Gibson has given the SG the Customized Colour remedy, refreshing the doublecut electrical guitar with six new end choices, together with two ‘burst finishes that even the Les Paul Requirements didn’t get after they inaugurated the sequence in August.
The new drop accommodates the SG Same old and SG Same old ’61. As we noticed at the Les Pauls, the new Customized Colour end choices vary from the borderline conventional to one thing a bit extra bold.
A Translucent Teal or Silver Mist SG? Now you might be speaking. Perhaps the old-school SG acolyte may in finding TV Yellow or Vintage White extra their tastes. Then we’ve the ‘burst finishes; Pelham Blue Burst and Cardinal Crimson Burst, and each are rather beautiful.
There’s a case to be made right here that the guitar used and abused via the likes of Angus Younger and Tony Iommi hasn’t ever regarded higher. Opting for between the ’61 and the Same old gained’t be simple. They’re each rock ’n’ roll machines in their very own proper.
The SG Same old introduced as a new-look unfashionable construct, impressed via overdue ‘60s fashions. Those all have the lengthy tenon Nineteenth-fret neck joint. All of them game the five-ply full-face pickguard – in black, it is going with all six of the new colors, with 490R and 490T Alnico 2 humbucker pickups on the neck and bridge positions respectively.
The SG Same old ’61, in the meantime, has a five-ply black teardrop pickguard, and 2 ‘60s Burstbucker humbuckers on the bridge and neck positions. The neck joins the frame on the twenty second be anxious.
The six new end choices are to be had throughout each fashions. The core recipe is the in large part the similar; mahogany frame, glued-in mahogany neck, the 24.75” scale period, a 12” radius fingerboard of Indian rosewood with acrylic trapezoid inlays.
There are alternatively some key variations, a few of them in how the guitars really feel. The SG Same old ’61 has a SlimTaper neck profile whilst the SG Same old has a fuller rounded form.
There are some {hardware} variations too, with the Requirements having Grover Rotomatics with nickel kidney bean buttons and the ’61 fashion having antique deluxe tuners with keystone buttons.
The Same old’s truss rod duvet bears the SG designation whilst the ’61 fashion’s is left clean. And the place you have got nickel-plated {hardware} at the ’61 fashion, the SG Same old has chrome.
The Customized Colour SG Same old is priced $1,799 and ships in a soft-shell guitar case. The Customized Colour SG Same old ’61 is priced $1,999 and ships in a hard-shell case. You’ll be able to take a look at extra over at Gibson.
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