The subject BANUGD stands for "BOUGHT A NEW USED GUITAR DAY". I have a 2017 MIK PRS SE Zach Myers semi hollow guitar but have missed my Wolf 335 copy since I sold it a couple of years ago. The PRS is a great guitar I upgraded it with a set of SD Pearly Gates, Gotoh locking tuners etc. however, it's just not the same as 335 type guitar. So perusing GC's used gear this morning I found this SX GG6 for $199 I know that's what they were new but it's not much money these days so I pulled the trigger.
Anyway, does anyone here have one or experienced one. I have parts to upgrade it pups electronics bone nut blank and so on I'm hoping it is a great guitar that just needs to be played or, it's a good mod platform.
toomanycats wrote: ↑Mon Jun 12, 2023 12:52 pm
That is a good looking SX. I wonder if it was more white when it was new and it's taken in that cream hue over time.
Love my Wolf WLP-750. It's about the same color as that 335 Wolff you sold. Did your's have the old headstock emblem with the moon and howling wolf?
It did TMC also they no longer have the trapeze tail piece don't know why the did away with that. I happen to have a picture of the headstock.
I lucked out she's a keeper 9lb 1oz so a little heavy her condition is much better than I had hoped for near mint. The pups are not microphonic in the least but,,,,, not the best sounding for sure the 2nd tuner is really stiff but I have a set of gold Grovers I took off something awhile back. There is something a tad puzzling about the guitar it has a bone nut that looks factory which I have a hard time believing. The frets look as if they've never been played on much could use a good polishing but that's it they don't need crowned or anything. The Rosewood fretboard needs some lemon oil the electronics are good no scratchy sound. The pups like I said at first have no terrible problems and don't really sound too bad but I wil change them I have a lot of choices but I have a set Rob wound don't remember who I bought them from but someone on the old forum I also have a set of Tim Shaw PAF I pulled out of my 83 LP as well as a bunch of others so no problem with replacing them anyway here's some pictures. I really like the Abalone/Pearl inlays
Thats really a nice score Redman.
Good pickups and thats gonna be nice.
"The man that hath no music in himself, nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, is fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils. The motions of his spirit are dull as night, and his affections dark as Erebus. Let no such man be trusted."
I finally had time to really check the GG6 out it was in desperate need of a set-up and had a little fret sprout going on so I took care of that and a new set of strings and I'm totally amazed at the playability of this guitar but the real surprise is the tone man this thing is amazing. I couldn't belive how it sounds I was prepared to change out the pups and electronics but no need to I don't believe I could improve it. As I said earlier it has a bone nut and the toggle switch is side to side instead of up and down which makes me think someone has been under the hood of this thing. When I change strings again I'm going to pull the pups and see if they've been changed out, they just don't sound like SX pups and I've had a bunch of SX guitars. So the mystery deepens I truly don't belive I'll find stock SX pups when I open it up but if I do these will be the best sounding SX pups I ever heard.
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Killer to see a rarer sx make its way to a forum aficionado. With the upgrades I wonder if it has a connection to someone we may have known and perhaps was even documented before the old forum destruction.
