Just tried an SA2200 in a music store in a town I was passing through. Talking to the staff they recently ordered a violin sunburst and a brown sunburst. When they both arrived, they looked nearly identical and the store queried it with Yamaha. The reply was that the colours are only very subtly different now. Looks like the brown tint has been toned down or sprayed far less densely. Also was shown the current pictures of both on the Yamaha website. The pictures are nearly identical! Brown sunbursts just aren’t what they used to be back in the day!
Loved the guitar when I played it in person, particularly the versatility of being able to individually tap both pickups which sold me on the Yamaha over an Ibanez AS200 or 2000 which I was also considering.
Found this review incredibly helpful. I was struggling to part with that amount of cash for a ‘plywood’ guitar. Was very helpful to understand the very specific construction of the laminate on this guitar pointed out in the review. 2 layers of thickish flamed sycamore with a thin layer of some sort of maple going at 90 degrees in the middle make perfect sense to me. It means the wood of the guitar will work largely like a solid top guitar with a single wood top (albeit pressed not carved) but without the risk of big splits in the top that I can see happened in earlier Yamahas with solid single wood tops.
Have found photos of an early SA 1800 and an SA2500 with massive cracks in the solid wood tops.
Loved the guitar when I played it in person, particularly the versatility of being able to individually tap both pickups which sold me on the Yamaha over an Ibanez AS200 or 2000 which I was also considering.
Found this review incredibly helpful. I was struggling to part with that amount of cash for a ‘plywood’ guitar. Was very helpful to understand the very specific construction of the laminate on this guitar pointed out in the review. 2 layers of thickish flamed sycamore with a thin layer of some sort of maple going at 90 degrees in the middle make perfect sense to me. It means the wood of the guitar will work largely like a solid top guitar with a single wood top (albeit pressed not carved) but without the risk of big splits in the top that I can see happened in earlier Yamahas with solid single wood tops.
Have found photos of an early SA 1800 and an SA2500 with massive cracks in the solid wood tops.
Statistics: Posted by 4StringFetish — Fri Apr 05, 2024 7:09 am