Dan Erlewine Albert King Custom Flying V - "Lucy" vs Yamaha SG-175B
The Dan Erlewine Albert King Custom Flying V - "Lucy" and the Yamaha SG-175B are both electric guitars sharing warm, sustaining. The Dan Erlewine Albert King Custom Flying V - "Lucy" leans transparent.
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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.54% — moderately similar
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Derived from overlapping tonal signals across both listings.- warm
- sustaining
Dan Erlewine Albert King Custom Flying V - "Lucy"
Dan Erlewine · electric guitar
Yamaha SG-175B
Unknown brand · electric guitar
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Citation/mention fame — how often this gear is cited across artist rigs and gear discussion.This brown Flying V, built by luthier Dan Erlewine, is one of several instruments Albert King named Lucy over his career, part of a lineage that began with his original 1959 Korina Flying V and continued through custom copies from different builders including Erlewine, John Bolin and Tom Holmes as King wore through or retired earlier examples. Erlewine was among the first luthiers King commissioned for a replacement once his original Korina V became too valuable and fragile for regular touring use. It is associated in this catalogue with both Albert King and Joe Bonamassa, the latter a well-documented collector of King-associated Flying Vs.
The Yamaha SG-175 comes from the 1970s SG line that preceded the neck-through SG2000, using a bolt-on neck rather than the through-body construction and brass sustain block that later defined the range. A double-cutaway body with two humbuckers and 22 frets puts it closer in concept to a Gibson SG than the heavier, longer-sustaining instruments Yamaha built after it.
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Genres this gear is documented as being used in.- Blues
- Classic Rock
- Alternative Rock
- Rock
- transparent