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Right then BQ.
Since I bought my special on a similar whim, I have heard all the negative press:
g-force tuners: they do work actually, but after a while I realised that I don't really go crazy about changing tunings and the main ones I use are Eflat and Open G (for slide which I have another SG set up for, thicker strings higher action and a ghetto single coil in the neck). Plus I'm actually OK at tuning a guitar! I'll be swapping for Schallers and baying the g-force.
The wide neck: the main reason I bought this, almost identical to my L00 acoustic in width and profile. I'll be ordering a warmoth in the same dimensions to make a partscaster soon. I can actually play an open A chord (if I wanted to) without my fatass digits bumming the other strings. However, I'm a bit odd and many people hate this 45mm+ width and rightly see it as a consequence of the…
Brass 'zero nut': great idea until you realise you don't actually need to mess with the nut height more than once in a million years and the strings bite into it and groove it in about two days. They then catch on the grooves when you bend. It's a pig. My SG is going to the dude that sets up Dave Catching's guitars for a proper bone nut job.
The 'wiring': yes, it's all on a poxy PCB which saps the high end if you're a player that rolls back the pots for cleans. I'll be soldering in a 50s style hardwiring loom and ditching the PCB like them POS that it is.
The "les Paul" signature: nobody in the galaxy thinks this looks good, and it's certainly stupid on and SG. However, a bit of black tape costs fuck all if you're really crying over it.
PUPs are a bit meh. When I do the wiring I'll probably put one of Kent's p90s or his filtertrons in the neck and one of his vintage buckers in the bridge when I can be arsed.
Quite a few £££s to get it how I'd like before the PUPs, but not much more than I'd lose if I sold it SH, plus I fell in love with the 'translucent ebony' nitro gloss finish.