{"id":408144,"date":"2026-04-24T06:40:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T06:40:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/408144\/"},"modified":"2026-04-24T06:40:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T06:40:15","slug":"gibson-unveils-greta-van-fleet-jake-kiszka-signature-sg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/408144\/","title":{"rendered":"Gibson unveils Greta Van Fleet Jake Kiszka signature SG"},"content":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s Jake Kiszka\u2019s birthday. Many happy returns, Jake. And to mark the occasion, Gibson has launched a signature guitar<\/a> based on the Greta Van Fleet\u2019s much-loved SG, aka the Beloved.<\/p>\n

This is a limited edition model, but crucially, it\u2019s not a Murphy Lab megabucks deal. At \u00a32,149\/$2,499, the Jake Kiszka SG Standard is priced not dissimilarly to Gibson USA electric guitar<\/a> range.<\/p>\n

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Kiszka\u2019s SG standard comes with all the extra metalwork of that modified sideways Vibrola (under which you\u2019ll find a Tune-O-Matic bridge and stop-bar tailpiece), a pair of T-Type humbuckers, and ships in a signature hard-shell guitar case<\/a>, where inside there is a signature guitar strap<\/a> bearing the doubloon sigil that Kiszka designed himself. And there\u2019s also a signed back plate and a plain, making this a real collector\u2019s item.<\/p>\n

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It\u2019s finished in Faded Vintage Cherry, spritzed with gloss nitrocellulose lacquer, and what you will notice is that this finish is pretty much pristine.<\/p>\n

Unlike Kiszka\u2019s original \u201961 Les Paul\/SG, you will have to put your own wear and tear into it. Speaking to MusicRadar, Kiszka he agonised over the question of how exact he wanted it to be to the Beloved.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe question was really between whether it was going to be an exact replication of my number one, the Beloved, my \u201961 SG \u2013 which is quite torn to bits, aged, and it\u2019s seen a lot of battle [laughs] \u2013 or is it time to, in some ways, redesign the original Les Paul SG? The early \u201860s ones, the Les-G, if you will!\u201d he says. \u201cI was quite keen to take that guitar in its essence, as it was as a creation of the Gibson company in the early \u201860s, and I guess personify it, but also reconstruct it for modern sensibilities\u2026 So there were a lot of design elements that had to be altered for it to come into the new age.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The T-Type humbuckers are another interesting choice. They are a vintage electric guitar pickup<\/a> wind, and maybe have a little more something in the upper-midrange that your garden variety PAF-alike doesn\u2019t have.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThat\u2019s something that I really gravitated towards, that upper midrange,\u201d says Kiszka. \u201cThe T-types had that. There\u2019s definitely some sort of harmonic overtones as well that sort of give you this very strange, almost voice-like quality. Gibson is really quite brilliant at the replications of these pickups.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The beauty of the SG \u2013 besides that double-horned shape \u2013 is the simplicity of the platform. It\u2019s a plank of mahogany. Mahogany body. Mahogany neck, glued-in, SlimTaper neck.<\/p>\n

If it didn\u2019t have that 12\u201d radius rosewood fingerboard (yes, with the 22 medium jumbo frets and acrylic trapezoid inlays) you\u2019d swear it you could make one from the ground up all from the one tree. It doesn\u2019t get better than that.<\/p>\n

Unless, say you’re a young rock musician who has just discovered a vintage unicorn and someone has offered to let you take it on tour with you… And then said guitar becomes your number one, aka the Beloved. Kiszka says it was love at first sight.<\/p>\n

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\u201cIt was like a lightning bolt just hit me from above,\u201d he says. \u201cI really did feel like this was sort of a divine intervention. It was everything that I was looking for in terms of the sound.\u201d<\/p>\n

You can read our full interview with Kiszka, coming soon to MusicRadar. You can grab one of these beauties over at Gibson<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It\u2019s Jake Kiszka\u2019s birthday. Many happy returns, Jake. And to mark the occasion, Gibson has launched a signature…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":408145,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[146,85,46,409],"class_list":["post-408144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=408144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408144\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/408145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=408144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=408144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=408144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}