Is it a sin

Ray

To slap together a SG with two humbuckers and then only one volume and one tone control?

To have the jack like where a telecaster has it rather than on the front of the guitar?

Those are questions for something being planned. And if there is a single good thing out of Gibson then it is the SG shape. I bought a PRS SE single cut from JackFlash some while back and the two controls are more than enough as far as I'm concerned. Maybe not for some but definitley for me. Another thing could be to put a Stratocaster type jack on the SG but that detracts a bit much dont you think? I just dont care too much for this thing sticking out from the front.

Then I would also like to know if the Bigsby stuff is available for lefthanders. I'm not a mollydookah but I'm doing a lapsteel with some kiaat planks I found in my old man's storeroom. He is in hospital so I'm making hay ne. So, I was thinking that maybe a little vibrato arm might be quite grand on the thing. Better still if you could get something that could act on the strings sort of independently so you can wang away at one or two strings or maybe more and the others stay put.

Cheers - Ray

singemonkey

It's not a sin. It can be nice to have the tone control in the middle position and to be able to change volume with the flick of a toggle switch though.

If it's the shape you're after, I recommend going with the original early '60s look, rather than the revised late '60s look that is still the basis for the SG standard look today. Once you see the difference you can't unsee it.

1961 SG:

1968 SG:

The obvious difference is the pickguard. But that's not the whole story. Check out where the neck joins and the bevels on the bodies of both. The neck joint in the '68 was revised and hence the cutaways don't look as sharp and devilish. Likewise the bevels on the '68 are far less extreme. It's the sharp angles and the deep joint that really typify the demonic look of the SG.

Left handed Bigsby B5:
http://www.allparts.com/Bigsby-B5-Vibrato-Tailpiece-Left-Handed-Nickel-p/TP-3640-L01.htm

Bob-Dubery

Ray wrote: To slap together a SG with two humbuckers and then only one volume and one tone control?

To have the jack like where a telecaster has it rather than on the front of the guitar?

Soothe thy troubled brow, Brother Ray. All is good.

BUT it won't look like an SG, just SG-ish. But then maybe that means you can modify the shape a bit and call it an X-Ray or a StingRay (oops! No. Music Man already used that name) or a Ray Gun or something.

Maybe this photo will ease your conscience...

singemonkey

ActionArnie

singemonkey wrote:

Yes! Now that's rock 'n roll

Tokai-SA

Ray

It's not a sin, but, leave the SG as is. ?

Gearhead

Tokai SA wrote: Ray

It's not a sin, but, leave the SG as is. ?

+1
just get a right angle (elbow) jack for your guit lead, saves the stickout.

I recently got meself an SG and must tell you the jack is not in the way sticking out the top...

AlanRatcliffe

It's not a sin (anyway, I'm rather fond of a whole host of sins ?). If that's what will suit you better than the standard conventions, why not?

Forgive the sidetrack, but that's where we are lucky in this day and age - we have lots to choose from. Where players of yore had only a few major choices and were stuck with whatever else was part of the package (Fender with single-coils and a 25.5" scale, Gibson with humbuckers and a 24.65" scale, etc.), we get to choose every little detail and, if it doesn't exist, someone will create it for us.

Some regard the late '50s - early '60s as the golden age of guitars, but I think that we are living in that age now. in a few short years from now, while the knowledge, understanding and technology will continue improving, the raw materials (at least those of the wooden variety) won't be around to make the most of it.

domhatch

if you have to ask, as they say. but i reckon if it works for you...

Clint-Green

I think it's all about whatever makes the experience of playing the guitar better for YOU ?

I've seen a My Chemical Romance vid where one of the guys has had the toggle switch and the neck pickup removed from his Les Paul and the cavities covered up with blue box tape; now THAT's a sin! ???

On my Ibanez RG rebuild I decided to move the volume knob down about 3cm on the body because it gets in my way in the stock position...

So whatever blows your kilt up, dude! ?

singemonkey

Alan Ratcliffe wrote: Some regard the late '50s - early '60s as the golden age of guitars, but I think that we are living in that age now. in a few short years from now, while the knowledge, understanding and technology will continue improving, the raw materials (at least those of the wooden variety) won't be around to make the most of it.

+1 Those '50s and '60s models have been studied so hard now, some luthiers know a lot more about them than the original manufacturers did. And they've definitely been recreated to the point that there was more variation within those original production lines than there is between the original lines and some of the modern replicas.

And then there are a host of other options and possibilities that just didn't exist back then to suit every player. Good woods are more expensive but, for the time being, still available.