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Love both the clean and dirty tones he gets from the Junior at around the 45 secs onwards mark.
I already have far too many twin humbuckered guitars, so the thought of something different in terms of a P90, and perhaps oddly - something with not so many variables to fk about with in the eternal quest for decent tone, appeals hugely
A one piece body (with nice grain) would be nice - but I think I'm warming to the 3 piece bodied options. The logic around the neck join going into a solid central lump of mahogany seems to make sense.
Problem I find here in Ireland at least, is that there aren't that many SGs around in comparison to the Les Paul variants, with correspondingly even fewer numbers of Juniors. There was a sum total of 1 in all of the online classifieds in the country as of yesterday
http://imgur.com/gallery/GwSJeMQ
These were taken when I spent a week deciding if I could overlook the flaw.
If you email GAK, they will select and photograph the guitar for you. They were also the best price at the time and have a 30 day no quibble returns policy.
Service from them was great. They even restrung it with a set of 11's free of charge.
Custom Shop '63 SG Junior on Reverb - listed as having a one piece body.
https://reverb.com/item/34431868-gibson-custom-shop-1963-sg-junior-reissue-lightning-bar-vos-cherry-red-2019-w-ohsc-case-candy
Pretty damn sure there's a join running right through the jack-plug, which makes it at least a 2 piece, if not 3. Anybody concur ?
But as already said, with mahogany you often need to see the endgrain to be sure.
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It would be very unusual for a Custom Shop one not to be a one piece.
Not because Gibson care deeply about their customers, but they're creatures of habit and one-piece bodies go to the Custom Shop.
(Edit: I didn't know they were making Custom Shop SG Juniors now... shame there isn't a picture with the scratchplate off, to see how they've done the neck tenon.)
The original late-'50s DC Juniors had a long full-width tenon (first two pictures) but the modern Custom Shop historic reissues have a long, but narrower tenon (third picture). Given how much Gibson go on about how authentic their reissues are, with aniline dyes and hide glue and truss rod sleeves and whatever else, it's surprising they haven't sorted the Juniors out.
I'd like to see how this new CS SG Junior's constructed. I suspect it'll have the narrower tenon like the LP.
I wouldn’t worry too much about them
it never occurred to me before but this is probably a 1 piece body
That is a bit of an odd looking join. Is that the tenon you can see - coming right up to the surface ?
edit - sorry, missed the earlier picture - it obviously is
Has to make a fair difference in how rigidly the neck is held, and how much flex there is in it I'd have thought ?
They changed the heel shape and neck joint a lot over the years. Hard to find really good pictures to illustrate, but this one's quite interesting:
Probably a daft question - but is the bigger/deeper style of joint like you get on the Junior inherently better from a resonance/sustain perspective, or are there just so many other variables involved any differences will just get lost in the mix ?
That's a question for those who actually build and repair guitars, not me! I personally think there's "something" to be said for the long, full-width tenon and the greater contact area between neck and body. It certainly makes for a strong joint. PRS use that construction, Feline uses it, I think Patrick Eggle and Nik Huber use it.
On the other hand, once everything is glued into place is the neck joint itself having much effect on sustain or resonance, or is it just a solidly glued lump sitting between neck and body? Can it be proved to make a difference, or does it just instinctively feel like a good way of doing things? I don't know.
A Howe-Orme neck joint. The neck touches the body only at three points - the brass pin at the heel, and the tops of the two domed adjuster wheels under the fingerboard.
The guitar sounds perfectly normal, in fact excellent, and has plenty of resonance and sustain.
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein