I scored a late 90s Yamaha SG700S for a steal to use as a backup hardtail. I think it looks great and it plays like a dream. Raucous pickups with quite a thick tone when playing solos, usable coil taps although not fendery spanky sparkle of course, no hum or crackling, good weight, medium neck, plenty of life left in the frets and seems to be very stable with tuning. I'm pretty impressed with it so far. As for being a backup guitar, I might have to take it out for a spin one gig to see how it holds up.
Lol, I made a thing...tongue in cheek...;)
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Gotta love a Yammie SG. I miss my heavy old 1000
Beauty is in the eye of the beer holder
My trading feedback - I'm a good egg
Seriously: If you value it, take/fetch it yourself
I wasn't familiar with the SG700s - quite distinctive with the block inlays. Have fun gigging it!
Only drawback is they are usually Very heavy! - 1000/2000/21000 etc
My SG 3000:
Eqd Speaker Cranker clone
Monte Allums TR-2 Plus mod kit
Trading feedback: http://www.thefretboard.co.uk/discussion/60602/
It doesn't get much use at the moment - I mostly play an SA2200 or SA2000S, plus a Tele and a Strat as they suit my band more.
R.
Eqd Speaker Cranker clone
Monte Allums TR-2 Plus mod kit
Trading feedback: http://www.thefretboard.co.uk/discussion/60602/
HNGD!
Back in the early 80s Yamaha SGs were cropping up everywhere - and that was just down to the quality, they didn't have the rock'n'roll history of Gibson. I think it was just the strength of the Yen, and the rising labour costs in Japan that finished them off.
R.
Eqd Speaker Cranker clone
Monte Allums TR-2 Plus mod kit
Trading feedback: http://www.thefretboard.co.uk/discussion/60602/
Seriously: If you value it, take/fetch it yourself