So glad to read that!
 
Even if I liked it quite a bit when I got it, it still took me a bit of time to fully adapt to it. But after a few weeks, it was as if someone had removed all the stops in front of me - it's just so fluid and so easy to play. It's the shortest path between me and the music, the one that offers the least resistance.
 
The SG's the first I reach for when I want to write, figure out a part, cut a demo or just jam.
 
Which is funny because I never liked the model until very recently. Since the accident, it's once again the only guitar I'm able to play. It's quite fortunate that I've finally got into SG's at this time of my life. I figure that SG is the model I'm most likely to be able to play for the longest as I grow older.
 
It pains me to be missing that sale, but I guess it would make more sense to wait and get one of the big ones.
 
I've been drooling into the translucent ebony Standard...
 
http://www.sweetwater.com.tore/detail/SGS15BLCH-15

Get a used Standard. That is my plan. I am having just a little trouble keeping it in tune. It don't seem to go out when I'm playing but overnight so it may just be the weather, still I may change to locking tuners.
The biggest thing for me to get used to is all the extra frets, the 12th fret is where I think the 8th should be, sometimes I go to the wrong place but I'm getting used to it. I didn't know it had three full octaves! All accessible too!

Yup - I've started checkin' out those used Standard. At first I thought I wanted a red one, but I'm going through a more "natural finish" phase... Hence the ebony one.
 
FWIW, mine seemed to get better with time in terms of tuning. The first week or so, I struggled a bit with it, but eventually, things just settled down. As if the thing needed to be played a bit, and to adapt to the climate of Nevada. It's now as good as any guitar I've worked with.
 
I wasn't so sure at first about those Gibson Deluxe tuners with the plastic pegs but I've come to love them.