Yamaha SG-1500 (Cherry Sunburst, 1976, 1st issue)

Posted by Elite Vintage Guitars - Gearpage on 01/04/2017
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Here the heaviest of the Yamaha SG range the phenomenal rare and all original 1st issue Yamaha SG-1500, 1976, good condition for its near 40 years….in delicious Cherry Sunburst. A true Rock Beast!
Not many of these about anymore, as it was produced in far fewer numbers than the famous Yamaha SG-2000 that was sported by Carlos Santana for his Moonflower recordings and subsequent releases. This is an awesome machine, it may look simpler than the SG-2000, with its dot markers and ebony fret board. However the SG-2000 is more common than this rock axe.  The guitar is fitted with a set neck with tenon joint construction and solid chrome sustain plate is fitted under the bridge for maximum sustain.

Gibson Les Paul ‘61 Tribute (SG) (2013, Red, Vibrola)

Posted by Elite Vintage Guitars - Gearpage on 22/02/2017
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Here a  great guitar from the Gibson stable, the Gibson Les Paul 61 reissue basically the then new SG shape. This guitar remained in production ever since byt lost the LesPaul affiliation and name in 1963 upon Les Pauls insistence. Thebody and neck are made from mahogany, the guitar has the usual double-cutaway style with bevelled edges. Great  playing axe with a lighter weight than the Les Paul, still great resonance and sustain.  Dark rosewood fingerboard with a cool look and feel, two PAF-style ’57 Classic humbucking pickups, and historically recreated and period accurate plastics.
Guitar is finished in Heritage Cherry finish nitrocellulose, giving this guitar a great vintage feel, despite it being a re-issue .
Pickups are period accurate PAF-styled humbuckers ’57 Classics, both  neck and bridge positions.  Alnico II magnets, wound with enamel-coated wire. Additionally , the coils have been wax potted to reduce micro phonic feedback and resulting squeal. Controls are the classic configuration of an independent volume and tone control for each pickup and a three-way toggle switch.Tune-o-matic bridge and vintage-style tuners with pearloid buttons, and a period correct Sideways Vibrato system (Vibrola). Cream binding, black top hat with silver volume and tone inserts, an early ’60s style five-ply black plastic pickguard, and traditional  “bell” truss rod cover stamped with “Les Paul”  
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Rare Yamaha SB-75 (1974, Natural Wood)

Posted by Elite Vintage Guitars - Gearpage on 11/02/2017
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Here a rare and great looking Yamaha SB-75, 1974, made in the Hamamatsu Plant. The bass is accompany to the famous Yamaha SG-175 Electric Guitar which inspired Carlos Santana to use the SG for his music. This bass is rare like the SG-175 and has a bolt on neck and Strat shape with and a constructed bolt on neck. The fret-board is ebony with abalone fret markers and ample binding around the neck. It is a great bass with 3 control pots (2 for tone and master volume the combinations of tone and volume are endless. The bass is in excellent condition and has original user manual/warranty form and an old 1974 price tag of 80,000 Yen, equating to $705 US  in 1974 !! Came with original hard case.

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Yamaha SG-2000 (2000s, Tobacco Sunburst)

Posted by Elite Vintage Guitars - Gearpage on 02/02/2017
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Lovely guitar, Yamaha SG-2000 Custom in glossy tobacco sunburst finish. The SG-2000 is the best known and probably the most sought after SG models along with the SG-175.
The tobacco sunburst colour makes it one of the most stunning and classy versions of the iconic Yamaha SG-2000. The guitar is heavy, fitted with a thru body neck, brass sustain plate under the bridge and an ebony fret-board with real mother of pearl inlaid fret position markers.  All in all, this is a very pretty guitar, and in great condition.  Comes with a Yamaha case. Weight of guitar approx. 4.5 Kgs, neck width at nut approx. 4.4 cm.

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Yamaha SG-700s (1998, Translucent Dark Green).

Posted by Elite Vintage Guitars - Gearpage on 10/12/2016
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The Yamaha SG-700s, in its translucent dark green finish, is the lesser-known sibling of the renowned Yamaha SG-2000. The SG-700s series, a reissue of the SG line from 1998 to 2003, is lighter than the SG-2000 models and features a set neck with a rosewood fretboard. This guitar is striking, with the translucent green finish coming alive under certain lighting, revealing minor marks but no tarnish on the gold hardware. It is stored in its gig bag.

Yamaha SG-800 (Red, 1979)

Posted by Elite Vintage Guitars - Gearpage on 28/11/2016
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Here a midrange Yamaha SGs vintage Yamaha SG-800 Electric Guitar, good condition with some scratches and marks on the guitar body, and all the electric components work flawlessly. The Yamaha SG-800, like the Yamaha SG-700, is a brother of the now very well renowned and famous Yamaha SG-2000. All top class vintage instruments and getting increasingly harder to find.

The SG-800 was introduced as the follow up from the Yamaha SG-700 and was produced from 1979-1981. It was the successor to the SG-700 which was released in 1976. Like its heavier predecessor the Yamaha SG-700, it has excellent playability and low action with great tonal range, due to Coil Tapping options.  Weight of guitar approx. 3.8 Kgs, neck width at nut approx. 4.4 cm.

 

Yamaha SG-1500 (Walnut Brown, 1983)

Posted by Elite Vintage Guitars - Gearpage on 25/11/2016
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The Yamaha SG-1500 guitar is an example of a top quality build guitar. It sports a mahogany body with thru neck, rosewood fret board, Split wing fret-board position markers. Gold plated Hardware, Twin hum-buckers, coil tapping option. The guitar is quite heavy with lots of sustain, No sustain plate fitted under bridge and no pick-guard as standard. The Yamaha SG-1500 is the in-betweenie for the renowned Yamaha SG-2000 and Yamaha SG-1000. Well set up with low action and powerful double humbuckers make for a killer guitar.

 

Gibson Midtown Custom (2013, Tobacco Sunburst)

Posted by Elite Vintage Guitars - Gearpage on 25/10/2016
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Many guitarists will be familiar with a Gibson ES-335 model, a staple semi-hollow body Gibson guitar, used by many a household name band or guitarist. Apart from the ES-335 model, many other semi hollow guitars (ES) were produced by Gibson. The ES range varied enormously in size, and functionality and also smaller and flatter versions were produced.
So here we have a Gibson Midtown, a smaller and flatter brother of the Gibson ES-335.  This is an amazing guitar, made in Gibson’s Memphis plant in 2013, as part of a Standard, and Custom line up. , The custom versions were a limited issue with cool looks and the fancy diamond style inlaid headstock, further featuring “Ebony” style resin based Richlite fret board with pearloid markings and binding around the fretboard and body. It’s a great sounding guitar too, with a set of powerful Doug Aldrich humbuckers. It plays beautifully with its slim 60’s profile neck contour Some players say the neck is a bit heavy however that is quite subjective. There are some very faint play marks just above the neck pickup from playing, but nothing serious in any way.  All in all a great guitar and electronically everything works perfectly. Guitar lives in the original hard case with furry lining.

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Yamaha SG-700 (1977, Walnut Brown)

Posted by Elite Vintage Guitars - Gearpage on 01/08/2016
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1st issue, 40+-year old SG-700, a great electric guitar made in Japan with great looks, excellent player with a tremendous sound and a good solid feel, It is set up well so it plays light and fluid with a low action and has a lot of mojo and a definite vintage vibe. The guitar has a solid mahogany wood body with carved top, fitted with a set neck, rosewood fret board with split mother of pearl position markers, clean chrome hardware and tuning pegs. The sound is through 2 high output pickups with coil tapping options for a wide tonal variety.

The guitar’s serial number is embossed in the back of the headstock. Yamaha SG-700 guitars continued to be produced along the well known SG-2000 and were available in 2 colours walnut brown and cherry sunburst.

Yamaha SX-800B (1976, Black)

Posted by Elite Vintage Guitars - Gearpage on 23/07/2016
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Here a Yamaha SX-800B  in black made in 1976. The SX models were in the day also known as the “Devilhead Guitars” and along with the SG were developed after the earlier SG-90/175 that were made 1974-75. The SX was short lived and last models were issued in 1976/8. The A models were kitted out with hum-buckers and the B models had 3 single coils pickups. The construction materials varied between the A and B versions. The B version was made out of Japanese Ash for the body and neck, with an ebony finger board. Notable players were Tommy Bolin and Rory Gallagher. The Yamaha SX-800B sports 3 independent single coil, high output pick ups that can be selected with a 5 way slider switch and its tonal variety and range is immense, varying from soulful and clear, to a powerful growl.

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Yamaha SF-1000 (1977, Natural Wood)

Posted by Elite Vintage Guitars - Gearpage on 02/07/2016
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The SF-1000, a premier model in Yamaha’s Super Flighter series, was produced in Japan from 1977 to 1980. This guitar features a blend of Alder and Maple in its construction and boasts a twin octave, 24-fret set neck with an ebony fretboard. It is equipped with two Yamaha F-I Alnico Humbucker pickups, each with its own volume and tone controls, arranged as 2vol/2tone. The SF-1000 also includes a coil-tap feature, similar to the SF-1000, with a push-push button located near the tone pots. It has brass plated hardware and tuners. The fretboard is made of ebony with mother-of-pearl split parallelograms inlays. The guitar has a weight of approximately 3.7 Kgs and is housed in a green lined case.

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Yamaha SG-1300T (Cream White, 1985)

Posted by Elite Vintage Guitars - Gearpage on 23/06/2016
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The Yamaha SG-1300T is an unusual Yamaha SG guitar, and is along the SG-1300 TS model one of the few tremolo based SG-1300 variations. The SG-1300 T inasmuch as that the hardware is gold and the neck is through body, but without any brass bridge block. The two trem versions of this Yamaha were the SG-1300T and TS. The SG-1300T guitar was built from flatter extra thin maple and mahogany with a mahogany through body neck and issued in either candy apple red or cream white. The fretboard is ebony with mother of pearl split wing style inlays. Typical weight of these models was around the 3.8 kgs. The sound of these vintage gems is outstanding, produced by a straight 1 tone/1vol arrangement with a coil tapping option and a 3-way pick up selector switch. Hardware was gold black plated with a gold rocking magic tremolo bar. The electrics include 2 spinex partially covered humbuckers.  Guitar is all original and lives in its original lined hard case.