Congrats and enjoy!

the wonders of photo editing or a bunch headed to canada darkened up a lot with the stain.

 

Very nice, indeed!

 

Beautiful! I find most of the Gibson limited runs that L&M puts in these flyers look nothing like the actual guitar. I could do without that cherry red in the L&M pic, but in your pic the guitar looks effin great! Im not a fan of trems either, but sometimes its worth it.

 

I once commented that a guitar I went to get at L&M looked nothing like the picture in the flyer, especially as it was the exact guitar in the picture (as in the one they photographed). I got put on blast for some reason when I said they shouldn’t edit the colour of the photos so heavily in the flyers.
The two pictures in the OP show exactly what I was talking about. I teach photography and understand lighting and colour correction. They did a bad job on this flyer and the original one I pointed out a few years back. Probably happens a lot. You’d only notice if you went for a particular thing in the flyer though.

/rant over

 

What a beauty! Enjoy,

 

Hey +cool guitar, enjoy!

 

How do you like the Vibrola?

 

So far so good. I'm not used to it so I find it gets in the way a bit. It leans heavily on form over function though.

 

Is it somewhat Bigsby-ish in wiggleyness?

 

Not even slightly Bigsby-ish. It feels more like a cheap two-point strat trem. I think for me, it's utility is mostly decorative but I'm going to give it a go for a bit.

 

It was designed for a subtle effect; anything aggressive will change the tuning.

 

I saw this. My local store has one. I'd be interested if I could get it with out that vibrato arm.

 

Killer guitar!

That trem creates a very cool tone at least to me it does.
I've installed them on clients Guitars and the tone always improves.
Congrats!

 

How are the thumbwheels on this version? Are they decked or is there still room for adjustment?

 

Looks like lots of room (first thing I checked when I bought it)

 

I love this colour.

Great score !!!

 

So I haven't actually bought a "new" from the store guitar in about two years. I got a sneak peak at the Long & McQuade Rocktober flyer a while back and didn't see anything that knocked my socks off. There was this however


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Anyway fast forward to this morning I stopped into a location I hadn't been to in a while, and there on the workbench was the SG from the ad above. Only it looked nothing like the photo. This one was a dark burgundy, almost Oxblood colour. I asked if it was a customer guitar or a store guitar, and was informed it was sold and the new owner was on his way to pick it up.

Stopped at a location closer to my house, and they had one. I've sold 5-6 guitars in the past year, so I internally justified the purchase - plus I traded in something that would have been hard to move for a really good price (my trade value was more than I paid for the guitar). Anyway, it's a new guitar day for SG #4. The photo probably doesn't do it justice. It's almost the exact same colour as my old 69 SG Special.

I'm not really a fan of "complications" on a guitar like trem systems, but so far this one is relatively subtle and seems to stay in tune as well as can be expected. Part of my BS justification for buying this is it has the T-type pickups which I don't have in any other guitars, but basically I just fell in love with how it looks the minute I saw it. If you get a chance to check one out in person you should - I don't know where they got the one in the ad photo but it looks nothing like the two I saw today.

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The specs of this guitar were put together by one of the managers to essentially make an Angus Young spec’d guitar when he visited Gibson earlier this year. It’s pretty much exactly what he suggested except one or two details they changed, but you‘d have to be an Angus aficionado to know what. Probably the pickups?

 

you‘d have to be an Angus aficionado to know what. Probably the pickups?

I expect it was the nut width. Angus is a narrow nut guy.

 

Love this new color! Super dark-red!

I have seen a couple of 68/69 SGs, and they do often look very dark red. Almost a walnut look to them?