Squeezle Posted May 6, 2010 Share Posted May 6, 2010 Sorry if this is the wrong place or not proper as a new guy but I don't know a lot about Gibson's except a lot of really cool guitarist play them. So a friend of mine says this is an sg. It plays good but is kind of busted up looking. It has been painted and there is no serial number. He says I can get it for about $475 but I have seen a lot of other new guitars that are perfect looking, although this one seems to play real good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cwness Posted May 6, 2010 Share Posted May 6, 2010 Is the paint on the headstock where it should say Gibson. It looks like a late 70's but has the wrong inlays. CW Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GIANTRobOT420 Posted May 6, 2010 Share Posted May 6, 2010 i smell fish Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cwness Posted May 6, 2010 Share Posted May 6, 2010 Screws on the pick guard are wrong for a late 70's. There is a smell I will agree. CW Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bluemoon Posted May 6, 2010 Share Posted May 6, 2010 Looks like Brazilian rosewood....did it come with a bucket? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blackie Posted May 6, 2010 Share Posted May 6, 2010 ..........hmmmmm........looks like a beat up.........hold on ........... ....let me cash this check................... [YOUTUBE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0e4bqy-_Rao[/YOUTUBE] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jantha Posted May 6, 2010 Share Posted May 6, 2010 Yea, it's really not looking good to me. Some better pictures would be nice though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pohatu771 Posted May 6, 2010 Share Posted May 6, 2010 I'm guessing it's a modified Epiphone G-400, based on the not-quite-right headstock and un-bound fretboard. The smaller pickguard (like the early SGs) is also standard on the G-400, while a Gibson SG Standard has the later, bigger, pickguard. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Squeezle Posted May 6, 2010 Author Share Posted May 6, 2010 I think the guy will let me get it for 50 in cash an air conditioner worth a hundred and a velvet dogs playin cards framed thing............ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
retrosurfer1959 Posted May 6, 2010 Share Posted May 6, 2010 Wasn't it a Epi when you painted it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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pippy Posted May 7, 2010 Share Posted May 7, 2010 It looks like a late 70's but has the wrong inlays.CW The inlays would be fine if it's a Type 1 SG and the neck may be bound - it's hard to tell! Some stuff looks OK and others are certainly wrong but that might just be because it's been 'improved' over the years. I would love to get my hands on it to give it a good going-over. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blackie Posted May 7, 2010 Share Posted May 7, 2010 ...um ......shhh quite on this thread....that be the bicuit guitar I am tryin to sell to squeezle or should I say have him knock my rent down a bit..............tell him it is a good gee-tarr. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ksdaddy Posted May 7, 2010 Share Posted May 7, 2010 I vote that it's real and from the mid to late 60s. Headstock width, pickguard, neck joint, horn sculpting, no volute... sorry, guys, if it's a fake it's got me fooled. It may have been 3/4 destroyed over the years but I say it's the Real Deal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pippy Posted May 7, 2010 Share Posted May 7, 2010 I vote that it's real and from the mid to late 60s. Headstock width' date=' pickguard, neck joint, horn sculpting, no volute... sorry, guys, if it's a fake it's got me fooled. It may have been 3/4 destroyed over the years but I say it's the Real Deal.[/quote'] I'm with you except I'd not rule out the early '60s either!. Hey! If it's from 1961 those may be a set of PAF's... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
freak show Posted May 7, 2010 Share Posted May 7, 2010 Blackie, please tell me you didn't paint your cat for the other avatar... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blackie Posted May 7, 2010 Share Posted May 7, 2010 Does that guitar look like this one in any way............. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ksdaddy Posted May 7, 2010 Share Posted May 7, 2010 I'm with you except I'd not rule out the early '60s either!. Agreed. I misspoke-mistyped. I guess when I think of early 60s I think of them all having that big overgrown sideways vibrola, which isn't tue of course, but it clouded my vision. "How Dumb I am Confession Dept": In 1984 an SG showed up in a local music store on consignment. I can't recall specifics but thinking back it may have been a Special from the 60s routed for humbuckers. It had been refinished horribly with stain and varnish. I looked at the horns and thought, geez, it looks like the treble horn had been chipped off and reshaped.... Gawd, how would I fix THAT? I didn't realize the horns on an SG were asymmetrical. There was nothing wrong with the horns. The price? $125. It lasted one day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pippy Posted May 7, 2010 Share Posted May 7, 2010 "How Dumb I am Confession Dept": I did something very similar in '84 or '85 with a so-called 'Stratocaster'. At the time I had three or four real ones so 'knew' what to look for. The peghead and Fender decal were obviously 'wrong'. It was only $200 so I smelled a very large rat and walked out. Three weeks later I learned about Fender's 'transition period' instruments... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ksdaddy Posted May 7, 2010 Share Posted May 7, 2010 It can work in the other direction too. There was a used junk shop, big building, with... well, you name it. Standard fare of Hondo LP copies and Audition solid bodies from Christmas of '69. Mother's Day 1984 my girlfriend and I walked in there and saw a butt-ugly hollow body electric that someone had painted red with gold glitter. I saw the big backwards F on the tailpiece, flipped it over and saw the big backwards F on the neck plate. A couple months earlier I had coughed up the $30 for a hard cover edition of Tom Wheeler's American Guitars and from that, recognized the junker as being a Fender Coronado II. Turned out to be a 1967. $49.95 later I walked out the door with it. I was able to wet sand the red paint off the headstock, revealing the logo. Wasn't pretty but it was there. I refinished the body blonde. I miss that guitar. It may have been horrid looking but it just begged to be played. Loud. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cwness Posted May 7, 2010 Share Posted May 7, 2010 Blackie have you gone into the fake business. I also think it's against the rules to have multiple login's/ CW Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MojoRedFoot Posted May 7, 2010 Share Posted May 7, 2010 Blackie have you gone into the fake business. I also think it's against therules to have multiple login's/ CW Shenanigans! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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