SG Special Platinum

The SG Special Platinum is a variant of the SG Special introduced in 2003 and produced until 2005.

Features

• $1,059 Street (2005)

Body:

• Beveled, solid Mahogany body
• Nitrocellulose Lacquer finish

Neck:

• 1-pc quartersawn Mahogany
• '50s Rounded profile (.820" / .960")
• Set-in construction
  • Franklin Titebond 50 glue
  • Joins body at 19th fret
• Ebony fretboard
  • No inlays (Platinum finish)
  • Acrylic pearloid dot inlays (Ebony, Sunset Orange)
  • 12" radius

    

    Sunset Orange

• 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

Electronics:

• Two uncovered 490R/490T humbuckers
  • AlNiCo II magnets
  • ~7.5k Ohms D.C. resistance
  • Gray bobbins
• 3-way switch
• 2 Vol, 2 Tone

Ebony

Hardware:

• Brushed Chrome hardware
• Grover Rotomatic tuning machines
  • 14:1 ratio
  • Manufactured by Ping
• Single-ply "Batwing" pickguard
  • Brushed steel finish
• Single-ply Bell shaped truss rod cover
  • Brushed steel finish
  • "Platinum" engraving (Platinum finish)
• Silver Bell knobs
• Brushed steel style control cavity cover
• Nashville Tune-O-Matic bridge and stopbar tailpiece

Finishes:

• Platinum 
• Ebony
• Sunset Orange

Case:

• Special Platinum case