The Gibson BFG

[LTDViperDeli]

I recently bought one from a collector (Silverburst, Limited Edition) and the first thing I did was take out that crappy BurstBucker and installed a Seymour Duncan Blackout AHB-1 and lemme tell you, this thing absolutely kills. I play through a Peavey 6505+ and I found a tone that's louder than God!

[ABowlWithoutCereal]

i own one xp got it for about 1200 with a hardshell case

[metalballs2010]

Awesome tone, I wish they'll make the Sg version of this

[Duroduro666]

Ugly

[StephenFiorentini]

Gary Moore playing these things now?

[DeKobeSlash]

@StephenFiorentini : I wished he was still able to play them. Unfortunatly he died a few months ago 

[StephenFiorentini]

@DeKobeSlash O God. I never realised. Omg thats awfull

[StephenFiorentini]

I cant help but want one

[jackofscythes]

erggg. i wish i had gotten one of these while they were still in production. >.<

[coexist3583]

@jackofscythes They're available now

[OpaKnobi]

I have this guitar and i like it.

But you can not use it for fast soloing :(

But for other things it is great.

[MrCooterbruzer]

Take that burstbucker 3 out and install a SEYMOUR DUNCAN INVADER in the bridge. Its a much better pick up for this guitar.. throw that burstbucker 3 in a thin body guitar like a flying V or Ice Man. I dont know what they were think'n.

[TheGreendayTT]

Dear Santa...

[ffsyourself]

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[Byronic82]

hey guys, does anyone of you know if the black bfg (model TBK) is still produced? thx

[willisthygryphon00]

I'm so happy I bought mine when I did. I have the cherry one and I can't find them any more, just the Gary Moore and Zakk Wylde ones.

[Glockenator]

For rich full tone, I would just buy another Studio.

[StephenFiorentini]

I wonder what Les Paul himself would have said

[Maxx1muz]

I have one of those....in black..and sounds awsome!

[killerinstinct0925]

@Maxx1muz can it do metal like ozzy and bullet stuff

[Alligatormaximino]

@killerinstinct0925  sure man...but to have that kind of sound you will need an effect processor

[izak1992]

I WISH I HAD IT....

[djbones666]

This thing is... the ugliest Les Paul I've ever seen. :|

[may22stoyka]

i have this guitar i love it but i changed the pick up to a emg 81

[legrandestroyer]

BAD FUCKING GUITAR

[vladovosk]

How do you get the kind of tone that they have in this video?

[blackstar007100]

I can see why this guitar might not appeal to most. But I like it, I want one and wished Gibson did not stop production on them, (a little over priced new, imo). Its raw, unfinished and crude, yeah! Just like some people I know. Anyway each to their own, no one else has to like them.

Your comment is heard gibsonoverlord. My rebuttal is that a Gibson-Studio just doesnt have any style, a BFG does, raw style, and a lot better tone.

[reditreefrogs]

I played this guitar at Guitar Center. I liked it from the start till I seen the price.

It's nothing like the fine fit and finish Gibson Les Paul's are known for and this is what attracted me to it.

Unfortunately the one I played and didn't buy was way over priced even at a used price.

This guitar new should be over $500.00. Regardless if it's a Gibson name.

It's like the ugly duckling for Gibson and price should reflect it.

[triggerhappyrentacop]

@reditreefrogs Unfortunately for you there is more to a Gibson Les Paul to reflect the price than just looks.

[pclark531]

@reditreefrogs what can you say gibsons are made to last thats why there expensive. i got my les paul for about $2,000.

[ErosaScuderia]

Exactly, that's what I keep telling people. I'm getting my Standard '08 in 2012 for $2809 (with Connecticut taxes), and I can rely on it.

[gibson0verlord]

The BFG is a really poorly built guitar, the irony of "barely finnished guitar" is lost on Gibson. I've worked as a guitar tech for nearly 20 years now, I've lost count of the amount of times I've had to do a complete overhawl on this piece of crap. The p90 is a weak hissy pickup that sounds like it comes out of an Encore, the Burstbucker is okay, but the phsyical makeup of the guitar reduces much of its tone to a fat ZERO, you'd do better getting a Gibson Studio - AVOID

[crawlbat89]

Whats there to overhaul on this guitar?I think you are full of shit about being a guitar tech or you are just a piss poor guitar tech.You are probably just more of a fender guy.That doesn't like Gibson.I here guys like this bash Gibson all the time becuase they don't own one and are just jealous someone can afford one.

[rgjmce666]

whats the point of the killswitch if it has two volumes, stripped down my hole, more like a waste of money to me

[shinybald36]

you don't get it do you?it's for making your own personal square waves

[rgjmce666]

still think it's a waste of money but thats just my opinion

[JollethecrazY]

i think that if they really needed to put a killswitch on it why couldn't they put it were the toggle switch is now :P a waste....

[fralegend]

You can easily get the electonics changed to a normal les paul. They are awesome to play and sound great because of the thin finish :)

[trakir]

Big fckin gun!

[t1mmy13]

Played one like this AND IT ROCKS! A friend of mine has one, its like heaven :)

[ravravrav]

I want one!

[greggatraun]

its awesome.. but the name isn't what i thought it would be... Big fucking guitar... not befor finish guitar... oh well its still badass

[TheOneWithTheAfro]

It looks great and everything, and I know that it's meant to be stripped down but it could at least have a truss rod cover. I much prefer the Les Paul Raw Power.

[Pchr94]

In a week or so Im getting mine! ;)

Black one.

[laynefuller]

Slap a Floyd rose on it and ill buy it!

[RoscoeTheKat]

i always wondered why they put a floyd rose on the les paul axcess but not the bfg.

[riverofchains]

I bought one of these today at a music store (the black version) for 600 bucks used! i played on it for a little bit... i loved the natural les paul sustain it had on. it did have a totally different "feel" than most les pauls had, but overall a great guitar.

[sorryloginfailed]

Love the studder switch.

[GNRrockerdude]

dude you can just put a syemour duncan p-rails pickup in any LP and coil split it and PRESTO! you have your p-90 in the neck AND your can have a humbucker too. Save money, and get a way better and more versatile guitar. even better if you hook up a 3-way toggle to the p-rails, cuz then you get standard single-coil too.

[fmcnally]

actually not too bad looking :)

[angelicdevilz1004]

seriously, the red one looks like salmon skin roll.

[hendrixkixas]

what does the BFG stand for? Best Fucking Guitar?

[GibsonGuitarsForever]

bad fucking guitar

[GuitaristV]

before finished guitar

[zaktan415]

@hendrixkixas no its gibson big friendly guitar.

[Kyosho445]

@hendrixkixas I thought so to cause it's so freaking bad ass! But it stands for Before finished guitar =P

[Jedidew]

@hendrixkixas Barely finished guitar :P But I'm sure it could go either way.

[anvil777]

@hendrixkixas i would say so, but it actually means barely finished guitar...

[pipsqueek14]

@hendrixkixas maybe Blues for greeny :D

[Jimmy87268]

@hendrixkixas Barely Finished Guitar

[redbird963]

It's a shame that Gibson stopped making them :(

[hendrixkixas]

you can still get them at musiciansfriend

[c4662]

its better for rythm guitar

[titusibenjamin]

dude the stipes on the guitar making me dizzy lol :)) but AWSOME GUITAR!!!!!!!!!

[gdayskater]

bfg = bad fucking guitar

[hitdawg555]

i played one of these the other day. i didnt rly like the feel too much, i have an epiphone les paul standard, and it feels better and sounds, in my opinion, just as good.

[99centstore]

Uh...did they like discontinue the normal BFG? the only ones i can fin are the limited with the les Paul handwritten signature and the gary moore one.

[assskate]

i was so keen on this guitar! transculent cherry, wow, that looks awesome! what a pitty, i was about three weeks to late. so now i have the lp goddes, looks a bit boring, if you compare it to the bfg, and i have some pronlems with the clean sound because the two humbuckers are too loud, my tube is screaming! in clean sound!

[earthcore666]

i really like the sound but that not the sound that i want

[grantburgh1]

OMFG SO COOL!!!!!!

cant afford it tho :(

[mackdezl]

I own a bullion burst. It's beautiful and powerful. the marketing people blow for showing off this guitar, both visual and audio. if you want to get an idea of the lead, listen to a les paul standard (burst bucker 3) the clean is a p-90 and friggin awesome. this guitar is way beyond a lace sensor strat. but as always, the sound is more in the player than the guitar

[lb11lb18]

i take the sounding shit part back because it sounds lush on the clean setting :o)

[lb11lb18]

damn thats one ugly guitar. sound shit to!

my red fender strat with lace sensors is much better! :o)

[XB0XFR34K]

that guitar is pretty ugly

[Getchapull616]

hideous* :( sounds sick though.

[XB0XFR34K]

yep i like the tone but i wouldnt want any1 catching me with a guitar that ugly even if it sounds perfect

[Getchapull616]

So true

[grantburgh1]

thats the point vag

[menga111]

cant wait to hear the gary moore one

[holivoda]

this guitar is fucking awesome! I wanna buy i it in a few months!

[elsielsis]

Anyone have an opionon on whether this can play metal

[grantburgh1]

of course it can play metal

[earthcore666]

but it will not sound as good as an Xplorer for metal

[izak1992]

fucking awesome guitar !

[luizcarloscic]

this must be captain caveman's guitar

anyway it interesting, i liked it

[tjrdud012]

I hae this guitar its awesome bought it 3day ago

[GulioRufus]

I really like the clean sound.

[punkz612]

is this limited? like the old colours

[kamack2]

why the hell did they just discontinue it??? they just released it! I WAS GONNA BUY ONE NEXT SUMMER!!!!!

[krymolowski]

fucking awsome!!!!

[Creedasaurus]

I played this guitar at Guitar Center just yesterday and it was absolutely awesome. I think im gonna be sellin a few things to maybe get one.

But I gotta say, this little Gibson youtube commercial totally sucks. The tone is awful (sure my computer speakers are crap, but i can still tell).

Whatever they used to record the guitar with for these little demo commercials, makes a solid state crate sound good. Gosh, sounds worse than a freakin Line-6 PODxt.

[komodomoe]

i love it when people actually know tone. my friend who plays 2nd guitar for my band has a fucking pod paired with a solid state crate (no shit) and he thinks it sounds fucking awesome, but he doesn't listen when i tell him its shit.

[Nackavich]

I played a black one in Allans music Brisbane.

It blew my head off.

And the heads of those around me.

Almost took it home but couldn't afford it.

Is it truly being discontinued?

It's so raw and... manly???

[GibsonGuitarsForever]

OMG i live in Brisbane in the city and i go to Allans music ALL the time!!!

Next time go to a place called Musicians pro shop!

They r SO nice and they give you a massive discount!!!

[SamAlexander14786]

Shame that they're discontinuing these now.

[rockerdude29]

I wish it had fret inlays,a smaller neck pickup,a mounting ring over the humbucker and lose the kill switch,but hey for a gibson to be cheap,its basically gotta be a chunk of wood with strings.

[AngusYoungFan1994]

i know its supposed to look that way i kinda like the look but it seems it would be harder to play

[AngusYoungFan1994]

the finish or i guess lack of on that thing looks better then most AAA les pauls if it wasnt for it not having frewt inlays it would look realllyy awesome

[redbird963]

it is supposed to look like that. Some people like that kind of look. I do.

[Piotshe]

I've got that gibson, i'm happy about it BUT to make it really great i had to put about 300$ in it because the fretboard wasn't good, it wasn't straight, i changed the pickup p-90 to a seymour duncan and buy new tuners, because they didn't hold the sound very long, but anyway i'm happy so if u want to buy it just get prepared that u will have to change something in it

[Nytan01]

...you changed the Grover tuners. That's like swapping a Lexus to get a Toyota. Grovers are some of the best out there. If you had to swap anything you should've gotten a Tone-pros bridge. You just wasted money my friend.

[dyingbreed90]

Not really, depends on what you switch to. There are better tuners out there than Grovers. And just because it saids Grover, doesn't always mean it's good, just like all the other brand name products.

[Nytan01]

Of course all companies put out garbage equipment.  However, in general, people view Grovers, Gotohs, Schallers, and Spertzels as the answer to stock tuning problems. You'd think the Grovers that come with a #1300 instrument would be pretty good. So I'm really interested in what Piotshe swapped his tuners to that was so significantly better than the Grovers.

[99centstore]

i actually prefer Kluson over grover, that's my personal opinion.

[nederbassie]

Oke, I have a question.

Is this guitar able to perform old school death metal. In the style of Obituary, grave and Gorefest?

I know that gorefest is playing upon Gibson Les paul's themself.

I hope someone is able to answer or give me some of his/her own experiences.

[parklife101]

Good guitar player dosen't need good guitar he need good player.

[nederbassie]

that's just awesome man.

Haha that's just really true.

Thanks all I needed to hear into one line.

I will check out this guitar.

[nederbassie]

however that doesn't actually mean that that guitar is able to play that type of music with ease.

I would rather play an Jakson than a fender when I will be playing thrash metal.

maybe because of the looks maybe because of the specs maybe because of the guitar feeling.

[parklife101]

fair enough, It depends how hard you want to play. It should hold out.

[apguitarguy401]

i'd have to agree, but no matter what i do my guitar still sounds kinda crappy. i got an epi. lol

[slashlp118]

@parklife101 unless its a shitty BAJA strat

[antihax91]

@parklife101 a Good Guitar player is also able to find the tone perfect for their music.

[Nytan01]

I really wanna clarify something for people about this axe. In no way does Gibson advertise it as a heavy metal/death metal guitar. It's powerful, it's raunchy, but only in the sense of an old Chevy musclecar. If you wanna sound like a freighttrain, get the BFG. If you'd rather go for accuracy and articulation get yourself an Ibanez or even a Gibby Flying V and throw some EMGs in.

[MegaSpeedoflight]

@nederbassie if you know to play good than you can use any guitar , but this shit is very good for old sc death metal , and about your second coment : there are some fenders that are much faster than jacksons and have a better sound

[marcusmiller12345]

my cousin has this guitar, its awesome. Gibson rocks!

[signinname41]

I'm more concerned with the chambered body. Does anyone know how that affects your tone?

[gibshall]

a bit richer and warmer in my opinion much lighter and not as deep sounding

[XICOday]

my gibson les paul bfg is the best guitar for rock n roll

:D

[greekmd]

Got one recently. Gets played more than all the others I have. The "finish", what there is of it, is absolutely amazing for moving up and down the neck. No splinters or rough areas. It's all smooth and open-grained more like oiled wood than the thin nitro-cellulose it actually is. Recommended.

[chances82]

anyone everthought of buying one of these and giving it a nice finish?

[spacemanvector32]

Dudem if you have not already, check on in person. The finish may not be for everyone, but photos do not do it justice. I customized the crap out of mine, swapped out pickups, rewired switches. I suppose you could refinish, but it rocks as is.

[RVProductions]

Is there no truss rod cover?

[spameister]

Nope

[RVProductions]

And the neck is unsanded? Man. Splintersville.

[spameister]

It's sanded, but unfinished safe for a some sort of oil. That makes for a pretty luscious neck if you ask me ;)

[PatS1t]

yeah, it is sanded, but unfinished, no paint or anything, just some kind of oil based something-or-other. You are more likely to get a splinter from your dining room table than from the BFG's neck.

[RELOADED0000]

The neck is sanded. I hear the top is smooth to the touch.

[clockworkjames]

Okay nobody else think it looks far nicer than 90% of all other les pauls out there?

2 months rent on a guitar...

Should be good :)

[grantburgh1]

just wondering when the guy says that this guitar has no finishing touches, does that mean theres no dots on the top of the neck to show wot fret ur playing on?

[parklife101]

nope, but after the first few months of playing guitar you don't really need the inlay. You could always switch out the neck if you really wanted the inlay. I personally have some in my Les paul, because its simply a nice touch but dosen't affect the guitar in any way. Except lowering the cost.

[grantburgh1]

aw kl cheers, probs not gonna buy one anyway cos i cant really afford it, and iv been playing guitar for about 7 years so i know wot mean about the inlays,, it suits the guitar, not having any inlays on the fret board, dunno if id like not havin them on top of the neck tho as i still kind of rely on the dots to tell me wot fret im on lol

[ronprince15]

hmmm. the one i played on had the dots on the side of the neck (not on the face of the fret board though).

[grantburgh1]

ye thats exactly wot i was asking,, cheers,, i want one now lol

[schaukele]

how do you wana replace a LP neck? its a set-necké

[17blue]

There are inlays on the top of the fretboard! Just not on the the front. Hope that helps...

[17blue]

There are inlays on the top of the fretboard! Just not on the the front. Hope that helps...

[ilikehairybeaks]

no what do you mean oon top but not on the front :S explain????

[ScytheOfTime]

There are these dots on the side of the fretboard so only you can see them.

[HomerSgr]

I've got an Epi LP Standard now, but as soon as possible, I will get a BFG, if I like it when I try one, that is.

[RockCityNoviSad]

I have Epiphone LP standard made 1993. and I got myself BFG. I payed it 600e (700$) cause it's stollen. It is a diference in sound and quality but Epi still has smoother look and it's easyer to play. Anyway, I love'em both.

[wolfgangrocker]

u2lover, me too! i only got an epi les paul but im totally gonna get a gibson BFG sometime next year!

[XStruckByTragedyX]

this is offizially my dream guitar and

am destined to own it

1,399

/drool

[theU2lover]

Sweet! I myself have an Epiphone Les paul, but if I ever get the money I would get Gibson all the way. Thanks for the video.

[Hrash0]

You do reailizes that unlike most Gibsons, the BFG is under 1 grand. Once I convince my parents to let me use my own money to buy it, I'm gettin it gold!