A guitar this good should not be ignored.This beautiful instrument is a Used Model in Excellent Cosmetic Condition and in Perfect Playing Condition. The FG1 is a superb, bright-voiced, more compact ES-335-inspired electric that's worth every pound of its asking price. Not only is this instrument extremely well made, via the extensive range of options Carvin is putting you in the driving seat, whether you're a 'name' or not. What we're keen to do here is to evaluate just how Carvin's electric guitars shape up in comparison to larger, often more expensive brands. Once again, if you're a player that uses your volume and tone controls to shade your tonal colours, there really is a lot to like. While 'vintage Gibson' isn't a phrase that springs to mind, there's little doubt this has many bases covered with effortless playability right across the range of the 22-fret fingerboard. Overall, there's certainly a lot more here than the assumed fusion intention. It possesses a mean 'woman tone', too, with some old-school crunchy gain, and it also does a pretty good taut, bright Brit-jangle or Kinks-esque R&B bark. In full-coil mode, and with the volume fully up, there's a thicker voice on both humbuckers, a good width between them sound-wise and above all, a clear character that should help more complex chord voicings and intervals. There's a nice percussion to the attack that works really well with some more modern digital reverbs and modulation effects. Indeed, with some volume reduction and selecting the split-coil modes - voicing the neck-facing single coils of each pickup - there's some very useful Fender-y character here. It sort of throws the FG1 over to the Fender side of the tracks - think dual-humbucking Tele Custom - but so long as you're not expecting a darker, more Gibson-esque tone, that's no problem.
Whether it's the long neck, or indeed the pickups' voicing, the overall tonality is quite strident and bright-edged compared with a couple of other semis we had to hand. There's also some Fender-y character"ĭespite its chambered construction, the FG1 sounds more like it's halfway between a solidbody and an ES-335-style semi. "Despite its chambered construction, the FG1 sounds halfway between a solidbody and an ES-335-style guitar. There's a standard C22B at the bridge with a Gambale-designed unit at the neck wiring is in the standard Gibson ES-335 style, with added coil-splits on each of the pull/push tone pots.
Pickups are Carvin's own and use 22 pole pieces per pickup in the usual half-adjustable, half- slug fashion.
Hardware is straightforward, but a nice touch is the recessed tune-o-matic unit, which has the effect of reducing the height of the bridge and makes for what is a very comfortable playing experience. Less so is the back angled three-a-side headstock, which is quite modernist with little string splay from the well-cut friction-reducing nut to the Sperzel locking tuners.
It's certainly well finished with a dark brown 'burst to the maple top - with PRS-like natural maple edge - and the bursting is replicated over the sides, back and neck. It kind of feels like a souped-up Gibson, although the fret wire is more vintage Fender.
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The profile is a medium-depth C, although the shoulders are quite full - 20mm deep at the first, 22.4mm at the 12th - with a nut width of 43.4mm and Gibson-like 'board radius of 305mm (12 inches).
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