Robert Follett's Firebird V

[Robert Follett]

I have owned several Firebirds throughout the years but always ended up selling them. I got to the point where I wanted one again but they are just more money than I'm willing to pay now, even for the reissues. So of course I had no choice except to build one.

The construction is similar to the Gibson Firebird but not exactly the same. Mine is a 9 piece neck-through neck and body design vs. Gibson's 11. Gibson uses mahogany and walnut for materials and I chose black limba and hard maple. The finish is orange tinted nitro lacquer. Genuine Gibson pickups, Gotoh bridge and stop piece. The tuners are from Allparts.

[Dan Hehnke]

Ooh, nice! The orange tinted lacquer looks great over the Korina, I wouldn't have ever thought to try that.

[Mark Swanson]

That's great Robert! I hope you post more of your work here.
Now you have your Bird for sure!

[Ben Castellana]

Very nice! I looked all over for those tuners and couldn't find them. I wound up using those horrible Steinberg tuners on my Firebird build (I like yours better, by the way). Can you post a link to the tuner source?

[Robert Follett]

Very nice! I looked all over for those tuners and couldn't find them. I wound up using those horrible Steinberg tuners on my Firebird build (I like yours better, by the way). Can you post a link to the tuner source?

There was a guy selling the tuners on Ebay probably like 5 years ago. I snagged a set because I knew someday I would build one of these. I did a search recently too and could not find them anymore.

[david frassetto]

What a beauty! I bet it just screams. Great job!

[julian gifford]

That looks fantastic! I gotta build one of those someday.