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Misterious SG

Barenik

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Hi everybody,
and sorry for my poor english.
Yesterday, looking for old SG I found an old guy that sell an SG special. So I went to his shop (not a music shop), and I look for the instrument.
The owner says that it's a sixties SG, and when he oper the case almost everything looks good, the guitar seems refin, but looks not bad. No fractures, no cracks, just some holes of the old vibrola.
The strange thing I found it's a big headstock (???), something like the old es-150 one and a serial that is 6 digit and start with 555xxx.
Serial is something like a 1966, but the big peghead????

These are the announcement pics (I didn't have the phone to shot the guitar...), but believe me in these picture is very very more red than in the reality. Its colours is something like honey/natural and not faded.

Does anybody has any idea of what this guitar is? :hmm:hmm:hmm


Thank you


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Barenik

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I really think it's a strange combination of features, take a look some other pictures and let me know what do you think:



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fakejake

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I have a '65 SG Special, but I'm not an expert on this...
The heel looks a bit funky to me, and I can't see any binding on those pictures, whicht would be essential for a Special from that era.
Trussrodcover is obviously wrong, and yes, the headstock looks big, but this might be the angle on the pic.
 

Progrocker111

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Looks like 1968 to me with this prolonged neck heel, tuners, serial number etc.
 

Kris Ford

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Looks like 1968 to me with this prolonged neck heel, tuners, serial number etc.

That's an early '69..my '69 Jr was in that SN# range. :salude

Missing I dot on block logo too. (ALWAYS a sure sign of '69)

Headstock looks exaggerated due to skinnier nut width, but is of a slightly different dimension.
 

Progrocker111

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That's an early '69..my '69 Jr was in that SN# range. :salude

Missing I dot on block logo too. (ALWAYS a sure sign of '69)

Headstock looks exaggerated due to skinnier nut width, but is of a slightly different dimension.

Sure, its a 69. I havent noticed the logo. Such a shame for me. :## :##

56xxxx serials are most probably early 69 too.
 

Grog

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Even though I labeled this as a 1971, it likely is really a 1970. Regardless, this is what it should look like if it wasn't refinished or had parts changed.

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frazettafan

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To my eyes that headstock looks way too 'flared' at the top, and pretty poorly shaped, especially from the back view. I know they were hand shaped but this really looks odd imho. It does look like a re-fin, as has already been mentioned. Did you look at what's going on under the scratch plate at all? That might give some more clues. As for the lack of neck binding, that points to a converted Junior maybe? It would have all the routs in accordance for a Special anyway, I believe?
 

kingdoublecut

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Perhaps the neck was replaced with a "luthier" made replacement. Looks very wonky. Heel is not straight across suggesting it has been worked on.
 
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