sx anyone?

ashapaul · #1 11-04-2010, 09:33 AM

Hi i am planning to buy my first jazz guitar and today i have come across the sx eg7. I wonder if anyone knows this guitar and could perhaps tell me a few things about it. Thanks,Paul

ashapaul · #2 11-04-2010, 11:09 AM

Sorry, i think the guitar may actually be a GG7. Paul

mongrel · #3 11-04-2010, 11:16 AM

SDX EG7 described and offered on the Rondo Music website. $199.00 USD in black or sunburst For two Uncle Sam bills, how can you go wrong? I'd be on it ASAP if it was about 2" thick and the cutaway was Florentine.

janepaints · #4 11-04-2010, 02:18 PM

I own an SX GG7--a lefthanded model. When I first got it, I did not bond with it--dunno why--and within a few days I swapped it for another instrument at the local guitar shop--where it sat for about a year, unbought.

A few months ago, I began playing it again at the shop, and then DID bond with it. (Still can't figure out why I didn't like it when it first arrived.) Anyhow, now it's mine again and I like it a lot.

Okay--it's an inexpensive-basic chinese instrument, but it does the job ok, especially after some basic mods & set-up. (and for lefties there are NO other no-frills, low-cost archtops like this available, as far as I know).

Here's what I've done to mine to make it better than as-bought:

1. replaced with stock gears with klusons.

2. replaced the stock tune-o-matic bridge with an adustable rosewood bridge. MUCH WARMER & FATTER (better IMO) tone from this.

3. strung it with D'addario 12 Chromes.

4. replaced the stock humbucker with a humbucker salvaged from an Epiphone SG. It sounds much better than the stock, but when $$ permits, a better PU (and pots) will be mounted--maybe a p-90 or alnico bucker.

5. Careful set-up to suit my playing & needs. New nut, action etc. Filed a couple of too-high frets.

Strictly for aesthetics, I refinished the top. That triangular-ish sunburst did NOT delight me. It's now natural maple, with a light lacquer over a shellac sealer.

Oddly enough, I often play it unplugged--it's not loud, acoustically, but sounds very warm & sweet with the wooden bridge and the chromes.

My income is VERY limited--that and being lefty makes me SO glad that Rondo Music offers this guitar (and their many other lefty guitar offerings.)