A Stunning Example of a 'Rather Rare Bird'

One of Only a Very Few SG Juniors Made in Polaris White

1965 Gibson SG Junior

This near mint, custom color, 13-inch-wide SG Junior weighs just 6.40 lbs. and has a contoured solid mahogany body. One-piece mahogany neck with a nice, fat nut width of 1 11/16 inches, a standard Gibson scale length of 24 3/4 inches and a very fast thin to medium to thick profile. Brazilian rosewood fretboard with 22 original jumbo frets and inlaid pearl dot markers. Headstock with "Gibson" logo in gold and 'bell'shaped black plastic truss-rod cover secured by two screws. Closed-back Kluson Deluxe, 'double-line' strip tuners with white plastic oval buttons. Serial number "256226" stamped in blind on back of headstock. Single P-90 pickup in the bridge position with an outputs of 7.57k. Five-layer black over white plastic pickguard with eight screws. Two controls (one volume, one tone). Black plastic bell-shaped knobs with metal tops. The potentiometers are stamped "137 6502" (CTS, January 1965). Wrap-over pre-compensated, intonation adjustable, bridge/stud tailpiece. Nickel-plated hardware. This wonderful sixty-one year old SG Junior is in near mint (9.25) condition. Now lets be super critical: There are a few light check marks on the body, and a few almost invisible check marks on the back of the neck. There is one tiny mark on the back of the neck behind the 3rd fret and a red mark from the red case lining behind the 4th fret. There is one tiny surface chip (1/4 x 3/16 inch) on the back of the body just by the bass side contour and several small 'edge-chips', all of which have been touched-up many years ago. Complete with the original 24 page Gibson hang-tag with matching serial number, the original "Professionals Attention" hang-tag, a boxed set of Gibson hand made strings (lacking the high 'E') and the original (unused) Cadillac 'Bobby Lee No-Mishap' white leather guitar strap in the original box and instructions. Housed in the original shaped black softshell case with red plush lining (9.00). A stunning example of a rather rare bird.

This is one of the last of the SG Juniors with the preferred 1 11/16 nut width. In mid '65, Gibson in their infinite wisdom, cut the nut width down by a full 1/8 inch to 1 9/16 inches - and then in 1966 they changed the peg-head angle from 17 degrees to 14 degrees. Sometime in 1968 they re-introduced the 1 11/16 inch nut width and in 1973 they reversed the peg-head angle change back to 14 degrees…