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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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.
