i got a gibson sg!

[jimistone]

my friend that runs the guitar department at a local music store called me and said he just got in a used gibson SG and he wanted to know if i wanted 1st shot at it ...390 bucks (this is one of the reasons i don't buy mail order...can beat service like that)

already having 2 strats (a vintage '66 and a white maple neck mexican w/black p-guard)...i NEEDED another guitar like i need a whole in the head...but i WANTED it

i did have a 3rd guitar...an Electra les paul custom copy that i bought from the same store a couple of years ago for 190 bucks.

i walked in the store and took a look at the SG and it is white with ebony fretboard and black p-guard...i knew i had to have it!!

who cares what it sounds or plays like...the matched pair of the black on white SG and Strat would look real cool in guitar stands on stage! LOL

seriously i played it for a couple of hours and its sweet...plays and sounds like a SG is supposed to.

my friend at the store said "im not interested in a trade deal...i can sell that guitar within 2 days for cash" I told him "don't give me that shit man...i buy alot of stuff from you and send you alot of buisiness. so the deal is gonna be me giving you back the electra and taking home the SG...so get your heat right"

he called the owner and bottom line...they gave me my 190 bucks back for the electra (it IS a nice axe) and i walked out with the SG and with $200 less money than i came in with

the only drawback to the SG is the tuning machines suck..they are gibson deluxe. i love grovers but don't really want to drill out the headstock. (its strung with 9's and hes doing a set up with 10's. im hoping that will give me more tuning stabilty..SHAME ON GIBSON FOR MAKING SORRY ASS TUNERS!!)

im picking it up today and im gonna use it Sat night for the gig.

 

[philboyd studge]

Nice job, the guitar trading gods are pleased.

As for tuners you might check Stewart-MacDonald for vintage replacements........they'll work a lot better and not change the look.

 

[lesterpaul]

where is th store

man i would like to know where it is with deals like that ,sounds like my kinda place ......i need to add to my stash

 

[64Firebird]

Sounds great! Every SG I've had my hands on played like butter.

 

[riley357]

Where's this music store? I wanna trade some stuff with that guy..........

Sounds like you made out like a bandit!

 

[TheGuitarMan]

Must...resist...Gibson...bashing...

Ummm, what year is it?

 

[Major Tom]

I had an early 70's SG, sold it a long time ago and wish I had it back - they truly are like buttah... I suspect that your tuning stability problems are not because of the tuners but the long neck design, gibson-style headstock, etc. SG's seem to have that reputation. Does it have one of those goofy "tremelo" devices like a Bigsby or one of the Gibson made ones???? If so, THAT is probably the biggest contributor to the tuning problem. Anyway, congrats - sounds like a good deal !

 

[jimistone]

i stand corrected on the tuners...they are fine. it was strung with 9's and they must have been new and not stretched out. Jim strung it with 10's and i adjustyed the truss rod and did a set up. after the strings were stretched it stays in tune. Its a '96 SG special.

guitarman.
you can bash gibson all ya want to....but let me say this

"i got a SG na na na na na na"

hehehe

this store is:
Charles hall studio 1-662-453-8826
located in greenwood mississippi

they are nice people and will ship

im a die hard certified strat player but i need that humbucker tone on some things...plus its fun to change up every once in a while

 

[philboyd studge]

i stand corrected on the tuners...they are fine. it was strung with 9's and they must have been new and not stretched out. Jim strung it with 10's and i adjustyed the truss rod and did a set up. after the strings were stretched it stays in tune. Its a '96 SG special.

guitarman.
you can bash gibson all ya want to....but let me say this

"i got a SG na na na na na na"

hehehe

this store is:
Charles hall studio 1-662-453-8826
located in greenwood mississippi

they are nice people and will ship

im a die hard certified strat player but i need that humbucker tone on some things...plus its fun to change up every once in a while

Greenwood MS? When I was a kid I was shipped out to my uncle's 'plantation' in Tchula and we'd go to Greenwood all the time.

Anyway you made out, cheapest one around here is $650 with the average being in the $1000-1500 range. A nice alternative to a strat.

 

[jimistone]

hey phil, thats cool. small world

 

[TheGuitarMan]

Pssh. I wouldn't want a white SG anyway.

I would really like to get a "project" SG. Restoring one would be a hell of a lot of fun.

 

[riley357]

This is c7. Too loaded to change names right now.

Anyway........ I 've got a 74 SG Standard that I got when I was in high school. Custom-made lefty. I saved up paper route money and did odd work to pay for it. Actually ordered it in 73. Took 13 months to get. Gibson fucked up and sent 2 lefty SG's. One stop tailpiece, one Bigsby.

I took the stop tail piece. $435 with Gibson hardshell case.

I've made some time the past few nights to play it through a VC6Q and an MPX-1, then through my Events.......

I'm stunned!

I've been having a ball playing her after years on Martin dreadnoughts.

This guitar has been under my bed for 10 years. I cleaned the pots last spring one afternoon. Riley moved in and the guitar wound up under the bed again. I took it out a few weeks ago.

I fucked it up in the early 80's by adding DiMarzo dual sound pickups and switches for both pickups. I think somebody at the factory kinda fucked up because my SG came with two pickguards. I took the top one off. I wish I could find that sucker now. It's got position markers on both sides of the neck. The hardware has the old patina. I forgot how much I played that guitar when I was young. The finish is all worn off the neck, and off the upper back.

Less than a year after I got it I was jamming at a friend's house one afternoon and it slipped off my old strap. My pride and joy landed face down on the floor, the neck broken cleanly off. I guess I was maybe 16. I remember calling my mom at work and her asking me if I was high on drugs. I had never used drugs and she had never asked me that question before.......

Bernardo Rico himself repaired my neck. And did a damn fine job I must say. But he never bothered to set the guitar up again and it took me a few years to become proficient enough to figure out it needed a set up. That must have been sometime in the early 80's.....

I wish I had the bread right now to have it set up with a new digital strobe tuner.

So yeah.......... SG's are cool as hell..........

Hang onto it. Every good instrument deserves a good story, too.

 

[juststartingout]

im a die hard certified strat player but i need that humbucker tone on some things...plus its fun to change up every once in a while

I am hard core strat player as well, 25 years worth. I had picked up a Les Paul a number of years ago, and just never really did like the way it played. I ended up trading it for a fender twin head. A couple of months ago, after playing everything in the guitar shop, I ended up picking up an SG supreme. I picked it up mainly for the 24 fret neck. Well, after playing it and going back to the strats, I found that I really perfer it over the strat. That is something I never thought I would say.

As far as the string tuning goes, I did figure some things out. I do believe a lot of the problems the SG has is the neck, it's to sensitive. If I leave it on the stand and tune it, when I pick it up, it's out of tune. If I bend the neck while playing (no trem on it), I need to tune it again. To fix the problem, I put 11's on it, adjusted the truss, and the problem went away. I ended up settling on 10's. The tuning problems are not as bad with them and it is still very quick.

 

[gibs]

Grats too !....seems like through the years the usual guitar talk about what you gotta have is only about two guitars, namely Strats and Les Pauls.....the SG is so totally different in feel than either one, I think it oughta be added to everybody's want list.....

The sound of the thing, maybe because the set neck is so less deep into the body than LP.s ( or even "V"s) is part of the difference....kind of a trade off, because the SG sorta howls while the LP sustains........plus holding the SG is weird, a whole different balance thing goes on because of the neck not being so deep inside of the body of the guitar....but once you get used to it, it's a trip in itself.......

I put 10's on my new worn finish Special and got rid of the tuning prob thing.....when it arrived a couple of months ago, I could practically see it go out of tune while it was sitting on its stand.......those Gibson brite wires or whatever they're called that are standard with new guitars are crappier than the crappiest 9's ever made.....gibs