Any info on this Yamaha ES-335-like guitar?

plaidbeer · Post by **plaidbeer** » Fri Aug 24, 2012 3:20 am

Was browsing the online inventory of a local shop and saw this for $400. The info doesn't give an exact model, but it's from 1966 and from what I've been able to parse, it's a Yamaha SA-50 (I think).

James · Post by **James** » Fri Aug 24, 2012 5:40 am

I've never played one but I've seen a few on ebay uk and they sell for around that. I would guess it's easily worth $400.

Gabriel · Post by **Gabriel** » Fri Aug 24, 2012 7:34 am

That is so cool, what a lovely guitar.

dub · Post by **dub** » Fri Aug 24, 2012 7:36 am

Yeah, old Super Axe models just prior to Yamaha getting their act together/publicity. There's quite a few floating around in NZ. I have always liked the shape of the cutaways.

bunch of pictures: http://www.nzguitars.com/forum/viewtopi ... 38&t=22834

They have black plastic cups in the f-holes to fight feedback. I bought a stripped down one a few years back but never ended up doing anything with it, from it's condition it looked like it had been kept in a barn. End up swapping it for a Colorsound Fuzzwah.

They're solidly built, but not quite to the same level as the models that would follow.

UlricvonCatalyst · Post by **UlricvonCatalyst** » Fri Aug 24, 2012 8:21 am

Shame the original machine heads have been swapped out - they're a real enhancement. I'd agree that $400 sounds like a fair price, though, even though I don't know what else it'd buy you.

LexiconDevil · Post by **LexiconDevil** » Thu Oct 11, 2012 5:33 pm

did we make a purchase?
looks kinda mosriteish in that typical 60s Japanese way

jcyphe · Post by **jcyphe** » Thu Oct 11, 2012 5:58 pm

http://www.yamaha.co.jp/product/guitar/ ... st/sa.html

This is a great resource of most every Yamaha model ever made, I find myself checking it all the time when I run into Yamaha guitars.

If you use the Google Chrome browser it translates the site pretty well.