SG Special EMG

The SG Special EMG was part of Gibson's 2007 "Guitar of the Week" series, as week #32's guitar. It was a limited production run with only 400 produced.

Related:

• SG Special II EMG
• SG Gothic
• SG CM Black
• SG Menace
• SG Special Voodoo

Features

• $1,199 Street

Body:

• Beveled, solid Honduran Mahogany body
• Nitrocellulose Lacquer finish

Neck:

• 1-pc quartersawn Mahogany
• '50s Rounded profile
• Set-in construction
  • Franklin Titebond 50 glue
  • Joins body at 19th fret
• Ebony fretboard
  • Acrylic trapezoid inlays
  • 12" radius

• Narrow Open Book headstock
  • Silkscreened Gibson logo
  • "Made in U.S.A." stamp
  • 17^o pitch
• 22 frets
• 24 ⁹/₁₆" scale
• 1 11/16" nut width

Binding:

• Neck, single-ply
• Thicker style
• Pure White color
• Fret-edge binding

Electronics:

• Two EMG 85/81 Humbuckers
• 3-way switch
• 2 Vol, 2 Tone

Hardware:

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

Finishes:

• Satin Ebony