[Cutting your music chops later in life]

On 3/6/2020 at 10:47 AM, Sgt. Pepper said:

I played for a few years starting at 16, and give it up before I tuned 21. Joined the military for 23 years. In 2007 or so got a nice tax return back and decided to by a Fender Tele and have been playing ever since. I could in no way shape or form be in a band. I play for me and me alone. I suck and I know it. But I have nice guitars to suck on. Now here comes Big Bill.

Very similar feeling here too.

[Gibson SG smell]

My SG has that vanilla / nitrocellulose paint smell I've been reading about.

But I feel its sort of tobacco-ish in nature too. (ie; vanilla pipe tobacco?)

I've never seen that mentioned so I'm unsure if that is along the same lines as the paint smell or I'm catching a different whiff.   

[2019 SG pickup movement]

How loose are the pickups generally?

Both pickups can easily be rocked with a light touch. 

Its mostly the bridge pickup but really both have movement.  

Definitely not fixed solid in the body ike my strat pickups. 

 

 

[What year would you consider this build date?]

Good point.  I never thought about it that way.  But the serial # search I used was way off.

190028448

[What year would you consider this build date?]

I have a SG with a 11/1/18 build date. 

It was sold to me as a 2019 model but wondering if you would consider that technically a 2018?

Sort of like new vehicles when the "new model year" comes out in the fall if the previous year.