SG Menace

The SG Menace was introduced in 2006 and produced into early 2008. Gibson promotional pictures depict a prototype without the routed pickguard. The neck profile was incorrectly listed on Gibson's website and by retailers as '60s style, and it was also incorrectly said to have a Maple top.

Related:

• SG Gothic
• SG Special Voodoo
• SG Tribute Raven

Features

• $799-$879 Street

Body:

• Beveled, solid Honduran Mahogany body
• Nitrocellulose Lacquer finish
  • Matte sheen
  • No grain filler (open pores)
• "Tribal" channel route around sides

Neck:

• 1-pc quartersawn Mahogany
• '50s Rounded profile (.820" / .960")
• Set-in construction
  • Franklin Titebond 50 glue
  • Joins body at 19th fret
• Ebony fretboard
  • Pearloid Brass Knuckle inlay at 5th fret
  • 12" radius

    

• Narrow Open Book headstock
  • Silkscreened Gibson logo
    • Tattoo style heart & spiderweb design
  • "Made in U.S.A." stamp
  • 17^o pitch
• 22 frets
  • Gold tinted alloy
• 24 ⁹/₁₆" scale
• 1 11/16" nut width

Electronics:

• 490R/498T "Smoky Coils" humbuckers
  • AlNiCo II (neck) & V (bridge) magnets
  • 7–8k (neck) & 9–13k (bridge) Ohms D.C. resistance
  • Transparent bobbins
  • Brass polepieces
• 3-way switch
  • Gold nut
• Switchcraft output jack
  • Gold nut & washer
• 2 Vol, 2 Tone
  • CTS 300k volume
  • CTS 500k tone

Hardware:

• Black Hardware
• Grover Rotomatic tuning machines
  • 14:1 ratio
  • Manufactured by Ping
• Single-ply black "Batwing" pickguard
  • "Tribal" routes
• Bell shaped truss rod cover
  • Single-ply black, standard bevel
  • Blank
• Black Speed knobs
• Nashville Tune-O-Matic bridge and stopbar tailpiece

Finishes:

• Flat Black