Jampy
August 31st, 2007, 11:19 AM
I bought one about 15+ years ago for $60.00 CDN it was heavy as sin and looked kinda wacky to me at the time so I just had to have it. Never knowing what it was and not really caring, it was the only guitar that remained from my earlier collection that was sold off due to life sucking..LOL
I lost interest in it and it sat under a bed for YEARS, the strings had rusted and I thought I would hang it on a wall for a joke or something.
After I bought my first home, my interest in it started to surface again and I started to wonder "what the heck is this thing"
I wrote Yamaha Canada a few times with the serial number 20364 which is all the info that was listed on the guitar besides the yamaha logo. I never heard anything from them so started to hit up google using the serial number as main main info for searching, I then found out that Yamaha uses a two letter code before the five digit number to reference the year it was made, alas mine did not have any letters just the 5 numbers to make my search even harder. So today sittign at work I decide to start looking again and I actually found it, well not 100% mine mine has a tremolo (not working and missing parts ) and a different tailstock. Over than that they are the same body neck pickups, pickguard everything..I am so happy I now know what I am playing. Sadly the guitar was abused ( by me ) and will now need to be complety re-wired due to my neglect I am sure contacts have rusted as the guitar buzzes very badly when plugged in. I am also going to bring it back to it standard colour for the plastic parts as they we painted and painted poorly.I translated the page and found out this guitar only sold between april and december 1972 and sold for about 78,000 yen at the time or about $260 USD.
http://www.yamaha.co.jp/product/guitar/eg/database/sg/02/img/sg80.jpg
Here is the link I found it at, a ton of very cool looking guitars to look over to !!
http://www.yamaha.co.jp/product/guitar/eg/database/sg/02/sg-80.html
I lost interest in it and it sat under a bed for YEARS, the strings had rusted and I thought I would hang it on a wall for a joke or something.
After I bought my first home, my interest in it started to surface again and I started to wonder "what the heck is this thing"
I wrote Yamaha Canada a few times with the serial number 20364 which is all the info that was listed on the guitar besides the yamaha logo. I never heard anything from them so started to hit up google using the serial number as main main info for searching, I then found out that Yamaha uses a two letter code before the five digit number to reference the year it was made, alas mine did not have any letters just the 5 numbers to make my search even harder. So today sittign at work I decide to start looking again and I actually found it, well not 100% mine mine has a tremolo (not working and missing parts ) and a different tailstock. Over than that they are the same body neck pickups, pickguard everything..I am so happy I now know what I am playing. Sadly the guitar was abused ( by me ) and will now need to be complety re-wired due to my neglect I am sure contacts have rusted as the guitar buzzes very badly when plugged in. I am also going to bring it back to it standard colour for the plastic parts as they we painted and painted poorly.I translated the page and found out this guitar only sold between april and december 1972 and sold for about 78,000 yen at the time or about $260 USD.
http://www.yamaha.co.jp/product/guitar/eg/database/sg/02/img/sg80.jpg
Here is the link I found it at, a ton of very cool looking guitars to look over to !!
http://www.yamaha.co.jp/product/guitar/eg/database/sg/02/sg-80.html