Please read: I've been meaning to do this video for a couple years, finally got around to it. In 1970 I was fascinated with the Gibson Flying V, the original one, NOT the 60's ones that didn't have PAF's in it. I always wanted one, but Epiphone V's were some of the worst Chinese guitars out there. I bought one and the truss rod didn't work. Had a nice fat neck but worthless, sent it back and Gibson made me pay $100 to ship it back, so much for their useless "warranty." I saw Bonamassa come out with the Epiphone Amos flying V and ordered that one. These werent made in China and are really well made guitars, and are true solid Korina wood. The one flaw that I hate about it is its a cheap Nasheville bridge set into cheap flimsy steel anchors. I need to remove them, plug with hardwood dowels, and drill for 6-32 brass posts and brass thumbwheels like the originals....THEN install our Four Uncles ABR1 replicas, to make this guitar sound like it should. Just haven't had time to do this yet. I stripped out the cheap harness, rewired it to how they were actually wired, and there are NO diagrams for how they wired them, so collected every photo I could find of their harnesses and went with that. The V's are awkward to play, you have to use a strap just to play sitting down, but boy do they look KOOL. The great thing about the harnesses are that there is no LONG switch wiring like Les Pauls have, so there is much less capacitance in the harness to dumb down the treble, so you get really clear neck PAF tones. Anyway, I don't play mine much because they are so hard to hold. Mine currently has my HD57 prototypes in it, which are a good match for the guitar and get those Albert King sounds pretty easily. These guitars were about $1200 new, and now they are selling for about $2400, nice increase and they only made so many limited production. Enjoy,
Dave Stephens
Stephens Design Pickups
