This guitar is a great value, in my opinion. All I had to do was lower the action a bit a tune it up. The mini humbuckers sound impressive, with a lot of articulation and clarity. All hardware and tuning machines were top quality, as was expected. My only minor gripe was that the fret ends could have been finished a bit more professionally; they didn't scratch or cut, but they felt a wee bit rough to me, although the frets were well done aside from that. I can certainly polish out the fret ends myself. Not a big deal for me.
This is my 5th Gibson SG, and I really like all of them. I only acquired my first one 3 years ago, as I used to prefer Les Pauls, but now I'm a big fan due to the weight and access to the neck and upper frets. The block inlays are small but nice, and the minimalist paint jobs suits me just fine. I don't like to pay a fortune for fancy wood and paint and bindings, when they don't add to the playability or sound of the guitar. This is a good, clean looking guitar, with terrific tone and it plays very smoothly for me. I like it very much.
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There are a lot of details I did not like about the way this guitar came out of the ...
There are some details I did not like about the way this guitar came out of the box, for example, the rosewood fingerboard was extremely dry, and that did surprise me since its suposed to be a new guitar, and I also found some imperfections and even scratches on the body and neck as well, also one volume knobe is uneven and badly installed (I easily corrected this myself but still wonder why did they did not do that when a quiality control is suposed to be done), it is like they did not really give a f**** about anything when manufacturing this guitar, the neck union was awfully worked, and underneath the pickguard I found a lot of reamains of wood pieces from when they drilled it to place the pickguard (and did not even clean the surface before putting the pickguard in the place), and that with the presion of the pickguard itself took away some of the paint and harmed the wood mainly this are stetic problem but when you purchase a new guitar you expect quality specially on a Gibson, anyway it sounds amazing and with a little job out of the box, it will rock, I changed my opinion from giving it 4 stars
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Great sound and quality for the price. Very happy with the shipping as well.
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- Reviewed in the United States on October 17, 2017
There are a lot of details I did not like about the way this guitar came out of the ...There are some details I did not like about the way this guitar came out of the box, for example, the rosewood fingerboard was extremely dry, and that did surprise me since its suposed to be a new guitar, and I also found some imperfections and even scratches on the body and neck as well, also one volume knobe is uneven and badly installed (I easily corrected this myself but still wonder why did they did not do that when a quiality control is suposed to be done), it is like they did not really give a f**** about anything when manufacturing this guitar, the neck union was awfully worked, and underneath the pickguard I found a lot of reamains of wood pieces from when they drilled it to place the pickguard (and did not even clean the surface before putting the pickguard in the place), and that with the presion of the pickguard itself took away some of the paint and harmed the wood mainly this are stetic problem but when you purchase a new guitar you expect quality specially on a Gibson, anyway it sounds amazing and with a little job out of the box, it will rock, I changed my opinion from giving it 4 stars
Reviewed in the United States on October 17, 2017
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RaúlReviewed in Spain on December 28, 2017
Está bien pero...
La guitarra llegó sin caja, directamente dentro de su funda envuelta en plástico protector ¿Gibson las vende sin caja?Está bien pero...Raúl
Reviewed in Spain on December 28, 2017
Seguramente es normal pero me gustaría advertir que viene sin correa ni cable. Creo que mejoraría mucho la descripción si se advirtiera.
La guitarra ha llegado con un pequeño defecto: el potenciometro de la pastilla Treble la guitarra deja de sonar entre el 4 y el 7 y por encima del 9.
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- P.R. PearceReviewed in the United Kingdom on March 16, 2018
I already own a Gibson but what a great joy to own a "Brand New" instrument
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Ruggero MelisReviewed in Italy on March 24, 2018
Prezzo abbordabile, chitarra eccellente
