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Description
Meet the Gibson SG Standard, an electric guitar that's been a rock icon for decades, known for its comfortable, fast-action neck and classic late '60s aesthetic. This guitar is a real deal, with its lightweight mahogany body delivering exceptional sustain and a rounded-profile neck providing a comfortable playing experience.
The SG's double-horned cutaway design, infamous "devil horns," not only gives it an iconic look but also offers easy access to high registers, making it a versatile classic. The Gibson SG Standard is equipped with the Gibson 490R/490T humbuckers, delivering the richness, clarity, and dynamic sensitivity of the legendary P.A.F. pickups, with a slight increase in upper mids for a more contemporary sound.
Its nitrocellulose lacquer finish enhances the instrument’s tonal qualities, giving it the look and feel of a lovingly cared-for classic. This SG Standard is more than just a guitar, it's a piece of rock history that will continue to evolve with age.
Key Features:
- Lightweight mahogany body for great sustain
- Rounded-profile mahogany neck
- Plek’d rosewood fretboard for effortless playability
- Bound fingerboard with acrylic trapezoid inlays
- Gibson 490R/490T humbuckers for rich, clear sound
- Nitrocellulose lacquer finish for enhanced tone
- Double-horned cutaway for easy access to high registers
- Classic black top hat knobs and chrome-plated hardware
- Aluminum Nashville Tune-o-matic bridge and stopbar tailpiece
- Grover Rotomatic tuners with keystone buttons.
Product specs
| Number of Strings | 6 |
| Left-/Right-handed | Right-handed |
| Body Type | Solidbody |
| Body Shape | SG Standard |
| Body Material | Mahogany |
| Body Finish | Gloss Nitrocelllulose Lacquer |
| Neck Material | Mahogany |
| Neck Shape | Rounded |
| Neck Joint | Set Neck |
| Radius | 12" |
| Fingerboard Inlay | Acrylic Trapezoids |
| Number of Frets | 22, Medium Jumbo |
| Scale Length | 24.75" |
| Nut Width | 1.695" |
| Nut Material | Graph Tech |
| Bridge/Tailpiece | Nashville Tune-O-Matic with Stopbar |
| Tuners | Grover Rotomatics |
| Neck Pickup | 490R Humbucker |
| Bridge Pickup | 490T Humbucker |
| Controls | 2 x volume, 2 x tone |
| Switching | 3-way toggle pickup switch |
| Strings | Gibson, .010-.046 |
| Case/Gig Bag | Softshell Case |
FAQs
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What is the neck profile like on the Gibson SG Standard?
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The Gibson SG Standard features a rounded neck profile, providing a comfortable grip that accommodates a variety of playing styles, making it suitable for both rhythm and lead guitarists.
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What kind of tones can I expect from the Gibson SG Standard's pickups?
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The Gibson SG Standard is equipped with 490R and 490T humbuckers, delivering a warm, full-bodied tone with excellent sustain, making it ideal for rock, blues, and heavier music styles.
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Is the Gibson SG Standard suitable for beginners?
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While the Gibson SG Standard offers professional-level features, its lightweight body and comfortable neck make it accessible for beginners who are serious about starting their guitar journey.
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How does the Gibson SG Standard compare to a Les Paul in terms of playability?
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The Gibson SG Standard has a thinner, lighter body and offers easier access to higher frets compared to a Les Paul, making it a more comfortable choice for extended playing sessions.
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What type of wood is used for the body of the Gibson SG Standard?
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The Gibson SG Standard features a solid mahogany body, contributing to its rich, resonant sound and classic tonal characteristics.
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Does the Gibson SG Standard come with a case?
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Yes, the Gibson SG Standard includes a softshell case, providing protection and portability for the guitar.
Equipboard's Expert Review
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The Gibson SG - A Rock Icon
Ah, the Gibson SG Standard – an iconic guitar that promises a blend of heritage and modern performance. This guitar has left us both thrilled and occasionally frustrated, a testament to its complex character.
When we got the SG Standard, the initial impressions were strong. The finish is stunning, more captivating in person than any photo can convey. The slim taper neck, a hallmark of the SG, feels incredibly comfortable and is a dream to play, especially when navigating the upper registers.
On the feature front, the SG Standard is equipped with 490R and 490T pickups, which deliver a great classic rock sound. The pickups provide a full, rich tone with a low end that isn’t muddy, making it versatile for a range of genres. The volume and tone knobs offer a wide range, allowing you to dial in everything from warm, sparkly cleans to gritty, biting overdrive.
Sound quality is where the SG Standard truly shines. Both pickups excel, with the bridge pickup being bright and assertive, while the neck pickup is warm and perfect for clean tones. The output is hotter than many other models, offering a distinctive snap that excels in rock settings.
Now, onto the nitty-gritty durability and build quality. This guitar feels solid and well-constructed. Despite some minor annoyances, like the loose jack plug, our SG Standard has held up remarkably well over the years. A luthier checkup confirmed that the neck, bridge, frets, and electronics were all in excellent shape even after a decade of use, affirming Gibson’s enduring build quality.
In conclusion, the Gibson SG Standard is a fantastic choice for rock enthusiasts who appreciate a guitar with a bit of character and history. It’s lightweight, comfortable, and sonically versatile. For us, despite its quirks, the SG Standard remains an indispensable part of our gear collection.
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Reviews
PROS
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Lightweight design makes it easy to handle during long playing sessions
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490R and 490T pickups offer a classic rock sound with rich, full tones
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Comfortable slim taper neck enhances playability and speed
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Highly responsive volume and tone controls for versatile sound shaping
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Excellent upper fret access ideal for lead guitarists
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Solid build quality and durable construction ensure longevity
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Stunning finish options, especially in Heritage Cherry
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Low action and great setup out of the box for immediate playability
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Distinctive sound character, particularly appealing for rock and blues genres
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No neck dive, providing balanced playing experience
CONS
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Some units reported with minor quality control issues like loose jack plugs
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Does not come with a hardshell case, only a gig bag
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Pickups may not satisfy those preferring 57 Classics or other specific tones
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Some players find the neck width a bit wide, especially at the upper register
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Lack of vibrato system could be a drawback for those seeking more tonal flexibility
Critic Reviews
4.5 out of 5
Based on 61 Reviews and 390 Ratings
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classic guitar tone
I've owned my sg standard for a little over ten years now and this guitar has never disappointed me in any way what so ever. It great for styles from classic rock, doom metal, to ambient, and jazz. I've kept mine completely stock simply because it just does everything its supposed to. theres too many positive things to say about this guitar so if you interested in one of these, i highly suggest going to a local music store that has one in stock and play it. See how it feels for you.
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Of almighty prowess ..... never underestimate the power of the SG
Blues, Soul, Rock, Gospel and everything in between, the SG can do it. Mine is a 2005 model with 498R and 498T hum buckers, I have no complaints, this guitar really sings, quite possibly the best guitar I have ever played.
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Not the most versatile guitar around, but unrivaled at it's own game!
SG was my second guitar ever and has been my number one choice ever since. It's gorgeous looks, light weight and easy playability always make it my first choice for shows and studio leads. SG may not be my ideal choice for clean sounds or solid state amps, but a right amount of distortion and a good tube amp make it unbeatable! The SG is especially great for shredding, Rock, Metal and Blues.
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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.
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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.
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Is there anything you can do to help keep it in tune? Any kind of custom nuts?
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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.
My first real standard guitar
Its awesome. I like the feel of the guitar swell as the tone of it. I think its from 1997 an d I bought it brand new. it got some dings and a nasty scratch omg the neck fro me dropping it on the guitar case . I have used this on all my recordings in some way.
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Budget and powerfull
Very good guitar for low crunch -> heavy metal, good sounding, low weight, and low cost, no regret
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My main guitar.
When I was a young teen i loved Tony Iommi and Angus Young. And that's all. I love and hate this guitar, but it has been with me for many years now and has almost never let me down. Simply rock'n'roll.
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A durable guitar with balanced tone and minor cosmetic wear
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.
Artist usage
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This Gibson SG originally belonged to Sluggo Cawley, the guitarist of the Boston band Hullabaloo. The day after Nirvana played at Green Street Station, Jamaica Plain, MA on July 15, 1989. Where Kurt had no Guitar (as he Smashed his Right-Handed Flipped upside down and strung Lefty 1973 Sunburst Fender Mustang on July 9, 1989 The Sonic Temple Wilkinsburg PA and Univox Hi-Flier Phase 3 Natural with Red Spray Paint to make it look Sunburst on July 13, 1989 Maxwell's Hoboken NJ) so Kurt just sang and Jason did all the guitar playing at the July 15, 1989 Green Street Station Jamaica Plain MA show. The next day July 16th, while in Watertown MA, Kurt traded his 1973 Fender Mustang in exchange for the 1970s Gibson SG, which at the time was hanging on Sluggo’s wall.
"Kurt asked me if he could have the smashed Gibson SG I had hanging on my wall. So I said, 'Sure, but now I won’t have one for my wall.' Kurt replied, 'I’ll be right back.' He went out to their van and presented me a 1973 Fender Mustang that he deemed beyond repair. Kurt smashed it at the Sonic Temple, in Wilkinsburg, PA, on July 9, 1989, six days before the Green Street show. In sort of mock guitar hero worship, I asked him to sign it for me."
"He wrote, 'Yo Sluggo, thanx for the trade. If its illegal to rock and roll, then throw my ass in jail. NIRVANA.' He also wrote 'vox pick-up' with an arrow, but I have lost that piece of the pickguard. There are also two of his flowers he liked to draw on things. The guitar has a serial number on the base of the neck – 4900 1853. It is in three or 4 pieces held together by duct tape."
Kurt likely painted and repaired the SG upon returning from Europe in late 1989/early 1990, and fitted it with a humbucker in the bridge from one of his old Univox guitars. It also appears that there was some sort of a Single-coil pickup in the neck pickup slot, but it’s hard to tell what it was due to a lack of good quality photos.
Kurt played this guitar for the first time on January 6, 1990 East Ballroom, Husky Union Building, University of Washington, Seattle, WA. And a few other gigs in early 1990, before he ended up smashing it beyond repair in Tijuana, Mexico on February 17, 1990. However, at that point, he already had the guitar with him for almost half a year.
"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 SG Electric Guitar. Dave Grohl uses Drop-A tuning in this case.
This guitar was used on the leads for TROWFTD and From the Sounds Inside, John says, "I had this Gibson SG from 1961 that I used on some of the leads; it was just lying around my house."
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 Diego.
In this photo, one can see White playing white Gibson SG.
In this video, Slash can be seen playing Standard Gibson SG.
Skrill played a cherry red SG on Don't Go, with Justin Bieber and Don Toliver. During a break, he played Counterfeit, originally by Limp Bizkit, as can be seen in the video.
Jimmy Page can be clearly seen using a Gibson SG Standard on stage in later years, as evidenced by the image provided.
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 Fretboard. The guitar appears to have an uncovered Maestro-Style Tremolo Bridge and the Pickups are most likely the stock 1963 Humbuckers however this is unclear.
This Guitar was used in the Music Video for “Turn the Page”.
Green Day's guitarist and singer, Billie Joe Armstrong, often used a red Gibson SG Standard Electric Guitar during shows.
Red Gibson SG Standard was mostly used on TV appearances for "Warning" era, as well as live shows. He played "Waiting" with this guitar on Jay Leno show.
Second Gibson SG Standard he was seen using, was on the appearance on Hotel Babylon, which was in 1996, to be precise, on 27th of April, 1996. This guitar is rumoured, as well as the whole equipment in this show, to be borrowed from the Living End members. But actually this guitar was owned by Billie. You can see this picture with his son playing Gibson SG Standard.
In 2016, Clapton sold a small amount of his guitar collection together with Grun Guitars store. The sale revealed, Clapton used a 2007 Gibson SG Standard solid body electric guitar.
Album Usage
The Gibson SG Standard has been featured on the following albums:
Reaching For You
Midrift (2025)
Comes Clean
Arj Barker (2025)
Por cesárea
Dillom (2024)
Mommy's Little Monster
Social Distortion (2023)
Would You Miss It?
Koyo (2023)
Rivers Of Heresy
Empire State Bastard (2023)
: I I .
John Frusciante (2023)
For the first time
Black Country, new road (2021)
Vision
Sergey Golovin (2021)
Don’t Go (with Justin Bieber & Don Toliver)
Skrillex & Justin Bieber & Sonny Moore & Don Toliver (2021)
again&again
Against The Current (2021)
Waiting (BBC Live Session)
Green Day (2021)
Maya
John Frusciante (2020)
BENT
Stonefield (2019)
In the End
The Cranberries (2019)
21st Century Liability
YungBlud (2018)
The Great Depression
As It Is (2018)
3000 Shots Until I Can Be Without You
Sleepy dog (2018)
Rest, Repose
Rest, Repose (2017)
Little Thing Gone Wild
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club (2017)
The Black Parade / Living with Ghosts (The 10th Anniversary Edition)
My Chemical Romance (2016)
Stiff
White Denim (2016)
Brown Sugar
The Rolling Stones (2015)
Spotify Sessions
Catfish and the Bottlemen (2015)
The Mindsweep
Enter Shikari (2015)
I Miss You
Dave Days (2014)
Radiate
Enter Shikari (2013)
Sluggo! (2013 Mix)
Mike Keneally (2013)
Porfiado
El Cuarteto de Nos (2012)
Through Clarity
coldrain (2012)
Something For Nothing
Chunk! No, Captain Chunk! (2011)
Raditude
Weezer (2009)
Command
Client (2009)
Poetics
PXNDX (2009)
Nuevo Orden De La Libertad
Los Natas (2009)
Mencari Konklusi
Hujan (2009)
Bone Palace Ballet: Grand Coda
Chiodos (2008)
The Black Parade Is Dead!
My Chemical Romance (2008)
Worship Tools 15 - Today Is the Day (Resource Edition)
Lincoln Brewster (2008)
A Flair For The Dramatic
Pierce the Veil (2007)
Liars
Liars (2007)
So Wrong, It's Right
All Time Low (2007)
The Sun And The Moon
The Bravery (2007)
Santidade ao Senhor
Rodolfo Abrantes (2006)
Waterloo To Anywhere
Dirty Pretty Things (2006)
Make Believe
Weezer (2005)
Absolution
Muse (2003)
Client
Client (2003)
Accelerated Evolution
Devin Townsend (2003)
No Wings To Speak Of
Hopesfall (2002)
Diorama (U.S. Version)
Silverchair (2002)
Does This Look Infected?
Sum 41 (2002)
The Band
Mando Diao (2002)
Weezer
Weezer (2001)
They Threw Us All In A Trench and Stuck a Monument on Top
Liars (2001)
Bleed American
Jimmy Eat World (2001)
Warning
Green Day (2000)
Showbiz
Muse (1999)
Risk (Expanded Edition - Remastered)
Megadeth (1999)
Night on the Sun
Modest Mouse (1999)
Neon Ballroom
Silverchair (1999)
Garage, Inc.
Metallica (1998)
Celebrity Skin
Hole (1998)
HONEY
L'Arc-en-Ciel (1998)
Iros Todos A Tomar Por Culo
Extremoduro (1997)
Radiator
Super Furry Animals (1997)
The More Things Change...
Machine Head (1997)
Agila
Extremoduro (1996)
October Rust
Type O Negative (1996)
LP2 (2009 Edition)
Sunny Day Real Estate (1995)
Diary (Remastered and Expanded Edition)
Sunny Day Real Estate (1994)
Revenge
Kiss (1992)
Love Over Gold
Dire Straits (1982)
Spectres
Blue Öyster Cult (1977)
Almendra
Almendra (1970)
Revolver (Remastered)
The Beatles (1966)
Rubber Soul (Remastered 2009)
The Beatles (1965)
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