The Unofficial OSG 60s Yamaha SG Thread

[HorseyBoy]

Mine's 7.25"

Mine, too.

[theworkoffire]

i just picked up another one of these (pretty beat to crap sg-3) with a - well i'd say - crappy neck. new fretboard (FLAT!) and missing tuners.
trying to put another neck on it now, but the spacing of the neck screws is very unique and nothing else will fit without modding...

I'm pretty sure the heel-bridge measurement is way off a Fender-scale neck - 22 frets and no overhang etc. - so I don't think another neck would intonate unless it's a lucky coincidence on something non-Fender.

Holy fuck! Ben! Welcome back!

Missed you buddy.

Cheers Paul!

[Pacafeliz]

well shit, so i guess it's going on the chopping block soon.
i don't want to put any extra holes in the headstock either... ok ok.

[Sonichris]

I'd would sure like see this SG-3 of yours, Pat....

[Pacafeliz]

I'd would sure like see this SG-3 of yours, Pat....

[Sonichris]

Not as bad as I thought it might be. Other than the fretboard, which isn't really that big a job, it's an easy fix up.

[friendshipmaster]

My band played on Saturday night.... The next bands guitar player was playing this giant red beautiful axe, it turned out to be an sg3... Surprisingly I had no idea what it was. He let me play it after the gig these are such rad guitars!!!! I hope to own one some day.

[HorseyBoy]

In the interests of unifying stuff, here are some detail pics I posted in Ben's tear-down and restoration thread:







Ben's thread is here: viewtopic.php?f=42&t=90724" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[Gavanti]

Whoa! I never realized the rollers were labeled: maybe another difference between '66 and '67? Apparently, Yamaha was all about the details in '66. The '66 SA-5's are a little more ornate than the '67 SA-50's too.

[Sonichris]

I've had several SG-2's and 3's, and never seen the rollers labeled like this. Maybe it was a very very short lived variant near the end of the run? It would be interesting to comapre serial numbers of '67's with and without labeled rollers.

I've also never seen the mesh shielding in the control cavity like on Ben's newest project.

[Gavanti]

I've had several SG-2's and 3's, and never seen the rollers labeled like this. Maybe it was a very very short lived variant near the end of the run? It would be interesting to comapre serial numbers of '67's with and without labeled rollers.

I've also never seen the mesh shielding in the control cavity like on Ben's newest project.

I forgot that HorseyBoy's is a '67, not a '66, so you're more likely right that this was an end of run thing rather than a beginning. So none of the samurai guitars had these either? My '67 is #4962.

I wonder if the shielding is a later addition.

[HorseyBoy]

^Yep, my SG-2 is a 67. Serial is 5425.

[selectomatic]

Two more serial numbers for the Unofficial Ancient Yamaha registry: 1232 (1966), 5891 (1967).

[antisymmetric]

My '66 is #2056.

[Gavanti]

1232 is getting down there, within the first 1000 guitars if they started at 398. I've seen several 3 digit SA-5's. Does anyone have a 3-digit SG?