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New Old Smelly Guitar Day!

I mean just look at these two; tell me they don't belong together. :D

Guitar was an impulse bid, 'that's a reasonable reserve' and here we are. It was described as playing well, (it does; I could jam with it as is). The frets are very small so that is what it is but action, intonation, perfectly fine. It's been played regularly and it shows.

It was described as having electrical issues.
The pot tapers are not what I could wish and the selector switch bleeds to both pickups at the extremes of its travel. Getting a single pickup is a variation of the inbetween on a 3 position Strat switch trick. Neck pickup is louder and better sounding than the bridge. I briefly considered installing some Lollar Gold Foils before I checked what they were going to cost. :shock:

It's believed to be from 1968. It's incredibly loud acoustically and it's obviously the cheap model but it's in great playing condition and sounds very good.
Kdawg2a approved, I reckon.

This is my kind of Funk! :rofl:


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Wow, now that is something special! how cool.

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I meant to add that the seller who goes by nzguitartrader on TM is a totally excellent chap. He really belongs here and I've invited him to visit. And if anyone has a not overly expensive Greenback, V30 or similar in 8ohms available, I will connect you both.
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Yum :) and dibs...
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Bg wrote: Fri Feb 09, 2024 8:12 pmYum :) and dibs...
Noted.
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Slowy wrote: Fri Feb 09, 2024 7:56 pm New Old Smelly Guitar Day!

I mean just look at these two; tell me they don't belong together. :D

Guitar was an impulse bid, 'that's a reasonable reserve' and here we are. It was described as playing well, (it does; I could jam with it as is). The frets are very small so that is what it is but action, intonation, perfectly fine. It's been played regularly and it shows.

It was described as having electrical issues.
The pot tapers are not what I could wish and the selector switch bleeds to both pickups at the extremes of its travel. Getting a single pickup is a variation of the inbetween on a 3 position Strat switch trick. Neck pickup is louder and better sounding than the bridge. I briefly considered installing some Lollar Gold Foils before I checked what they were going to cost. :shock:

It's believed to be from 1968. It's incredibly loud acoustically and it's obviously the cheap model but it's in great playing condition and sounds very good.
Kdawg2a approved, I reckon.

This is my kind of Funk! :rofl:



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Awesome! I was tempted to grab it when it popped up, glad it ended up in the NZG family. We're in the middle of selling our house so responsiblity got the better of me and I didn't throw in a bid.

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Neck pickup is louder and better sounding than the bridge.
Both pickups are the same

Congrats, you finally own a Yamaha again
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HA! I saw this and thought it was pretty cool, nice score Bruce!
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Jay wrote: Fri Feb 09, 2024 8:23 pm
Neck pickup is louder and better sounding than the bridge.
Both pickups are the same

Congrats, you finally own a Yamaha again
It's been a while since this one.
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Jay wrote: Fri Feb 09, 2024 8:23 pm
Neck pickup is louder and better sounding than the bridge.
Both pickups are the same
When you meet them, you can tell them that.
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Apologies for the photo sizes. I'm reducing them but they seem to have missed the memo.
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Slowy wrote: Fri Feb 09, 2024 8:45 pm
Jay wrote: Fri Feb 09, 2024 8:23 pm
Neck pickup is louder and better sounding than the bridge.
Both pickups are the same

Congrats, you finally own a Yamaha again
It's been a while since this one.

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Congrats she’s a beaut. I like the wine red
Also I desperately would like a banana yellow samurai like that one

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https://www.premierguitar.com/pro-advic ... maha-sa15d

Found this which was interesting. Mine's definitely the 15, not 15D and it seems 1968/69 is the age.

'Summer of '69!'
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StrummersOfThunder wrote: Fri Feb 09, 2024 9:04 pm
Slowy wrote: Fri Feb 09, 2024 8:45 pm
Jay wrote: Fri Feb 09, 2024 8:23 pm

Both pickups are the same

Congrats, you finally own a Yamaha again
It's been a while since this one.

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Congrats she’s a beaut. I like the wine red
Also I desperately would like a banana yellow samurai like that one
It was an interesting thing. The rear pickup had a knob that blended it from single coil to humbucker.
But you couldn't call it an offset; more a side impact.
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Slowy wrote: Fri Feb 09, 2024 9:19 pm https://www.premierguitar.com/pro-advic ... maha-sa15d

Found this which was interesting. Mine's definitely the 15, not 15D and it seems 1968/69 is the age.

'Summer of '69!'
That article is quite wrong on a number of points... the pickups are humbuckers, not single coils.
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