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My SG Standard ('98 model)

This is my new guitar that got delivered January 20, 2017. It was built for me by neoclassic shred guitarist and my friend Dean Cascione of DC Custom Guitars USA. Here is composite photo of the front and back in the case. I absolutely love it.



My DC Custom Guitars Guitar specs : - 25.5" scale - Yngwie J Malmsteen style scalloped fretboard - 9.5" radius - Birdseye maple 1 pc neck shank - Medium C profile - Dunlop 6000 frets - Reverse headstock - Hipshot graduated locking tuners - Dual acting trussrod at heel - Real shell abalone inlays - 5A quilted maple top over basswood DC Custom body - 4 bolt heel with DC personalized etched neckplate - Rear Charvel style electronics cavity route - SS pickup configuration - Vintage tremolo route - Wilkinson steel block tremolo with offset drilled sustain block for improved intonation and push in tremolo arm - Floyd Rose noiseless tremolo springs - Side input jack - 3 way toggle - 1 volume Seymour Duncan YJM high-speed volume pot - Copper grounding backplane - Aluminum cavity cover - GuitarHeads mini rail pickups wound to Dean's specifications - All black hardware - Thin nitrocellulose finish - SIT Power Steel 9-46 strings - Fender tweed guitar case

These closeups were sent to me before shipment and include his watermarks:

My SX LP with soapbar P-90s

dragger201 wrote: ↑

Mon Jan 12, 2015 2:20 am

My Ibanez Artcore AF 75..........

Here's what it looked like originally..........


But I hate chrome and black plastic, and the ACH pickups just were to muddy.......here's what it looks like now....







I play it a good bit thru a Blackstar ID Core 40 behind a Presonus Tubepre V2. For the modifications here's the diary of what and how it was done..........

http://forum.ibanez.com/yaf_postst88955 ... enced.aspx

Sweet Ibby!

My current collectio standards at 84 (down from 148) 12 months ago and can be found here. https://www.flickr.com/photos/76319442@ ... 2741036277

Here are some highlight pictures to wet your appetite.

2014 GIbson Les Paul Traditional


1982 Gibson Spirit


2018 Gretsch G2420T-P90


2002 Maverick SF-3


2001 PRS McCarty


2011 PRS SE Bernie Marsden

I play a modded 2004 Fender MIM Midnight Blue Satin Stratocaster and a 2017 quilted maple/birdseye maple SuperStrat that I had specially made for me by DC Custom Guitars.

My partscaster Tele