Chords for FIREFLY guitars at $139. How can they do it?

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Hello.
_ You may have seen my video that I did a few months back, [A] _ 2017 December, I got it
just before Christmas.
I got this guitar.
It's a copy [B] of a Gibson ES-335 made by a company
called Firefly.
They sell on Amazon for $139.
_ And since I did that video, and I'll put a
video at the bottom here, _ _ since I did that video I've done a fret dress on it, _ new strings,
[Cm] and adjusted a few [G] things, and this guitar plays wonderfully.
_ _ So recently when Amazon
started selling Firefly [D] guitars again, _ I wanted to pick up another [B] one because I really wanted
one of the blue ones.
So I did.
I got one of the blue ones.
And here's where, here it
is. _ _
_ _ But if [G] you look at it, it's not the same as the ones that were [B] selling last year.
Look
at the horns on this.
_ It's just like an ES-335.
And the horns on this, which aren't anything
like an ES-335.
But I know where this shape comes from.
And I'll show you. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ This is my
1982 _ Ibanez AM-50.
It's a three-quarter size semi-hollow.
It's my all-time favorite guitar
for playing any kind of music.
This is a great guitar.
And I've had it since it was new in
82. _
And look at the horns _ and the shape.
_ So the new Firefly's are really now imitating,
as far as I can tell, an Ibanez.
_ _ _ So how do the Firefly's sound?
_ Here's the one I bought
four months ago, the ES-335 clone.
I've got everything maxed out here.
_ This is my Vox
VT-30 amplifier with a 10-inch speaker.
_ And I've got everything set to manual mode so
it's not modeling anything.
[D] And it's set pretty much flat.
[E] So this is what it [G] sounds. _ _
_ [A] _ _ _ [B] _ _ _ _
[E] _ _ _ _ _ [G] _ _ _
_ _ [C] _ _ [D] _ _ [G] _ _
_ _ _ [Am] _ _ [Bm] _ _ [C] _
_ _ _ _ [Dm] _ _ [F] _ _
_ _ _ [G] _ _ _ Test both [D] pickups.
_ [G] Neck pickup.
_ [Am] _ _
[Bm] _ _ _ [C] _ _ _ _ _
[B] And the cruise control.
[G] _ _ _ [Am] _
_ [Bm] _ _ [C] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [D] Okay, I'm going to switch guitars _ and
_ get the other Firefly up here [A] using the strap that they send you with the Firefly guitar and
the cord that they send you with the Firefly guitar, both of [Bb] which are nice.
[Em] So here we go.
So here's [Bb] the new _ Firefly guitar that I got about two weeks ago.
[B]
I haven't even changed the strings
on it.
I've done nothing to this guitar.
I didn't even have to set the action or anything.
I didn't
touch anything on this guitar.
It played well right out of the box.
Speaking of which, [A] if you
do order one of these, they come in a real flimsy cardboard [B] box with almost no packing inside of it.
So it's a miracle if it gets to you in one piece.
[Bb] _ I didn't have any trouble with either [Gb] of the ones
I bought, but I'm just [Bb] warning you.
Anyway, here's what this sounds like.
[B] Same amp settings,
same cord, same strap.
_ [G] _ _ _
_ Middle position.
[Am] _ [Bm] _ _ [C] _
_ _ _ [E] _ _ _ _ [G] _
_ _ _ [C] _ _ _ _ [D] _
_ _ [E] _ _ _ _ Neck position.
[G] _ _ [Am] _ [Bm] _ _ [C] _
_ _ _ _ _ [G] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [F] _ _ [Em] _ _
_ _ [C] _ _ _ _ _ _
[Em] _ _ _ [B] I think these [G] guitars sound really
good, especially when you consider it's $139.
And this one I haven't done anything to.
This is how
it came right out of the box.
So now that you've heard different guitars here, _ I can tell [B] you
value-wise.
I bought this guitar in 1982.
I still have the original tag on it [A] from the music store
that I bought it from in 1982.
This was $450 back then.
I checked on the computer.
_ In today's dollars,
that [G] would be $1 _ ,180 _ for this guitar.
For the Epiphone Sheridan, [B]
which you can buy on Sweetwater,
I'm looking at it on my computer right there, $699 [G] _ for an Epiphone Sheridan. _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ $139 for this,
and _ $139 for this.
_ [Gm]
Are the other two better guitars?
Yes.
_ But with a little work and new
pickups, I imagine that both these guitars [G] could sound just as good as that Sheridan.
_ Maybe not
as good as the [B] Ibanez, _ but [G] pretty darn close.
And for somebody who's looking to either start
playing guitar or wants to [Gm] work on _ guitars, [G] maybe learn how to do neck adjustments and fret filing
and things [Gm] like that, _ _ $139. _
I don't say you can beat that.
_ Okay, that's it.
Thanks. _ _ _ _ _