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I was yearning for a proper (humbucker ) Gibson SG!  I'd been searching, preferably for an ebony-colored one.  However, this one came up and it was too good to pass up, so I offered him a bunch less but we met in the middle (though a little closer to my price).  It's Gibson's High Performance (HP) version of the SG Standard, - this is 2017.  Pickups are the Classic 57's.  Mint, including plastic on the metal case.  The color is called "cherry burst" which I love - from the front it''s a burst, but looks ebony from the back.  Ready to rock!

 

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Cool Cap . Those 57 pickups is great for ACDC stuff. Real easy to dial in . And work great for all vintage rock tones . You will Be impressed. Enjoy your new Axe. It]s pretty. 

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wow, I normally do not like SG's but this is cool, and my favourite humbuckers. enjoy

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Very impressive? .. rock on?

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For those about to Rock... we salute you!

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10 minutes ago, Eracer_Team-DougH said:

For those about to Rock... we salute you!

@Eracer_Team-DougH  Somebody's been watching too many movie reruns... :D

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Very nice Cap!

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Wow, great find CapM, enjoy! 

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That is one fine looking SG. Have fun with it!

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Really nice looking SG, Cap!  My first "nice" guitar was almost an SG.  I looked at one at Chicago Music Exchange and told the salesman when I got home I would call him and have him ship it.  Then I found a LP at home.  I ended up selling the LP because it was too darn heavy.  I have always wondered "what if".

I look forward to hearing more from you and this guitar.

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Congrats!  I've always been partial to the looks of an SG, even back to before I began to like Les Pauls.

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Congrats on the find. She's a beauty. I will be interested in what you think of the auto-tuners, G-Force. I am swapping mine out for traditional tuners. I find them to be a bit fussy at times, and frequently are unstable with the tuning.Fun to play with at first but tiresome in the long run.  

Greg

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Congratulations. That is one beautiful guitar. I keep reading that they are neck heavy but this can be overcome with a suitable strap.

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Oooh, I like that one!  Congratulations!!!

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wow Cap she is a beauty.. love it. I have an Epi SG, 400 Pro, bought as a fluke from Sweetwater  and turns out I love it. Let us know about the GForce Tuners. I have heard mixed reviews.. Congrats she is really nice!

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On 9/22/2018 at 1:33 PM, gotto said:

Congrats on the find. She's a beauty. I will be interested in what you think of the auto-tuners, G-Force. I am swapping mine out for traditional tuners. I find them to be a bit fussy at times, and frequently are unstable with the tuning.Fun to play with at first but tiresome in the long run.  

Greg

Here's my experience with the tuners.  I've traditionally been against them, but considering I was just a play-at-home guitarist, I really didn't need it.  I always plug into a tuner or have my DAW's tuner.

However, it's different to be in a band.  I have about 6 different tunings (standard, drop D, Eb, D standard, open G, drop Db) I use and now they want me to play slide on a Black Crowes song that's Open Gb, so that'd be 7. Here's where the tuner comes in handy because it starts tuning all the strings at once.  To tune to Eb for example (this is where you tune every string down 1/2 step, or one fret basically), manually you would tune one string at a time.  After tuning one string, you go to the next, but that invariably makes the string you just tuned out of tune as the neck tension changes.  So when changing tunings manually, it takes 3 or 4 efforts to retune before every string is in tune.  So the auto tuners on the guitar accomplish this because they tune every string at once, so it's very quick and accurate!

The downside of these tuners is that when I go from open G back to standard, it doesn't handle it too well.  It gets confused and sometimes it even tries to take a string down an entire octave so that it becomes completely slack.  Going from standard to Eb doesn't seem to confuse it - it's mainly on the open G to standard.  I think what I have to do is retune the E's and A strings manually to get it close and then use the G-Force to fine tune it.  So I could never totally trust the G-Force at a gig without having another tuning system as a backup.

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On 9/23/2018 at 7:58 PM, Shakey said:

Congratulations. That is one beautiful guitar. I keep reading that they are neck heavy but this can be overcome with a suitable strap.

I found this to be true.  However I do have a neoprene strap (one that Steve recommended a long time ago, a bass strap) that handles this pretty well.  This is not an issue at home sitting down.

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I believe tuning the auto tuners manually is strongly discouraged and could damage the unit. I would review this with the manual before pursuing tuning any strings by hand. This is one of my gripes also when switching tunings and even with standard retuning sometimes. Certain strings seem to want to downtune. Changing strings is also a pain with the autotuners, in my opinion.

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13 hours ago, gotto said:

I believe tuning the auto tuners manually is strongly discouraged and could damage the unit. I would review this with the manual before pursuing tuning any strings by hand. This is one of my gripes also when switching tunings and even with standard retuning sometimes. Certain strings seem to want to downtune. Changing strings is also a pain with the autotuners, in my opinion.

Greg

Instructions say tune manually but only when off.

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Ahh, this is a change from the first generation auto tuner that I have. That is definitely a desired feature upgrade.

Greg

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At one time the Gibson auto tuners, you just pulled them out like the knob on a watch, which would disengage the gears for manual tuning

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3 hours ago, gotto said:

Ahh, this is a change from the first generation auto tuner that I have. That is definitely a desired feature upgrade.

Greg

It doesn't move freely when manually tuning as compared to a regular guitar.  You can hear and feel the gears moving, so I'll do this sparingly!

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That's a work of art! It must play beautiful music.

Enjoy!

Bill

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