Can you cool cats tell me about this SG?

[MR D]

116190159 is the serial number. I do believe it’s a 2019.

IDK, GIBSON was in the middle or end of a bankruptcy in 2019 and it seems the serial#'s were all over the place....I have an SG Standard w/Maestro and its definitely a 2019 model as I bought it new from zzzounds dot com in October of 2018 and still have the receipt.......... and the 1st two numbers of the serial # are '19', I kid you not, I have the guitar with me and I just looked at it and its 1st 2 #'s are definitely '19'....and I know GIBSON USA went back to the YDDDYRRR format right around 2019, so maybe yours is a 2019, IDK !! Did you buy it new ?

it would really help to know when exactly GIBSON USA went back to the YDDDYRRRR format from the YYRRRRR that GIBSON USA adopted roundabout 2014, I think (?) !

 

[smitty_p]

I wire the bridge volume as the master volume (pickups go to the switch first) which makes the bridge tone a master tone. Then I convert the neck tone into a bass cut. The neck volume is just there to fill the hole, it’s inactive.

Oh, I see. You're not doing a Gretsch-style master volume. You're basically wiring for a typical two-knob, HH configuration, with the added twist of the bass-cut function.

Pretty cool.

How are you converting the other tone to a bass cut? Are you using a multi-position rotary switch and just selecting different capacitors?

That sounds interesting.

 

[Decadent Dan]

IDK, GIBSON was in the middle or end of a bankruptcy in 2019 and it seems the serial#'s were all over the place....I have an SG Standard w/Maestro and its definitely a 2019 model as I bought it new from zzzounds dot com in October of 2018 and still have the receipt.......... and the 1st two numbers of the serial # are '19', I kid you not, I have the guitar with me and I just looked at it and its 1st 2 #'s are definitely '19'....and I know GIBSON USA went back to the YDDDYRRR format right around 2019, so maybe yours is a 2019, IDK !! Did you buy it new ?

it would really help to know when exactly GIBSON USA went back to the YDDDYRRRR format from the YYRRRRR that GIBSON USA adopted roundabout 2014, I think (?) !

His serial indicates June, 2019.
My batwing PB Standard was October, 2019.

 

[Mark.B]

Oh, I see. You're not doing a Gretsch-style master volume. You're basically wiring for a typical two-knob, HH configuration, with the added twist of the bass-cut function.

Pretty cool.

How are you converting the other tone to a bass cut? Are you using a multi-position rotary switch and just selecting different capacitors?

That sounds interesting.

I can work up a schematic. I’ll forget, remind me tomorrow.

 

[PermissionToLand]

Can you cool cats tell me about this SG?​

Nope.

 

[Mark.B]

Can you cool cats tell me about this SG?​

Nope.

Bro, you’re harshing me.

 

[smitty_p]

I can work up a schematic. I’ll forget, remind me tomorrow.

Oh, don't go to the trouble, unless you think it would be of interest to the rest of the forum. I have no plans on doing anything to my guitars.

I just take an interest in learning how other people adapt things to their own taste.

 

[Decadent Dan]

IDK, GIBSON was in the middle or end of a bankruptcy in 2019 and it seems the serial#'s were all over the place....I have an SG Standard w/Maestro and its definitely a 2019 model as I bought it new from zzzounds dot com in October of 2018 and still have the receipt.......... and the 1st two numbers of the serial # are '19', I kid you not, I have the guitar with me and I just looked at it and its 1st 2 #'s are definitely '19'....and I know GIBSON USA went back to the YDDDYRRR format right around 2019, so maybe yours is a 2019, IDK !! Did you buy it new ?

it would really help to know when exactly GIBSON USA went back to the YDDDYRRRR format from the YYRRRRR that GIBSON USA adopted roundabout 2014, I think (?) !

Here’s a 19003xxxx LP Special tribute, so they started out ‘19 with the other format.

 

[PermissionToLand]

Yeah, the format changed around March 2019:

Dating

The first step in dating your Gibson SG is buying it a nice bouquet of flowers... Seriously though, the best way to date a vintage SG is often not the serial number, but rather by the potentiometer codes and other features it has. Only in 1977 did Gibson switch to a reliable serial number system...

solidguitar.fandom.com

 

[Mark.B]

Oh, don't go to the trouble, unless you think it would be of interest to the rest of the forum. I have no plans on doing anything to my guitars.

I just take an interest in learning how other people adapt things to their own taste.

I like doing stuff like this. I stole a wiring diagram from a site and editied it. This is how I do it: