Jeff Tweedy SG For Sale! (& a 1982 Fullerton '52 Reissue Telecaster too)

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I'm selling my Jeff Tweedy Gibson SG, at exactly what I paid for it, $1750 (including my shipping costs). I thought I'd come here first...and it is with a bit of a conflicted & slightly heavy heart that I do so. It's also with the hopes that this makes someone else's day. As I'm sure most folks already know, these have been discontinued, & there were only 300-400 of them ever made. Contact me at "HareDurga@yahoo.com" & let me know your from the ViaChicago Forum.

Currently there are none of these on ebay, or craigslist that I could find. The prices for those that have sold over the last 90 days on ebay range from a low of $1650 to a high of $2450, so the $1750 I paid, & am asking certainly is on the low end of that scale.

Let me start off by saying I absolutely love the Jeff Tweedy SG.
I just got one. I assumed the Burstbucker pick-ups would be my dream come true Humbuckers. They aren't. They aren't bad, don't get me wrong, they're quite terrific actually, & if I'd only dealt with them I might be just thrilled & not posting this here...the things is that I got this Tweedy because I'd recently bought another SG & fell so deeply in love with it, & the whole SG thing, that I decided to spring for the Tweedy. Happily I didn't sell the other one right away & that's what I'm keeping. It has Classic 57 Humbucker pickups & I'm about to explain why they happen to work better for me as a player right now.

If I only had one electric guitar to play & it was going to be an SG then I would choose the Jeff Tweedy model & it's Burstbucker pickups first, & here's why.... Those pickups are a bit more jangly, biting, & frankly more like a Fender that any other Humbuckers I've ever heard & I do prefer Fenders to Gibsons. So if I didn't have a Fender to play, was just playing one guitar, & it was going to be an SG then I'd take the Tweedy SG over any comers because it allows you to straddle the Fender-Gibson fence with one great guitar. It's versatile in that sense.

My journey & situation lead away from the Tweedy model & here's my tale...Everything looked promising...I'd just totally dug an underwound P-90 over all other competitors at a store where I tried a bunch of Gibson 330's & Epiphone Casino's against each other, & shoot from all I read, both pro & con, the Burstbucker pickups in the Tweedy SG were described, by both sides of the argument, as the most Fender sounding Gibson Humbucker (brighter, twangier, more shimmery). What wasn't to like? And I do like them, a lot. They are great. I just very clearly prefer the Classic 57's, and for me, & my situation here's why.

If I want a more Fender sound I've got a Stratocaster, a Jazzmaster & a Telecaster. With the non-Tweedy SG I first fell in love with (the one with the Classic 57's in it) when I go through the three pickup positions it's like I have a Neopolitan situation, going on-with 3 distinct varying flavors of chocolate, strawberry & vanilla. With the Burstbuckers, I get more of a feeling of variations on a overriding flavor- dark chocolate, milk chocolate & help me out here chocolate fans, whatever third flavor you'd like to toss in, oh let's say a coffee chocolate/mocha (coffee/mocha has to be the middle selector choice, & you all can choose whether dark or milk would be the treble/bridge or bass/neck pickups). Those three types of chocolate are certainly clearly different (& yes delicious too) but not like Neapolitan's three flavors are different. The Classic 57's also provide what I think of as a more clearly Gibson feel, like this great Les Paul I owned years ago. So with Fenders already in tow, I come looking for that classic Gibson sound. I get that more with the Classic 57's.

After repeated A/B match ups between the Tweedy & the cherry red, satin finish, '61 reissue SG, I decided that at this point I'd now have to buy a pair of '57 Classics & have them installed into the Tweedy to make that work.  I'd also have to keep those original Burstbuckers packed away- out of respect to the original intention of the model- & in case I ever decided to sell it, as I'm doing now. That just brought the cost, that had already stretched my budget, over the line. Early on that idea took time to develop & was resisted & then there were more A/B tests of the two SGs, & then, finally,  at some point I just accepted that it would make a lot more sense to just sell it & keep the other. And happily I love the other so much & they are so similar (being that the Tweedy itself is based on the 61 reissue) that it makes losing the Tweedy OK now on some level.


 

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**Finally I'm also selling a 1982 Fullerton era '52 reissue Telecaster for $1950.
Here's the terrible tale of the two Telecasters...
I just had a terrible experience where I bought a 1982 Fullerton reissue Tele & the kid I bought it from (from Georgia) is refusing to honor our agreement & take it back. I had a turn around time of having three days to play it before I decided. At first he was embarassed & saying that he wouldn't have the money right away. I let him know that was OK. Then I told him his Tele was great (and it truly is), but not better than a 1989 reissue Telecaster I'd just come across. He got very angry, saying he didn't know that there was going to be shootout between guitars (as if that mattered- I could have bought his on contingency, & just stumbled across one during the 3 days & decided not to buy...I could not buy for any reason actually) & then started saying that because it took a few days for the guitar to get into my hands that I had taken too long. The deliveries took place when I wasn't home & I paid to have it transfered to a center & picked it up on a Friday night, & emailed him on Sunday I didn't want it, & that's when he freaked out in many squirmy worm like directions.
These have sold for betweeb as little as a low of $1450 (a rather anemic looking example), & a high of one that was listed for $3100 (they accepted a best offer- amount unspecified) & another couple of them there have sold for $2000+ (a Steve Cropper autographed one was up for $3500)- which is about what I paid.

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SOLD! Being shipped today...enjoy Michael K.!!