Wednesday, October 19, 2011

My Yamaha SG500 Spec..

Brand : YAMAHA
Model : SG500
Created : in Japan (1977)

Body type : Mohagany with maple cap

Fretboard :  Rosewood

Pick up :
Original high gain Yamaha humbuckers.
(Mega sustain due to a very deep body and a well seated neck)

Weight : 6kg


The split-wing fretboard inlays, headstock binding and headstock inlays are extremely unusual for a 500 - the ones made for export to the USA, in particular, had dot inlays and had no headstock inlay or binding. The truss rod cover says "SG500" (not the later "SBG500" after Gibson protested about the use of their trademark "SG" model name around 1980). Some later SG500's and SBG500's came with no binding (or narrower binding) on the body.
All in all, a beautiful example of the Made-In-Japan golden-era of guitars

Carlos Santana & Bob mArley is most of the International artiste who used this SG.




- Serambi Awam -

2 comments:

  1. Hi! this is nice, rare and hot, how much this one cost in the market today?? how old this one now?? you should upload the video and the player so we can see it in action. NICE POST!!

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  2. Hi there..thanks for ur comments.The cost in market rite now up to USD950.You can only get the used one (hard to find)for example in eBay..no more new production or reIssue series by Yamaha..it's created between 1976 - 1979..the age of this guitar is 33 years old..haha..

    Will consider on it,maybe for further issue i should upload some video to shared ,how great the sounds,how solid the wood, how Sexy the players...haha

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