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"In 'Headwires' the high, picking part in the middle eight is an SG through the Memory Man," says Dave Grohl in reference to the Gibson S... more

John Mayer is seen using the dark red Gibson SG Standard Electric Guitar while he rocks a sold-out audience at the Copley Hall in San Die... more

This Gibson SG originally belonged to Sluggo Cawley, the guitarist of the Boston band Hullabaloo. The day after Nirvana played at Green S... more

This Guitar, a 1963 Gibson SG was given to Hetfield as a gift by then-producer Bob Rock. This Guitar has a Mahogany Neck and Rosewood Fre... more
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Great guitar with a fast neck, good clean and really rocks through a tube amp.
My first electric guitar recommended to me by my first guitar teacher. At the time I wasn't convinced and was considering a strat but this one really came through. Fast neck, great tone, sounds great clean and really rocks through a tube amps. Tuning stability not as good as my PRS, strat or Duesenberg even without a whammy bar on the SG. Ages beautifully.

The angled string pull on a Gibson coupled with poorly cut string nuts are the SG's achiles heel... I still wouldn't ever part with my standard though! It is a great player and resonates so much better than any other current production full solidbody I own.

Yes, the nuts on modern Gibsons are notoriously poor. Both my 2014 SG special, and my Les Paul Junior limited have that has the main drawback. Getting a skilled luthier to do one custom made (ideally out of a better material than Tektoid) would be the best solution. The problem is finding one that you trust to do it properly, and charge a reasonable price. So the solution I use, is to lubricate the string slots with graphite. I take a good quality HB pencil from a stationary shop, make it really sharp, and carefully rub the nut slots. This seems to do the trick. You'll need to keep reapplying it, but it's usually enough to do every time you change strings (unless you keep them for ages). In my Les paul, the first time I did it, I noticed that there were even tektoid shavings deposited inside the nut slots, so it hadn't even been properly cleaned before being assembled. Really odd, given that everything else about that guitar showed really good attention to detail.

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My Number 1!
It's by no means the perfect guitar, but it is my #1, the first choice in the bands that I write music for. Plays beautifully and was a natural fit for me the first time I picked it up. Not as warm as most LP's I've played, a little more on the aggressive side, just the way I like it. Mine is a 2012 limited edition in Honeyburst. Originally equipped with Burstbuckers, the bridge pickup has been replaced with a Wolfetone Marshallhead. Currently strung up with Dean Markley 13's, tuned to D standard, pots and caps replaced with CTS and Orange Drops respectively, and rewired to a 50's wiring scheme.

mmm, I almost bought a 2012 Honeyburst from guitar center as a backup to my 2010, but the neck was just a little on the thin side... not enough shoulder. I kinda regret it right now, a spare SG would be nice.
The modern SG with the reinforced neck joint is a beast and one of the best values in American made rock guitars.... as long as you are patient enough to sort through a pile of them.

Gibson SG Standard
2013 was the year Gibson finally got it right? Overall it's a really nice guitar to play and sounds good especially with the 57 classic PUPS however the balance of the guitar is not the best.
Compared to the 92 SG Standard I had this guitar doesn't come close to being as good. Action is great, the neck is fast and it's a really fun guitar to play. It's a light guitar which makes it comfortable however I find myself constantly adjusting how it sits while playing, minor detail but annoying. Everything else about the guitar I like.

purdy... the hallmark of a good SG is not being neck heavy, so Gibson didn't get it right with yours. I have an odler one and it sits fine even with a nylon strap. But I sifted through hundreds of standards and RIs for 3 years.

If it was a girl, it will never break my heart.
This thing is my baby, makes me sound better than I actually am. Favourite feature is that you can choose to use double or single coil for both of the pickups. This gives me freedom in the sounds I choose. The shape of the guitar gives a classic look, as well as reachability on all frets. The tuning pegs are definitely the best I've used so far, they're pretty smooth and it holds the tune for a long time. Overall, it's a sexy guitar that is super versatile and does exactly what you want it to do.
My Main Guitar
I use this almost everytime, as it suits my playing style.

the SG takes a bad wrap because of its proto-metal shape and association with tony iommi, but its a great guitar

First love you never get over it
I'm a proud and happy owner of a cherry red SG standard since 2003. First of all let's just say I am not the kind of musician that keeps his gear like rare precious jewels, always cleaning every tiny spot and almost scared of taking it out of home... This guitar has been played a lot live, I've been sweating and sometimes literally bleeding on it, it has more than a few scratches and tiny dips on it, and I made different tuning experiments with it. Despite all of this, when few months ago I brought it to the luthier for a checkup (just the second time in 15 years...) he basically told me he had nothing to do. Neck, bridge, board, frets, pickups and electronics... everything was almost in perfect shape. I guess when you buy a Gibson or any guitar worth more than 1000€ this should be normal, but still I think I’ve been lucky. So frequently I hear people complaining about small or big different problems with their expensive guitars. I have two friends that bought exactly the same model in the same period, and their guitars sound really different but most of all they go out of tune easily... Sometimes i take my SG out of the case after a week and it doesn’t even need to be tuned. I play for an hour or two and after that I usually need to tune the G and B string… that’s all. So again, I guess I've been lucky. To be honest, looking back at the period I bought it I think I wasn’t really conscious of the tone I was looking for, so if I could go back maybe I would buy a different guitar, probably a fender because getting a tele I recently discovered I am more a coil guy than a humbucker guy… At the same time I am conscious that for me, after trying out many other guitars, the SG is still the most comfortable guitar out there!
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A 2009 Gibson SG Standard, black. Very comfortable, light and versatile.

Best playing guitar I own
My Gibson SG standard is the 120th-anniversary edition, which is why I have both this one and the 120th-anniversary one saved. My 120th anniversary was with the regular standard pickguard rather than full size one.
Now to my review This guitar has my favourite neck feel to date. I love the thinner neck to my strats and teles and even like it a little more than my les paul's neck. I am able to have the lowest action on this SG without buzz compared to the others and it is the one I play most solos or fills with. Playing this thing clean through a Fender tube is just amazing.
I bought my first guitar around 1997, and it was Heritage Cherry Gibson SG. Very well balanced tone, small fingerboard and the only thing that wears fast is the finishing/bodypaint colours. I've changed the tuning machines to a grover type because i smashed it on stage by accident and surprisingly it still worked well and only left some small scratch.
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Best SG I've ever played.
I fell in love with this SG from the first note and had to own it. It has a big chunky neck and the body really resonates when its set-up with a rod straight neck and the action on the high side. The stock 490r neck pickup is warm and sparkly, however I was underwhelmed by the 498t at the bridge. It didn't jive with my favored amplifier, the Vox AC30. At a guitar show I swapped a pedal for an ld Gibson T-top Humbucker with pretty low DCR and installed it at the bridge. It completed the package making my SG into my favorite rock axe.
I have named this guitar El Superbeasto, but she will answer Beasto for short.
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Nice! I had a cherry condition 1972 for a while and loved it. It was a dream to play with a slide.
72? did that have the giant schaler 'accordion' bridge?
well at least i don't have a replica chibson sg instead of the real one cough cough
I don't follow rory, my standard's a regular old off the shelf standard, purchased in Maryland from the fine fellows at atomic music with all the case candy even though its second hand. my silver special is a regular old gison in a cool silver finish, purchased beat-to shit with all the lacquer worn off (as lacquer does versus poly) from the sam ash near Nashville... my sivler LP is an American platinum edition, purchased in seatlle. None of 'em made in china. My one Chinese Gibson-alike is the epi joe bonamassa thatw as an impulse by I have been regretting a little. Its an okay guitar, its just not that great and it was pretty expensive for what I got. I wish I ahd trid one in person. oh well.
i always thought the big inlays should be les paul only i prefer dots on sgs,
but sg + vox but surely you mean sg + Marshall
nah, superleads are too loud these days and the voc has more sag.... people don't get hat crunchy old voxes are at 10
not slp but ... jcm
thinking about it people would dislike that more