Epiphone SG Custom Review - What's it REALLY like?

The Epiphone SG custom is a budget take on Gibson's SG custom, but what is that quality really like? Find out in this close up review of the 2022 model.

Index:
0:00 Start
0:13 Intro and preamble
0:54 Gib... Epiphone SG Custom
2:14 Initial Overview
4:24 Overview of the Neck
5:22 Closeup of the guitar
10:48 Stop-tail & Bridge
13:51 Overview of Pickups
14:22 The neck close up
15:48 The nut
16:49 Headstock
18:27 Tuners
20:25 Headstock to neck joint
21:20 Neck profile
22:33 Neck to body joint
23:26 Back plate & electrics
26:45 The music retailer
28:00 Pricing
28:55 More about pickups
30:14 Warranty
31:03 CE markings
31:49 Would I buy another?
32:36 Neck heavy blues
35:49 Overall score
37:29 Final thoughts
39:37 Original played
40:46 Replacement pickups
41:56 Replacement pickups played

Ah the Gibson (or I MUST say Epiphone) SG custom guitar... these style of guitars take me back to when I was 17 because an SG was my first 'real' guitar - and man how I payed for that one.. £4 a week from a mail order catalogue! So I have fond memories of that guitar.

But it makes me realize that at the price of this Epiphone SG custom guitar that there will be many guys looking at these that don't have huge budgets and long for a decent guitar. So in steps Epiphone and makes one... or do they? Is this darned thing really what it's cracked up to be and is it really 'inspired by Gibson' ?

A number of people have asked exactly that - even before the review is complete, so I set out to show the good, the bad and the ugly (I play the part of the ugly) :).

This close up review shows you everything you would likely ever want to know about the Epiphone SG custom and even where you can go and get one if you're in the UK. This guitar was bought from Sound Affects in Ormskirk near Liverpool in the UK and they are at http://www.soundaffects.com if anyone is interested in them.

This guitar certainly is playable as supplied but I do cover the things you might want to upgrade over time to 'improve' the guitar and some might say Gibsonize it. And its a custom and not just an Epiphone sg standard

At the end of the video I do play the guitar with the original pickups and also with some Seymour Duncan pickups in there - a JB SH4 and a Jazz SH2N (I think those are the names) so compare them and put in the comments what you think if the guitar sounds better than stock - is the guitar improved or not?

This review is completely financed by me and I bought this guitar at street price of £499.00 in the UK, so this is a REAL AND GENUINE REVIEW showing the exact experience I had from buying a Epiphone SG Custom myself.

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