don't the hand fatigue that slim necks can give you.

I should have studied harder at school :) - why do say it makes sense that the guitars are named after Greek Poems??

@@andertons they consider their guitars are the stuff of myth and legend perhaps?

@@liamh9814 They must pay homage to the birth of the guitar as an epic. The first chapter is the tele (Iliad) and the second chapter is the strat (Odyssey).

@@isengard13 :)! We need to find Argos and Telemachus too.

Odysseys are FGN's version of the Strat; Iliads are Teles. Their price ranges are Boundary, J-Standard and Expert. If Odysseys are more expensive, it's because they're more complex (more pickups etc).

Nobody has ever set themselves on fire at Fujigen. True story that Cort can't claim.

Why is that a problem?

It’s easy, just take off the strings and remove the neck. And screw the pick guard. Give it a light sand and paint it. Any colour you like, then put it all back together, done.

I think that they will start to sell very well after this video. No doubt that the prices will go up. I have a white antique odyssey standard and absolutely love it. So versatile, and excellent build quality. Bought it a few years back.

I thought everyone knew it was written by Homer Simpson

@@rexrathtar3893 Good one!!

What made me laugh was that he knocked Pete for saying Ilihad Stadium. Out of the two Lee was slightly more wrong.

Iliad and Odyssey are poems by the Greek poet Homer

​@@davidwagner3170 this was a joke

and Epiphone Elitist: In 2002, Epiphone began producing a range of higher quality instruments under the "Elite Series" moniker which were built by Terada and FujiGen in Japan. After legal action by Ovation the name was changed to Elitist in 2003. As of 2008, all of the Elitist models have been discontinued with the exception of the Elitist Casino and the Dwight Trash Casino. The Epiphone Elitist guitars included features such as higher grade woods, bone nuts, hand-rubbed finishes, "Made in the USA" pickups and USA strings. Japanese domestic market Elitists used the Gibson Dove-wing headstock as opposed to the "tombstone" headstock used on exports.

@@stefangranberg9319 I love Terada!

I tried an old, I’m sure laminate Aria 12 string from probably the 70s in a shop. I picked up several acoustic guitars that day everything from 1500 -2000 Martins and Taylors on down to Sea Gull, Gretsch and Recording Kings and that old Aria was the best playing and sounding guitar in the shop. I was impressed with how straight the neck was and it had pretty low action to. They were asking 300 for it, it was a lower end model and they were asking about 100 more than what they had been selling for. Maybe it was an extremely good example, but you could tell it had been played. Anyway I told the guy working in the shop that old Aria is the best guitar you got in the shop for the money. He kinda nodded and rolled his eyes at me. They are a shop that specializes in acoustic guitars and they have a room full of new Martins and Taylors and then a room with the more affordable beginner and intermediate stuff. They are kinda guitar snobs I guess. I’ve always loved the old 70s MIJ stuff before it was trendy to those old Yamahas are giant slayers. I’ve always wanted a 12 string but I’ve never pulled the trigger on one. I wish I’d made an offer on that old Aria though it was seriously impressive. Now everyone is coming around to the old Japanese guitars and they are probably still better than anything you can buy new for 600 or so but the days of scooping them up for a couple hundred bucks is over I’m afraid.

No - they exceed the quality of those brands.

@@longdongbongchong I'm talking about market share and perceived brand value, not quality.

@@xneurianx I see. They would deserve it. Too bad if they got too popular their prices would go up, probably significantly. It's like this hole in the wall you don't wanna tell other people about.

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Hey man, 😂 I’m just trying to relax and watch KZfaq videos, not stare down the guitar neck of my addiction.

I feel your pain, my guitar playing Fam. Please make the nasty men stop 😢. Ohh, it’s just one more, I’m sure nobody will even notice, right? RIGHT???? Help

I have the Blue Flower Power, and the Pink Paisley Tele's made in Japan. Top quality guitars!

Chris Buck... now that man can shake a neck

What is the neck profile like?

@@Jake24378 a bit chunky, thicker than the "modern C" by Fender, in fact is described by FGN as a "D shape" (it has more "shoulder"). not a shredder neck, especially if you have small hands like I do. But I got used to it very quickly, maybe because it's really smooth on the edges

They're on the Anderton's website.