Due to the weak post-depression economy and wartime austerity, demand for this high-end guitar was very limited and production quantities were small.

Adjustments to bridge design and bracing starting in the early 1960s lead to dramatically changing tone and projection of the instrument.

The SJ-200 Studio is the lowest model in the line, featuring walnut rather than maple back and sides, chrome hardware, a plain pickguard, natural finish and no fingerboard binding, but it retains the inlays and electronics of the SJ-200 Standard.

The SJ-200 Standard is available in sunburst and natural, featuring LR Baggs electronics, gold hardware, Grover tuners, figured maple back and sides and a three-piece laminate neck (maple/rosewood/maple).

Along with these three are two reissues, the True Vintage (based on the 1950s construction) and the Western Classic Prewar 200, which is similar in specifications to the original early models (rosewood back and sides, ebony fingerboard, block inlays).

Gibson's Generation Collection, introduced in 2022, includes the G-200, with the same shape but simplified appointments, a cutaway and an additional soundhole on the player-facing side called a Player Port.