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Recently I got another Epi SG, a custom which by all accounts is a decent guitar which I love the look of (the head stock being the exception) but I don't like that middle pick up malarky. I've dropped the middle right down out of the way but I don't know, I'm just not getting on with it. However, for ages and ages I had been looking for a guitar made by UK luthiers Gordon Smith guitars. Finally I found an SG2 (SG shape obviously ha ha verry similar shape but with slightly different body contours although not too dissimilar), made in 1999 with 2 buckers, wrap around bridge with a nice cherry coloured semi satin finish. It has a few dings and dents on the body but the neck is excellent and most importantly it feels bloody marvelous! It's not neck heavy at all but has a real nice solid feel and balances perfectly. It needs the bridge adjusting as the intonation is not great (as you'd probably expect with a wrap around) and I'm going to look at a Tone Pros or even see if a PRS bridge will fit. Not really sure what it sounds like yet, it came with the stock pick ups but I don't know anything about them. I do however have a Brobucker for the bridge and either an AP2 or Seth bridge for the neck. Although it's a beater at the minute I would love to have it refinished in gold or maybe bronze like some of the '52 Tele reissues from a few years back.... we'll see. Got no pics yet but will post when I've cleaned it up. 
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