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    Pics Of My Latest Acquisition_2000 Gibson USA Angus Young SG

    Hi everyone, just thought I'd post a couple of pics of my latest acquisition, it's a year 2000 vintage Gibson USA Angus Young SG Electric guitar, a good mate of mine traded it with me for a Mexican Fender Standard Stratocaster because a friend of his wanted one.

    The SG needs a bit of TLC work done on it to fix some fret-buzzing issues at the body end of the neck (the fret responsible seems to have lifted slightly from the edges of the fretboard), the tuners need replacing because they exhibit about 1/4-turn of backlash (I've ordered a set of replacements from Stewmac), and the nut needs replacing because the open high e-string buzzes like a sitar a bit (I'd like to replace the original plastic Corian nut with a bone nut), I've also ordered a Nashville Tune-O-Matic bridge to replace the original ABR-1 bridge as well.


    These pics aren't the best quality since I couldn't find my Digital Camera so I had to resort to using the Camera in my Samsung Galaxy Y phone, will upload some better pics later on once I've found my Digital Camera:
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    Good score, should come up well with some minor TLC
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    Quote Originally Posted by andrewdosborne View Post
    Good score, should come up well with some minor TLC


    I reckon so too, as it is, the guitar is playable but the action on it is a bit too high, would love to be able to get the action to within Gibson Factory setup specs.

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    nice swap Dr Nomis, I would love to own one of these axes. At least you have a bit of work ahead. Sure you will get it playing well.
    Can you please post a close up of the headstock ? Love the little Angus logo on these axes and the fret markers are so AC/DC !
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    Here you go mate, this guitar has the Lightning-Bolt inlays but strangely it doesn't have the little Angus logo on the headstock, the truss-rod cover is plain black (no SG logo), so I'm wondering if the guitar is an earlier version of the Angus SG:Click image for larger version. 

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    thanks Dr Nomis, I remember seeing that logo but I think you are correct the later models had a little inlay of Angus on the headstock.
    At least it's numbered so looks like a genuine Angus SG
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    MK-2 Mosrite - assembled - play in
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    There's a website I found that decodes the Gibson serial numbers and it gave me this information about my SG guitar:


    Guitar Info
    Your guitar was made at the
    Nashville Plant, TN, USA
    January 17th, 2000
    Production Number: 122



    Link to the website:


    http://www.guitardaterproject.org/gibson.aspx

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    nice find on the website Doc ! Now you are 100% sure it's genuine. I'm sure when AC/DC finally hang up the guitars this axe could be worth a bit down the track.
    In 4 weeks today myself and DB will be at the Perth AC/DC concert - 28 sleeps and counting DB !
    And how cool is this as I type this Dirty Deeds done dirt cheap is playing on the radio !

    EDIT Doc, here is the latest headstock logo, I'll run with this till someone hacks my avatar hahah
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    Current Builds and status
    scratch end grain pine tele - first clear coat on !
    JBA-4 - assembled - final tweaks
    Telemonster double scale tele - finish tobacco burst on body and sand neck

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    MK-2 Mosrite - assembled - play in
    Ash tele with Baritone neck - neck pup wiring tweaks and play in

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    Dr Nomis, I don't want to be the bearer of bad news, but I'm pretty sure that right there is a fake.

    A few things.

    -the pickguard is the wrong shape
    -the switch cover is black not cream
    -the knobs are wrong
    and the big one
    -The bridge uses slotted adjustment heads. Gibson NEVER does that.

    Apart from the fact that someone was willing to trade a sub $1000 guitar for a guitar worth over $5k.
    Please get it checked out and maybe think about getting your strat back.
    'As long as there's, you know, sex and drugs, I can do without the rock and roll.'

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    Very cool, I'm an AC/DC fan too, how's this?, my mum is in her 60's and she's a big AC/DC fan as well, I'd love to get the chance to meet all the members of AC/DC, Malcom too, and thank them all for making music that's helped me through alot of my bad times, I consider them my mates even though I'm yet to meet any of them.

    AC/DC...one of the best, if not, the best Australian Rock band.

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