MY 1968 Gibson SG Restoration project

I came across this 1968 Gibson SG about 2 years ago now on eBay. It was a project guitar selling for cheap! Well I had been looking for a '68 main guitar for a while then. Why? It was simply my birth year. So I grab this SG for $300 including a beat up original Gibson case. It came to me half stipped. Apparently a GIT shredder guy had owned it. Put in an EMG and 1 volume, that's it! I took it, stripped it with citrus chemicals, brought it to my friend Bil Jones formerly of LA Guitar Factory and Splawn Guitars. Now of The Fret Garage, he re-fretted the guitar, re-drilled the controls and brought it back all original routes that he formatted from another 68 he was working on at the time.

I was then lucky enough, yes I said lucky enough to have Dave Masel of McNaught Guitars in Locust, NC agree to refinish the guitar. Well if you've ever had the pleasure of seeing or better yet playing a McNaught, you know what I said I was lucky to have him do the paint. Dave is also known as Paint By Dave at http://www.paintbydave.com/ . Absolutely stunning! More to come on this BEAST.! Mean while check out Dave's list of players he has built for. Tell me this is not impressive!

John 5--Solo Artist/Rob Zombie Band, Matt Pike of HIGH ON FIRE, Jon Schaffer of ICED EARTH, Tim Sult of CLUTCH, Neil Fallon of CLUTCH, Neal Schon of JOURNEY, Ariel Pozzo of MIGUEL MATEOS BAND/Studio Guitarist/Solo ArtistChris Henderson of 3 DOORS DOWN, Tony Rombola of GODSMACK, Jasin Todd of SHINEDOWN, Jimmy Bower of SUPERJOINT RITUAL...Oh yeah, almost forgot...add me to his list! ;)