New Gibson Custom Limited Run SG

[alan67]

The SG Custom in this line is tempting me - it's the SG I've always wanted - diamond custom headstock inlays without the 3 pickups. However, at 3k I'm concerned about what I've heard regarding their QC.

http://www.gibson.com/Products/Electric-Guitars/2017/Custom/SG-Custom.aspx

 

[peterc52]

I will never buy a Gibson again. I've had many Gibson through the years - mostly custom shop. And every fucking time there has been quality issues. Mostly binding and paint failures.

 

[ProgFree]

The SG Custom in this line is tempting me - it's the SG I've always wanted - diamond custom headstock inlays without the 3 pickups. However, at 3k I'm concerned about what I've heard regarding their QC.

http://www.gibson.com/Products/Electric-Guitars/2017/Custom/SG-Custom.aspx

This guitar is absolutely gorgeous! Have you bought it yet?

I will never buy a Gibson again. I've had many Gibson through the years - mostly custom shop. And every fucking time there has been quality issues. Mostly binding and paint failures.

Funny, my experience is the opposite. Have been buying great custom shop and non-custom shop Gibson guitars through the years. But I always tried some before picking the one I'm buying, maybe this makes the difference. idk

 

[spguitar]

I want that Firebird but i think i'm going Aristides if i'm spending 2k+.

 

[sg guy]

-I consider myself to be one lucky man!!.. Gonna buy a mega bucks ticket on my way to VEGAS,... have been looking for ONE of these piece of shit, unplayable, QC HAS GONE TO HELL SINCE 1969 GIBSON's since they plaque began, haven't seen or played one yet, the GERIATRIC PAGE told me to check out GC, but I'm bitter and believe no one.

 

[Mesa\Kramer]

If Gibson could make and sell the Les Paul custom Lite's for $1,699 just a few years ago, they can make and sell these SG's for under 2 Grand and not for almost 4k

 

[alan67]

The SG Custom in this line is tempting me - it's the SG I've always wanted - diamond custom headstock inlays without the 3 pickups. However, at 3k I'm concerned about what I've heard regarding their QC.

http://www.gibson.com/Products/Electric-Guitars/2017/Custom/SG-Custom.aspx

This guitar is absolutely gorgeous! Have you bought it yet?

I will never buy a Gibson again. I've had many Gibson through the years - mostly custom shop. And every fucking time there has been quality issues. Mostly binding and paint failures.

Funny, my experience is the opposite. Have been buying great custom shop and non-custom shop Gibson guitars through the years. But I always tried some before picking the one I'm buying, maybe this makes the difference. idk

No doubt being able to sort through a lot of them makes a difference - unfortunately that's rarely an option. But again, at that price point the presence of major, even minor flaws - should almost never happen on guitars being signed off on by QC. If you want to sell them as "seconds" and drop the price that's different.

 

[ed_Sped2]

If Gibson could make and sell the Les Paul custom Lite's for $1,699 just a few years ago, they can make and sell these SG's for under 2 Grand and not for almost 4k

They are sexy as hell and I'm sure they play/sound great, but the price point is just absurd. I'm going to wait until they show up on the used market.

 

[155]

I will never buy a Gibson again. I've had many Gibson through the years - mostly custom shop. And every fucking time there has been quality issues. Mostly binding and paint failures.

thats bullshit in my experience but whatever...

 

[Shawn Lutz]

I will never buy a Gibson again. I've had many Gibson through the years - mostly custom shop. And every fucking time there has been quality issues. Mostly binding and paint failures.

I'm 3 for buying newer (2008, 2009, 2012) LP's used without ever laying a hand on them. 2 Historics and Production Traditional +

 

[Bishop5150]

Man, that is nice.

 

[Deanmachine]

That F-bird !

 

[errrrrl]

I will never buy a Gibson again. I've had many Gibson through the years - mostly custom shop. And every fucking time there has been quality issues. Mostly binding and paint failures.

I'm 3 for buying newer (2008, 2009, 2012) LP's used without ever laying a hand on them. 2 Historics and Production Traditional +

I have a 2003 R7 Goldtop that I recently took to my local luthier to setup for heavy guage strings. He called me on Saturday to tell me that the trust rod isn't working right and that it could have been threaded incorrectly at the factory... kind of shocked me at first, I have always heard tales of Gibson quality control issues but this was a first for me.

 

[Loudness250]

I will never buy a Gibson again. I've had many Gibson through the years - mostly custom shop. And every fucking time there has been quality issues. Mostly binding and paint failures.

I'm 3 for buying newer (2008, 2009, 2012) LP's used without ever laying a hand on them. 2 Historics and Production Traditional +

I have a 2003 R7 Goldtop that I recently took to my local luthier to setup for heavy guage strings. He called me on Saturday to tell me that the trust rod isn't working right and that it could have been threaded incorrectly at the factory... kind of shocked me at first, I have always heard tales of Gibson quality control issues but this was a first for me.

That is bad to hear, glad I didn't pull the trigger yet on a LP. I'm probably just gonna get another good copy at some point.

 

[errrrrl]

I will never buy a Gibson again. I've had many Gibson through the years - mostly custom shop. And every fucking time there has been quality issues. Mostly binding and paint failures.

I'm 3 for buying newer (2008, 2009, 2012) LP's used without ever laying a hand on them. 2 Historics and Production Traditional +

I have a 2003 R7 Goldtop that I recently took to my local luthier to setup for heavy guage strings. He called me on Saturday to tell me that the trust rod isn't working right and that it could have been threaded incorrectly at the factory... kind of shocked me at first, I have always heard tales of Gibson quality control issues but this was a first for me.

That is bad to hear, glad I didn't pull the trigger yet on a LP. I'm probably just gonna get another good copy at some point.

Kind of bums me out, I love the shit out of the neck on that R7... like a bat. I have a good copy, Orville by Gibson LP Custom but its got the 60's profile thin neck. I read somewhere that the Japanese based the majority of their copies off the 60's profile or something like that.

So the luthier called again today and said he feels he can do a "recovery" by taking out some wood, replacing the nut and re-threading the trust rod. I gave him the ok to go for it.

 

[sg guy]

-I've been looking for a gold top for about 2 years, played all kinds of les pauls, I was really impressed with both the tribute series, and the auto tuner ones-(anyone ever play one of these after they removed the auto tuner, and left the brass u-shaped nut? they should put those nuts on ever Gibson, the tuning stability was awesome, I tried 3 at a guitar center in Portland Oregon, every single one of them was in tune, I don't mean close, or everything but the dreaded "G" string, in tune, these where floor or first row guitar's, every time I go to try out something at GC, I know its gonna be way out of tune, that's just a fact,

 

[sg guy]

-OK, here's my findings on Les Paul's over a 2 year period, playing as many as I could find, that for whatever reason , not just gold top Gibson's...
-the tribute series are a good bang for your buck guitar, but if that price point was higher, like close to the $400-$500 mark for a brand new les Paul, it wouldn't interest me, they sound great, they play great, but what kept me from buying one, it didn't hang on me like I want it to, where was that girth, where was the sustain, I may be biased, I like heavy les Paul's, so maybe I decided before I even tried it

 

[BackCrack]

I guess I'm a snob, but the fact that all of these Customs don't use an ebony fingerboard is a turn-off for me. They all use Richlite, except for the Modern Double Cut and the Paint Over that use rosewood (rosewood on a Custom?). Here's a quote from Richlite.com...

...Composed of approximately 65% FSC®-certified or recycled paper content and 35% phenolic resin...

Just my opinion, but if I'm going to blow this kind of coin on a new Gibson Custom, then I'd want ebony.

 

[ProgFree]

I guess I'm a snob, but the fact that all of these Customs don't use an ebony fingerboard is a turn-off for me.

Just my opinion, but if I'm going to blow this kind of coin on a new Gibson Custom, then I'd want ebony.

I'm with you on this one. I actually thought that the 2017 limited series had ebony fretboards. So why the Les Paul in that series is limited? What's different from the regular custom?

 

[thiswaythatway]

I will never buy a Gibson again. I've had many Gibson through the years - mostly custom shop. And every fucking time there has been quality issues. Mostly binding and paint failures.

I've a lot of bad luck with Gibsons but it was used one's, so someone else was the reason they were fucked up. I bought a new Traditional Pro IV for $1500 and other than some slightly shoddy work on the bottom edge of the neck on the binding, it's flawless. Plays great, sounds damm good.


Having said all that, I wouldn't spend 3-5k on their limited runs one's. Wait for a sale on a Classic, Traditional, or save up for a Historic.