{"product_id":"gibson-sg-standard-61-vintage-cherry","title":"Gibson SG Standard '61 - Vintage Cherry","description":"\u003ch1\u003eGibson SG Standard '61 - Vintage Cherry\u003c\/h1\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Gibson SG Standard '61 is the SG as it first appeared: a deeply bevelled solid-mahogany body in Vintage Cherry, the small teardrop pickguard, a stop bar tailpiece, and a neck that meets the body at the very last fret. This is the current USA-built version, with a pair of 60s Burstbucker humbuckers, hand-wired controls and a Gibson hardshell case in the box — the guitar for players who want the classic twin-horn outline with nothing added and nothing missing.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eThe 1961 outline, cut from solid mahogany\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhen the Les Paul went on hiatus in 1961, the guitar that replaced it was this shape. Gibson carves the body from solid mahogany with the deep, angled bevels around both horns that give an SG its knife-edge look. The gloss nitrocellulose finish is thin enough to show the grain through the cherry, and the black five-ply teardrop pickguard sits tucked beside the pickups the way the earliest examples did, rather than wrapping the whole top.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eA SlimTaper neck with all 22 frets in reach\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe mahogany neck carries Gibson's SlimTaper profile: slim through the first position and quick under the hand higher up. It is topped with a cream-bound rosewood fingerboard carrying 22 medium jumbo frets and pearl-look acrylic trapezoid markers, on a 12-inch radius that keeps open chords comfortable while letting bends above the 15th fret ring out cleanly. With the neck set into the body right at the 22nd fret there is no heel to fight, so every note on the board sits under your fingers. Scale length is the familiar 24.75 inches, and the Graph Tech nut measures 43 mm across.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003e60s Burstbucker humbuckers, hand-wired\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBoth pickups are 60s Burstbuckers under nickel covers, wound with a little more output and top end than a vintage-spec humbucker, which is exactly what an all-mahogany SG wants. Rolled back, they stay clear and articulate for chord work; pushed into a cranked amp, they bite without turning mushy. The two volume and two tone controls run on audio-taper pots hand-wired with Orange Drop capacitors, so the volume knobs clean up smoothly rather than falling off a cliff, and the black top hat knobs with silver reflectors are the correct period detail.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eABR-1 bridge and an aluminium stop bar\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe hardware is nickel-plated throughout. An ABR-1 Tune-O-Matic bridge gives each string its own intonation saddle, and behind it sits a lightweight aluminium stop bar tailpiece of the kind Gibson fitted in the early sixties, a big part of why an SG sustains the way it does. Up top, Vintage Deluxe tuners with Keystone buttons and the Graph Tech nut hold pitch through hard vibrato and big bends.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eHardshell case in the box\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEvery SG Standard '61 leaves Gibson's USA factory in a Gibson hardshell case with an accessory kit, strung with .010 to .046 gauge strings. The back of the headstock carries the Made in USA stamp, and the front wears the Gibson logo and crown inlaid in mother of pearl.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eSet up and ready\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEvery guitar we ship gets a proper going-over on our bench first. Set up in-store by Guitar World Australia's techs before it ships to you, so it plays perfectly the moment it arrives.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eSpecifications\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003ctable\u003e\n\u003ctbody\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003cth style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003eBrand\u003c\/th\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eGIBSON\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003cth style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003eModel\u003c\/th\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eSG Standard '61 Stop Bar\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003cth style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003eModel Code\u003c\/th\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eSG6100VENH1\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003cth style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003eSeries\u003c\/th\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eOriginal Collection\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003cth style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003eFinish\u003c\/th\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eVintage Cherry\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003cth style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003eBody Shape\u003c\/th\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eSG\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003cth style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003eBody\u003c\/th\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eSolid mahogany\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003cth style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003eBody Finish\u003c\/th\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eGloss nitrocellulose lacquer\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003cth style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003ePickguard\u003c\/th\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eBlack 5-ply teardrop\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003cth style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003eNeck\u003c\/th\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eMahogany\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003cth style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003eNeck Profile\u003c\/th\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eSlimTaper\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003cth style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003eNeck Joint\u003c\/th\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e22nd fret\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003cth style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003eFingerboard\u003c\/th\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eRosewood, single-ply cream binding\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003cth style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003eFingerboard Radius\u003c\/th\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e12\" (304.8 mm)\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003cth style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003eFrets\u003c\/th\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e22 medium jumbo\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003cth style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003eInlays\u003c\/th\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eAcrylic trapezoid\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003cth style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003eScale Length\u003c\/th\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e24.75\" (628.65 mm)\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003cth style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003eNumber of Strings\u003c\/th\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e6\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003cth style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003eNut\u003c\/th\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eGraph Tech\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003cth style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003eNut Width\u003c\/th\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e1.69\" (43.05 mm)\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003cth style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003eEnd of Board Width\u003c\/th\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e2.26\" (57.4 mm)\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003cth style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003eNeck Pickup\u003c\/th\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e60s Burstbucker humbucker\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003cth style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003eBridge Pickup\u003c\/th\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e60s Burstbucker humbucker\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003cth style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003eControls\u003c\/th\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e2 volume, 2 tone; 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