EET FUK Replica Review (MX220)

[oddlifestyle]

Awesome video dude! Not too surprised that the pickups don’t hurt the tones too much, but definitely won’t hurt to get that Het-Set in!

[dancewiththedead]

I just received mine this week (ordered from the Ebay link you provided). I'm extremely surprised of the quality of this guitar for the $310 (shipped) I paid for it. I would argue this is better quality than some Gibson / Epiphones I have. Pretty awesome guitar. But man....you were NOT kidding about the beefy neck....probably the thickest neck I've ever experienced on a guitar. Needless to say, for $300 this is a great guitar. Glad you had this video for the recommendation.

[jasbari]

Just for 400$?? Fcking sick, i'll buy one by next month, you are a legend!!!!

[legion]

ESP will always make better quality guitars than gibson. And unlike gibson, it will tune and stay in tune

[Unyko]

After taking it to my buddy, we found out there was a major grounding issue with mine. Not sure of ALL of them are like this but mine was and i immediately bought EMG Zakk Wylde signatures. Until those arrived, we resoldered and removed the tone knob as it was one of the main wiring and grounding issues.

We relocated the top strap button to its proper place behind the guitar and it no longer has terrible neck dive and doesnt catch on any clothes. I genuinely love this guitar and think its gonna be one that stays in my collection until the day I die once i get the new pickups and some locking tuners in

[heavyasi]

I bought one of these with a accidentally painted black front of the head stock, but has the same inlays as the EET FUK Guitar.

I had to sand the nut down, quite a bit to get the action to drop at the first fret, and then head to level out some pretty obvious overspray on the sides of the neck, I also had to reset some frets, because of high spots, and dressed the frets on the sides and remove some excess. Glue residue off the fretboard along with overspray.

Also, they had the three-way switch flipped the opposite direction, and one of the nuts that goes over the tuning post wasn’t put on all the way like they were trying to cross threaded, and then one of the screws on the back of the Tuner was stripped out, so I replaced that.

Basically, you are getting a guitar that’s technically a very nice guitar, but the hardware is lacking and the set up was terrible on it.

I have a set of the early 2000s EMG Zakk Wylde sets coming next week so I have the actual emgs in it, and I’ll fine tune her as I play it.

[Unyko]

Love the video, man. Bought it because of this review so thank you for the videos!

[Salomon_G]

I don't know about James' other guitars, but I remember playing the first released signature, and only MX sig that was released (diamond cut black with deer skull inlays) right before the lawsuit, the neck on that was definitely thick like a Les Paul. I think that's just how a lot of James' necks were back then.

[imsoflybread]

I bought one like this. I actually quite like it but only thing I didn’t like about it was, the body was 1 3/4 inches thick and the headstock was more slimmer like a modern Gibson explorer headstock. I end up ordering a custom one on Ali express. I had them do a MX-220 body and headstock and had them slim down the body to a 1 1/2 inches thick like the real one. And did a custom barrel input jack.

[Liberty_]

I pulled the trigger and got one of these from the same seller. I ended up taking it to Guitar Center and had them swap out the shitty fake EMG’s with real ones (81/60) and I gave it a quick set up (when I have time I’ll do a proper set up) and while it doesn’t come close to my real ESP Explorer I gotta say I’m pretty happy with it. But you’re right the body and neck are fucking thick as hell LOL!

[migionie]

BRO YOUR TONEEEE what is this???? It's amazing man!

[Enteringofthesandman]

Love the Megadeth shirt for the showcase of James’ guitar

[TheCaliforniaCheeseBurgler]

I'm so excited to get this thing!! I've been looking for some kinda '84 explorer/eet fuk replica for cheap.

[Faboofighter]

I really wish I could find one of these with the actual banana headstock - that one has the headstock that was used on the next 220s and 250s, but the eet fuk guitar had a fatter headstock

[raidergoons]

I bought the ken lawrence explorer, blew my away with how it sounds. Little minute thats like you said such as short frets etc, but entirely playable straight out of the box, even came tuned.

[theshotgunscientists]

How come the photos of the guitar in the eBay listing are completely different than the guitar you have?

[chaosandorderstudio]

The logo on those emg's is legit
It's just the old logo they used

[KoRupT_]

How long did it take overall to get it? I have the money now to buy it but it says around early March… just wanted to know if it gave you something similar to that estimated time as well?

[Riotss]

I just bought one from that guy. I hope it looks at least like the one you have. Imma change out all the hardware

[Salomon_G]

I don't think James used that guitar on TBA tour at all. Justice tour, and that's it. Never saw the stage after that. All his guitars on TBA tour, were black. He only used guitars he was getting at that time and nothing older. I don't think he's ever used any of his guitars from before TBA tour ever again onstage. The weathered white V he uses onstage sometimes isn't the original.