Help Identifying Gibson SG

[jacobpotato99]

Hello! Can anyone help me identify this SG / Les Paul SG? What year? Which model? The photo's from 1974, it's Earl Slick playing on a Bowie tour.

 

[papagayo]

Customized Melody Maker ?

 

[Decadent Dan]

60’s SG Melody Maker or large guard SG Junior routed for humbuckers. I can’t think of anything else with dot inlays and no binding. The large guard Junior had a regular sized, 4-control cavity that (I assume) would be an easy mod to add 2 pots and a switch.

 

[Norton]

I don't think it's a melody maker. the lighting is weird on the headstock.... but it looks like the headstock is the larger gibson one. which would make this a modified SG Jr. maybe even a LP (sg) jr??

 

[njpaulc]

I believe there was a period of time in the later '60's when SG Melody Makers had a large headstock.

 

[Norton]

melody maker with binding on the neck????

 

[Decadent Dan]

I don’t see any binding.

 

[cerebral gasket]

66-71 SG Junior routed for humbuckers.
Short Vibrola was removed.
They had large control cavity.
Selector switch, neck volume and tone controls added.

Never understood these kinds of mods.
Why not buy a Special?

 

[Decadent Dan]

 

[Norton]

very clear from those pics! that first one looked like a bound neck. apparently the headstock was shy and didn't like to be photographed.

 

[njpaulc]

Here's a picture of an SG Melody Maker with a large headstock. I knew there were a few.

 

[chilipeppermaniac]

I don't think it's a melody maker. the lighting is weird on the headstock.... but it looks like the headstock is the larger gibson one. which would make this a modified SG Jr. maybe even a LP (sg) jr??

This is what I was seeing too on the Headstock.

 

[chilipeppermaniac]

Here is Slick with his 1965 Jr.

 

[chilipeppermaniac]

 

[PermissionToLand]

I believe there was a period of time in the later '60's when SG Melody Makers had a large headstock.

Here's a picture of an SG Melody Maker with a large headstock. I knew there were a few.

1969-1970 had a full size headstock, but it was never painted black like the Junior.

Melody Maker

The Melody Maker was Gibson's most inexpensive solid body electric model, slotting below the Junior. It was originally introduced in 1959 with a body shape similar to the single-cutaway Les Paul Junior, and a narrower headstock design that makes it cheaper/easier to build by not requiring wings...

solidguitar.fandom.com

 

[MR D]

TNX 4 posting this , I usually do not watch these types of video's BUT in this video the comparisons are striking........The '61 SG Standard and the '67 SG Special sound the BADDEST to me.....surprisingly, the '68 SG Custom (Hendrix?) sounded the least desirable of the bunch, altho certainly no slouch of a guitar....I'd gladly play any/all of them...

Ya just cant go wrong with a GIBSON SG, no....ya just can't....I've yet to find one I cant make SCREEEEM !

 

[chilipeppermaniac]

Glad you liked it, Mr D