I ordered one a few days ago in cherry red. I already have a G310 (among others) back at home that I was given in 1998. Looking forward to playing it. I am not a beginner but I think Epiphone SGs are among the best guitars in terms of value for money.

I have no complaints. I bought this exact SG and I am in love.

Thank you for this video brother. Amzing jamming at the end too!!

I got one 3 years ago for an impulse by. I love it. I replaced the input jack, added a capacitor on the tone pot and replaced the machine heads. Also my fret board is dark,dark not light as the one I see in the reviews.

Usually, I prefer bridge selection for rhythm distortion, but that middle position sounds angry. I like it!

Just bought one of these. Starting my guitar journey. Great vid!

I bought one !! Cherry finish and I love it !! The look, feel and the sound is great. For $200 bucks not a bad decision. 👍

Any of these two hundred dollar Epis or Squiers can be a good mod project. They have good bones to them, it's just the cheap pickups and hardware that makes them not as good as they could be.

Nice review. It seems like the more you review guitars, the more guitars I seem to add to my collection. I’m starting to review my guitar collection so hopefully I can return the favor and we both can continue buying more guitars. 👍🏼🤘🏽🎸

i love your content and your guitar playing!:):)

Great Review, thank you!

I just traded a bunch of old stage lights that were gathering dust in my shed for one of these, buddy is bringing it by tomorrow, can’t wait!

I actually bought one the other day. And I am no beginner. My main guitar is a Schecter S1 elite that I threw a DiMarzio super distortion in the bridge. I’m still going to use the Schecter as my main guitar but the SG it’s definitely gonna be my back up. I really like it.

The one on mikus left is rin

Sounds amazing!

Our SG looks really nice. Note it's a good idea to pick up a suede strap 'cause SG's have neck dive. ouch!. also a j style right angle guitar cable is a good investment. one bump and boom - The jack goes out - mine did. yep. I hate that. Time to bust out the soldering gun. Very lightweight guitar. pelham blue ones seem to have a slightly concave neck.

Picked one up 2 days ago. Granted, still in the honeymoon phase, but so far I love it. Yes, there were cost cutting measures. Don’t care. It’s a cheap guitar. It stays in tune (so far). It is lighter than I thought a solid body could be. The frets were better than many guitars for 5x the price, but don’t care, I bought it for slide. The pickups aren’t my thing necessarily, but I bought it for distorted slide, and they work great for that. For $200 (or negative $20 on a trade in) what’s not to love? Almost makes this 30 year Fender guy want to buy a Gibson…

I like the black satin finish on these. A respectable beginner guitar for $200, but also not my favorite $200 guitar.

I picked one up for £80 and its fucking awesome. Sounds great, plays great tuners a gash but it's just for me to thrash around

This is my first Guitar. I just got it on Friday.

My parents bought me this as my first guitar back in 2013, the Guitar Center in Fairfax VA sold it to my parents even though the neck joint was fucked up. I saw the guy try to screw the neck joint back together, but I thought it was just a calibration. We went back to my country and I only realized then that the actual wood in the neck joint had broken. I put in some elbow grease, wood filler, a few screw plugs and a little piece of a library card to give it the correct neck angle; learned how to calibrate it on youtube videos and has been an amazing guitar ever since. Extremely stable tuning, I think I would tune it just a few times after putting on new strings and then about once a month. Very acoustically resonant guitar, something that surprised me but that apparently is a characteristic of SG guitars. The fretwork was flawless from factory (rare) but there were obvious flaws in the way it was painted and finished. I see that the new ones coming out don't have those flaws but there are complaints of the fretwork being half-assed. The tuning heads were fine on my guitar but most other Special VE's were a nightmare. I definitely recommend this guitar for anyone looking for a beater/sleeper guitar they can modify and manipulate without affecting the resale value (which is close to $0, I wouldn't buy any one of these guitars second hand).

it gets the job done

The video quallity is amazing

Awesome review; thanks!

I don't have any complaints for the cost. I had a Gibson SG and while yes the Gibson sounds 100 times better it was a 2000. Dollar guitar. But as things go we needed some cash and were able to do a sell/ trade so I got the cash I needed and I got a budget SG from Epiphone now. Do I miss the green goblin yes I do, but we have a roof over our heads and I have made some adjustments to the Epiphone to take it up a notch. It will never be the Gibson I had once upon a time, but for the cost and fairly inexpensive mods the Black Beauty is pretty close. Note: I did let the kids name them so we went all over the place there, easiest way to get them into guitars is let them name one😮😂. But this Epiphone is really good for a budget guitar, it is a good starter. Some people don't like the bolt on neck, I tend to like it as I have had a guitar neck break and if I didn't have a bolt on we would have been replacing the whole guitar vs the neck and head piece replacement parts.

These are just plain fun guitars to play.

BLACK SG ALWAYS WORTH IT

Hey man, thanks for the video definetly helped a lot. I'm a classical/ acoustic guitar player, I've always wanted an electric. I even learned a lot of metallicas riffs on my classical hoping that one day I would move to the electric when I'm able to afford one. Would you recommend me getting a guitar pack ? Especially here there's not so many options other than a couple of ibanez guitars, les paul packs and this SG. What would you advice me, cus I pretty much don't understand the components of the electric, other than the EMG pickups which I love

If you can get one delivered to you….without the headstock cracked. I’m on number three right now from Amazon. Wish me luck.

A rock machine. We have a blue one.

I have one in the cherry satin finish. The body is poplar. I upgraded it because I think the stock tuners are terrible. I find them flimsy and don't stay in tune and I also heard other people say they have a tendency to break easy. I think Gibson was just trying to crank these budget Sgs out of the factory asap and that's probably why specs like the tuners aren't great. I upgraded the tuners and put in Grover Rotomatics and i found that a big improvement and as well replaced the bridge pickup with a Seymour Duncan Pegasus.

For the anime sticker you put in pick guard is from vocaloid character, you know hatsune miku and the other one is kagamine rin. Good review BTW 😀

I like the soft body. I live in a very dry climate so it wont warp much but ive wondered about how the finish stands up to a more humid climate. Also with the finish, its soft and can be carved into. You could etch some cool designs into it.

i got it used on the guitar center site for $120

i have an epi sg. she serves me well

Looks pretty. Good distortion tones. Intonation a bit off on higher strings upper frets. just a tad off. Great for ac/dc style rhythm playing .

Please review the 61 Reissue Ephiphone SG Standard about $599.00

at this price you probably won't have any problem reselling it later on for purchase price, i'm getting one! The only thing that bothers me is that strap button location

I’m used to playing Les Pauls and have really had problems liking the neck/body ”proportions” on SG. The neck fels so far away (due to body size and where the neck joint is). I noticed the SG VE doesn’t have the spacer/disctance between the neck and neck pickup,. So in theory it look like the fretboard is “closer” to the body than compared to other SG. Would you say that is noticeable when playing? Hope I managed to explain this in a way that makes sense.. 😊

I want to learn guitar, and think I’ll pick this up to try and learn, idk how to play for shit, but I’m gonna try

What pick-ups are using as well i wanting to diy the guitar so i want to make it my self and using Australian timber because that where im from and my frist guitar

You can get an SG Muse for not much more than this. I got the jet black metallic version for £249 last year and it's a great guitar. The Muse series come with some better tuning heads (don't get hung up on tuning heads, even the expensive Gibson ones drop out of tune regularly and any serious guitarist should always be tuning before playing/recording anyway), alnico classic pro humbuckers and gorgeous metallic finishes. I'm just switching all the hardware out for gold stuff now because I think that'll make it look even cooler.

Hey, I just got into playing the guitar and I was wondering what the song you played for the first demo was?

Honest review, i like this. I am looking for a guitar that i would tune up strictly to open d tuning, using it mostly for blues slide playing. I already have better guitars, but i don't want to hesitate any of them for that thing, cause i am not that far into slide playing, so this is the one i am looking at. It would probaby be a walnut one. I am gonna set it to medium to high action, use it mainly for slide, so i don't care about fret buzz. Interesting, and i wonder if these pickups and tuners will be good enough for my taste. If not, i'll mod it later anyway, it'll be a learning process, so i think i am just gonna bought it at the end of that month. I like the price, it's something i can afford right now.

We gotta be smart together and make smart decisions with our money. Something tells me companies capitalize on our “stupidity”. 199$ is more fair than 1960-70 whatever how old 5,000-20,000 guitar. Than again if you have the money you have the money.

is this a comfortable guitar to sit with? i have a squier classic vibe jazzmaster and an 80s fender strat so ive always leaned on my guitars. im planning on buying this as a thrashy beat up guitar and because it will be the only guitar in my collection with humbuckers for now.

Hey bro do you think is this a good guitar for someone to learn , I don’t play any guitar in general because it is cheap af looks and sounds good too especially makes me wanna pick up and play it . !!

Great vid. Question...does this SG still have the dreaded neck dive even with the strap button on the neck plate??

I got it as an impulse buy and I love it for some reason lol. It’s got some fret buzz but it’a kinda cool. It’s already all chipped and the wood is splintered but now it’s got some character

I have another question is it possible if I replace the pick-up covers and put the chrome Gibson looking ones if you know what I mean

It's a cheapass gig guitar you can play live, throw around, sticker up, and not worry at all about diminishing value. If it breaks then either fix 'er up or just give 'er a toss. Good beginner guitar.

I'm only getting one of these at the moment cause my mom won't spend anymore than 200 something but once I get a job and stuff I'll buy a better one

Might just be tough enough

Ik this might be a really stupid question lol but does it come with an AMP?

I'm a beginner, and Looking for a guitar under 200$. Is this a good pick? Or is there any other guitar in this price range that is better?

It’s not worth it…if you keep it stock. Change the pickups and you’re solid.

I have one of these but I have dust all under the strings on the body can you help ?

Are they making these with black binding now?

would you recommend this or the ibanez gio for a beginner guitar?

Ordered a used one to experiment with mods

Stainless steel frets??

do you know what kind of tuners those are?

does this have neck dive?

I gave up on gituar because it hurt my finger

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cute stickers

I Wanna Buy A Good Guitar But I Don't Know Which One, I Like Epiphone Sg Special Ve And Ibanez RG Gio Series GRG121DX

VE satin stands for sucks.