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Post by propellr on May 28, 2007 17:05:52 GMT -7
I had seen this 1971 Gibson SG hanging up at Guitar Center for a while. They had it marked at $999.
Today, for the sale, they chopped the price in half!. I played it. It's got one EMG in it, which looks stock. Tons of cool play wear, and mojo. Sure wish I'd had $500 to spend on a guitar, but I'm saving for a new PA.
That thing was sweet! My buddy was looking at it. If he got it, I may get to play it anyway.
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Post by seaking on May 28, 2007 17:19:18 GMT -7
Aaaaa...1971....yes i remember now. Long collars, puffy sleeves and paisley prints. Yup...been there. Errr... excuse me...wondered off there a little. Man, if it gots the Mojo and if it fits in your sceen...Sounds like a steal brotha
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Post by Joey Beverages on May 28, 2007 18:50:39 GMT -7
71 SG ? Dude, I am just in awe and envy right now - rock on! ;D
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Post by skydog958 on May 28, 2007 19:00:40 GMT -7
Very very nice price on that one. '71 (I believe) was the last year Gibson used the original SG shape before they got all funky later on. Can I buy it??? lol
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Post by billyguitar on May 28, 2007 20:13:12 GMT -7
The EMG might have been in there a long time but it is not stock. There may be other mods. This might be a pig in a poke. If it's original otherwise it's cheap enough at $500. You could source an original era pickup but it wouldn't be cheap. I didn't think Gibson did walnut until the later 70s. I'd check the serial number and confirm the actual date.
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Post by propellr on May 29, 2007 7:01:25 GMT -7
Thanks, billy. How do you get to be an expert on SGs? I don't even care if it's not stock, BTW. That guitar was so cool. I'm not going to get it, but if I did, I wouldn't even change the pickup. It sounded just fine, to me. Besides, I subscribe to the take-it-as-it-comes brand of gear acquisition, as far as guitars are concerned. You don't go telling John Travolta to part his hair on the other side-- He's a T-Bird! Okay, maybe you didn't get that, but I'd plug that guitar in and play it as-is, if I were to get it-- it just spoke to me. I don't have the money, but it's a nice dream, huh? I can't get over how light it was, and how thick the neck and fingerboard was on the top of the guitar body at the neck joint. There was more room there for me to dive-bomb my pick in than on my carved-top guitars. It'd make one heck of a road guitar. I just imagine it's the sort of guitar you'd slap some money down on the day you get out of prison and put the band back together.
The lone pickup in this beast is the size of a mini-humbucker, but it is black all over, like an EMG. There's no battery or anything like that. I have no idea what I'm even saying. Anybody got any ideas? I don't even know if it was officially called an SG. Don't SGs have 2 pickups?
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Post by propellr on May 29, 2007 10:22:46 GMT -7
Looks just like this: I guess I'd never seen the Gibson issue mini-humbucker trimmed in black, because that's just like this one I found on craigslist this morning for $1200 (good luck!). I believe the guitar I saw in GC yesterday to be a 1972 Gibson SG I, which has maple construction, stained in walnut.
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Post by propellr on May 29, 2007 10:34:48 GMT -7
Here's a better photo of a different guitar, same model. Here, you can see that the distance from the fingerboard down to the guitar body probably has to do with the thickness of the mini humbucker. You can see the figure of the wood in this image.
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Post by billyguitar on May 29, 2007 11:32:48 GMT -7
I guess I never paid attention to those guitars back then. I always wanted two humbuckings and some inlays. In those days you had to have the hottest pickups you could get so you could drive the amp a bit.
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Post by propellr on May 29, 2007 11:56:46 GMT -7
I guess I never paid attention to those guitars back then. I always wanted two humbuckings and some inlays. In those days you had to have the hottest pickups you could get so you could drive the amp a bit. Yeah, these were student models-- no frills, with time- and cost-saving measures programmed into the designs. I wouldn't have paid any attention to them, either, but, then again, I was only a sparkle in my father's eye in 1972.
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Post by propellr on May 30, 2007 12:24:54 GMT -7
The feeling went away. I'm glad I didn't have the money the other day.
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Post by skydog958 on May 31, 2007 18:06:10 GMT -7
It's funny how that goes sometimes.
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