Description

This 'Inspired by Gibson' guitar, created in collaboration with the Gibson Custom Shop, is Epiphone’s impressive recreation of one of the most important and popular guitar designs of all time. The Epiphone 1961 Les Paul SG Standard is a tribute to the legendary original: the very first SG. In 1961, the original shape of the Les Paul was discontinued and replaced by an entirely new design known today as the SG or 'solid guitar'. Featuring an all-mahogany body with a deep, beveled double cutaway, it also has the fast-playing SlimTaper C-shaped neck profile of those legendary early Les Paul SG models. It is further equipped with two Gibson BurstBucker humbucking pickups, wired to CTS potentiometers and Mallory capacitors, a Graph Tech nut, and a Switchcraft output jack and toggle switch. It is available in Aged Sixties Cherry and Aged Classic White. Naturally, all legendary SG-style features and cosmetic details are present as well.

Specifications:

• Body Shape: SG

• Body Material: Mahogany

• Binding (Fretboard): Single Ply Cream

• Neck Material: Mahogany

• Profile: SlimTaper C

• Nut width: 1.693" / 43mm

• Fingerboard: Indian Laurel

• Scale length: 24.75" / 628.65mm

• Number of frets: 22

• Nut: Graph Tech

• Inlay: Pearloid Trapezoid

• Bridge: Epiphone LockTone Tune-O-Matic

• Tailpiece: Epiphone LockTone Stop Bar

• Knobs: Black Top Hats with Inserts

• Tuners: Epiphone Deluxe

• Plating: Nickel

• Neck pickup: Gibson BurstBucker 2

• Bridge pickup: Gibson BurstBucker 3

• Controls: 2 Volume, 2 Tone, CTS potentiometers, Mallory Capacitors

Pros and cons

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• Choice depends on personal preference