Ok, I changed my mind...

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Yeah, I want an SG now. Can anybody recommend a good SG copy?
 
TheGuitarMan said:
Yeah, I want an SG now. Can anybody recommend a good SG copy?
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I think Gibson is putting out some copies of their 60's SG's...but I think they'd pale in comparision. I was also partial to their Gibson vibrola too.

I see M/F has some in the $2300 range with a slick burst job...
Gibson must be mighty proud of those:rolleyes:
 
64Firebird said:
Couldn't you find a MIJ Strat to your liking?
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I couldn't find an MIJ Strat period. Besides, I'm getting tired of the stubby Strat necks and the huge heel.

I'd like to find a neck through body SG because Les Paul designed it that way. No heel baby yeah! I guess I could settle for a set neck SG though.
 
you can usually find a pretty good many SG's on ebay very reasonable....but....they have all had the headstocks broken off and glued back on.

that must be a weak point of that guitar design
 
The Epiphone Elite 1961 SG is certainly worth considering. Muscian's Friend has it for $799.
 
Why get a copy. You can get a new Gibson "Faded" SG for 5-6 hundred.
 
I love my faded SG....price was right, too....differences between it and the Standard are: no glossy finish, 490R and 490T pick ups instead of 490R and 498T's that the Standard has....also, the faded has half moon markers instead of dots.....

The '61 re-issue Gibson SG's also have the 490 R and T configuration like the faded.....the 498T pick up on the Standard is hotter, but what they hey, turn the freaking volume up and mess with the trebs, and the 490T functions quite nicely..........

Best deal I found was at http://www.aplusguitars.com/

Yes I ordered online and have bought from them many times, and they have a great return policy that I've never had to use...the set up was factory style, no seconds bullshit, and the only tweaking I did was changing the strings from 9's to 10's.....gibs
 
SG's and LP's don't have neck thru body. They have set necks. If you want neck thru body you'll need to look at something like a Firebird.

How much did you want to spend?
 
ESP VIPER 301

If you want a cheap SG copy, buy an ESP VIPER 301. IT plays like a dream, comes with EMG pickups, volume pot isn't in the way (as in a fender).....yes. I am going to buy one as a backup when I am done my school. There is your answer.
 
64Firebird said:
SG's and LP's don't have neck thru body. They have set necks. If you want neck thru body you'll need to look at something like a Firebird.

How much did you want to spend?
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*cough*

Well, Gibson SG's don't have neck through body, even though that's the way they were originally designed. I've seen copies with neck through body though.
 
are you sure you know what you want? you have plugged heritage...why don't you get a heritage.
 
jimistone said:
are you sure you know what you want? you have plugged heritage...why don't you get a heritage.
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Heritage doesn't make an SG.
 
It's not exactly an SG copy, but the Carvin DC150 has the neck-thru construction you want and the price is right.
 
TheGuitarMan said:


*cough*

Well, Gibson SG's don't have neck through body, even though that's the way they were originally designed.

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Hey Guitarman, I'm not beating you up but Gibson SG's were never designed as 'neck-through-body'. When the original Les Pauls were revamped with the non SG shape double cutaway, and then the SG shape, they always had a heel joint.

It wasn't until the thinlines (e.g ES-335 in 1958) that a solid block of wood ran all the way through a Gibson electric guitar - and the Firebird range in 1963 were the first Gibson solid body guitars (and basses) to feature 'neck-through-body' with the wings glued on to the outside.

foo
 
Good SG copy?

If it's the body shape you're thnking of, then I can suggest two:

Yamaha made a great double cutaway/two humbuckers in the 70s/early80s (?) with all the usual Yamaha superlatives (Sounds great, less filling etc etc.). I think Carlos endorsed them (and maybe even played them ;) :rolleyes: )

Fender had a guitar (double cut/two h'buckers/stoptail and tuneamatic) called a Robben Ford model in the early 90s (maybe still do?). Thicker than an SG, but had tone chambers so didn't weigh a ton. Great guitars - I used to own one.

foo
 
foo said:


Hey Guitarman, I'm not beating you up but Gibson SG's were never designed as 'neck-through-body'. When the original Les Pauls were revamped with the non SG shape double cutaway, and then the SG shape, they always had a heel joint.

It wasn't until the thinlines (e.g ES-335 in 1958) that a solid block of wood ran all the way through a Gibson electric guitar - and the Firebird range in 1963 were the first Gibson solid body guitars (and basses) to feature 'neck-through-body' with the wings glued on to the outside.

foo
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The SG was designed as a neck through body but was never produced as such because the set neck was much more cost effective.
 
So what you want is something that looks like the real thing, although it isn't, plus you want an imaginary neck thru design that didn't happen with the real thing, which would also make it not the real thing......

And, whatever it is you want, you don't want it to be a Gibson product, even though the real thing was a Gibson product.....


Ok, I get it now......there's your world and then there's everybody else's world......

Makes perfect sense to me....you must either be a lead singer or a drummer........gibs:D
 
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