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You just know that this Custom Shop Gibson SG400X has to be a 1980s guitar when Gibson start messing with the tried and tested formula and produce a guitar that appears to be the offspring of an unholy alliance between an SG and a Superstrat. Check out the locking trem (I think it's a Kahler), the SSH pickup configuration and the droopy headstock that was de rigeur in the later 1980s (thankfully it's Gibson's own Explorer-style design and not a nasty pointy effort a la Jackson and Charvel).
Currently listed on eBay with a Buy It Now price of US $1,450.
G L Wilson
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1985 Gibson SG400X - the SG that wanted to be a Superstrat
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Currently listed on eBay with a Buy It Now price of US $1,450.
G L Wilson
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Please read our photo and content policy.
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