Speaking of "The Weight," that may be one reason the Band was using a true hollow-body Gibson. I recently acquired an SG GT, and it weighs 9.25 lbs.! Makes me wonder if the body blanks for painted SGs are selected to be not only less visually pleasing, woodgrain-wise, than the ones that get the traditional stains - which only makes sense, but heavier, too.

But on to my questions...

1) The literature I find on the GT describes the tuning machines as "Grover locking" and such. On mine they are Grover machines, but I do not see a locking function. Is it some different mechanism than I'm familiar with from, say, Sprezel, or a spec. change, or a mistake in the lit.?

2) Have there been any other SGs with factory coil-tapping?

3) The GT and a few other SG models have the cable jack on the edge of the body, instead of on the front just beside the tone knobs. Any specific reason for this, or why it isn't done on all non-vintage-spec SGs?

4) How has the GT been received among the SG-playing professionals? Other than the weight (which I definitely do not like) and the appearance (which suits me fine but is a bit peculiar), my SG is a favorite guitar of mine already. Great tone, non-nonsense functionality, etc. I think of it as being sort of a fancy "studio" SG.

I'm just sayin'

Okay, so I am a DA: I just found this, as if it were hard to find:

http://www.grotro.com/Mainlockingroto.html