SX SSG/STD

Chinese-made 2008 Sg Standard model, 22 frets, mahogany body, standard Gibson configuration (2t, 2v, toggle), dark wine glossy finish (looks better than Epi G-400's, which is lighter), big multilayer pickguard (spreading below and above the pick ups), passive elec, two humbuckers, Gibson style bridge and tailpiece), vintage style tuners that work fine (the 4th string tuner is sometimes not too smooth, but that's an exception), fat neck surprisingly comfortable with 0.09 strings (Epiphone G-400 neck is more comfortable, thinner), big headstock (compared to Epi G-400's). Gibson style hardshell case included (brown on the outside with golden lockers, pink satin/velvet interior).

I own both this guitar and an Epiphone G-400, and my review is meant for those who are in doubt whether of them to buy. Soundwise the SX seems to be more "ballsy" than the Epi, and perhaps because of its darker colour and wide pickguard looks... how can I say... "fiercer" than the Epi. I'm an amateur guitar player, but I can tell good from bad (been playing for 20+ years and owned vintage guitars by Fender and Ibanez, and several Epiphones, Corts, etc). I own a small WarmMusic 20W amp to study at home, through a Zoom 505. To play Iron Maiden, bridge p.u. sounds like Adrian Smith, neck p.u. like Dave Murray. I only use it to play hard rock and metal, and that's what it should be used for. I played it without distortion (chorus + reverb), but it sounded a bit weak and plain.

Just one major flaw at the end of the fingerboard, in the binding. Funnily enough, I got the impression that the neck and headstock were put together by one company, and the body by another, due to the much better finishing of the body. My only real complaint is about the headstock, whose shape is - simply put - ugly and too big, and the truss-rod cover was set leaning to the left (clearly visible). Otherwise, the body is au par with the Epi G-400, and I personally think the translucent dark wine finish looks more beautiful than that on the Epi, besides the knobs, which have a greenish "antique" colour that add to the overall vibe of the guitar. Like I said, the SX feels more like a real SG than the Epi. As for the action, it was almost perfect right out of the box. There's some buzzing on certain upper frets, but I'm sure that'll be fixed easily.

I'm sure this guitar with withstand playing and even some abuse. The hardware seems sturdier than the one on my Epi, and the finish seems to be thick (the Epi was bought 2nd hand and is from 1998, so it's got two minor cracks on the side, next to the bottom strapbutton). I don't think it's very wise to go gigging without a back-up, so I'd bring both SGs (SX and Epi) on principle, but I guess I'd use the SX as my main axe.

Never dealt with them, and I hope I don't need to.

I bought it only 1 month ago, and usually like to wait a bit more before I submit a review - but confronting it with my Epi G-400 it because clear that the SX is a serious contender, for almost half the price and with the bonus of a very nice hard case. I wish the neck was a bit thinner, but like I said, surprisingly, although the neck feels "fat", it's not tiresome, and I can play fast licks on it easily. If it were lost or stolen, I wouldn't buy another one because I have the Epi SG - if I didn't I would certainly go for another SX. What I love the most about it is its dark wine colour, bound neck and SG "vibe" (I can't explain it in more objective terms, but it looks and feels more like a Gibby SG than the Epi replica). What I really dislike about it is the shape of the headstock - it looks crudely made - but I can live through it ;-). Not a 10 here because of the headstock.

SX brand, Gibson SG-style guitar. Purchased from Rondo Music in Union, NJ. Identical in style & congiguration to a Gibson SG guitar: Mahogany body, Wine-red (burgundy) gloss finish, 2 humbuckers, 2 volume controls, 2 tone controls, 22 frets, bound neck, trapezoid position markers, batwing pickguard, tune-o-matic style bridge w/stop tailpiece. Body shape, contours, bevels, etc. are all consistent with the Gibson SG. Purchased in early (February...?) 2003, so the guitar was probably manufactured in 2002.

The electronics work fine. The pots are clean, the pickup switch isn't scratchy, and the humbuckers do their job. The tuning keys are fine as well......no need to replace them. Maybe I'll replace the electronics..........maybe. They're not giving me any problems at all, so I'll just leave 'em alone until they do. (I can't figure out how to get underneath the pickguard. I've removed all screws but the bridge post bushings appear to be holding that area of the pickguard down. Until I can figure out how to get them up the pickup cavity is a mystery.)

The basic setup was ......decent....I've seen worse. (I almost never find a store-guitar that doesn't require some degree of tinkering.) The frets absolutely required some dressing/leveling. (I did this myself and it plays really nice. My guitar-playing co-workers were impressed with the great action.....;-) Finish flaws: The wine-red finish on the neck was carried onto the binding - right up near the nut - on the 'bass' side......very minor. And there's a very small lacquer 'blob' right at the neck joint on the 'treble' side of the neck. Other than those 2 minor flaws the finish is consistent and glossy.

I own quite a few guitars and stash them all in the same room. This guitar sat in it's case in that room for the entire summer. 2 weeks ago I took a few of my axes out to 'get some air'. They were all out of tune, and the necks were (slightly) bowed, but all were easily remedied. Amazingly, the SX SG was perfectly in tune and required no neck adjustment! I hadn't taken this guitar out of it's case since early June, so it had been locked away in that room for 2 & 1/2 months. That impressed me.

Aside from a volume knob that is slightly stripped, I haven't had any problems with this axe. I've done business with Rondo's for many years and they've always been very professional.

Playing since April, 1971. Stolen or lost? Maybe I'd buy another. I've definitely recommended that my guitar-playing friends & co-workers should absolutely drive out to Rondo's and check out these guitars. This axe was a genuine bargain for the price: It's comfortable, and plays really nice.

this guitar is made in china (according to the sticker) dont rule out guitars built overseas. most are pretty good nowadays. and by the way folks, this is a SG COPY (ssg std as said in the title), not a strat!. go somwhere else for a strat review!. this guitar is constructed with a mahogany body, and maple set neck, bound rosewood fretboard, 22 medium frets (they say "jumbo sized in the listing...whatever.) with silver colourded trapazoid inlays (most likely plastic ones. i dont care, do you?) i bought one in a glossy black finish (which was all they had available at the time.)it came with 2 chrome plated paf style pickups. which sounded pretty good. i already had emg pickups sitting around waiting to go in a guitar. so i didnt give em much of a chance. they did sound decent. not as muddy. pretty paf like. the controls were a 2vol 2tone configuration. its equipped with a chrome plated tune-o-matic bridge (original style. with the skinnyer posts)and stoptail piece. and sealed shcaller like tuners (they're not the best, ended up getting grovers like they rest of my guitars have)its a 24.5 scale guitar. not sure about the neck width dimension, but it does feel smaller than the gibby sg standard.

it can do rock music like an sg is built to do!. use your fingers, you can play lots of music styles your heart desires!. it especially sounds nicer with emg pickups (the beuty of aftermarket pickups) i plug this into a crate gt50 stealth with loaded 35watt celestions. and a tc bld pedal (set on boost) in the fx loop. my music style is mostly heavy rock/metal;D.

when i took the guitar out of the box, it was setup with 9's and pretty high action (thats expected everytime you send out for a new guitar)the pickups were adjusted pretty low. low enough to get too weak of a sound. no biggie. the finish isnt the best it had some runs on the backside of the guitar. by now there are dings on it anyway. the binding under the 22nd fret looks a lil warped (as if its where they stopped the binding crafting) i dont care about that. wasnt loose or anything (never did came loose). this part i do care about though, a couple of the frets werent very level (so theres a poor fret filing job on these guitars) fortuneatly, i can fix this problem by myself. i just took a block with 600grit metal sandpaper on it, and filed down and crowned all the problem frets. you can do this too. same basic thing they do at the shop. dont use anything coarser than 600grit. looks as if you're polishing the frets at first, but you're really taking some size off them. i didnt like how the bridge saddles were filed. they were so small the 9's would slip off them sometimes.

take care of a guitar properly, you can make music with it for very long time!:D. sure i'll use this guitar live! in my opinion, they're built for giging. they're a guitar that looks and plays (if not better) like the real mcoy! only difference is, you probably wont be afraid to mess it up. i had folks thinking i payed at least $700. bux for it etc. but nowhere near that!

the folks at rondo are super cool people. i think if an item you recieved was damaged, or something. im pretty sure you can work it out fine with these people. no warrentys on this axe. these guitars arent built for cenimental value. if you dont like it,return the guitar to them within a few days in the exact condition you got it in etc.

this is my second electric guitar i bought during the course of 4 years that i been playing guitar. i like to tinker on guitars (especially cheap ones). its my hobby. i have a aria 2 pro les paul custom copy, and a no namer guitar i built from spare parts. i bought this guitar so i can hot-rod it mainly. i ended up replaceing all the parts on this sg (for just cosmetic reasons) i wanted all black hardware, knobs, tuners etc. i sanded down one of the layers on the black pickguard that came with it. its now white. i even sanded the finish off the neck, reshaped the tip of the headstock (looks more bookmatched than the original curvy design)refinished it all with 5 coats of tung oil. and painted a white flying eyeball under the bridge (looks killer!)email me if you want a pic. i set this guitar up (and all the others) with di addario 12's. if it were stolen. i would really be pissed off about losing great aftermarket parts. and hope that rondo music still has a good supply of those setneck sg copys. you can never find a cheaper setneck sg copy as nice as this (unless you want to get a used epiphone) and with a little work, they can play super. if you're sombody who isnt inclined for guitar reapair/mainence, you might need to have exra money set aside for tech repairs.

Brand spankin' new 'Gibson SG' copy, nearly identical to the USA off-the shelf Gibson USA (non-Historic) SG Standard available, with two big differences: the extremely good price VS Gibson's '2nd Mortgage' cost, and this one actually comes in the old original 60's dark-cherry/wine red which Gibson has forgotten how to make (which is why I had to go through Gibbo's CUSTOM SHOP for a Historic SG Std. w/Vibrola in the REAL 'historically-correct' dark-red color instead of the nasty, faded/washed out orangey 'Faded Cherry' which comes stock on them...eeeeew). This guitar is Chinese-built (don't squirm, it's really well-made!), one-piece body, SET neck (NOT bolt-on like most within this price), twin PAF-style humbuckers (too accurate PAF copies if you ask me...they've got the squealy nature of Gibbo's), chrome stop-tail and tune-o-matic, BOUND neck with trapezoid inlays, decent quality sealed Schaller-type tuners and a multilayer B/W/B/W/B pickguard like the over $1000 Gibson. Simple in the faetures department, but simple in a very elegant manner.

Sound-wise, this guitar is your typical ballsy SG growly tone, oozing with raw sexual energy perfect for hard-hitting rock and roll. Since the music I play is a blend of AC/DC, Sabbath, the Stones, the Cult and many other high-charged edgy hard-rock bands, and most of my original material reflects those influences, this guitar tonally is the perfect match. I am using it with my 70's Fender Twin, a recent VOX Cambridge Twin 30 and a late-60's Marshall Master Lead combo. My effects include a Sansamp GT-2, BOSS SD-1 (the 'yellow' Tube Screamer...lol) and a couple other miscellaneous devices of sonic torture. My only complaint is that these pickups share the same problems I have with real Gibson PAFs and reissue '57 Classic type pickups...they are VERY prone to squealing and feedback, as they are not wax-potted. So microphonic squeal and shreeking feedback are at your fingertips. This only happens at upper-moderate to heavy gain, so if you're playing clean or moderately overdriven, no worries, just creamy dreamy SG tone.

This category is another shining aspect of this guitar. Setup was nice out of the box (just had to lower the action a tad), as was intonation. Pickups only required VERY slight adjustment, and the hardware is the tops. The finish was the 'right' color (as mentioned in the above section), and is flawless. Upon very fine-tooth-comb inspection there was a tiny section of the binding which was a bit funky where they 'patched' a spot at the end of the fretboard, next to the neck pickup--doesn't affect play nor is it visible to 99% of people, I am just picky. I wish ALL guitars had this much attention to detail and beauty, particularly the ones we pay $1000+ on. (hint hint)

This guitar was intended as a backup or 'beater' to avoid excessive wear and tear on my prized Gibson, but it very well has the makings of becoming my main live guitar. Since it has the longer, sturdier late-60's SG neck joint and a polyurethane gloss coat, it will withstand regular playing and even moderate abuse and still look great. Like all SG's, it's getting a set of strap-locks as a precaution, and since the hardware is chrome and not nickel it will survive the apocolypse. So instead of being a backup, this is going to be a prime weapon in my sonic arsenal.

I doubt I will ever need to contact anyone, because if I break this thing I am really needing anger-management beyond the norm. No warranty as far as I can tell, but Kurt at Rondo Music is very helpful and would probably bail me out if I were in a jam.

Being a 10-year guitarist with a special affinity for the 60's era Gibson SG's (and the better reissues of them), getting a better-than-average copy for the price of a case alone is a dream come true. No guitar is perfect, even the $3000+ Gibson high-end reissues, but this one came as close as any of them, maybe closer. For less than even the cheapest Epiphone SG copy, this thing is up there with the new Epi Elitist series in most ways. Aside from maybe getting some potted pickups and maybe slapping a non-modifying Bowen Handle Vibrato on this, it's great as-is and would make even the pickiest SG fan like myself happy. I would replace it instantly if it were lost or some mook lifted it from me. You simply cannot buy a better SG clone than this for the money. The look, the sound, the feel, it's all there. You won't be sorry with this one folks!

I haven't actually purchased this guitar, nor do I ever plan to. My friend who's just getting started on the guitar bought an SX left-handed Strat for extremely cheap. The only factor was money, and let me just say... he got what he paid for. Actually, considerably less.
As far as features go, it's your basic Strat copy with single-coils, probably made in some third world country. Bonus points awarded to the company for most original name ever. Or at least most original nonsensical two-letter... thing... ever...

Actually, the sound of this guitar really was not that terrible played through my friend's tiny Ibanez practice amp (and also direct into my Peavey Bandit on one occasion) when it could stay in tune for more than twenty seconds. Nice and bright. Since we're not Sonic Youth, though, the sound suffers from not being able to hold tuning.

Never looked at it close enough; it wasn't actually my guitar. With something this cheap, though, who really cares? For $100-150, the thing's going to take a beating despite its condition brand new.

I'm making a lot of assumptions, here, but I can definitely say for a fact that the reliability of this guitar, and probably many other products by "SX" is next to nothing. Going on the story my friend has told me numerous times (since I was incredulous and thought he was joking at first), the tuning problems mentioned above quickly escalated into a rash of string-breakage, possibly from poorly-filed machineheads or God knows what else, but here's the kicker:
He breaks the high E and then strums the guitar... and FOUR STRINGS BREAK SIMULTANEOUSLY, FOLLOWED BY THE NECK SNAPPING IN HALF.
Will it withstand live playing? I'm surprised it withstood sitting on a shelf in a music shop.
Can anyone depend on it? Well, you make that call.

We cut out the middle man on this one and decided to deal with the inherent flaws in this instrument ourselves.

Ever try and get it repaired? ... If by "repair," you mean "use for kindling," then yes.

I've been playing for about 3 years... enough to know what's good and what isn't. With this thing, though, you don't really need any type of qualification to make the diagnosis: SX is in the wrong business. I thought my first guitar (an Ibanez) was bad, but this takes the cake as the most insane, bizarre story of poor craftsmanship in relation to a musical instrument I have ever heard. I hate everything about this guitar and the company that makes it, because although my friend has bought another crappy guitar to continue with, I'm sure that companies and guitars like this one have discouraged potentially great musicians with similarly bizarre but untold horror stories and will continue to do so. I suppose my favorite feature would have to be the "The Who" chord that snaps the neck in two, unique to SX model guitars.
Some people name their guitars -- because they're idiots -- and this guitar's name was, before any of the horror was unleashed, funnily enough, "Mr. Dumpy."
Don't ever buy anything by this company, ever.

Strat style, your typical clone of every Strat out there. Nothing new here folks. Except, the SX logo is pretty cheesy. SX...come on, you can do better than that.

Typical strat sounds, better than a Squier chinese guitar....better construction on these. $99.99 brand new from a wholesaler...but a very elusive cheese factor remains. See below....

Pretty blah, needs setup badly....but hey it's a $99.99 guitar. SX...hmmm. Super Xing???? Could be....It's got this Mr. Sparkle quality going on...Homer would freak. SX....hmmmm. Velveeta anyone?

Don't know, wouldn't buy this low grade of guitar personally. But, hey, that's me. I don't play with Tonka Toys anymore either...enough said.

Pffffff....ha ha ha......good one. Maybe if you speak Chinese.

Uhhhh, pretty cheesy. I'll take a slice of colby and cheddar. Mmmm, cheddar.....agggghghg. I don't know...I can't believe I wasted 5 minutes writing a review for a low grade guitar. It's alright for a beginner I guess. Would get you by for a while. The Harmony Central team of CENSORS probably won't even print this hones opinion of this low grade guitar, even though I basically give it a thumbs up for a beginner. We'll see if it shows up...if not, I won't waste anymore time writing reviews here.

This guitar is one of the late-production models made in china. fetures a set neck (easy to play on)22 jumbo frets with classy looking trapazoid inlays, flat top, (its an sg if you cant tell by now)2 volume & 2 tone controls 3-way selector switch. has 2 chrome plated humbuckers cheap chinese stuff nothing that special. solid mahogany with a gloss black finish (wich is all they are available in). chrome cheesy looking hardware.

i wasnt really expecting much out of a stock guitar. but the pickups were pretty nice sounding very low output though. i guess rondo was trying to capture the classicy tone from the 50s i guess. i dont have much of an amp just a line 6 pod plugged into a stereo reciever. its suited for the blues, jazz, or even punk rock tone.

when i took it out of the box i imediatly noticed the action was pretty high. so i turned down the bridge some and it playd nicely. the pickups were adjusted to accomodate that high-action. the worst i could find on this guitar other than crappy chinese electronics is some cracks and dings at the neck joint but its normal, nothing to worry about especially if i only paid 159.95 for it

i dont play live, but i wouldnt try. i would usually use a beater on stage this is more of my classy selections to play around the house..if i do get the guts to play live i think it can do alright. the hardware particularly the bridge is a bit crappy looking i dont like how the nuts are filed, you can barely rest a light gage string on em.

i never really had any complaints

i been playing for around 3 years i got 3 other axes and ive always wanted a gibson style sg and for the money SX guitars can make your dream come true. although they might not play like a real gibson..some say they do but better..dunno never playd a gibson. if it were stolen i would defenetly buy it again. i would be pissed though cause i slapped new tuners and EMG pickups from another guitar i had. i wish this guitar had a NORMAL sized tune-o-matic bridge the black one i wanted to put on it just wouldnt fit id have to drill new mounting inserts. wich im not afraid to do.