Pierced SG Review

Satin-finish maple neck and rosewood fretboard for super-fast playability. Black satin hardware for funereal flair.

Features:	9
Sound:	7.5
Action:	9
Reliability:	7
Impression:	6.5
Overall rating:	6.3
Reviewer rating:	7.8
Users rating:	4.8
Votes:	51

Reviewed by: unregistered, on july 20, 2012

Price paid: A$ 199

Purchased from: Internet

Features: Its a standard cheap SG however it has a X in its body and dents all over it. 2 Control knobs and a 3 way selector switch. // 8

Sound: Sounds really grungy and hard rockish. Horrible clean sound. It has a nice amount of sustain on the neck pickup. Not very diverse though. // 5

Action, Fit & Finish: Action is fine. Pickups look cheap and tacky. It has an awesome finish so its worth buying if your looking for something to hang on your wall as art. // 8

Reliability & Durability: It has shutdown on my the volume knob got dced. However its covered in dents so a great guitar to carry around. Strap button is on a horrible place so it feels uncomfortable. I wouldn't trust it in a gig as the electronics are tacky. Finish will last forever no doubt. // 4

Impression: Overall I would not recommend this guitar. Its all about looks and I don't know why my father even bought it. I'm more of a death metal kind of guy and prefer RGs. This guitar is uncomfortable to Play as the neck is very heavy. But it is cheap and possibly better than other cheap guitars. If you suck at guitar and wanna look cool then this is the guitar for you. // 3

overall: 10

Reviewed by: basketofplastic, on july 13, 2004

Price paid: $ 237

Purchased from: long and mcquade

Features: This model is a 2002 model I believe it has 22 fretts two nobs one vloume one tone features two humbuckers and a three way selector togle Switch. It is a solid top guitar and has a tune o matic bridge. The finish is black, this guitar is bizzre its the normal shape of an SG guitar but there is an x carved right through the guitar and dents all over the body this is not a defect it is the way it is made at the factory and the neck is bolt on. // 10

Sound: This guitar blew me away when I first heard its sound its incredible this guitar fits best metal and punk perfecly! I've experimented with other types of music and its not good for slow calm music like jazz but that isn't why I bought it. The sound is amazing it has an amazing metal sound very nice distrtion. // 10

Action, Fit & Finish: This guitar has perfect action its not low but its also not extremely high off of the neck the picups are ajusted to be a few centimete4rs lower then the strings. This guitar looks like it ios in poor quality but its the way it is designed so the quality is great. // 10

Reliability & Durability: This guitar will definately last the hardware is solid pluss you could dent it and it wouldent matter it would fit in with the ones that came with the guitar and the finish seems like it will last quite a long time. // 10

Impression: If you enjoy playing punk and metal music this is the guitar you should be picking up, if it were stolen I would buy a new one because I love it so much, I love the sound more then anything I love the x carved through it the dents and the inlays are pretty awsome there x, so it matches the hole through the guitar. // 10

Comments

[OttovanZanten]

Features deserves 10/10 just google'd it, looks AWESOME!!

[gibson--girl]

dude, one comment. the amp you're using gives it the cool distortion, not the guitar! and about the action... most are adjustable.

[gibson--girl]

gibson--girl wrote:

dude, one comment. the amp you're using gives it the cool distortion, not the guitar! and about the action... most are adjustable. it looks like a freakin sweet guitar, though!

[henza_x]

it looks like a cheap version of the goth sg, the pickups have no brackets, the headstock looks cheap, if you're writing this review with no other guitar to compare to, your opinions useless

[Tedward]

henza_x :
it looks like a cheap version of the goth sg,

on opposite day, which is never. u probly didnt even see the right picture of the guitar. u r just judging cuz it is epiphone. and i think that if a guitar sucked balls a person would know even if that was their only guitar.

[thunderinblack]

tedwards right i only have a encore strat and i know its shit

[Pingis_Or_Death]

10/10 0_o It cant deserve it, no way

[blues-man]

oy this guy is obviously a beginner and when i got my first squire i thought it was awesome but now its not

[xnotdeadx]

dude, i miss this guitar, i would give it a solid 9, not a 10.....it plays well and looks brutal
i have played it through every peavey amp i have come across and it sheds on all of them....not a fast playing guitar, so not really for soloing, but more for rhythm playing

[Lovecannon]

I just got this thing, its got a nice tone and everything, and it looks pretty BA

[zacharydak]

A guitar's pickups, body and hardware can all affect the distortion, actually.

[ruffo90]

i bought this guitar it feels nice to play on but its sound is dyer it dont derseve a ten i would say a 5 pushin 6

[mark austin]

Just got one at a car boot sale for ten pounds,good guitar this one has never been played, just dusted it off new set of strings well good ,the pickups are strpped open-coil humbuckers sounds great...

[riiiighteous]

i had a chance to play this guitar and it truly ended up being amazing!!!

[riiiighteous]

well it also had better emg pickups

[DrewMeyer]

I agree, it looks like a cheap goth sg.

[swave75]

henza_x wrote:

it looks like a cheap version of the goth sg, the pickups have no brackets, the headstock looks cheap, if you're writing this review with no other guitar to compare to, your opinions useless

I agree.

[Louthesnakeman]

gibson--girl wrote:

dude, one comment. the amp you're using gives it the cool distortion, not the guitar! and about the action... most are adjustable.

not true. ofcourse your amp has it's influence but so do your pick ups. a cheap ass epiphone pick up will sound way different when using distortion than a seymour duncan sh-8 invader for example.

[Shornifier]

I admit, Epiphone does an amazing job of seducing beginning guitarists with cool looking guitars and over pricing them.

[StrykVladzimsky]

I get some funky results for "Pierced SG" when I Google Image it

[ffaf12]

dunno what it sounds like but it looks vile