As the guitarist with The Roots, the beloved house band for Late Night with Jimmy
Fallon on NBC, "Captain" Kirk Douglas has developed a well-earned reputation as a
stellar player. His guitar collection includes several Gibson models, but arguably the
sexiest is his three-pickup GibsonTM SGTM Custom, which is now commemorated in
the new Kirk Douglas signature SG from Gibson USA. Featuring non-locking
Keystone tuners, a mahogany neck and body, rosewood fretboard with 22 medium
jumbo frets and large block acrylic inlays, a Graph Tech® nut, ABR-1 Tune-O-MaticTM bridge and Kirk Douglas signature "Captain" Lyre Tail Vibrola tailpiece, black Top Hat knobs with metal inserts, and three BurstBuckerTM humbucking pickups. Like theCaptain himself, the pickups and controls on his SG are incredibly versatile. On a basic level, they operate somewhat similarly to a two-pickup SG, but with signi
can't added capabilities. The three-way toggle switch selects the bridge pickup, neck
pickup, or both. Each of these pickups has its own volume control, and each is
equipped with a push/pull pot that switches the pickup from humbucker to single
coil when the switch is pulled out. A single master tone knob, located in the usual
lead tone control position, is provided, and where you’d normally expect to
nd the second tone control, an additional volume control (again, with a push/pull switch forcoil tapping) is installed. This controls the middle pickup, and can be used to blend its signal in with the other (one or two) pickups, regardless of how the three-way pickup selector switch is positioned. This means you can run the neck and/or bridge pickups alone or together, the neck and middle, bridge and middle, or all three
pickups simultaneously, and at any relative volume amounts desired. And even
better - once you have dialed up the exact balance you want, you can adjust the
overall output level of the entire guitar with the pickguard-mounted master volume
control.