Chicago Music Exchange Exclusive SG Standards... 4 Colors

SG John said:
They look too much like ‘70s SGs for my tastes. Maybe pulling the inlays, and throwing some Custom style inlays in there would help improve the looks.
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Funny, when these were released (beginning of last year I think) I came close to buying one because of the '70's vibe: inlays, t-top clones, available in walnut finish. What killed it for me though was the cream binding. Looks completely out of place on this model to me and I think they would have been perfect with white.
 
Those little block inlays freak me out. Don't like them on the 335 either. I much prefer the regular trapezoids or the Custom blocks. I have white binding on my SG. It does look better than cream on a black guitar.
 
gball said:
Funny, when these were released (beginning of last year I think) I came close to buying one because of the '70's vibe: inlays, t-top clones, available in walnut finish. What killed it for me though was the cream binding. Looks completely out of place on this model to me and I think they would have been perfect with white.
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I'm not a fan of their binding for the past twenty or thirty years, or so. It's too thick, especially on the fingerboard. It's at least 1/16" wide, where up until late '60s or mid '70s, it was at most about .04" (3/64") wide. The narrower binding looks much better. I'm sure there is some sort of production labor cost reduction in having the wider binding, and that's why they do it.
 
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