Epiphone Faded G400 SG Electric Guitar (Worn Cherry)

by Epiphone

Product Features

• Worn Cherry

Product Details

• Item Weight: 10 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 16.6 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• ASIN: B0002H0PJM
• Item model number: EGGVWCCH1
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #66,577 in Musical Instruments (See Top 100 in Musical Instruments)

Product Description

The Epiphone Faded G400 is classic guitar you're not afraid to play every day! The SG-shaped Vintage G-400 has the well-worn look and feel of a favorite guitar. It's Worn finish showcases the wood grain (similar to Gibson's popular Faded series). The Epiphone Faded Series' well-traveled look has another advantage when it comes to maintenance: The satin finish and aged inlays on the fingerboard require less cosmetic care than guitars with a glossy finish and new-looking inlays. The G-400 has a one-piece neck with super satin finish, humbucker pickups, chrome hardware and tune-o-matic bridge.

Customer Reviews

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9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Awesome Epiphone SG!!!, January 26, 2005

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Enrique Veas Rioseco "rock'n'roll doctor" (Santiago, Chile) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Epiphone Faded G400 SG Electric Guitar (Worn Cherry)

I purchased this guitar from Musician's Friend on Amazon. Due to some trouble, I had to wait for it for a couple of months. It finally is in my hands and I must say I'm impressed and absolutely satisfied. There's plenty of good reviews of this guitar on the web, so I refer you to those for the features; instead, I want to focus on the quality of the product itself. There is some concern among guitarists about buying instruments online, with random reports about people receiving badly constructed specimens of supposedly quality guitars. It hasn't been my case. This guitar has been known, since it was first released, for being a big improvement in quality for Epiphone, and for being the closest reproduction of a 1961 Gibson SG, for less than a third of the price. The one I received from MF and Amazon completely lives up to such fame: completely solid, flawless construction; gorgeous looks and quality appointments; and above all, near professional performance. Like any guitar that comes new out of the box, it required some action and intonation setup, but that was all: no flaws at all in the general construction or in the finish.

A few comments on the features.
The playability is amazing. The neck has the same satin finish as the body; it's wide and flat but not annoyingly fat or thick; and it joins the body at the 20th fret, giving free access to the last frets. All this makes for a lightning fast playing guitar.
The sound is just great. The pickups are hot, they can really give you that Gibson humbucker crunch, and with high distortion it's just brutal, perfect for everything from riffs to soloing to the mighty pinch harmonic! Of course, there are things that no SG can do, but if you wanted to do those things you would be looking at Strat reviews... but it IS a versatile guitar, it can suit many playing styles, and, unlike other guitars popular in the hard rock/heavy metal world, it can handle clean playing very well.

I encourage anyone who is thinking of buying an SG guitar but cannot afford a Gibson to try this one. Other brands might offer the same quality but just lack the "original" vibe that only Epiphone, being a Gibson subsidiary, can offer... and no, I don't work for Epiphone.

EDIT: the first painful quality issue has surfaced. The wood around the input jack is thin. Due to this, any untoward pressure exerted on the area can potentially crack the wood. I turned around with the guitar plugged in, but the cord was stuck under the amp, and so the plug forced the input jack into the wood and it cracked badly. I had heard that before but I never thought it would happen. So be warned... either you take special care in avoiding this kind of situation, or you don't buy this guitar.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A solid fave, April 22, 2005

A Kid's Review

This review is from: Epiphone Faded G400 SG Electric Guitar (Worn Cherry)

I've just started the electric, having played classical for a couple of months. i went for agood brand, not top oof the range like a gibson, but up in the high guitar range. and it was the epiphone G400 cherry. it look beautiful, the finish is very good, although sometimes it gets fingerpreints on it, but these can only be seen if the guitar is in direct sunlight and they can be wiped of hanyway, and the inlays at the fret are pretty much perfect. it's also hardwearing and has two pickups and a good tone. maybe its just my strings which buzzed a bit ( the 6th string, e string, etc. blah), but after adjusting the bridge, it's gotten better plus I probably need new ones. its a good guitar for beginners and intermediates, and it certainly is a respected company plus it looks good. i'm learning guitar on it and will have it for a long time. so if you're looking for something nice - a proper guitar with quality and good looks as well as a good brand - I'd go with this one. it great, there are possibly a copule minor flaws, its not a fender strat or a gibson les paul, but its a solid guitar that sounds great, plays like it should, and looks damned sexy. although one problem is that it is slighlty top heavy so when in a strap the guitar will want to nosedive down, so you'll have to support it which is a bit annoying, but thats nothing compared to the music this baby makes. the strnings it comes with aren't that great though, don't last too long, and are slighlty thicker gauge, and maybe they buzz on evry guitar so i'm gonna get super slinkys on my guitar. i hear they are good for bending.

5.0 out of 5 stars This SG ROCKS! And at a good price., December 29, 2009

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JT "I wear my pants backwards and on fire, ju... (Odessa) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Epiphone Faded G400 SG Electric Guitar (Worn Cherry)

Whether you're looking to blaze through Black Sabbath's "Paranoid" or ride a Rock n' Roll Train like AC/DC, there is no finer guitar.

While the profile is somewhat thicker than it's $1000+ dollar big brother Gibson SG, this little fellow packs a punch. The satin finish is very beautiful I must say, though the worn brown finish is somewhat darker than the pictured, but it's ok. It's just aesthetics, it's the sound that counts.

The first time I managed to hammer out "Thunderstruck", I was amazed at the action of this budget rocker. My hands danced on it's slender neck and it snarled to life with an overdriven amp. Playing clean, it's a beauty. It takes some tweaking of the tone and volume controls, but you can get the classic rock sound with a quality amp.

The Bridge Humbucker pickup has a sharper treble edge than the neck, which is good for picking the high strings when your playing some seriously heavy metal. The Neck pickup has a much warmer, chunkier tone reminiscent of older 50's guitars, but manages to overdrive the amp without overwhelming it. A big plus is that it cleans up so well at high distortion levels, especially when the selector switch is in the middle position (both Neck and Bridge are on). Under the right circumstances, tweaking the volume/tone controls for each pickup, it sounds as though you have two guitars playing at once.

With a solid state (transistor) amp this puppy has some serious bite, great for heavy metal. With an older tube amp, it can move mountains with the stroke of a power chord. Amazing quality for such a low price, I'd highly recommend it for starting out or graduating up from an acoustic guitar. It's worth every penny. :)

Rock on.