The Custom Color SG Standard ’61 is priced $1,999 and ships in a hard-shell case. You can check out more over at Gibson. Jonathan Horsley has been writing about guitars and guitar culture since 2005, ...

The neck, which uses Gibson's thicker '50s profile instead of the '60s shape found on the SG Standard ... set today's SG apart from the original '61. But the build quality still seems to be ...

Over time, Gibson introduced a few model variations for the SG. The SG Customs had three humbuckers and a pearl inlay on the neck. The Standard had two single coils, and the Junior had a dot inlay. As ...