After owning 4 SG's in my life and selling them all, I once again have a hankering to own one. Of the 4, 2 had ebony fingerboards...A '73 Standard and one of those tomato soup "Platinum" Guitar Center specials. That was actually my favorite SG of all but it developed a bad neck crack so Gibson replaced it with 2008 (I think) Standard. The other one I owned was a '61 reissue. The '61 reissue and '08 Standard had rosewood fingerboards and I never really was in love with either of those guitars. Also the '61 reissue had a thin neck and I like a thicker (medium to "baseball bat") neck. The only reason I sold the '73 (my first) was the narrow nut width - that bugged me.
What I'm finding is ebony fingerboards seem quite hard to find. Are there certain years or models I can look for that had ebony so I can make my search a bit easier? Not an absolute "must" but definitely prefer the feel.
2nd question- Pickups: All of these SG's I owned were stock. Once again, to me the '73 and the Platinum had more crunch and grit, the other 2 just seemed a bit more feeble in the pup dept. I don't know based on this info if anyone could point me to years/models with what I might gravitate towards? I see what seems like a million Standards with rosewood fingerboards, I'd still consider a new '61 but the neck size worries me. One last point...I've pondered the P90's but I'm so used to humbuckers in an SG I don't know if I could switch (plus my main guitar now is a Ritchie Kotzen Tele and even with one humbucker in the bridge I can get all kinds of single coil sounds out of it).
Anyhow sorry for the long post just looking for some possible search pointers!
What I'm finding is ebony fingerboards seem quite hard to find. Are there certain years or models I can look for that had ebony so I can make my search a bit easier? Not an absolute "must" but definitely prefer the feel.
2nd question- Pickups: All of these SG's I owned were stock. Once again, to me the '73 and the Platinum had more crunch and grit, the other 2 just seemed a bit more feeble in the pup dept. I don't know based on this info if anyone could point me to years/models with what I might gravitate towards? I see what seems like a million Standards with rosewood fingerboards, I'd still consider a new '61 but the neck size worries me. One last point...I've pondered the P90's but I'm so used to humbuckers in an SG I don't know if I could switch (plus my main guitar now is a Ritchie Kotzen Tele and even with one humbucker in the bridge I can get all kinds of single coil sounds out of it).
Anyhow sorry for the long post just looking for some possible search pointers!
