1963 Gibson SG Special Cherry Red Electric Guitar, Rare Maestro Tremotone Vibrola, P-90's W/ Hard Case SN8462

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Overall Excellent Condition. Especially for a 63-Year-Old Guitar. This is a choice piece. Just set up with new strings, fretboard conditioned, frets polished. Looks, Plays, And Sounds Incredible!!

Rare Unmodified Maestro Tremotone Vibrola. 5 Digit Serial Number. Non-Original Case.

All Original, One Owner, Never Abused, Always Loved and it Shows! This is one of the cleanest vintage SG Specials available. Priced right and it won't last long.

1963 Gibson SG Special features a solid mahogany body and neck with a rosewood fingerboard, two P-90 soapbar pickups, and a rare Maestro Tremotone Vibrola. Key specs included a 24.75-inch scale length, a 1.69-inch nut width, a '60s SlimTaper neck profile, and a 5-ply "angel wing" pickguard.

It still seems amazing to this day to think the relatively staid design team at Kalamazoo came up with this dramatic, devilish shape in 1960, a radical development of the late '50s double-cutaway budget Les Pauls. It feels way ahead of its time, and the reaction from some conservative players (Les Paul himself among them) was not enthusiastic. No matter; younger Rock'n'Roll players took to them quickly enough, although it was not until the much louder later '60s that they became enshrined as a true classic.

For Gibson connoisseurs the early 1960s was the greatest period for the SG series; by 1966 Gibson modified the design to speed production with a large "swimming pool" route to the face of the body and pickups mounted directly to the top-spanning pickguard. This 1963 example has all the earlier features: the old-style stepped neck joint, pickups mounted directly to the body with a small pickguard, and nickel-plated hardware, all changed by 1965-66.

Body and neck
Body: Solid mahogany
Neck: Mahogany with a '60s SlimTaper profile
Scale Length: 24.75 inches
Fingerboard: Rosewood with dot inlays
Nut Width: 1.69 inches
Frets: 22
Electronics
Pickups: Two Custom Soapbar P-90s
Controls: Two volume, two tone, and a 3-way toggle switch
Hardware finish: Nickel
Hardware
Tailpiece: Optional vibrato, Maestro Tremotone Vibrola, often with a wrap-around bridge
Tuners: Kluson single-line, 3-on-a-plate tuners with white buttons
Pickguard: 5-ply black/white/black "angel wing" pickguard
Knobs: Black top hats with silver inserts
Other
Finish: Typically available in Cherry Red
Construction: Set-neck with a long tenon.