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Gibson decided to go along making the old Les Paul and to rename the new guitar the SG, which stands for Solid Guitar. The Les Paul has been continually made since 1952 and is still sold. The SG was launched to compete with Fender’s Stratocaster, the guitar Gibson had tried and true to take on in 1958 with the initially very unsuccessful Modernistic series- the Explorer, Flying V and Moderne.

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It had a completely different body style- small, light, thin and with two bevelled cutaways and pointed horns . The neck was or so completely off the body with a very high neck joint. The body was everlastingly mahogany, as was the neck. The fingerboard was ebony or rosewood tree. The SG was marketed as having the fastest neck in the world as it was almost separate from the body and had a very slim visibility.

The pickup options were one, two or three humbuckers, or one or two P-90s. Most did not have the optional vibrato systems, although some had Gibson-designed units. A rare feature is the Gibson-designed sideways vibrato, in which the notes were distorted by the player moving the arm from side to side, instead of up and down. This was short lived. gibson angus young signature sg

When the SG was launched the main models useable were the Standard, the Junior and the Custom. The SG Standard had the truss rod cover from a Les Paul and the “batwing” molded scratchplate. It was revised in 1966 and was fitted with a larger scratchplate and different neck joint. The SG Junior was similar to the Les Paul Junior in concept- a cheaper version of the SG, while retaining the shape. The SG Custom was the range-topping model.. gibson sg supreme

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