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61 has cream/yellow neck binding, standard's is whiter than Joey Essex's teeth
61 has silver topped knobs, standard black
2017 standard has hideous kidney bean tuners, 61 has elegant tulips
2017 standard comes without poker chip attached
Might be a thinner neck on the 61 but seems to vary
It's mostly cosmetic stuff, folks around here don't seem to care but to me the small things add up. The more you love the look of a guitar, the more you're going to play it, and the more you'll put into playing it
Reissue:
2017 T:
For some odd reason, they made the carve a bit deeper on the HP range (same in 2016), so obviously there was some intention to doing this:
Still not as curvy as the '61, which is my favourite SG shape. (But I do like that finish)
Beyond the cosmetic, is there much difference? Well, assuming you're OK with the looks and price, I'd say it's worth playing both; you can't really tell which you'd prefer the sound and feel of by looking at pictures or specs!
I hate nibs with modern thickness neck binding, I refretted my LP to get rid of them. I could've lived with the thinner Historic style binding but have no idea what is fitted to those two SGs.
Latest thing I heard was that some (all?) 2018 models have now got thinner binding with smaller nibs. I haven't seen it myself, so can't be sure about that.
Anything from the Custom Shop range should have the thinner binding and nibs, but I can't confirm if that's correct over all years of production.
Yup, I hate those thick nibs too, seems crazy to cut off usable fret and replace it with useless plastic. Ended up selling a lovely Diablo because of them.
I found the necks to be drastically different. The 61's have what I would call a very flat D shape hear some people call it a razor blade. I actually prefer the necks on the standard which is more rounded more of a 50's gibson neck.