Epiphone SG Special Electric Guitar, Cherry

Good guitar
Good little guitar for the price didn’t expect the kill pot bought it for my son he loves it and he has several other high price guitars and he plays this one more than any color is great action was great out of the box tuners were a little loose at the tuning knobs but that was a super easy fix other than that it’s a great guitar for the pics and has a really beefy sound and has good pickups in it makes a great first player guitar or just if you want a good travel to practice I’d actually be willing to play a show with it it’s very smooth and great finish also no complaints

Excellent guitar
I was very impressed with the quality, finish and playability of this guitar. I’ve been playing for 30 years and own about a dozen electric guitars of various makes across a wide range of prices. I wanted to get an SG to play some classic rock and have fun with. I didn’t expect much for the price, but I tried this guitar and the G400 Pro and honestly preferred the feel of this one.The guitar came boxed with an inner box to protect it during shipping. Although playability out of the box was fairly good, I had to perform a setup to get the guitar exactly as I wanted. I removed the strings, rubbed down and oiled the fingerboard, then strung it with D’Addario 10-46 nickel wounds. The truss rod required a quarter turn adjustment to get the neck profile straight. The intonation and action were pretty much perfect out of the box. I just raised the action a tiny bit to make it more in line with my other instruments.The pickups are a bit darker than a traditional SG and while they sound great heavily overdriven, the clean sound is a bit lacking in character. After a week or so of playing, I replaced the pickups with a set I bought from Amazon:https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B009A5JA98/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o04_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1These pickups are amazing value for money and sound fabulous. However the pickup frame was larger than the original stock pickups so I had to rout the body slightly to get the new pickups to fit. This was a simple operation which only took me 10 minutes to do with the Dremel.After a bit of work, this guitar now looks, plays and sounds like a professional instrument. It’s rapidly becoming my favorite guitar to jam with. I love it!

Very good playability and workmanship
The finish was excellent, the frets pretty smooth and the fret ends rounded pretty well. You could file down more if you are a stickler for that, but it doesn’t affect my playing at all.The setup was good out of the box. Relief was correct, and intonation was pretty good, but not perfect. Action is good for most styles of playing, although you could set it lower.I wanted a bolt on neck so I can tear it down and put it in a suitcase. I was worried it would wreck the setup, but the neck joint is cut precisely, and it went back in place without losing anything, except I had to set the bridge height.I’m not saying anything about tone, because I’m only played on a cheap practice amp.I think it’s a great guitar for beginner or intermediate. Granted, from the reviews not everyone has been as lucky as me in terms of setup and quality.I’ve had this guitar about a year.

Premessa fondamentale: questa recensione è scritta da profani e per profani, persone che non sanno nulla di chitarre e musica in generale, ma ne sono affascinati e vorrebbero iniziare ad addentrarsi in questo mondo.La Epiphone SG Special si presenta già dalla confezione come un prodotto “no-bullshit”, tutto sostanza e niente orpelli. E’ venduta in una scatola di cartone (resistente e ben congegnata), dentro alla quale non c’è null’altro che la chitarra. Al contrario di molte altre soluzioni per principianti, è venduta senza set con amplificatore-cavo-accordatore etc., per cui il prezzo (158€ quello da me pagato) copre solo lo strumento in sé.Per nell’impossibilità di paragonarla a prodotti di differente livello, la sensazione al tatto e alla presa è immediatamente positiva, i materiali e le superfici danno una bellissima sensazione, e le parti metalliche (in particolare i pick-up e la presa del jack) non hanno assolutamente un aspetto economico.Dopo la prima accordatura e il collegamento ad un amplificatore (nel mio caso un Orange Crush Micro), le corde danno un suono pulito e “rock”, non c’è percezione di eccessivi ronzii e imperfezioni.Bellissimo oggetto in generale.Nota: di questa Ephiphone SG Special esiste anche una versione che riporta in più il suffisso “VE”, che sta per “Vintage Edition”, e costa in media 20€ di più. La differenza è solo estetica (c’è un effetto che riproduce le venature del legno) e non comporta nulla dal punto di vista delle componenti meccaniche ed elettriche.

Bought as “Used Like New”. Arrived quickly. Item is in brand new condition including all accessories, manuals etc which were in new from factory condition. In other words, the item was brand new. I can only echo most of the other comments on here and say it is fantastic value for money. The finish is stunning, and it plays great straight out of the box after a little tweak, I have lowered the action by adjusting the bridge screws. Intonation is spot on, no adjustment necessary. Doesn’t have quite the same sustain as more expensive Epiphone SG and Gibson models, probably because of the bolt on neck but that’s about all the notable difference there is. The ‘killpot’ feature is great fun although musically probably pretty useless. For the price I got it for (£106.00), should it have been no good as a serious musical instrument, it still would have been worth buying to put up on the wall.

Achetée pour apprendre la guitare et la coupler avec le jeu rocksmith 2014, cette guitare est juste superbe.Très bien finie, ultra simple et équilibrée, elle délivre un son qui me convient tout à fait.il y a deux micros et un interrupteur à trois positions.bref une guitare électrique idéale pour un débutant qui ne veut pas racheter rapidement une autre guitare