1 (edited by jamesd74 04-11-11 18:24:57)

Topic: Gibson SG

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Gibson SG Standard, Bought from PMT Leeds Price Paid £880 with a Gibson Hard case.

First things first, the Price at the time of purchase was £1079, but the owner owed me a favor and discounted me £200. I thought I would mention if you went on to PMTs web site and saw the Guitar more expensive.

The body is mahogany slim and extremely comfortably. The paint work is black and the only way I could find to criticize the body is in certain light you can see the sanding marks though the paint. However, Gibson Claim to only use 6 lyres of paint as anything over affects the tonal quality of the guitar. The bridge stop Tail is of high quality along with the bridge. It has a Gibson Humbuker 498 at the bridge along with the Gibson 490 at the neck. It has a three way toggle and volume and tone for each.

The neck is mahogany with a rose wood finger board it has mother of pearl block inlays. It is glued into the body,  also it is bound in cream, the binding also covers the top and bottom of the frets making them ultra smooth, the frets are medium jumbo. The neck is a slim tapper and this along with position to the body makes it inc-readably easy to get around. However, the neck position for some may have drawbacks, which I will come to latter. The headstock is the standard Gibson open book with a mother of pearl logo. The tuners are vintage style tulip heads that are made by Gibson, and are very smooth. It is also well balanced and not  neck heavy, unlike the majority of it competitor's copies.

I play the Gibson through a modeling amp and the bridge is bright in fact at times it can be too bright, especially though a bright sounding amp. Although a rapid EQ adjustment can solve this problem. When it is on a Marshal model it is sublime. Both pick ups respond well, it has the ability to cover all types of music. The action is now set low, however, the set up from factory was astonishingly bad. When I bought the guitar it was part of the sale that it would be professionally set up. I had to book the guitar in with the in store tech. This meant I had it 4 days at home in a factory set up. The intonation was well out, the neck humbuker was loose and the action was just breaking the earth atmosphere. However, an afternoon with the tech and it came back a different guitar. It was near perfect.

Now back to the neck. The guitar has a standard Gibson Scale 24 3\4. The neck is fitted right at the end of the body which means it sticks out. I have had to adjust my playing style to compensate for this. This could I believe put certain people off. If I have played the SG for any amount of time them pick up my RL4 when I change to any thing around the 12th fret I find that I am on the 10th.

All in all the Gibson SG was my dream guitar and I have tried to be critical. There is just something about it, it has MOJO, and this makes me play the guitar better. I can't think of any guitar I could like it to, as there is no other in my opinion. You could gig this guitar no stop for a year and it would still be begging for more.

Comments and questions please.

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Nice one, sounds like you found your perfect guitar.

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3 (edited by 57Deluxe 04-07-12 13:31:05)

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...my first ever guitar was an SG, albeit an AVON copy. circa 1973 (I had just seen Mick Ronson with Bowie at that last Ziggy concert!). I have always fancied getting back to a real Gibson version of that model just to close the (width of a ) circle! However, after much pondering, I think the current P90 SGs from Gibson sound MUCH better than the 490T equipped. I already have those in my Mick Ronson-esque LP (!) Yes, vintage Cherry and growling (but chiming too) Gibbo P90s... way to go!

Sadly not my first love, but identical AVON (by Rossetti) SG - new cost= £45 in June 1973...


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4 (edited by jamesd74 04-07-12 15:44:22)

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Welcome to the SG club...

Funny you mention the 490t...I am looking to change mine.. I have thought about the Genuine Wilkinson   PAF ones (not the ones on Ebay). I have them in another guitar and they sound Great...

You can here them here..http://www.guitar-forums.co.uk/topic/1641/would-you/

What would you change to?????

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Nice guitar. Are they fairly light in weight?

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Yes they don't weigh alot at all......It also does not suffer from neck dive perfectly balanced...

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I hear the one you've found the perfect guitar.

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Cool, nice one. SG's do look the part, don't they? And they sound great. Nice purchase!

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