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The Billy Gibbons Ultimate SG was a limited run produced for luxury retailer Neiman Marcus in 2015. The purchase included tickets to see ZZ Top and having the guitar personally delivered to you backstage by Gibbons. The hardshell cases were hand-painted by Nashville-based artist James Willis. Only 10 units were produced, although a few prototypes were later sold off. In 2018, another 5 were built for employees without Gibbons' name attached, in various different colors.

2015[]

  • $30,000 Street

Body:

  • Solid Honduran Mahogany body
  • One-piece construction
  • Historic deep beveling
  • Angled heel
  • Tapered horn tips
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    Nitrocellulose Lacquer finish

Neck:

  • 1-pc quartersawn Honduran Mahogany
  • Slim Taper profile
  • Set-in construction
    • Hot hide glue
    • Unsheathed truss rod
    • Joins body at 22nd fret
  • Indian Rosewood fretboard
    • Pearloid dot inlays
    • 12" radius
  • Flying V headstock
    • Holly veneer
    • Gibson logo plaque
    • 17o pitch
  • 22 frets
    • Leveled by Plek machine
  • 24 5/8" scale
  • Nylon nut
    • Cut by Plek machine
  • 1 11/16" nut width
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Electronics:

  • Two Seymour Duncan Pearly Gates humbuckers
    • AlNiCo II magnets
    • 7.3K (neck), 8.1K (bridge) Ohms DCR
  • 2 Vol, 1 Tone
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Hardware:

  • Gold hardware
  • Gotoh SD90 Kluson-reissue tuning machines
    • 1:15 ratio
    • Green Keystone buttons
    • Single line, single ring
  • Gold-plated tenon cover w/ engraved signature
  • Bell shaped truss rod cover
    • 2-ply, standard bevel angle
  • Gold Bell knobs
  • Texas-shaped, gold-plated control cavity cover
  • ABR-1 Tune-O-Matic bridge
  • Sideways vibrola

Finishes:

  • Copper / Gold

2018[]

18 gibbons ult

Specs same as 2015 except those listed below:

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  • Custombucker humbuckers
    • AlNiCo III magnets
    • ~8k Ohms DCR
  • Black single-ply tenon cover
  • Standard Custom Shop hardshell case

Finishes:

  • Gold / Black
  • Gold / Red