One word, WOW! This baby can play about anything from blues, classic, or light metal. It can't get that death metal sound. The finish is sweet! I have the vintage sunburst. When someone glances at it they say somethiing about it. It's a beautiful, but heavy guitar so get straplocks. The only difference between this and the Gibson is just the hardware and logo at the top. The Maestro Vibrola Tailpiece is the bomb just wait for the strings to settle in after 2-3 days. This axe is a great bang for your buck. Epiphone Firebird Reissue 1963 VII Electric Guitar is a honor to play!

Short and sweet....this is a great axe and an even better deal than when I bought mine a year ago. I'm glad I got the sunburst before it was discontinued.Sound and workmanship on a par with Gibson.

I have one of these in the sunburst finish. The guitar is well built, with good fretwork and finish. There's lots of tonal versatility in the three mini-humbuckers, too. I like the three volume controls. You can get all seven pickup combinations. There are some Strat-like tones in here, too. The Maestro vibrola works well for light use (not for dive bombing). It stays in tune well, but needs a couple of days for the strings to settle in.

This is a long guitar (45 inches) and somewhat heavy (just under 9 pounds). It takes up a good bit of room on a tight stage, but it looks like a million under the lights. They've been discontinued for '06, so get one while you can.

I wasn't sure what expect when I ordered this guitar. There were some mixed reviews, but it surpassed everything that I had read or heard. The guitar sounds great. It's not at all muddy as I expected. Sounds great clean and distorted, plays fine, and looks sweet. Obviously the balance isn't as easy as my SG, but it's no biggie. This guitar is great. Amazing for the price. A great decision

Amazing sounding guitar, you really get that vintage gibson humbucking sound especially through a great amp. Don't be fooled by mini-humbuckers, with the middle one on you get that full humbucker sound, with more versatility. Amazing feel, looks, sound. Tuners stay in tune for ever. Sounds great with distortion. From a pro who has played the gibson model, don't spend 4 times the amount, save and by a epiphone and a good amp and some nice effects. I can't say one bad thing about this guitar. Neck feels great, really smooth, long, jumbo frets, really really fast. It's just amazing, I can't get over the great sound, I'm coming from a fender strat standard, and this thing if I didn't know the price, I'd think it's much more costing then a strat. It's great you will definitely be satisfied, no matter what type of music you play. Sounds great when playing classic rock like the allmans, or the lead guitar on beatles. Sounds great when playing ska or really clean open position or barre chords. Also sounds great with blues, country or jazz. You can also get that really twangy sound like on a tele which is great for beatles rhythm guitar and such. You can get a slide sound with out using a slide piece. You can get any sound you want without effects. It's rediculous how versatile this guitar it is. I've played fender strats, teles, les pauls, sgs, prs's and nothing is comparable to this axe. This thing screams when you add a little gain or a lot of distortion. It's amazing what you get out of the three alcino-v's. You wont be sorry, buy it now. It's worth every penny of it.