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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
A little chip of rock history, an example of the pre Carlos Santana Yamaha SG, and autographed by the legendary American Jazz guitarist Barney Kessel. (Barney Kessel is refer to on Pete Townsend’s 1983 album “Scoop” where Townshend paid homage to the guitarist with the instrumental song “To Barney Kessel”). Prior to the famous Yamaha SG-175 and Yamaha SG-2000, Yamaha Music Corporation produced a series of early Yamaha SG double cutaway prototypes. These were the Yamaha SG-30, 35, 50, 70. In 1974 the phenomenal and relatively successful SG-90 and SG-175 were released. Here is a rare example of the SG-90, it is a more simple version of the top of the range, early SG-175 with a phenomenal playability and versatile sound. This is a truly great electric guitar with a good solid feel, playing light and fluid and certainly has lots of mojo and a definite vintage vibe.
The guitar has a solid Honduran mahogany body with a set neck, rosewood fret board with mother of pearl dot position markers and embossed serial number, Chrome Hardware and Tuning pegs. The sound is through Yamaha dual humbuckers pick ups. The guitar is pretty with its binding nicely aged to a clotted creamy colour. Yamaha SG-90 guitars were made from 1974 till 1975 in translucent Black, Walnut, Natural Wood and Red.
The SF-700 is a notable example from the mid-range of Yamaha’s Super Flighter 1st series, produced in Japan between 1978 and 1979. It features a body made from a blend of Alder and Maple woods and boasts a twin octave, 24-fret set neck with a rosewood fretboard. Equipped with two Yamaha F-II Humbucker pickups, it offers independent volume and tone controls in a 2vol/2tone configuration. Unlike the SF-1000, the SF-700 lacks a coil-tap option, which is operated by a separate push-push button. The guitar is fitted with chrome hardware and tuners. The rosewood fretboard is adorned with mother of pearl markers. This guitar has a weight of approximately 3.7 Kgs and is housed in its faux leather soft case.
Here ” The Beast” , the work horse Yamaha SG. This is a 1st issue, 40-year plus old Yamaha SG-700, a great electric guitar designed and made in Japan with the famous Yamaha SG-175 and SG-2000 as pedigree. It sports great looks, plays excellently and has enormous tonal range with a tremendous sound and a good solid feel. It is set up nice and low, so it plays light and fluid. This guitar has a lot of mojo and a definite vintage vibe. Solid mahogany body with carved top, fitted with a set neck, rosewood fretboard 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 that little extra.
Here the heaviest guitar in my collection, a rare all original Yamaha SG-1500, 1976, good condition for its near 40 years….in delicious Shiny Black Finish & Vintage 1976. A true Rock Beast! Not many of these about anymore, as it was produced in far fewer numbers that the notorious 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 fretboard. However the SG-2000 is more common than this rock axe. The guitar is fitted with a set neck with tenon construction and solid chrome sustain plate is fitted under the bridge for maximum sustain. The axe weighs a ton, you play and work out at the same time
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