Burstbucker Posted December 30, 2009 Author Share Posted December 30, 2009 While I'm no expert by any means on SG guitars, if I had to bet my own money, I'd bet that most of the fellows out there that think that their SG is one solid plank of Mahogany actually have a guitar made of two or three pieces glued together, expertly matched to make it very hard to spot to the untrained eye. That's just a hunch of course. I think that large slabs of this stuff must be getting pretty hard to come by these days. I can imagine that the SGs that are painted a solid colour could possibly even have four pieces hiding underneath all of that paint! With all of that being said, I don't think that it makes the guitar any less great just because it isn't one solid piece of Mahogany, YMMV. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ronnie Robinson Posted December 30, 2009 Share Posted December 30, 2009 Well my 2008 Standard certainly looks like a one piece ...... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Burstbucker Posted December 30, 2009 Author Share Posted December 30, 2009 Maybe you're one of the lucky ones that got a one piece body, I just don't know how common that is anymore in this day and age. Either way, I'll bet that you've got yourself a kickass guitar. But you'd think that Gibson would set those apart from the other SGs who are two or three piece and charge a premium for the ones that are 1-piece bodies, that way everybody would get a similar product since they're all paying the same price for guitars that are all labeled "SG Standard". Shouldn't they all have the same build quality if the price is the same right across the board? BTW, how often do you guys oil your fretboard? Do you go by how long it's been since the last oiling or strictly on the appearance of the wood? If the wood looks dark and doesn't appear to be dry, should you leave it alone? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dub-T-123 Posted December 30, 2009 Share Posted December 30, 2009 Mine is 2 piece but it really looks like 1 piece. You don't want to oil your fretboard very often at all. Only when it looks like it needs it. When you oil it, do it SPARINGLY. I'd recommend Fret Doctor. That stuff is the best. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Burstbucker Posted December 30, 2009 Author Share Posted December 30, 2009 Yeah, I seem to remember reading that you should keep oiling at a minimum and that's how I've always done it, do it only if needed which seems to be very infrequent. I can't say that I'm at all familiar with this Fret Doctor stuff though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
milod Posted December 30, 2009 Share Posted December 30, 2009 There was just a discussion of fret doctor in the lounge... http://www.beafifer.com/boredoctor.htm You may laugh at this, but fret doctor is "bore doctor" in larger bottles! The guy is a fifer. The web site above kinda answers a lot of question about stuff to put onto a fingerboard. To the SG... Frankly I like pretty, and the original poster's guitar is that. If it plays well, etc., etc., for the owner, that's the important thing. Period. A Gibson should have sufficiently good electronics and everything else that one has a lifetime keeper. I think the SG is likely one of the more versatile and even comfortable-on-a-gig designs that ever has come down the pike. If I hadda figure which of my pieces would have to go and which one to keep... I dunno. Hollow, semi, the SG design... I dunno. When I was younger I stupidly traded back and forth for different guitars 'cuz I thought they "fit" the gigs I was doing. Now I think I was stupid and should have considered more, "am I happy and feeling this instrument is part of me?" m Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yew Posted December 31, 2009 Share Posted December 31, 2009 same here, I think mines a one peice, but it Could be 2 peices, but i cant see, and its better than my epiphone , that was planks of wood with a mahogany veneer on the top Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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