FGN Guitars... anyone own/play them?

[RedB4Black]

Reviving this thread. Anyone sour on the fgn branded guitars? The prices look good.

as from my prior post, I bought a Mythic. It was a decent guitar for the money. I was hoping it’d be as good as the old RGA 121s . It wasn’t. Sold it after a few months As I didn’t play it much after the first few weeks. Didn’t hang with my Mayones

 

[BesaMoogie]

If anyone is interested, FGN stands for the FujiGen Factory. They produced Guitars since the 60ies for numerous well known brands.
From Wiki:

FujiGen started production in 1960, making violins and classical guitars. In 1962, FujiGen started production of electric guitars. In the 1970s, FujiGen started making guitars (OEM) for companies such as Hoshino Gakki (Ibanez), CSL (Antoria), Kanda Shokai (Greco guitars) and Yamaha. In 1977–78, FujiGen went into a joint venture with Roland to produce guitar synthesizers. In 1981, FujiGen opted out of acoustic guitar production to mainly concentrate on solid body guitar production. FujiGen obtained a CNC router in mid 1981 for making guitar parts and also began to manufacture their own pickups starting in late 1981.

In 1981–82, FujiGen obtained the Fender Japan contract which lasted until 1996–97 and in 1983 FujiGen were producing 14,000 guitars a month with 80% of the guitars being made for export markets and 20% being made for Japanese domestic markets. In mid/late 1992, FujiGen obtained a part of the Orville by Gibson contract which ended in 1998 and from then on have made Epiphone Japan solid body guitars, some Gretsch models and their own branded FGN guitars. FujiGen still manufactures OEM guitars for companies like Ibanez and Epiphone but in much smaller quantities than in the past. FujiGen has three factories: the Omachi factory in Omachi, the Hirooka factory (established around 1992) in Shiojiri and the Matsumoto head office factory in Matsumoto.


Edit: uups, just saw that this is an old thread

 

[Gitfiddler]

as from my prior post, I bought a Mythic. It was a decent guitar for the money. I was hoping it’d be as good as the old RGA 121s . It wasn’t. Sold it after a few months As I didn’t play it much after the first few weeks. Didn’t hang with my Mayones

I had similar hopes and will hold off on ordering one. Thanks.!

 

[Ignoramus]

Reviving this thread. Ironically, I'm the dude who bought mhenson42's black Mythic, and I still to this day love it! I wasn't aware of this brand, took a chance, and am to this day thrilled. Ended up also getting a white Mythic, a Dark Evolution singlecut and an Odyssey. All of them, to me, are amazing guitars and hang well with my PRS and Gibsons. Very much under the radar. Keep hoping they'll come up with another cool model.

 

[scottosan]

I am looking at a couple and seen a lot of guitar for not a lotta money.

Anyone here try them? Thoughts?

I’ve not, but Fujigen does Les Pauls right. I expect you’ll get a long tenoned quality Les Paul for half the price as Gibson.

 

[RevDrucifer]

I’ve not, but Fujigen does Les Pauls right. I expect you’ll get a long tenoned quality Les Paul for half the price as Gibson.

True dat.

And all the 90’s Ibanez stuff I’ve owned over the years, (my JEM and RG7620 currently) definitely shows Fugijen can pump out some quality stuff. I wouldn’t hesitate much over ordering anything from them, I’ve been curious for a while.

 

[chrisgr]

I've got a FGN Neo classic NCLS10 and love it. Very good quality guitar and plays, sounds killer. My next one will be a FGN Expert flame model.