Anyone buy the cheap Gibson melody maker SG?

[glassjaw7]

How are they? Seems like a good bang around axe for a few hundred bux.

 

[Mailman1971]

 

[ConcreteVampire]

Have you played/seen in person one?

Kinda terrible.

Paint, like from a can.

Thin body.

regular Jr's smoke these for $200 more...

 

[Scumback Speakers]

I've got one. I'm in the same mindset as Concrete Vampire.

It's sat in it's gig bag for two years. It's going to need a few things...like tuners. One broke when I went to put on new strings. Past that it has the "faded" finish (or raw paint as I look at it) that needs to be sanded flat. The tone is "meh" from the single P90.

Needless to say my other P90 guitars get more love.

I figure after I put a new WCR P90 in it, swap the pots/caps/tuners and set it up properly it will be worth a shit. Right now, it's gathering dust.

 

[Mailman1971]

...... Right now, it's gathering dust.

I think this about sums it up..

 

[glassjaw7]

Thanks guys, I'll pass.

 

[glassjaw7]

I've got one. I'm in the same mindset as Concrete Vampire.

It's sat in it's gig bag for two years. It's going to need a few things...like tuners. One broke when I went to put on new strings. Past that it has the "faded" finish (or raw paint as I look at it) that needs to be sanded flat. The tone is "meh" from the single P90.

Needless to say my other P90 guitars get more love.

I figure after I put a new WCR P90 in it, swap the pots/caps/tuners and set it up properly it will be worth a shit. Right now, it's gathering dust.

Jim, just noticed something. The one I'm looking is solid color finish not faded, and it has a bucker, not a P90.

 

[Scumback Speakers]

Jim, just noticed something. The one I'm looking is solid color finish not faded, and it has a bucker, not a P90.

Your image isn't showing up. As for it having a bucker, no telling, maybe they brought out a new model.

 

[Stramm8]

I played one today and it played fairly well. I didn't plug it in but it was very resonant (I think it has a maple body), more resonant than the mahogany bodied one that was $200 more. If they had one in the used section for cheap, I'd be all over it.