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It's my dream guitar. Not to mention a ton of other off the hook stuff! The reason I like Gibson so much is because it's a brand name I can trust and it's a great guitar. Plus it has awesome styles and cool colors on the guitar.

I bought this guitar new in 1996. This guitar was built in the Nashville plant and has great quality and workmanship. Although I upgraded the pickups to Burstbucker Pro's, the 490r & 490t are really good versatile pickups and sound really good. I'm looking for a little more vintage sound. This guitar has great tone and really light weight compared to a Les Paul. If something really bad happened to this guitar or it come up missing, I would buy another SG maybe a 61' Reissue.

Once in awhile there turns out to be some truth buried beneath the layers of the bull and hype that make up the stories from the days of yore. The SG is pretty much what they've been said to be over the years. These are hard edged little thinline axes that roar with the ferocity of the rocknroll soul. This, for many, is what the humbucker sound is all about. These specials are the best "Real Gibson" guitars you're gonna find for a reasonable price. After 20+ years of axe swinging, I've found most Gibsons to be very over priced, and to some extent, overrated. The SGs, in all grades, are an exception. The tones are close to the Les Paul and with a decent tube amp the differences are all but non-existent. They are light and well balanced. If "looks" are important to you, these demons scream classic rocknroll. LOUD. As mentioned by someone else above, they are very touchy, if you change string gauges you will have to reset the saddles for intonation. The actions are usually a little high for me, but I play Rickenbackers first, so everything else feels high to me. My SG's action feels about the same as my American Strat's does, but the Gibby plays much smoother and easier. If you're into blues, the strings beg to be bent! It bends and wails like a dream. Excellent string to fretboard control. It's plain, and affordable, but its not "Cheap". The SG special is everything those old classic Gibson players swear a Gibson is, or at least, used to be. It's just in a "plain brown wrapper". Someday I hope to get an upgraded model just for the pretty cosmetics and chrome pickup covers. But for the moment the special will have to do me. If you want the classic gritty bump and grind of classic humbucker growl, and you want to own a "genuine Gibson" this little skull crusher's a hands down winner.

I have a house full of guitars and I always seem to come back to this one. It's light weight(the comfort factor). The neck is unreal,instantly increasing your speed. It has great tone and sustain, and it stays in tune. The intonation is fantastic. At this price it's a great value.