This is just a quick re-visit of the first guitar I 'made' - a kit 'SG' that I enjoyed putting together in 2014. I bought from a UK seller and it was nice quality - £135-ish for a mahogany neck & body that was designed as a set neck. These days you can get a SG for something like £80-90 from Thomann.de - but these tend to be bolt-on SGs which are great fun too, but a little less of an achievement than glue-ing your own first set neck.
If it had any real faults, this guitar body was too light leaving the neck top heavy no matter what tuners I had fitted. This wasn't really a fault of the manufacturer or seller; Gibson's own SG was renowned for being head-heavy.
I naively sprayed the 'Capri Orange' nitro in a damp December - guaranteeing white bloom in the finish. Despite that, it's pretty good looking from a distance :-) Since finishing it I've changed the pickups a few times, fitted a new bridge and filled the body with as much lead as I could fit it there. Prior to this video I just changed to lighter tuners, fitted the Duesenberg vibrato and an adjustable Tusq nut. The action is blindingly good and the bridge pickup is a vintage DiMarzio. The only thing I'll do to this guitar will be to replace the neck IronGear P90 with something a bit more distinctive. But apart from that, I love how it plays now.
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