Hi
i am considering buying either a

washburn dime 3st
http://www.music123.com/Washburn-Di...58450.music?t=1

or a gibson sg special.
http://www.gibson.com/products/gibson/sg/SGSpecial.html

Both are used.

I have tried the gibson and i feels great but I have to travel a long distance to try/buy the dime 3st.

Any one who has tried both and can recommend one of them?

I'd go for the Washburn. It looks 1283904823048029348 times cooler

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i ve playd some gibson sg's and they seemed alright but they just didnt do it for me as they didnt feel right and thats what counts for me. They kind of made me feel like i was playin a cheaply made guitar, a bit like a crappy esp ltd, but slightly better. So i'd go with the dime out of the two, but if i had the choice of any other guitar i'd get either a ibanez prestige s or a bc rich nj ironbird.

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depends how much your getting them for..


those prices suck, id get a custom ran.

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i'd go SG all the way, i love my SG's to death. the pickups are so so but they treated me well for a long time stock before i yanked them. i can't reccomend gibson enough man. they are a solid piece of workmanship

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be like me get the dime.

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Hey thanks for your answers. Are there any one who owns or have tried the Dime 3 st tell me about it? I have heard that the pick ups are very noisy...

if you don't like the pick-ups then there is an easy way to fix things... New pick-ups

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i've tried both of them, and i'd go for the Dime3st, 'cause of the floyd.

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Yeah, I still say go with the Dime.

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go with the custom ran..

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That would be better but the shipping and customs bullshit..

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Customs dosent always hold it and such. Its just since the package was form poland, had little to no english, didnt describe what woods where used and such.

Shamray manages to ship into america without customs charging an assload of $

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If you're thrashin...go with the dime....if your're rockin......go with the gib....its that simple.

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I agree with philkilla. I have a Dime333bd (which i assume is very much the same) and it has been awesome. I went for 3 months without having to touch the tuning!!!! id like to see the sg do the same (a bit unfair i know) HHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!

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I have both, actually. I end up playing the SG more for a few reasons:

1. I'm fairly lazy about some things, and changing strings on a Floyd Rose is one of them. True, it's not hard, but it's time consuming, as is just plain tuning and retuning.

2. I'm at school now, and the Dime has a gigantic case. It looks like I'm carrying around a keyboard. The SG, on the other hand, fits in both my car and my tiny dorm room. This also makes it easier to carry around when I'm going to a friend's to jam, or using my money amp to beg money on the street.

They've really both got their advantages, but it's all convenience on the SG's side and all quality on the Dime's. The Dime fretboard, for example, really facilitates fast solo runs, and has that 24th fret for when 22 just won't do the damn job. And having that flying V crook makes it easy to prop up to get proper leverage for said runs. The pick-ups I find more or less comparable, but I'm in the unfortunate position of having to play either ampless or through shitty amps at the moment, so that shouldn't be a surprise. Honestly, it depends on what you want to do with it, but if you don't mind the logistical problems, I'd go with the Dime. It always sounds fine when I play rock or blues on it, anyway.

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