NGD: 2006 Gibson CS ‘61 Les Paul/SG Custom

[flamesarewicked]

Technically it came in Thursday of this week but anyhow.. after selling a couple of LPs recently I had in mind to give a R9 a shot again. Couldn’t really find one that caught my interest. I stumbled across this and thought that.. I’ve always wanted one of these and the time was never right. As luck would have it I striked while the iron was hot as they say..

It came with a non original Gibson case that looks fairly new.. I’m on the hunt for one that’s more period correct. The frets are in great shape and have had a recent polish.. it has a trio of ‘57 classics. Middle pickup is out of phase which is how they were back in the early 60s I believe. I’m considering doing a pickup swap on the bridge pickup at the very least.. something with a little more oomph. To keep the look I’ll probably just get an uncovered pickup and swap the original cover over to that one.. also thought about rewiring with 3 volumes and 1 tone. That way you could have a blend of a 3 pickups in any manner desired.. I did notice the pickups have the date of 08/01/07.. the serial says it’s a 2006 model but... are they dated DD/MM/YY or MM/DD/YY? Would seem odd for them to be all from August of 07 being a 2006 model? January of 07 is a little more reasonable I guess.. could of been a super late 06 model..

Anyhow on to a few money shots

 

[afjungemann]

Congrats!!! That is a gorgeous and classic guitar.

I have a very similar guitar in red. I think the pickup wiring for these is super fun to play with. I had mine set up with master tone and then 3 volumes but wired for independent volume (so rolled off bridge or neck doesn’t kill the signal in the middle position)

my latest wiring that I think has been the most useful is 3 volumes and just bridge connected to the tone. Plus I put a dirty fingers in the middle and wired it always split so just one coil is active. So many awesome tones.

 

[Duane_the_tub]

Wow, that's nice. I've always thought those were the most killer-looking of all the SGs, ever since I saw the one on the cover of Tony Bacon's book.

Congrats!

 

[afjungemann]

Here is mine:

 

[flamesarewicked]

I totally forgot about the dirty fingers pickup... I wanna put something in the bridge with a little more oomph. I’ll have to reuse the cover to keep the original look. I really think the 3 vol/1 tone setup will be best.. you’ll be able to utilize all 3 in any manner ya see fit..

 

[afjungemann]

I totally forgot about the dirty fingers pickup... I wanna put something in the bridge with a little more oomph. I’ll have to reuse the cover to keep the original look. I really think the 3 vol/1 tone setup will be best.. you’ll be able to utilize all 3 in any manner ya see fit..

I think the 3 volume, 1 tone is a great set up. For my set up, I liked to be able to roll of the bridge a bit since SG's can get a bit bright but the neck and middle pickup would get muddy then. Again, that was my needs. The best part about these guitars is I think they are the most flexible in terms of tones and layouts. The sky is the limit really.

Dirty Fingers are pretty cool pickups. I grabbed a set for stupid cheap one time without a use and found a couple ways to use them. One downside is the 2 rows of adjustable pole pieces means you need a special cover or you can do like I did and I lowered the one side flush and only have one row visible.

The LP next to my SG in the photo has the other Dirty Fingers in the bridge and I put a special cover on that one as you can see.

Enjoy that guitar. I love those white ones.

 

[bossaddict]

Really nice. Congrats!

I did notice the pickups have the date of 08/01/07.. the serial says it’s a 2006 model but... are they dated DD/MM/YY or MM/DD/YY? Would seem odd for them to be all from August of 07 being a 2006 model? January of 07 is a little more reasonable I guess.. could of been a super late 06 model..

I believe for these, the serial number format is YYXXXM, where YY is the 2-digit year, XXX is the number of production for that year, and M is the model, with SG Custom being a 1. It's possible that there could be four Xs if you have a 7-digit serial number.

EDIT: after re-reading, I'm now realizing that you were asking about the format for the pickup dates. I think it makes sense that is could be DD/MM/YY, especially if your serial is indicating 2006 and is 7 digits.