BODY Species: Solid Mahogany Style: Sculpted SG top and Back
NECK Species: Mahogany Profile: 50s Rounded Peghead Pitch: Angled Headstock - 17 degrees Nut Width: 1.695 Neck Joint: Set-Neck Construction Neck Joint Location: 19 Head Inlay: Gibson Logo - Silk Screened Truss Rod: Adjustable Truss Rod Truss Rod Cover: Gold Bell-shaped cover
FINGERBOARD Species: Rosewood Scale Length: 243/4" Number of Frets: 24 (Nickel and Silver Alloy Fret Wire) Inlays: Trapezoid Fingerboard Binding: Single Ply
HARDWARE Plating Finish:Â Gold Tailpiece: Stop Bar Bridge: Tune-O-Matic Knobs: Gold Top Hats Tuners: Keystone Grovers
ELECTRONICS Neck Pickup: Gibson Original Burstbucker Pro 1 Bridge Pickup: Gibson Original Burstbucker Pro 2 Controls: 1 Volume, 1 Tone, 3-way Switch
CASE Type: Gibson Hardshell Interior: White Case Exterior: Black Silkscreen: Gibson USA Logo
FINISHES Metallic Red
2008 Guitar of the Month - Month 1
The new SG Diablo—Gibson USA’s first Guitar of the Month for 2008—captures the essence of a classic design, and takes it one step further. Like the SG Standard in 1961, the new SG Diablo sets a precedent for style, function, and design. The top and back of the Diablo’s mahogany body are carved to accent the contour of the SG’s distinct lines, giving the guitar a three-dimensional appearance from afar. The Diablo’s controls have been streamlined to one volume and one tone, in addition to the standard three-way switch. The volume control has also been moved closer to the bridge pickup for easy access and volume swells. Gibson’s Burstbucker pickups—a No. 1 in the neck, and a No. 2 in the bridge—give the SG Diablo the subtle variations of true, vintage humbucker tone with historically “unmatched” bobbin windings and Alnico II magnets, just like the original PAFs in the Gibsons of the late 1950s and early 1960s. The new SG Diablo also takes the SG’s 24 3/4-inch scale length mahogany neck and adds two additional frets—for a total of 24—allowing an even higher register of notes from a guitar already known for its searing lead-playing capacity. Gibson’s traditional round neck profile and rosewood fingerboard enhance the guitar’s resonance and sustain, and secures its reputation as the fastest guitar neck in the world. It is available only in a Red Metallic finish, with matching headstock. Like all Guitars of the Month, production is limited to just 1,000 guitars.
