Here on episode 4 of The Guitar Bucket List, we discuss my Epiphone Prophecy SG. This guitar’s greatness comes down to two main things: its looks (I mean, is there a nicer color?) and its pickups! We’ll get into all of that here.

The guitar features a beautiful feeling satin finish. But it doesn’t fell “unfinished” by any means. It just feels great- everything is so smooth and it’s easy to play. It feels like the same “aged” effect that Epiphone was going for on my 59 Les Paul.

It has a slim neck but also a little beef on one side, which is supposed to contour to the hand better. It has these HUGE jumbo frets that I’m not a big fan of. If the frets were lower, I think this might be the perfect guitar.

Aside from the color, the flamed maple veneer, the dyed abalone inlays, and (my favorite) the Les Paul Custom headstock design, the best feature of this guitar has to be the pickups, which are the Fishman Fluence set. These things ROCK. They have a hot humbucker setting, a PAF style setting for old school humbucker sounds, and a voicing that’s supposed to sound more like a Stratocaster. It has so many usable sounds and is such a great recording guitar due to the fact that it has no noise or buzz whatsoever. I can’t say enough about these pickups.

But I sure do try to say enough in the video! Check it out: