Gibson CS LP DC junior or Gibson CS SG special?

The DC junior or the SG special?

  • The DC junior in TV yellow.

    Votes: 4 30.8%

  • The SG special in cherry.

    Votes: 11 84.6%
  • Total voters
    13
Gahr said:
There is definitely something about juniors and specials. Although my main guitar will probably always be a two pickup SG, I have a thing for single pup guitars and basses. Here's a shot of the bass I bought, by the way. More pics when I get it.
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Completely agree with you there. Looking at all these Specials (and Jr.s) has me salivating, and on top of it I have been really favoring the SGs of late so that body style is very appealing (I don't like LP Juniors and Specials much, I find that slab body to be unfinished looking)
 
Gahr said:
There is definitely something about juniors and specials. Although my main guitar will probably always be a two pickup SG, I have a thing for single pup guitars and basses. Here's a shot of the bass I bought, by the way. More pics when I get it.
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Looks perfect, and you have the gold crown and Gibson inlays which look really nice. Great looking bass, hefty old bridge, very nice indeed.
 
Mr Grumpy said:
Looks perfect, and you have the gold crown and Gibson inlays which look really nice. Great looking bass, hefty old bridge, very nice indeed.
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It seems to be all stock and in pretty good condition other than regular finish wear. I paid $1350, which I consider a steal compared to regular vintage prices, which seem to hover around $2200-2800 for 1960s versions. I’ve seen prices over $5000, but that is completely ridiculous. Anyway, this is the first time I have ever come close to thinking of an instrument as an investment...
The bridge is «interesting». I reckon it will be impossible to intonate 100%, but if it was good enough for Jack Bruce (his EB-3 had the same bridge), I’m sure I’ll cope just fine.
 
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Mr Grumpy said:
Over a bloody week to make it a few kms to the airport; I won't be seeing this SG before the new year...

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(It took about 3 days after ordering to process my Korean credit card, so you can further deduct that from the 17th.)
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Bummer on the slow shipping, but TOTALLY AWESOME ON THE GUITAR - Happy Merry Christmas and New Years...
 
Gahr said:
Still have the junior. A '65, yes. I have been playing it quite a lot lately, it is absolutely screaming. It is definitely a keeper, but could use a new nut. Might take it to the guitar doctor's sometime this spring.
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I love that junior - I can certainly see meself buying an original in time - if I could afford a '61 (vintage cherry) that'd be great to go with my copy '64 special then I'd probably also go for some kinda '66/67 std (black) so that I had what we might call the holy trinity of SGs - maybe it's a dream, but we gotta dream, right?
 
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