SG Supreme - comments?

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I just got to play a SG Supreme owned by a guy I met at a friend's house today. He said he picked it up from ebay for $1400.

The guitar blew me away. I played it through my buddie's Marshall 6100 head through a mesa 4x12 cabinet.

It has a mahogany body and neck with ebony fret board and flame maple top. The neck felt real comfortable and fast but the sound was just so nice. I have a 61 reissue SG with 57 classics and I had to swap out the bridge pickup because the 57 classics sounded too middy and bright. But the supreme I think because of the maple top sounded deep and tight. It still retained the SG sound but had a deeper tone to it which I really liked. I am what a C5 or 59 in the bridge might do to this beauty.

I am thinking of selling something to pick one up.

Please let me know your thoughts on this guitar if you have had any personal experience with it. If you like it great. If you hate I would like to know why. Comments from both sides are welcomed and appreciated.

Thanks in advance!
 
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The SG Supremes are a beautiful guitar, in looks and sound.

I'm surprised it's deep than the '61RI. The maple top should logically make it brighter.
 
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Maybe it is the combo of the maple and ebony fretboard? I don't know. Those are really the differences between the 61ri and the supreme that I know of. the 61ri of course having rosewood board and no top. unfortunately my 61ri was not there for a side by side comparison.
 
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Broke said:
Maybe it is the combo of the maple and ebony fretboard? I don't know. Those are really the differences between the 61ri and the supreme that I know of. the 61ri of course having rosewood board and no top. unfortunately my 61ri was not there for a side by side comparison.
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Ebony would make it even brighter.
 
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Nice, although I prefer a Polaris white '61-'66 Junior or cherry '66-'70 Standard or walnut '66-'70 Melody Maker or... etc.
 
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I have an SG standard with an ebony board.. it is the guitar of the week SG Standard Silverburst.. yes the ebony does make it a bit brighter than what I'm used to in an SG.. I have certain patches in my Boss GT-8 made for my silverburst which have a reduced global presence so that it makes up for the extra brightness.. I can imagine a maple top would only add to this.. although you'd have to tell me, are the SG supremes more thick?.. SG's are really thin and I can imagine that perhaps the maple really isn't a "top" so much as a veneer... since I can see that the flames go all the way to the edge of the guitar (and not just until the body contours) they would either have to make it a flamed maple veneer or a top which is as thick as the body cutaways go (which is about halfway into the depth of the guitar).. that's a lot of maple.. if it weren't a veneer and actually had a good slab of maple then I'd imagine it'd be bright as all getout with that ebony board (btw do you know if they used the typical 500k pots?)

speaking of bright.. has anybody played the SG select???.. the whole damn thing is made of AAA flamed maple!!!..
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it does have a rosewood board but I'd imagine that thing would be bright and snappy.. I've never played an all-maple guitar (don't strat-type guitars usually come with either alder, ash, poplar, or basswood.. and never hard maple?)
 
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I love the supreme. It took me a little while to get used to it but the more I play it the more I like it. After playing a Les Paul for years and then picking up the SG it was really odd having to support the neck when I play. I'd really like to see/hear/play an SG with a little thicker body. Not much thicker but just enough to try and balance out the guitar a little better. Either way though it's a rockin axe. As far as sounds go I don't think it's as diverse as my Les Paul but it sounds great at what it does. I love that midrange snarl and the clarity and snap the ebony and maple help to bring out. If I could have only one guitar it'd still be a Les Paul but if you're an SG guy you can't do much better than the Supreme.

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Oddly enough, my SG is perfectly balanced and doesn't tilt forward or down to the ground at all...
 
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mine does all that and then some.. the worst is the tilt forward.. if I got a bad strap then it'll jus fall outta those little gibbo strap buttons.. don't even ask what this idiot did when he tried to install strap-locks.. lets just say that I didn't take into consideration that the dunlop strap-lock screw is about as deep as the SG itself.. I'm glad I stopped when I hit resistance.. same goes with Q tips

a leather strapped solved the problem though.. it has that unfinished backside which really sticks to your shirt.. my previous strap was so slippery that my sg silverburst went every which way
 
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Mm-hmm. I tried to deny it for a long time but I think the fact of the matter is, everybody needs at least one SG. And if the SG you want just so happens to be one of the pimpest SGs out there...haha go for it.

-X
 
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JfromHouston said:
I love the supreme. It took me a little while to get used to it but the more I play it the more I like it. After playing a Les Paul for years and then picking up the SG it was really odd having to support the neck when I play. I'd really like to see/hear/play an SG with a little thicker body. Not much thicker but just enough to try and balance out the guitar a little better. Either way though it's a rockin axe. As far as sounds go I don't think it's as diverse as my Les Paul but it sounds great at what it does. I love that midrange snarl and the clarity and snap the ebony and maple help to bring out. If I could have only one guitar it'd still be a Les Paul but if you're an SG guy you can't do much better than the Supreme.

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Man that is exactly the color I want it is just beautiful.
 
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i love the SG Supremes... but even though i love them i still have this thing deap inside me that thinks SG's should not be pretty.... they should be rough and raw tools.... but at the same time the Supremes are wonderful looking so i can see both sides of the coin.... i'd buy one if it was a cheap enough deal....
 
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I wouldn't buy one without playing it first, and the heavier the better.
24 frets with a big bound headstock is a recipe for 'neck heavy.'
Some of them may have heavier bodies to balance it out, but if you get one with a light body, the neck could fall forward.
 
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WhoFan said:
i love the SG Supremes... but even though i love them i still have this thing deap inside me that thinks SG's should not be pretty....
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Because it's not like the first SGs were called Les Pauls, were white with binding and gold hardware, and played by jazz guitarist and such.

Lol JK...
 
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Personally, I don't like them.

As for an all maple guitar, I'm a huge fan of bright guitars, but man, that'd be too much, even for me. Plus the sustain would probably be uncontrollable. Like you'd play a chord, set it down, go to work, then a beer with your friends, come home and STILL find it ringing (unless your spouse or parent had turned off your amp, depending on who you live with).
 
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