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Kru,
Give that SG special a look when you get a chance. It's a pretty unique guitar. I have an original 67 and it was my first serious electric. It served as my main axe for 20 years but it's pretty played out now and I am hesitant to do major surgery to revive it. I would definitely consider owning another one.

I would love to try one of those out! The natural and white ones are just too beautiful for words. Just the thought of pushing those P-90's through my Marshall JCM 900 cab with my 6505+ head has me thinking of the possibilities.

I have a 2005 Gibson SG Natural Burst Limited Edition 62 Re-issue, and it's without a doubt, my favorite guitar. It's the best guitar I've ever owned. The only thing I wish it had was a shorter neck like the originals. I played an old, used one a while back and it was easy to just sail all over the fretboard.

These Specials look like they probably play! I wish they weren't limited editions, cause I know people are going to empty their wallets to get one...especially the two colors I like the most. The rumor is they're limited editions...I sure hope not, cause I'll get one if they're still around. Used if I have to.

In my opinion, SG's are one of the best looking, best sounding, most comfortable guitars you can find. Except for the crummy faded series you see piled up at Guitar Center.

Edit: Why didn't they put trapezoid inlays like they did the Les Pauls? Were the original SG Specials made with dot inlays?

This other drummer I'm working with in the 3-piece just got a '67 Gibby SG. Another drummer gave it to him for working on his drum kit. It has the whammy bar, but not the ashtray. I toyed around with it. Fine instrument, since they traded the original tuners for Grovers. It stays in tune, unlike almost every other SG I ever played.

I would love to try one of those out! The natural and white ones are just too beautiful for words. Just the thought of pushing those P-90's through my Marshall JCM 900 cab with my 6505+ head has me thinking of the possibilities.

In my opinion, SG's are one of the best looking, best sounding, most comfortable guitars you can find. Except for the crummy faded series you see piled up at Guitar Center.

Edit: Why didn't they put trapezoid inlays like they did the Les Pauls? Were the original SG Specials made with dot inlays?

I agree. I love the SG. Specials always had dot inlays/p90s, sort of a down market feature but I prefer it. An SG Standard usually had trapezoid inlays. Mine went through a lot of changes over the years including stop tailpiece, Grover tuners, Tune-o-matic bridge, kill switch, brass nut. In the end the neck has simply become too flexible to play well in tune without a very light touch. I don't have a light touch so she is essentially retired as a part of my history now.

I owned the SG delux (cherry sunburst) back in the seventies and loved it dearly. But then hard times came and I chose food over the fiddle.

In retrospect I should have kept it. But having played one recently I remembered exactly why I was willing to part with it - the neck. Gibson necks in general just don't work too well for me. Not knocking them - they are wonderful guitars. I never really got to where I could play the SG as well as I should have for some reason.

I'm only truly comfortable on Fender maple necks which I have on my Tele and my Strat as well. (and my Fender hybrid bass I used back in the day)

My latest strat is truly a marvel - called the Lonestar model (US - one of the last manufactured here according to my friend the fixer guy). Action not quite as nice as the Tele but the overall feel is like driving a cadillac.

The Seymour Duncan bridge pickup is the most potent darn thing - blows away my Tele which I had considered the meanest guitar around. Oddly enough - it seems to bridge the gap between the rich fat Gibson sound and the shriek one expects from a Fender. The SRV strat pickups aren't bad either.

A side note - I'm teaching two guys how to play - the one is very technical and demands of me what I cannot deliver - an explanation of why one guitar feels "right" and another doesn't. He is begining to understand - he found his soul mate in a Les Paul Recording model. But still bitches because it's hard to categorize just why he likes it better than say, a Strat.

cheers
Talbot

I have the walnut stain SG Custom. I believe it came out as a Les Paul Custom. It was the gold plated 3 pickup SG. Too far back to remember. S# 626535. I really like it. But it has fret less wonder frets on it. I have moved up to jumbo frets and I ain't goin back. Actually the frets I use are slightly larger than Gibson jumbos. That SG was a favorite guitar in my Gibson days. It feels good and is really fast. All my Strats get the attention these days. But i tell the other guitars I still love them.

I have an obsession with my LP Goddess.


She gets really pissed when I look at other guitars.

I have an obsession with my LP Goddess.


She gets really pissed when I look at other guitars.

This other drummer I'm working with in the 3-piece just got a '67 Gibby SG. Another drummer gave it to him for working on his drum kit. It has the whammy bar, but not the ashtray. I toyed around with it. Fine instrument, since they traded the original tuners for Grovers. It stays in tune, unlike almost every other SG I ever played.

When I first got my Standard, it wouldn't stay in tune for 10 minutes. That's often a complaint that most people have. Well, the special secret sauce that most don't know about is that you have to break it in. After six months of playing, I gotta say, this thing refuses to go out of tune! I really wrench on it, bend the crap out of my strings, and it's still on. I've had this thing for three years and quote: I haven't broke a single string on this guitar...ever. I have to change my strings because they're old. In fact, I need to clean my fretboard because I left them on too long and gunk built up.

This guitar is good to me. The one thing that scares me are all the rumors about cracked and broken headstocks from even the littlest falls. So, I'm too careful with this thing at times.

Her name is Fangs, BTW.

My little LPG does not hold tune well in a fluctuating or extreme temperature environment.

But I check tune between pretty much every song as habit.

So it's no biggie.

Ive never owned an SG, Ive played them a few times thru the years, maybe I should get one to put in my stable.

Im with George and Crip, Les Pauls for me. My two main ones for live gigs are a 89 and an 04 Les Paul 1960 Reissue Classic, its funny because they sound alike and are the same model but the older one has the slim taper neck while the 04 has more of a fatter at the butte standard type neck.

The one advantage I can see with an SG over a Paul is obviously the wieght, and also the cut away allows easier access to the upper frets, or at least that was the impression I got playing one a few monthes ago.

Picture of my 04 Classic, before I covered it in stickers, this is a cool shot that our sound man took of us live, it looks stage but it wasnt, maybe it was the yagar at the time!

That is a cool shot.

Thanks George I got it blown up and the guitar looks great, but the guy playin it! I just dont know!