Meet Angus!

Yesterday we went to a music store to replace my dead guitar tuner with a new strobe tuner. I don't travel 50 miles to go to this store often so while there I played several guitars on one of their typical horrible sounding solid state amps. All of the guitars had problems with build and/or intonation problems. Then I picked up a faded cherry Gibson SG Special. It has the same wood, pickups, tuners, and electronics as the Standard model at $300 less. It's made in the USA. They save money by avoiding cosmetic enhancements like binding and a polished finish. The wood's pores are filled and sanded and it has a light clear coat on top. The trapezoids in the neck are replaced with small dots. None of these things affect the sound and it is sonically like the SG Standard.

With the first strum of a chord I knew this was something special. It had terrific sustain and could go from rock to folk with no effort. The neck has the perfect width for my hands and it is wide enough for easy finger picking as well. If it sounded this good on a mediocre amp I knew it would sound great with my Blues Deluxe amp at home. I looked at the wife and said "This guy is going home with me!". So here is Angus, the newest guitar in our family. I just finished putting new strings on it and intonating it. Watch out, AC/DC! Back In Black never sounded so good on my amp. With soft songs like "Beth" by KISS the notes stand out great and the chords ring forever.