Playboy Hottie SG

The Playboy Hottie SG was a limited run released in 2003, in conjunction with Playboy Magazine to celebrate the magazine's 50th anniversary. It was built by the Custom Shop and is based on a Historic 1961 Les Paul / SG Standard Reissue.

Features

Body:

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

Neck:

• 1-pc quartersawn Honduran Mahogany
• 1960 Slim Taper C profile (.830" / .960")
• Set-in construction
  • Joins body at 22nd fret
  • 3 degree pitch
• Indian Rosewood fretboard
  • Aluminum trapezoid inlays
  • 12" radius
• Medium Open Book headstock w/ Holly veneer
  • Inlaid Mother of Pearl Gibson logo
  • Inlaid Mother of Pearl Bunny Head
  • 17^o pitch
• 22 medium-jumbo frets

  

  Aftermarket truss rod cover

• 24 ⁵/₈" scale
• Nylon nut
• 1 ¹¹/₁₆" nut width

Binding:

• Single-ply, neck
• Thinner vintage-style
• Fret-edge binding
• Tortoise cellulose dot markers

Electronics:

• '57 Classic Humbuckers
  • AlNiCo II magnets
  • ~7.9k Ohms DCR
  • Nickel plated covers
    • "Playboy" engraved neck cover
• Switchcraft 3-way switch
• 2 Vol, 2 Tone
  • CTS 500k vintage audio taper pots
  • Ceramic "disk" capacitors

Hardware:

• Nickel hardware
• Grover Rotomatic tuning machines
  • 14:1 ratio
  • Manufactured by Ping
• Aluminum "Hottie" plaque
• Switch ring delete
• Bell shaped truss rod cover
  • 2-ply, standard bevel angle
  • Blank
• Black Bell knobs
• ABR-1 Tune-O-Matic bridge
• Aluminum stopbar tailpiece

Finishes:

• Cardinal Red