The wood choice does not effect the playability. But unlike most SG's this guitar is made from all maple. It features dual humbucking pickups selected with a 3 way toggle switch and two tone and two volume knobs. The guitar features the classic dual cutaway SG body with a 22 fret neck. The standard SG of today is exactly that, the standard SG. Later on the real Les Paul was re-introduced and the new guitar was renamed the SG.
What we know now as the SG was introduced as the new Les Paul in 1961. With the maple bodies you get totally different tones than you would get on a normal Gibson. The neck fretboard and body are made of maple.
GIBSON SG RAW POWER SERIES
The Raw Power series of guitars are all maple guitars. Gibson goes crazy with their limited run ideas. The Raw Power series is another limited run of guitars they put out a few years ago. If you are downtuning or dont like the typical Gibson dont but still want a Gibson I guess this is the guitar they are making for you. They have made so much good stuff in limited runs and you get stuff like this and the Zoot Suit SG that really have no place in Gibsons lineup for any lenght of time. Im surprised Gibson is still making these. A set of EMG's might be too bright for this guitar. A set of Seymour Duncan Blackouts would really even out the tone. If you are playing it low tunings this could be a great guitar to retain clairty. If they wanted a guitar that sounded like this they wouldnt have been playing Gibsons to begin with. I just dont know what Gibson player was wanting this guitar. It is pretty bright and this gives the tone great clarity. It not sounding like a Gibson doesnt mean it sounds bad. Even the great 57 Classic pickups cant make this guitar sound like a Gibson. With the maple body maple neck and maple fretboard this guitar does not sound anything like any other Gibson you have played. This is the Gibson for people who hate the tone of a Gibson. They threw in a trapezoid inlay in the middle of all the dots to change it up I guess.
After 5 minutes you are glad you can barely see the inlays because thats when you notice the inlay on the 12th fret is completely different than the rest. As I said the dot lightly colored dot inlays get lost in the maple fretboard. If you have small hands you may have trouble playing this guitar. With the baseball bat neck it really fills your hand and then some. This is mostly due to the lack of excessive finish on the guitar. This guitar plays a little better than your typical boat neck SG which isnt saying much. You get a set of Classic 57 humbuckers thankfully with the standard Gibson control layout. To keep up with the cost cutting it has a standard black headstock that matches nothing on the guitar.
The fretboard has 22 frets and white inlays that easily get lost in the maple fretboard. You get the standard SG shape with a maple body and a maple neck with a maple fretboard. I guess this is Gibson showing off the cheap route they developed in the mid 60s that caused them to switch to the large pickguard SG guitars over the original small pickguard design. You can see the routing on the SG through it. The natural version has a strange clear pickguard. The one I tested had the natural Satin finish and it is super mapley. These guitars are made from all maple to give a unique and bright tone. Gibson now has a seemingly standard series called the Raw Power series now.
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