✅ Year: 2004
✅ Color / Finish: Classic wine-red SG finish with trapezoid inlays
✅ Slim, flat neck – almost Slim Taper, very comfortable to play
✅ Frets freshly leveled & full setup done
✅ Honest player’s guitar with character
✅ Weight: 3.15 kg

The 2004 Epiphone SG G-400 is an honest player’s SG with a slim neck, a punchy tone, and just the right amount of patina – noticeable, but nothing to worry about. It plays buttery smooth, sounds powerful, and feels right from the first chord.

Thanks to its nicely flat neck profile – almost a Slim Taper – this SG immediately sits comfortably in the hand. The action is low, the medium frets feel spot-on, and the overall playing experience is direct and effortless.

The slightly heavier mahogany body is actually a plus here: it helps counter the typical SG neck dive and adds a bit more low-end foundation to the tone. Visually, it’s a true classic with its wine-red finish and trapezoid inlays on the fingerboard.

Tonally, there’s nothing to complain about: the pickups are punchy, well-balanced, and deliver exactly what you expect from an SG – rock, blues, classic rock, it’s all there.

Of course, it has been played. There are a few dings on the body below the pots, one on the back, and a small one on the neck around the 2nd fret. The two more noticeable spots have been lightly filled; the rest is simply the honest wear of a guitar with a story.

The frets have been leveled and everything has been properly set up – it now plays butter-smooth and completely stress-free.

As with most Epiphone SGs, the same applies here: in terms of wood, neck, and basic tone, it stands shoulder to shoulder with the “original” – only the electronics are a bit simpler.