I can’t say I have a favourite guitar, but out of the roughly 35 guitars in the collection I have many favourites. This is one of them. Some notes:
- It started out as a late 2000s Gibson SG Classic, which is sort of a modern reproduction of a late 60s SG Special (except with a Tune-O-Matic bridge instead of a “lightning bolt” compensated bridge, and individual tuners instead of the Kluson “plate” tuners).
- The original colour was “ebony” (Gibson’s fancy way of saying “black”)
- The original had a full-face “batwing” pick guard.
- The good people at Legend Custom Guitars in the great province of Nova Scotia, Canada, did a complete makeover on it.
- Legend stripped it down to the bare wood and refin'ed it in a creamy white.
- They removed the individual tuners and installed a period-correct set of Kluson “plate” tuners.
- To remake it with the half face (instead of the stock batwing) pickguard they had to rout out the entire area under the batwing and replaced it with a new piece of mahogany. They then covered all this work up by gluing a mahogany veneer over top!
- They replaced the tune-o-matic with a “lightning bolt” plugging the narrower holes left by the t-o-m, and those of the stop bar.