Since 1966, Yamaha has been making electric guitars, Yamaha built some really quirky looking guitars like the early SG series, SG 2,3,and SG-7. Later Yamaha started making their version of a double cutaway models like the SG-30, 35 and some single cutaway models. They also made Les Paul like models which were only a minor part of the line up. These early LP like models were quite similar to the Gibson LP models.
My Pile of Guitars & Basses 