The SG Standard also carried over the bound 22-fret fingerboard with trapezoid inlays in faux pearl, just as we find here. However, this very lightness of construction made it a stunningly playable guitar, and lent it a set of tones quite distinct from that of its heftier forbear.
Even though the guitar features a long tenon that runs deep into the body, the routing for the neck pickup removes much of it, leaving the instrument vulnerable at that point – just as it is at the headstock, that other notorious danger area. Les did have a point about the SG’s sturdiness, or lack of it. The fingerboard is Indian laurel, a most attractive rosewood alternative and rather nicer than the indifferent ‘ginger’ stuff so often found on instruments these days.
