Gibson Kirk Douglas Signature SG 2021 – Inverness Green

Gibson Kirk Douglas Signature SG 2021 – Inverness Green

As the guitarist with The Roots, the beloved house band for Late Night with Jimmy Fallon on NBC, “Captain” Kirk Douglas has developed a well-earned reputation as a stellar player. His guitar collection includes several Gibson models, but arguably the sexiest is his three-pickup Gibson™ SG™ Custom, which is now commemorated in the new Kirk Douglas signature SG from Gibson USA. Featuring non-locking Keystone tuners, a mahogany neck and body, rosewood fretboard with 22 medium jumbo frets and large block acrylic inlays, a Graph Tech® nut, ABR-1 Tune-O-Matic™ bridge and Kirk Douglas signature “Captain” Lyre Tail Vibrola tailpiece, black Top Hat knobs with metal inserts, and three BurstBucker™ humbucking pickups. Like the Captain himself, the pickups and controls on his SG are incredibly versatile. On a basic level, they operate somewhat similarly to a two-pickup SG, but with significant added capabilities. The three-way toggle switch selects the bridge pickup, neck pickup, or both. Each of these pickups has its own volume control, and each is equipped with a push/pull pot that switches the pickup from humbucker to single coil when the switch is pulled out. A single master tone knob, located in the usual lead tone control position, is provided, and where you’d normally expect to find the second tone control, an additional volume control (again, with a push/pull switch for coil splitting) is installed. This controls the middle pickup, and can be used to blend its signal in with the other (one or two) pickups, regardless of how the three-way pickup selector switch is positioned. This means you can run the neck and/or bridge pickups alone or together, the neck and middle, bridge and middle, or all three pickups simultaneously, and at any relative volume amounts desired. And even better – once you have dialed up the exact balance you want, you can adjust the overall output level of the entire guitar with the pickguard-mounted master volume control.

2021 Gibson SG Custom – Inverness Green – Captain Kirk Signature model weighs 7lbs and 14oz, with stock hardware and electronics. All the weight is in the body with the bright chrome hardware, no neck dive with the chrome Kluson tuners. There’s a lot of jewelry on the body of this thing, it sure does a lot of things with multiple custom controls not usual for an SG or a Gibson.

Condition is 9/10 for light play wear, presents as a really clean example. There’s light impressions around the controls, a small mark in the clear on the front of the headstock where a tuner was attached, some light pick marks around the guard on the treble side close to the neck, other than that it is almost pristine. Comes with original packing slip, tools, baby picture, cloth in its original Gibson hard case. Setup on 10’s and weighs a pretty amazing 7lb and 11oz, fairly svelte considering all the bling.

Condition

Excellent condition. Light play wear, a few pick marks in the clear coat, no dings or nicks, some light impressions around the controls. Comes with everything in original Gibson hard case. As always there are more and better pictures than Reverb will host on my own site, deegearlocker dotcom. See the pictures, ask for more.