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10 Useful Facts About The Gibson SG Electric Guitar
By: Jim J Ward
The Gibson SG electric guitar has grown to be astonishingly popular over its many years of production. The layout of the electric guitar with its Gothic looking horns and flat top will never be to everyone's taste, and this was indeed the problem with a particular Mr Les Paul. That being said, the Gibson SG grew to become extremely popular in numerous genres of music on account of its cutting, no-nonsense sound.

Following next are 10 engaging facts about the Gibson SG:

1. The guitar was unveiled by Gibson in 1961 and has continued to be made since that date.

2. The guitar was conceived on account of the decline in the sales of the Les Paul shape. The Les Paul design was given an all mahogany body with the flat top and also the crucial double cutaway. This new Les Paul was ultimately renamed the SG model on account of Les Paul himself not liking the current appearance of the guitar named after him.

3. The SG ordinarily comes with an all mahogany neck and body. The neck is a shallower design than that of a Les Paul standard.

4. The guitar in addition utilised two humbucker guitar pickups and a Tune-o-matic bridge set up, although a small number of specialist models would have featured a tremolo system.

5. A larger sized 'bat winged' style pick guard was unveiled in 1967 to replace the primary smaller sized version.

6. The SG gained a reputation for being neck heavy as a result of its thinner mahogany body, which ended up being considerably lighter than that of a Les Paul guitar.

7. Eminent SG players include: Tony Iommi of Black Sabbath, Eric Clapton and Jimi Hendrix. Jimi Hendrix's cream three pickup SG currently resides in Orlando's Hard Rock Cafe.

8. The scale of a mahogany neck is 24.75" and joins the guitar's body at the 19th fret. The double cutaway permitted far easier access to the high notes.

9. Guitarist Tony Iommi of Black Sabbath endorses this kind of guitar and the ones that bear his signature have religious crosses inlaid into the Rosewood fretboard instead of the stock block inlays.

10. A double-neck version of this model of guitar was additionally constructed by Gibson utilising six string and twelve string necks. Jimmy Page of Led Zeppelin famously played this double-neck version of the guitar when playing live at various phases throughout his long and illustrious career.

So there you have it, 10 intriguing facts about this fantastic guitar. Not all guitars achieve legendary status but the Gibson SG model in my opinion surely does. It's been with us for countless years and without doubt will continue to appeal to guitarists of all styles for many years to come.


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Jim Ward is a keen guitar player and loves to write about various aspects of the electric guitar. For an excellent guitar blog and high quality replacement pickups for an SG or other style guitar he recommends visting: http://www.tubguitarpickups.co.uk
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