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I'd definitely get one of the body wasn't all lopsided and weird.. it's like they took the EDS-1275 and just tacked extra wood on in the first available spot to dodge a lawsuit. [biggrin]

 

I'm not paying $1000 for an Epi if it's made out of plywood. [biggrin] I'm also not paying $3-4K for a Gibson.[biggrin] This is the best solution, IMO. So I'l just have to put up with the slightly "off" shape.

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I dance to a slightly different drummer...........

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and...........I found this online, it's the very same guitar I owned 20 or so years ago...........still got my Dimarzio in the bridge, and in other pics, my neck repair is still visible.(AMAZING the things that turn up online)

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EDIT: B.T.W. if any of y'all run across the owner of this guitar, I still have the stock bridge p'up if they want it........or, I'll buy it back if reasonably priced (I miss it)

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I dance to a slightly different drummer...........

GarysCam047.jpg

 

and...........I found this online' date=' it's the very same guitar I owned 20 or so years ago...........still got my Dimarzio in the bridge, and in other pics, my neck repair is still visible.(AMAZING the things that turn up online)

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EDIT: B.T.W. if any of y'all run across the owner of this guitar, I still have the stock bridge p'up if they want it........or, I'll buy it back if reasonably priced (I miss it)

I had a somewhat similar experience a few years back...When I was about 17 I had this Dean guitar that I hocked for a Washburn....10 years later I see my old Dean, stickers and all sitting at the same pawn shop! They either never sold it or it wound up there a second time. Btw, that carving on that sg is whack...did you do it?

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Arrghhh....

 

I traded mine a while back. I slightly regretted parting with it at the time, and seeing this thread makes me regret it even more...

 

 

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Still, at least I've got this to make up for it. Sacrilege, to some, I'm sure, selling an SG to buy one of these...and double sacrilege to then post such a photo in an SG thread...(!)

 

 

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Johnny.

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killer SG's, guys!

 

mines a black 1998 Gibson SG Special, got it in 92. man! i cant believe ive owned a guitar long enough to drink legally (he he!) [biggrin]

 

its in storage right now due to my moving, but i hope to release the beast soon. ive upgraded stuff on it over the years. Dimarzio humbuckers, push/pull phase switches each on 1volume and 1 tone controls, 2 mini 3way toggle switches for coil tap and series/parallel switching. kept the main 3way toggle switch. locking tonepros kluson tuners.

 

ive owned several guitars over the years, and i STILL go back to my first serious guitar. The thing just sounds beautiful and deadly!

If theres ever a fire, its the SG Special that gets saved.

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Like JC's Beauty - I was lucky enough to come across one myself. This Guitar is simply a Killer.

Gasee

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Nice guitar!! I really lucked out on mine because production had quit when I got mine. I went to my favorite music store and I was looking for an Epi 1275. They had 2 used ones, but I just didn't like the feel of them. I was walking out and there it was. I grabbed it an walked around the store with it for about 15 minutes and then put it back. Got in my car and got a couple of blocks away and turned around and went back. I grabbed it and put it on layaway. Really glad that I did, it was the last one they had. I asked to see if they had another one that I could compare it to, but they didn't. That was a long 2 months until I paid it off.

 

I love the looks and feel of the Maestro.

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Thanks JC- I had the same experience - I walked into a GC looking for a Cheap Strat and saw this sitting on the floor. It was dead mint/ almost like it was never played. I plugged it in and was blown away - nice beefy neck/ Great sounding Humbuckers and the Vibrola was the icing on the cake. One of the nicest guitars I have purchased in along time. Its a Keeper.

Gasee

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I'll play. 2000 saein plant

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Got it free a few years ago with the neck broken and some other issues.

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Fixed the neck , put a cover over the hole in the top, and put a Gibson 490R/490T set and new pots in. Also changed the tuners.

 

I really like it. It obviously needs a new nut and it's all dinged up, but it plays good and sounds good.

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I had a somewhat similar experience a few years back...When I was about 17 I had this Dean guitar that I hocked for a Washburn....10 years later I see my old Dean' date=' stickers and all sitting at the same pawn shop! They either never sold it or it wound up there a second time. Btw, that carving on that sg is whack...did you do it? [/quote']

 

No, the carving was "factory" work.......it's an early 70's Electra (Japan) "Tree of Life" SG , the carving is grapes,vines & leaves........the vine & leaf motif is carried up the maple fretboard in mother of pearl & abalone inlays........I got it used in '87 for $75 and sold it in '92 for $200 to finance a "road trip".........wish I'd never sold it, it sounded GREAT !!

 

Another strange "how did THAT get here" experience.........in '93 I sold a really nice '68 Univox Coiley (ES-335 hollowbody copy) for $350 here in Northeast Alabama, to finance a road trip to Pensacola Florida. Then in '99 I was browsing a guitar shop IN Pensacola Fl. and what was hanging in the used guitar section? that very same Coiley, with my identification mark still hidden on it.

"Stranger things have happened."

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