Gibson Les Paul 12 String vs Gibson Sg Custom 1961
The Gibson Les Paul 12 String and the Gibson Sg Custom 1961 are both electric guitars. The Gibson Les Paul 12 String leans transparent and full. The Gibson Sg Custom 1961 leans bright. Current prices: $5250 vs $18494.61.
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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.51% — moderately similar
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Genres both listings are associated with.- Blues Rock
Gibson Les Paul 12 String
Gibson · electric guitar
Gibson Sg Custom 1961
Gibson · electric guitar
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Citation/mention fame — how often this gear is cited across artist rigs and gear discussion.$5250via Reverb
$18494.61via Reverb
Warren Haynes plays a Gibson Les Paul 12-string, one of only two the company built for him around 1990 after Gibson Custom Shop head Rick Gembar saw him perform at Nashville's Ryman Auditorium and offered to build the instrument. Gibson has since kept a Les Paul 12-string in its catalog partly because of Haynes's association with the model, an unusual pairing since 12-string necks are far more commonly found on acoustic and semi-hollow bodies than on a solid Les Paul. Eric Clapton reportedly saw Haynes play it and remarked he hadn't seen a guitar like it since recording Layla, tying the instrument to the tradition of doubled-string electric guitar work Clapton, Duane Allman, and other blues-rock players from that era helped popularize.
This entry covers a 1961 Gibson SG Custom with no specific documented owner attached, from the very first year Gibson moved the Les Paul Custom onto the newly designed thinner, double-cutaway SG body, before the SG name fully replaced Les Paul branding on Gibson's flagship solid body over the following two years. As one of the earliest examples of the format, it carries the original three-pickup layout, block inlays, and a sideways-mounted Maestro vibrola, hardware that would be revised on later SG Customs as Gibson refined the design through the decade. Guitars from this exact transitional year sit at a historically significant crossing point between the Les Paul name and the SG body shape that would go on to define an entirely separate model line.
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Genres this gear is documented as being used in.- Rock
- Hard Rock
- Blues
- transparent
- full
- sustaining
- bright