NGD: SG Content

All things guitar, Les Pauls, Strats, Teles, Tokai, Ibanez etc. etc. etc.

Moderators: Slowy, Capt. Black

User avatar
sizzlingbadger
Vintage Post Junkie
Vintage Post Junkie
Posts: 8241
meble-kuchenne.warszawa.pl
Joined: Sat Jan 15, 2011 7:12 am
Location: Wire Wrapper
Has liked: 1200 times
Been liked: 1398 times

NGD: SG Content

Post by sizzlingbadger »

So here is my new SG Special.

Gibson seem to have got it right with these models... I love this thing :thumbup:

Nickel TonePro's hardware
Block inlays
24 fret (no silly plastic spacer between the neck and pickup)
Thick rosewood fingerboard
Thin satin finish
500K pots which work really well with the 490 pickups
engraved truss rod cover (not a shitty silk screen print)

Image
Tube amp and guitar tones straight from 1958… amazing how believable the sounds were back then, even without the modellers...

User avatar
JHorner
Vintage Post Junkie
Vintage Post Junkie
Posts: 3167
Joined: Wed Nov 12, 2014 5:45 pm
Location: Auckland
Has liked: 394 times
Been liked: 488 times

Re: NGD: SG Content

Post by JHorner »

Nice! Where's the join, is it a single piece body?

User avatar
Single coil
BANNED
Posts: 10050
Joined: Wed Mar 28, 2012 5:35 pm
Location: Public toilet
Has liked: 1110 times
Been liked: 485 times

Re: NGD: SG Content

Post by Single coil »

MOAR PICTURES








serious though, interested to see the back and some headstock/ early fret shots.

How’re you finding 24 frets on short scale?
werdna wrote:Well at least I can still make toast in the bath without anyone telling me it's unsafe.

User avatar
Glacial Pace
Tokai
Tokai
Posts: 400
Joined: Tue Aug 18, 2015 6:30 pm
Has liked: 31 times
Been liked: 25 times

Re: NGD: SG Content

Post by Glacial Pace »

Looks lovely, is it a 2018 model? I actually like unbound Gibson fret boards better, the nibs I find quite annoying on the USA line (Custom so ones are smaller and don't annoy me as much)

User avatar
Molly
Vintage Post Junkie
Vintage Post Junkie
Posts: 24937
Joined: Sat Dec 21, 2013 12:17 pm
Has liked: 2482 times
Been liked: 2794 times

Re: NGD: SG Content

Post by Molly »

I had a similar one a couple of years ago. That guitar was alive! Hugely resonant thing. Congrats. :thumbup:

User avatar
Darth Sabbathi
Vintage Post Junkie
Vintage Post Junkie
Posts: 1588
Joined: Wed Jul 29, 2015 9:43 pm
Has liked: 195 times
Been liked: 374 times

Re: NGD: SG Content

Post by Darth Sabbathi »

That is super cool. Dibs! :mrgreen:

User avatar
jeremyb
Chorus of Organs
Posts: 40878
Joined: Sat Dec 06, 2008 9:03 am
Has liked: 7685 times
Been liked: 4157 times

Re: NGD: SG Content

Post by jeremyb »

Dang, if musicians weren't so tight you could make a killing offering an instrument photographing service!!
Slowy wrote: That's the problem; everything rewarding is just such hard work. Regret takes much less effort.

User avatar
sizzlingbadger
Vintage Post Junkie
Vintage Post Junkie
Posts: 8241
Joined: Sat Jan 15, 2011 7:12 am
Location: Wire Wrapper
Has liked: 1200 times
Been liked: 1398 times

Re: NGD: SG Content

Post by sizzlingbadger »

I’ll get some pics later as I’m out at present picking up a Creamback for my cab yeh! Thanks to Troy :thumbup:

It’s a 2017 model. I don’t play right up at the 20 fret range much but I do like the simple look of the board running right up to the pickup.
Tube amp and guitar tones straight from 1958… amazing how believable the sounds were back then, even without the modellers...

User avatar
GrantB
ADMIN
Posts: 15843
Joined: Fri Oct 31, 2003 9:04 am
Location: Where I need to be
Has liked: 1353 times
Been liked: 2087 times

Re: NGD: SG Content

Post by GrantB »

Nice work.
"Man is the most insane species. He worships an invisible god and destroys a visible nature. Unaware that this nature he's destroying is this god he's worshipping." - Hubert Reeves

User avatar
Glacial Pace
Tokai
Tokai
Posts: 400
Joined: Tue Aug 18, 2015 6:30 pm
Has liked: 31 times
Been liked: 25 times

Re: NGD: SG Content

Post by Glacial Pace »

Yeah I agree, the fretboard going all the way to the pickup looks nice, and its not like it changes the pickup position at all, might as well have the extra frets.

User avatar
sizzlingbadger
Vintage Post Junkie
Vintage Post Junkie
Posts: 8241
Joined: Sat Jan 15, 2011 7:12 am
Location: Wire Wrapper
Has liked: 1200 times
Been liked: 1398 times

Re: NGD: SG Content

Post by sizzlingbadger »

Image

Image

Image
Tube amp and guitar tones straight from 1958… amazing how believable the sounds were back then, even without the modellers...

User avatar
Clanger
Vintage Post Junkie
Vintage Post Junkie
Posts: 1173
Joined: Sun Sep 12, 2010 3:38 pm
Location: North Shore
Has liked: 152 times
Been liked: 51 times

Re: NGD: SG Content

Post by Clanger »

Probably one of the best bang for buck guitars you could buy, l reckon.
Make Music Great Again

User avatar
Single coil
BANNED
Posts: 10050
Joined: Wed Mar 28, 2012 5:35 pm
Location: Public toilet
Has liked: 1110 times
Been liked: 485 times

Re: NGD: SG Content

Post by Single coil »

Surprising they engraved a truss cover for the base model.
Very cool.
werdna wrote:Well at least I can still make toast in the bath without anyone telling me it's unsafe.

User avatar
werdna
Vintage Post Junkie
Vintage Post Junkie
Posts: 2711
Joined: Wed Mar 31, 2010 8:16 am
Has liked: 590 times
Been liked: 458 times

Re: NGD: SG Content

Post by werdna »

I prefer playing SGs to LPs. Feel good, sound good. I bet I'd love this thing. Problem is I like the look of the LPs more. I struggle to hear much of a difference between the SG and LP, although it's there. I'd guess a lot of you would agree.
In life, don't sweat the petty stuff, and don't pet the sweaty stuff.

User avatar
telefiend
Vintage Post Junkie
Vintage Post Junkie
Posts: 1283
Joined: Tue Jan 16, 2007 11:41 am
Location: Wellington
Has liked: 218 times
Been liked: 109 times

Re: NGD: SG Content

Post by telefiend »

werdna wrote:I prefer playing SGs to LPs. Feel good, sound good. I bet I'd love this thing. Problem is I like the look of the LPs more. I struggle to hear much of a difference between the SG and LP, although it's there. I'd guess a lot of you would agree.
Agree - never thought the extra weight of an LP added much other than extra weight.

Gah, wanting an SG now. Gibson has really been nailing the base models the last couple of years.

Post Reply