1967 Gibson SG Custom - White vs Suhr Guthrie Govan Modern Pro Signature Guitar
The 1967 Gibson SG Custom - White and the Suhr Guthrie Govan Modern Pro Signature Guitar are both electric guitars sharing smooth, warm, dynamic. The 1967 Gibson SG Custom - White leans full and sustaining. The Suhr Guthrie Govan Modern Pro Signature Guitar leans transparent and tight.
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Blended from circuit-archetype lineage, dynamic feel, tone-signal overlap and tone-vector distance — the tone vector itself is derived from editorial description text, not a measured acoustic signal, so this reflects how similarly the catalog copy describes the two, not a lab measurement. Shown only within a gear class, and only where there's enough evidence to be meaningful.47% — somewhat different
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Derived from overlapping tonal signals across both listings.- smooth
- warm
- dynamic
1967 Gibson SG Custom - White
Gibson · electric guitar
Suhr Guthrie Govan Modern Pro Signature Guitar
Unknown brand · electric guitar
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Citation/mention fame — how often this gear is cited across artist rigs and gear discussion.Jimi Hendrix played a white 1967 Gibson SG Custom, a mahogany-bodied, three-humbucker guitar he first used at a Rhode Island Auditorium show in November 1968 and later played, strung for a right-handed guitar despite his left-handed technique, on The Dick Cavett Show on September 9 1969 for a medley of Izabella and Machine Gun. It was also seen at Woodstock. The three humbuckers gave a thicker, more powerful tone than the single-coil Stratocasters most associated with Hendrix, and the white finish has aged to a pale yellow over the decades since.
The Suhr Guthrie Govan Signature Modern Pro is a hand-crafted collaboration between Guthrie Govan and John Suhr featuring basswood body with plain maple top, roasted maple neck and fingerboard with 16 inch radius and 24 stainless steel jumbo frets. The HSH pickup configuration includes Suhr SSV neck, ML Standard middle, and SSH Plus bridge pickups. Hardware includes Gotoh 510 bridge with 2-post bent saddles and steel block, master volume, master tone with neck humbucker split, 5-way lever pickup selector, and blower switch. The compound radius fingerboard facilitates seamless transitions between chords and solos. The tone is lush, clear, and ballsy—versatile across jazz, shredding, fusion, and contemporary styles.
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Genres this gear is documented as being used in.- Hard Rock
- Experimental
- Blues
- Rock
- Psychedelic Rock
- Smooth Jazz
- Jazz
- full
- sustaining
- fuzzy
- transparent
- tight
- lush