Gibson '61 SG Standard Electric Guitar - Classic White Reviews
Part of the company's Custom Color Series, the Gibson '61 SG Standard is ready to rock your world with tantalizing tones and spotlight-ready aesthetics. This guitar was modeled after a 1961 SG, which was the year the iconic model was first introduced. It flaunts a double-cutaway mahogany body, beautifully accented by a 5-ply teardrop pickguard. Its mahogany SlimTaper neck offers extreme playing comfort, augmented by a supple 12-inch-radius Indian rosewood fingerboard. The '61 SG Standard's '60s Burstbucker pickups equip you with a breadth of red-hot humbucker tones, and its 4-knob control configuration is handwired with Orange Drop capacitors, ensuring a vintage-tinged treat every time you plug into your favorite amp. You also get acrylic trapezoid fingerboard inlays, a mother-of-pearl headstock inlay, and a light-catching gloss nitrocellulose lacquer finish. The SG Standard stands tall among Gibson's best-selling solidbody electric guitars, and the '61 SG Standard epitomizes the model's timeless, classic design.
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Highest Rated Reviews
Great guitar
I absolutely love this guitar, everything about it!! The neck is perfect for me. Sounds great thru my Marshall. Could not be happier!!
Gibson 61 SG
Playability out of the box : 5/5
Fit and Finish: 4/5
Interaction with Sweetwater : 5/5
Overall 4.5/5
I was extremely satisfied with how Greg gave me quick feedback to help me make a decision on buying the Gibson '61 SG. The order was shipped quickly and arrived in good shape. I was impressed that the guitar had no blemishes, and was relatively in tune out of the box. The only thing I noticed off was one of the tone knobs was at a different height vs the other tone/volume knobs (3 knobs 1/8" off the body, 1 almost flush). I fixed this myself. Everything else - no sharp edges on the fretboard, good action, tone pots have good range, smooth tuning keys and beautiful finish - was great.
Guitar strap forces fretboard away from me - probably a good thing :) and I am not sure what the whole neck dive thing is about. No more than my strat.
Love how this guitar growls vs my strat (that I love). I was looking for something different and this fit the bill. Really enjoying playing it. Love the white.
Nice Guitar But......
I have had the guitar for about two months.... Here are likes and dislikes
Likes:
Pickups sound nice
Neck Profile is comfortable
Body contours are nice
Case is very nice
Issues:
The Gibson deluxe tuners are not that great. The B string tuner has a dead spot in it.
The bridge saddle were slotted way too wide and too deep which caused the B string to resonate in a very odd way and totally killed sustain on the upper register frets. New saddles fixed both these issues.
So I had to spend additional money on a set of Grover tuners and new bridge saddles. If I didn't know how to diagnose and fix these problems I would have had to spend more money then I did.
I still really like the guitar and play it a lot. It is my 6th Gibson SG.
Gibsons QC strikes again.
First impressions were great but after a week of playing you start to notice things were missed.
Action was completely off, neck was never set. Intonation was terrible having the stings a mile off the board was the obvious problem.
The wiring was the biggest surprise to me. I noticed the back plate wasn't flush and after taking the plate off and seeing how they jammed the wire over the input jack, I can see why. The guitar would cut out going to the bridge pickup. Still not sure if it's the input jack getting pushed out or what.
I realize these are things that can be fixed and I do like the guitar otherwise. My 2021 gibson es335 and 2022 gibson les paul are amazing and had zero issues. I really thought gibson had this terrible QC problem behind them. I was wrong.
