Epiphone SG Special Electric Guitar, Cherry

For this relatively small amount of money, you get an unexpectedly lovely, heavy, well-balanced guitar with about the best neck you could wish for, and if you’re ok doing minimal action and intonation setup yourself you will be very happy with your purchase. Stays in tune as well a $1200 Strat. Pickups are great but I’m putting some P-90’s in it. Nothing to lose.

I can't believe this Epiphone SG was only $179.00. Details are perfect, neck and frets are perfect, and it sounds great. This is hard to believe. If it stays in tune, it's ready to go on stage. I have no reason to think it won't, the tuners are smooth and tight. Great value, no better than great! As good as guitars selling for hundreds more. I thought this was a beginner guitar for my grand daughter, and in a year or two she'd need something better. I want one for myself too.

worth the money, its very well built and arrived literally in a day, I ordered it on the 18 at like 2 am and it showed up on the 19th at 11 am. Its super glossy and the frets arnt sharp, and its a good weight. If your looking to start playing I would highly reccomend!

I'm a total newb, just learning to play at 54 years old. I bought my first guitar based on Amazon reviews, it is the 3rd best selling solid body on Amazon. I was nothing but super impressed by the quality, sound, and packaging. Even the guitar tech that did the setup said it was way better than what I paid for it. So, I thought "why not get a name brand that's also made in China?" Well, I wish I'd purchased the Leo Jaymz version of an SG instead.This guitar didn't come in a gig bag surrounded by laser cut foam like the Leo Les Paul did, just a single cardboard box with some cardboard drop point protection. Luckily no damage. The action is very high, it will need a pro setup more than my Leo Jaymz Les Paul did. The tuners have a lot of gear slack in them and have a very unique screw pattern, replacing them will mean drilling the headstock and leaving the old holes exposed or using Hipshot tuners with the ugly plates. But the final nail in this guitar's coffin is the output jack. I can't get a clean signal unless I put pressure on the cable. Beyond that the overall finish doesn't compare to the Leo (which is like glass), it doesn't have pickup covers and it doesn't have separate pots for tone and volume like the Leo version SG.In short, I spent $50 more for a brand name with fewer features. I'm going to spend at least another $100 or more to fix the issues and dress the guitar up a bit with chrome pickup covers and rings.Oh well, you live and you learn. This one will likely end up a wall hanger and replaced with a Leo Jaymz SG.Edit: I bumped this up from 3 to 4 stars. The noisy output seems to be either my cord or amp. After trying a small headphone amp simulator I no longer had to hold it to get clean signal. The tuners seem to be holding tune after a week, they still display gear slop, but if you slowly tune "up" so you don't have to back "down" and start over, they hold tune decently. Still, at bulk pricing Epiphone could have put Grover style 18:1 tuners on this for about a $5 price increase. At least you wouldn't have to drill to replace them if that wasn't good enough.

Good little guitar for the price didn't expect the kill pot bought it for my son he loves it and he has several other high price guitars and he plays this one more than any color is great action was great out of the box tuners were a little loose at the tuning knobs but that was a super easy fix other than that it's a great guitar for the pics and has a really beefy sound and has good pickups in it makes a great first player guitar or just if you want a good travel to practice I'd actually be willing to play a show with it it's very smooth and great finish also no complaints

A very cost effective combination, something about this combination makes it punch well above its weight. It's surprisingly versatile for an HH guitar.

I don’t anything about guitars. I bought this for my son only because he wanted a guitar so I trusted the reviews for this one . It seems to be well built and it looks very nice. We just need to find out what the knobs are for and how to use the cause turning them doesn’t seem to make a difference in the sound.

It is a nice guitar for the money. We knew we would need to pay for set up, so that was okay. But we also had to have the fret board filed, as it was cutting his hand when he player. Also one of the tuning screws was broken and needed to be replaced. We paid as much as the cost of the guitar for the set up and repairs. Now that he has it playable, he loves it. The sound is good and the guitar fits his hands well. I would give it more stars if nit for the fact that it actually cut his hand up.