Question about valuing/pricing an older SG from 1968 -

[ehmanages]

Hi All, Long time lurker with my first post. I have a generic question. Thanks to my interest in Angus' gear, I am drawn to 66-68 era SG Standards and have been hoping to land one from a players perspective rather than as a collector.

 

I have a line on a original vintage 68 Standard with a maestro lyre vibrato that has been played a bunch (!!!) but seems very solid. GETTING SPECIFICS on the guitar. editing...

 

Again, plays and sounds great! What would be a fair range (say as a % of a clean ALL original piece) to pay? All help and comments gladly appreciated. don't have pics unfortunately.

 

Best regards and happy holidays!

[Gibson SG is All I Need]

id go for it if you dont care about value and your never going to sell it. Post pictures if u can!!

[lakehaus]

What you found there is a broken/repaired vintage "husk". Not much else is original. But, assuming the headstock repair is solid, it's a decent player in terms of action and tuning stability, and the non-original mods were carefully applied, this will make a great player.

 

A similar condition '68 SG husk (not much hardware) just sold on eBay for less than $500. I think that is a steal personally.

 

The one you're looking at? Hard to say, but I don't believe it will fetch more than $1200-1500.

[dickey]

I would stay away from any guitar with a repaired headstock. Vintage SG's are notorious for not holding a tune when they were brand new (we used to call thewm SG-Flats back in the day) Iv'e owned 2 headstock repaired Gibsons ( '52 Paul & 68 SG) And neither would hold a tune for more than a few bars of the song. But I got 'em cheap back in the day,and since we didn't have tuners then,who cares if it stayed in tune. (Ever listen to Woodstock? Not 1 song in tune!)

[gearhead]

I would stay away from any guitar with a repaired headstock. Vintage SG's are notorious for not holding a tune when they were brand new (we used to call thewm SG-Flats back in the day) Iv'e owned 2 headstock repaired Gibsons ( '52 Paul & 68 SG) And neither would hold a tune for more than a few bars of the song. But I got 'em cheap back in the day' date='and since we didn't have tuners then,who cares if it stayed in tune. (Ever listen to Woodstock? Not 1 song in tune!)[/quote']

 

 

I haven't had an SG with a repaired neck/headstock but did have a 1968 LP Custom that got knocked off the stand and broke behind the nut and upward under the peghead overlay. Luckily it was with the grain and a pretty clean break, so I got some "professional" wood glue (don't remember what) and did the repair myself. It NEVER went out of tune! But I'm sure it depends on the type of break and exactly WHERE it broke.

[ehmanages]

Editing this to be more precise.

[jimmiJAMM]

I haven't had an SG with a repaired neck/headstock but did have a 1968 LP Custom that got knocked off the stand and broke behind the nut and upward under the peghead overlay. Luckily it was with the grain and a pretty clean break' date=' so I got some "professional" wood glue (don't remember what) and did the repair myself. It NEVER went out of tune! But I'm sure it depends on the type of break and exactly WHERE it broke.[/quote']

 

Unfortunately repaired SG's, no matter how clean the repair, depreciate in value substantially.

[Yew]

But its still a 68. And that means its awesome.