Gibson Flying V 98

A very light 2-piece natural mahogany body with rosewood fretboard. The neck on this one is just perfect, a medium C-shape which is just chunky enough to not get cramps but small enough to be able to wrap my hand around and use my thumb to fret. Mine used to belong to the great Canadian blues player Steve Hill. It was modified with Duncan JB in the neck position and Pearly gates at the bridge which IMHO are the perfect combination in a Flying V. Tuners were replaced with gold Ping tuners, which work perfectly and fit in the same holes. This guitar is very light and very comfortable. I was looking for a 50's style V with the ring-mounted pickups, poker chip jack plate and the string-through V-shape bridge plate. I didn't get the V-shape bridge plate but I am very happy with the stop tail-piece. I also own a reverse Flying V which has the V-shape neck-thru body bridge plate and I prefer the the stop-tail piece since the thin body on these tend to vibrate a bit too much when playing hard.

not a real Gibson, lol, read below for the full review:

Roling’s(?) Flying V Junior Custom

Mid 90s Made in China Flying V copy, probably a “Roling’s”, but not sure.

The guy I bought it from heavily modded it, and transformed it in a Junior. Kent Armstrong Overwounded 11k P90 pickup, Wilkinson bridge, custom pickguard/jack plate/trussrod cover. The tuners look upgraded, too.

Snatched this for 100€ (Esp V bag included). It’s a bit beaten, it has dings and dents but for a 25/30yo axe it’s pretty ok. It needed a bit of work, I did the simple things, a proper luthier did all the rest.

I'm very much against the idea that flying Vs are party tricks or joke guitars (hair metal is to blame), to me Vs are kick-ass blues guitars (Hendrix and Albert King, anyone?). Please let’s normalize Flying Vs.

(These new rules for adding things are very lame, please let us add our unique custom/partscaster instruments without asking the mods to approve it, WTF).

Great, Affordable Guitar!

The Faded guitar line offers some of the most affordable guitars in gibson's Catalogue.

These are great, beautiful, well built guitars, which, as they are unvarnished, the uncovered wood let the sound resonate in an different manner, allowing an 'woodier' sound, and, as an upside for who don't mind some scratches and appreciate a vintage 'worn' look, these guitars tends to age faster than the traditional varnished ones.

Talking specifically about the 3 pickups Flying V model, it is the design that everyone already have seen, added with one more pickup that proportionates broader sound ranges, with six-way pickup switch, it allows mixtures between the three different humbuckers.

The pickups executes what they are supposed to do: high on treble, and lots of gain, the bridge pickup stands great for rock music; the neck pickup proportionates bass rich chords and , managing the tone knob, you can archive even great jazz sounds (with it's limitations); the middle pickup sure have it's place within the guitar, but it is not as a 'stand-aloner'. although the pickup alone sounds good too, I find that it's main job is in one of the mixtures that this guitar circuit allows. being a great pair with the neck pickup.

These three pickups are humbuckers, so don't fool yourself about achieving the quackiness of a single coil in one of the possible mixtures.

This guitar have great Classic gibson hardware in silver finish with these lovely vintage looking tuners. The neck feels really great. It is a c-shape 60's feel neck, which is comfortable and really accessible to play from the 1st to the 22nd fret, driving a good amount of sustain.

The only problem observed in this guitar is regarding it's tuning, as common to most Gibsons, but nothing that can't be solved (quite simply) with a drive to the luthier.

Long-story short, This guitars presents a less expensive entry to Gibson guitars, but with no quality-loss, in a great build.

A beautiful guitar. able to perform in a broad kind of genres, if you are not intimidated by its "radical" shape. Five stars!

This guitar absolutely RULES!

This guitar has so much guts right out of the box. You definitely won't need to upgrade a single thing if you simply want a kickass rock n roll guitar. This guitar has grit and can sound dirty or clean and stays in tune forever. I bought a V cos I saw Bob Mould use one in Husker Du on the Joan Rivers show. That performance blew me away. He made a V look super cool and sound awesome. This is my main stage guitar and it's never failed me in 12 years of live shows.

Great axe

my main got it used my red v with the big guard old gibbo pickups covered burstbucker 3 (bridge) and 2 (neck) i added a short lyre vibrato tailpiece and a cable tie behind the nut to pull the strings it to the nut and tape on the neck pickup for no string catch ehich has never happened becasue its a covered pickup but im fearfull because i'm gigging with this

Makes a statement

This guitar isn't practical at all, but if you are considering buying one, practicality probably isn't the first thing on your mind to begin with. Everything about this guitar is just fun. It has a great feel to it, and the action is easily adjustable to all playing styles. The standard humbuckers that came with it are pretty decent, but I installed EMGs in it because they have a nice versatile sound to them, and can handle pretty much any style you throw at them.

Great stuff

It was a great bang for the buck. Faded cherry Flying V, I purchased it years ago from someone who didn't like the shape. I had to fix one of the pickups, after a proper set up and cleaning, it is one of my main touring guitar. Sounds a lot like the Gibson SG I had back then.

1998 Gibson Flying V

I'm the 2nd owner of this 1998 Gibson Flying V. I bought it off an old bass player when I was playing in a pop punk band. Everything is stock, and it's a ripper! I used it with the pop punk band, my thrash metal band, as well as my indie band. Dirty tones are best, as the pups are pretty high output. The cleans are pretty unremarkable, even through something decent, like a twin. A solid rock guitar.

Iconic rock style with hot Dirty Fingers humbuckers

I bought this as a blem on eBay because I didn't want to mod one of my vintage pieces to add a Maestro tremolo. The blemish appears to be some tiny almost unnoticeable finish flaws at the top of the neck. For that, 1/2 price? I'll take it! I have the Dirty Fingers style humbuckers in some guitars. Not my favorite but usable, just very high output. Plays great, medium size neck and set up with medium low action.

Cool Looking

v shape gets annoying every now and then but its still cool