Yes, I know it is another Korean, but there is method to my madness! I don't know how many people are aware, but sometime during the mid 90's Samick moved the butt joint between the headstock and neck from the bottom portion of the headstock to behind the 2nd and 3rd frets. Bad move! If you take into consideration all too often Korean guitars are produced with woods that are not at an equilibrium with the environment, and even if they are, it is with a tropical environment. Often the two pieces of wood aren't even from the same block. What then happens is as the two dissimilar pieces of wood stabilize, they do so at different rates resulting in a noticeable kink. If the joint is behind the 2nd and 3rd frets this most ofen causes the neck to either kick forward or back just behind the 3rd fret. Even though very slight, those in the know will agree a .003" or more hump or dip in the small of the neck will effectively ruin perfectly good action. Although this does not take place on all Korean guitars with the 3rd fret joint, I personally have "cooked straight" more than I care to count! 

The SG-450 itself is a very good copy with a slim profile neck and with the proper setup can offer rediculously low action resulting in one darn fast neck. I traded the Hondo "Nugent" box on the Gone page back to Tony for this smoker. This is one of the earlier production SGs the did not incorporate the 3rd fret neck joint. Later produciton of the same model did and I have "corrected" 3 of those Uh-Oh SGs myself. The pickups that were in it were kinda funky and were dispatched with prejudice. This ended up with a pair of vintage 70's Electra pickups that gave it that 60's SG tone. Even though there is no trem, I'm sure Angus would approve of this hell-raiser! Thanks Tony!