✅ Year: 2006 – Qingdao
✅ Color / Finish: Antique Ivory
✅ Pickups: 2 x Epiphone ’57 + Epiphone Hot (bridge) + middle pickup
✅ Wiring: 3 volume controls + 1 tone (smooth blending)
✅ Neck: Medium C with fingerboard binding
✅ Frets leveled & full setup done
✅ Hardware: gold, very good condition
✅ Condition: very good with light play wear
✅ Weight: 3.14 kg

A rare baby in excellent condition — the Epiphone SG G-400 Custom, known at Gibson in the 60s as the Les Paul Custom. This is the Epiphone reissue from 2006, made in Qingdao — a model many collectors deliberately hunt for today.

Playing-wise, the middle pickup can take a minute to get used to, because your pick may hit it at first. We lowered the middle pickup a bit so no marks would happen during testing. But sonically, the 3-pickup layout is absolutely worth it: thanks to the individual volume controls you can blend the middle pickup in smoothly and continuously — super flexible and anything but standard.

Here’s the original text from the Epiphone catalog:

“G-400 Custom – Authorized by Gibson USA
We’ve taken this 3-pickup monster and given it even more ‘bite’ with individual bridge, middle and neck pickup volume controls to allow for infinite blending combinations!”

And yes — “monster” fits. The moment you play it, you know exactly what they mean. It sounds detailed, punchy, and has serious bite. A rock machine with style.

The medium-C neck feels solid in the hand. The cream binding on the fingerboard and the gold hardware give it that classic Custom look — classy, but not overly polished.

It has a few signs of use, but overall it’s in very good condition. We leveled and polished the frets and gave it a full setup — now it plays clean, direct, and very comfortably.