The guitar shown here has either a metal or black plastic nut, mine is white plastic. There are two sheet metal springs on the ends of the bridge pinching the saddles together so they don't move side-to-side. The bridge also has the normal coarse height adjustment screws on each end. As was already noted, the bridge has roller saddles and each saddle is height adjustable. Later 1960s models in Yamaha's SG series have far cruder appointments. If I lay it down next to my Strat, the Strat looks like a bargain basement model by comparison. The SG2 and SG3 were Yamaha's first electric guitar models, and finish details (as described above) are amazing for a 1965 Japanese guitar. Besides the Yamaha name on the tuning machines, it has the Yamaha decal and die cast logo on the headstock, the name and logo on the neck plate and the name and logo are molded into the bridge pickup ring between the two bridge pickups. Yamaha was obviously proud of this guitar, and put their name and logo all over it. The guitar's serial number is stamped directly into the fretboard between two of the lower frets. Thin enough that the side dots are actually located on the split line between the fretboard material and the wood of the neck. I found that the pickups are not held in place with springs at the height adjustment screws like normal pickups, but instead had a large foam rubber block under the body of each pickup. I took the guitar apart a few years ago to give it a good cleaning. The black and silver areas are covered by a domed clear plastic piece. The black and silver areas that you see are actually the tops of the pickup bobbins themselves. The neck plate has a rectangular "window" in it to allow you to access the truss rod through a hole through the body into the back of the neck (that's right, the truss is accessed through the back of the neck). If you remove the four screws this plate comes off, you will then see the actual neck plate which has four larger screws holding the neck on. And this isn't actually a neck plate because it doesn't hold the neck on. This is also chrome and black but is a stamping not a casting. you can also see in the picture that the Yamaha brand name appears on the neck plate. You can turn it with your fingers on my guitar but it doesn't come off the round Yamaha logo on the headstock is not a decal, it's a die cast metal piece with chrome tuning forks (the Yamaha logo) raised above a black background. These guitars had single digit suffixes - like SG-3, SG-5 and SG-7. There were three SG eras - the first era SGs, lasting from 1966 to 1971, saw guitars with double cut-away bodies with similar features to the Fender Jazzmaster. Yamaha began using the "SG" (solid guitar) prefix for their solid bodied guitars when they introduced their first solid-body model in 1966 and continued using the SG prefix up until 1981. The Yamaha Corporation ( ヤマハ株式会社, Yamaha Kabushiki Gaisha) is a multinational corporation and conglomerate based in Japan with a wide range of products and services, predominantly musical instruments, motorcycles, power sports equipment and electronics. ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) JSTOR ( March 2007) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message).Unsourced material may be challenged and removed.įind sources: "Yamaha electric guitar models" – news Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. This article needs additional citations for verification.
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