60th Anniversary: 1961 Les Paul SG Custom and Standard
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- We are proud to introduce the latest from the Gibson Custom Shop: the 60th Anniversary 1961 Les Paul SG Standard and Custom. (Oh, and do you know what "SG" stands for? Let us know in the comments below!)
1961 brought some big changes to the Gibson Les Paul™; most notably a sleek, all-new, double-cutaway, all-mahogany body design that would later be renamed the SG™. The now iconic designs were considered bold for the time, but then Gibson president, Ted McCarty, felt the market demanded new and innovative designs.
These Gibson Custom Shop models replicate the first Les Paul SG Custom and Standard, complete with Custom-style cosmetics, Sideways Vibrola™, a side-pull action vibrato that is similar to those found on models from the early 1960s. It also has a bound Authentic '61 Thin Profile mahogany neck, Grover® tuners, an ABR-1 Tune-O-Matic™ bridge, Custombucker pickups, CTS® vintage-taper pots, and Black Beauty capacitors.
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Overpriced? Absolutely.
Worth it? Probably not.
Is it still my dream guitar? You're god damn right.
Just bought a 61 reissue and ive never been more happy with a purchase in my life
I bought a 2018 61 standard reissue from the custom shop 1 of the few finished in gold. These guys make dreams come true.
I just vowed today that I will one day buy this guitar. Even though I already have a 61 reissue SG with the stop bar tailpiece, I still need this!
Those are looking soooo sweet. It’s funny how so little is known about the designer. He should be a legend. He really did get it right from the beginning and, it’s a totally original design, not a cop. Brilliant stuff.
LP, Explorer, Flying V have a relevant body thickness, and SG is the only one that gives you that Gibson feeling in slim body. Unique Gibson feature that I love. You can’t switch to another Gibson and find the same feeling of an SG. Loved one.
Interesting!
Not true. Gibson Les Paul lite…. They came out in the 80s. They still make them today, the Les Paul classic lite. It’s a Gibson Les Paul, but as thin as a Gibson SG.
I agree!!! I play LPs for a long time, and I still own one, and I also played an explorer for quite a while, and I still own it, but once I started playing an SG, it ruined me 😂 I have to force myself to play my LP and my Explorer, but I never have to force myself to play my SG, it has the light weight feel, and that gritty grunt, and I can access the upper register notes a lot easier….. I can’t part with my LP and Explorer, but they definitely don’t get played that often compared to my SG that literally gets played everyday!
Just got one of these and it's fantastic. Love the little message on the inside on the back of the control plate. I wouldn't have known what it meant without watching this film!
Beautiful job Gibson recreating those beauties. Love the cream triple bucker. Just like the
one Mary Ford had. Iconic guitar for sure.
Just waiting for my 2020 SG standard to arrive
3 more months to go ! 😭😛
I get mine on October 23th 😌😌😌
I got a Cherry finished one from Guitar Center. it was on the clearance it was $$5k before tax . the most beautiful the most sounding and the best feeling guitar I have ever played the neck the weight is just right it's an enjoyable to play.I had SG standard compare side by side and the 61 blew it out the water . still excited every time I open the case ... great stuff
FINALLY a.... SG video
My first Gibson guitar was a 1965 Gibson SG Standard. I bought back when they were just "Used" guitars, not "Vintage". One of the best guitars I have ever owned... I sold it to Purchase my 2002 Harley Davidson Heritage Softail which I still ride today...Don't worry I still got my Goldtop and my Junior..and those I'm a keep'n.
I'd luv to see Gibson make one with a 24" scale - it would be an instant collectors item.
Hell yeah, I appreciate this kind of craftsmanship
I love my SG. I bought it almost as a backup to my Explorer, which I thought would be my primary. After playing the SG, I fell in love with it, and find that it's more tonally versatile than my Explorer. Plus it's a lot lighter, which is great when you are playing for a while with it strapped over your shoulder.
These new reissues look beautiful, and I'm sure they sound just as good.
*THE BEST GUITAR EVER MADE!* . Period
What about the 335 🤔
The bevels of the original 61 are perfect, and I wish the USA guitars would use them again. Gibson should have never strayed from them. I get that these are custom shops, but the USAs could use some love too.
THKS for mentioning sister ROSETTA THARPE
One thing, if I may, that you guys still don’t quite get right on these custom shop models is the way the bevels thin out into the horn tips. On every vintage early 60s SG I’ve ever put my hands on, the horns are tapered and almost “rounded” and thinner at the tips. On these you guys still have “wide” horn tips. Props on getting the pick guard size right for these though! Love Gibson, love SGs, just my 2 cents.
100% Right on this… it’s the SINGLE reason I am not buying one… it irks so badly to have that detail wrong. And it’s even in the scan data… the scan model they show has the right tapers… hell the original USA series bodies are correct-ish… why not the CS anniversary model!!!!!????
@@scottjua couldn’t agree more!!
All the fancy scanning equipment, examples to measure, Gibson still can't get the horn shape right.
If you’re making a reissues for all the 60’s SG models, I can’t wait until 2029
Erkin Koray's guitar, he's an amazing guitarist and singer
I paid $175 for my 2017 Gibson SG standard cherryburst and it's a great guitar and the 57 paf humbuckers are my favorite !
@Josh Stocks yeah it is, look up the 2017 Gibson SG cherry burst.
It's got a Gibson PCB board wiring harness, Gibson 57 humbuckers and Grover locking tuners and the Gibson truss rod and I called Gibson and confirmed that this guitar is real and they said yes it's real, but I wouldn't have even bother to buy the guitar if I didn't know what to look for. 😂
Just look up the 2017 Gibson SG standard cherryburst and it's all there ! Oh yeah I also got the Browne Gibson hard case too !😉
so who's just giving away a gibson guitar for sub $200? Either they had no idea what the instrument was worth, didnt care, or it's a fake (or, yeah could be a 'gift' from a friend or family member)
I like that he specified “somebody who doesn’t have the means to buy a MINT CONDITION” because the reissue is pretty damn close to the price of a player’s grade vintage example.
Yeah, if it has none of the original pickups.
@@markvincent522 you say as if the reissue DOES. lol
God I love SG’s. As a Michigander I just wish they were still in Kalamazoo.
Love these, and the legacy that the company and guitar styles have brought to us here in 2021. I WILL add however that the Epiphone versions of these guitars have become impeccable in quality (2020+) and quite affordable faithful reproductions of these classic Gibsons...and I for one am glad they are within a more accessible price range.
If only I had the money lol. Beautiful guitars right there.
Lovely. Do I want one? Yes of course!
I got two SG:s. The first one i bought was a 2016 Special T with mini humbuckers, but later i also wanted a Standard SG. So i bought that for two years ago. The sound of the Standard is fantastic. I got three more guitars, but the SG:s are definitely my favorites.
my first electric was and still is a 1961 SG Les Paul Jr. cherry red with a repaired head stock crack I replaced the tuners with Gibson heritage which keeps the head stock stable and the P90 with a Tony Iommi the frets are worn past the 17th but still a pleasure to play
The head of product development is doing the talking, but there are guys who have been there 20 years and could offer greater insight into Gibson. Perhaps Gibson could do videos on these guys and what they have seen in Gibson?
I still don’t get why the headstocks still break. A historic instrument for sure, but a modern Gibson should be able to take some abuse.
I've owned and played Gibsons of some kind for over 20 years and never had a headstock break. If you abuse them then they may well break but why would you want to give them some abuse?
happy 60th anniversary :)
I got the Gibson Sg 2019 hp2! It’s the best guitar and Sg in the world! And don’t even try to change my mind! Never stop rocking Gibson!🤘🎸🤘🎸🤘
WOW! Awesome video and release!
Certified Gold!!!!!
Cheese n Onion ! these are just stunning guitars. Rock on Gibson
I hope you guys fixed the short tenon problem. On the '61 they tend to break. I've got a '61 SG and the neck/body joint (tenon) keeps giving out. I've had it repaired I don't know how many times. The 2000 SG standard has a neck tenon much longer and stronger. You could use it for a baseball bat. All in all SG's won't stand up to a lot of mishandling, but find me a cooler looking, better sounding guitar and I'll buy it.
As an sg guy i love this!!
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I dig them both.the white custom looks exiting.theyre both rock machines!
This is so awesome. I love SGs and these ones look like Gibson knocked out of the park like they did with the 60th Anniversary R9s and R0s. Will there be a 60th Anniversary ‘61 SG with regular fixed bridge, i.e. ToM? I know they originally came with the Vibrola, just curious because my ‘61 Les Paul SG Historic Reissue is just phenomenal.
The SG is tops between Mary Ford and Carlos Santana and Derek Trucks sold me . I just don't understand why Les Paul hated the SG ? Always love the horns ! 👍
Not a fan of SGs but they sure are iconic guitars
Want white one so badly!!
Serious question, since they are talking about improving and using modern technology to reproduce the SG. I know they are trying to replicate different year model SG's from the 60's, but why the variation in neck pockets, heels, and tenons in the SG line up? If you were going to improve the product, why not just use the best one for all models? Then use the period correct pickups, pick guards, finishes, knobs, & etc to differentiate? Else why are we trying to recreate it each and every year if they got it right back in the 60's? Please don't take my comment wrong, I really do want an SG, but this is what goes through my mind when looking at the current SG line-up.
I have the Custom version of one of these and it's easily the nicest guitar I've ever owned, and one of the nicest I've ever had a chance to play. It was worth every cent because you can't find guitars that feel, sound, and play as well as Gibson Custom Shops. I'm not a collector--I'm going to play mine until the damn glue dissolves. It will be checked and dinged and refretted. And know what? I don't have to worry about losing a considerable amount of value when I get it refretted. I'm sorry, but Custom Shops are not far off from vintage guitars in terms of feel and sound without the manufactured cork-sniffery of vintage guitars. Gibson manages to make killer guitars without using garage hardware with "F" logos on it and polyester finishes, too.
I hope that you guys will find a way to make that sideway tremolo to stay in tune ... I love the SG btw.
Ill take one any day .
Outstanding
I'm an S G Freak- There really is nothing like it. It looks like a cross between a pitchfork an a Stingray Vette'.The white one is the one. I have had an oppurtunity to play a Real 61' and it is Superlative. The price was 82k n was in decent shape but the sound was Pure Fire/ would love to play a reissue to hear if it really comes close.
My Epiphone Headstock, popped in 3 weeks. Back to Fender.
Becarefull with your guitars , Gibbys arent, fool proof
i dont know how you treat your guitars but my epiphone headstock is still on after 19 years and going strong. also my gibson headstock is still on after 13 years without a problem.
they dont break as long as you dont knock them over or bang the headstock into things.
Don't drop it or knock it over there is 115 lbs of string pressure on the headstock
When i said Gibson aren't fool Proof your Da fool making a assertion like that they all break handeling them like a toy .I had all the fenders EPiphone and they don't without malice.
They don' Break without malace.
Solid Guitar.
Wow! Nice work Gibson!
2:40 You can`t tell which is which! Oh yes i can! and so can others with an eye for detail!
I like SGs more than LPs.
its the luxury guitar in the guitar world
can we have 68-71 big guard sg reissue? Im pretty sure it'll be huge for all sg fans.
Give me a Hardtail version of the white one and I’ll hand over some cash.
I gotta get a Gibson Les Paul...
And during that time Gibson had a factory fire that almost burned out 1/2 of the factory production dept...61 was an important year because it was the resurrection of Potter St...the SG Line was the only production area untouched by the fire...so as a result they used it as the Les Paul model as well as it's name sake..Gibson took two years to recover from that terrible fire
SG stands for ‘solid guitar’
Guitars are the only thing I can think of that hit their peak of technology in 1959 (or 61) and still to this day, it's the same 1959 design that is the "mark".
I'll bet there isn't more than $300 in actual materials used in the making of one of these. Add in a generous $1000/piece for labor and the rest is profit. It's a healthy profit.
I think. Custombuckers are fantastic pickups and Burstbuckers and 57 classics as well but they are not exact paf copies they are heavily influenced by the paf but all of those pickups are very much their own thing. They are more paf style pickups then actual paf clones. I own guitars with all of Gibsons paf style pickups but there are aftermarket pickups that come closer to the true paf sound . I find it funny that in every other aspect of historic recreations they go out of their way to be as accurate as possible but yet the pickups don't seem to get the same effort . The pickups are arguably the most important component..
I already ordered a Cherry bomb a month ago cant wait to get it
i have a real 1961 les paul gibson sg body style with 59 bridge great shape
Love Gibson
Still waiting for that
Charlie Starr Signature Series Gibson.....
Les Paul Junior!
@@rexnavarro2918 or/and a SG Junior or/and a 345...lol
I kinda like the white SG Junior he's been playing in the Florida shows this year...js
All through my teens and 20’s, I never noticed that the SG body shape was asymmetrical. I thought they were symmetrical and the cutaways were intentionally designed to look like devil horns. Considering some of its famous users, Angus Young, Tony Iommi, it’s not much of a stretch, and I can’t be the only one who thought that.
The first SG I ever saw was a brand-new white Custom at Sherman Clay Music in San Francisco, about 1964. It was in a glass display case, and they wouldn’t let me play it, as it was a special order for somebody. I thought it was the most beautiful guitar I’d ever seen, and I never made the “devil” association. Maybe because it was white! The SG, in whatever color, is one of the classiest guitar designs anyone’s ever come up with. I knew I’d never be able to afford a Custom-they were something like $425 back then-but I wound up getting a new Standard in ‘67. Seems like most of the rock guitarists in San Francisco were using them at that time. John Cipollina, Jerry Garcia, Sam Andrew, James Gurley, Barry Melton...and me!
@@jfinester I love white SG’s. A white SG Junior. Beautiful. I’d rather get an SG than a Les Paul. Like a white SG Special. Or one of those cool tobacco sunburst SG’s with a white pick guard. TH-cam videos inspired me to get a cheap Epiphone SG and upgrade the parts. I got a dark sunburst one for $170. Put on vintage style tuners and coil splitting pickups. It’s a great guitar.
can we blame Larry for the necks snapping?
Hey dude, they fixed that problem in 62. Neck tenon was just too short to take the pressure.
@@kenjones5138 If you were buying today and choosing between the SG Standard '61 and the SG Standard (says based on later 60's models), which would you chose and why? I know features and pick guard style are differences, but just curious since they have different heels/tenons? I guess I see why they made Phil X the Custom 64 with "long tenon" since he throws his SG around like a mad man! LOL! Thanks for any advice! \w/
WOW!
Why not a stop tail with the ebony block? (s g? solid guitar)
Dare him to say that bit about being the biggest Gibson geek to Joe Bonamassa!
or Trogly!!!!!
I think we're all SG geeks man. Rock on!
Good thing this wasn't a Prank, given the date.
This is awesome! These things will sell like iPhones.
Me encanta la guitarra
Oh how i want the Custom! 🙏
Any chance you would promo one to a totally blind guitar player? 🦯👩🦯🎸
Never stop rocking on bro! long live guitar and rock!🎸🤘🎸🤘🎸🤘
I am also blind… Did they give you one?
I just bought a 2016 Gibson custom shop Standard Historic SG Standard miestro vibrola.Supposed to be a 1961?? But the specs lean closer to mid 60’s? MIESTRO, but single ring Klusons ,..so early 60’s?
The guitar seems to have very little pressure on the bridge saddles, is this normal? Also the guitar has Custom Buckers, and in the neck position, i cant, seem to get that snappy Neck position sound, like my R9 R0 or Strats. is probally the best description of the sound im describing.The SG has a darker muffled sound in the neck, is that normal for the SG?
Happy birthday gibson
Judging by this ad I am going to say these will cost $6k?
I think Trogly has a little something to say about your so called, "Biggest guitar geek" title...
I’m an SG Playa!!!
I'll stick with my 59th anniversary feb 2020 model
solidbody gibson''...do i win?
Might as well keep saving and buy the real deal if you can find one. Or something close and player grade.
Gibson should do a Mary Ford signature les paul sg😁
Furthermore, nobody had even heard of Rosetta Tharpe til a year or so ago and she didn't give anywhere near the exposure to the SG Custom that Mary Ford did. What a screw up, Gibson. You guys finally got the body bevels and everything else right, but blew it with the rosewood fingerboard. I mean, did someone forget that the SG Custom is supposed to be made with an ebony fingerboard or what?
It is ebony
@@gibsonguitar All product information across several musical instrument retailers states the 60th Anniversary '61 SG Custom has an Indian Rosewood fingerboard.
Is THIS the guy who had a hand in the 61 LP I just spent 4 grand on? He wasn't even born when I bought my first SG. Kids today, etc etc.
Who is the president of QC at Gibson?
🤔Quality control is still a freakin' joke!
😎👍💗🇺🇸🎸 LONG LIVE PRS!!!
Relic free since 1985!
Please do an Epi version of the 3 pickup SG Custom. I can't justify spending $7k on a guitar.
Maybe the next Bonamassa signature will be a sg custom
Epiphone have done a version of the SG Les Paul custom , 3 pick up. I have one from 1999 ,made in Korea. There have been more recent ones too, made in China.
True, but they have the shity headstock. New ones okay, if they did the gibson one I'd buy 5 of them
Did you guys use the same chinese hardware that comes with the USA standards in these reissue models?
Fraction of that price is $5000 and $6699 USD..
these people are crazy who has that much to spend??????????
Hello Gibson
Too expensive, always have been and always will be. And it's nothing to do with quality 2000 to 5000 is greed, these guitars do not cost anywhere near that to produce including labor.
even if there was a quality difference between a "regular" $2000 Sg and the $6699 SG Custom shown here, I would be scared to death to take it out of the case. especially with Gibson's infamous headstock breaks.
@@jacobarmstrong5308 buy a copy, problem solved
get an Epiphone instead
Look at that bad finish at min. 1:15 between the neck and body, above the Les Paul Custom Plate...
I may be alone in this, but I am just not a fan of the sideways vibrola.
i really hope this isn’t an april fools prank
@@nickk5948 buzinga
Where’s Mark Agnesi? Did he leave Gibson?
Hopefully
Gift me a Gibson Guitar as I can't afford one
SG = Solid body Guitar
nop... SG is Satan´s Guitar
Make the trems actually work without immediately detuning please
SG Solid Guitar. Question answered how’s about a free SG re issue? 😂