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Re: No love for Yamaha?

PostPosted: Fri Dec 29, 2017 12:37 pm
by Achtane
The other night I dreamed about refinishing my samurai bass in glittery-ass metallic green. And with an angled Model J pickup in the neck like on the old ones, no bridge pickup.
It's been sitting in pieces for a while now...hmm.

Re: No love for Yamaha?

PostPosted: Sat Jan 13, 2018 1:33 pm
by Chankgeez

Re: No love for Yamaha?

PostPosted: Wed Jan 24, 2018 11:02 pm
by Bassist_Diver
New TRBX 600 and 605! With the fucking sexy Japanese finish scheme!

https://usa.yamaha.com/products/musical ... eries.html

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Re: No love for Yamaha?

PostPosted: Tue Jan 30, 2018 9:34 pm
by systemofameow
In the process of trying to haggle down the price of an SG500B, light a candle for me folks.

Re: No love for Yamaha?

PostPosted: Wed Jan 31, 2018 8:14 am
by Eivind August
Oooh, best of luck!

Re: No love for Yamaha?

PostPosted: Wed Jan 31, 2018 3:35 pm
by systemofameow
Haha, dude wouldn't budge but I scooped it anyway. NGD HECKN INCOMING.

Re: No love for Yamaha?

PostPosted: Wed Jan 31, 2018 7:20 pm
by Eivind August
Sweet, congrats! Be sure to post pics here when you get it. :snax:

Re: No love for Yamaha?

PostPosted: Thu Feb 01, 2018 3:10 am
by systemofameow
Thank you! It's actually not that pretty atm, I bought one with kind of a beat up body so I could have some fun and mess it up more, BUT BETTER. I'll probably post a few photos of what I end up doing with it. :thumb:

Re: No love for Yamaha?

PostPosted: Sun Feb 04, 2018 5:41 am
by Disarm D'arcy
Great instruments but for me the issue is most often the way to narrow necks.

My beginner instrument was also a Yamaha, an RBX170 bass in electric sparkle blue because I was 10 and super cool (a dork).

I initially wanted to keep it but I sold it because really it was uncomfortable for me to play... so I really didn’t play it though I spent 4-5 years learning with only this one.

Re: No love for Yamaha?

PostPosted: Sun Feb 04, 2018 11:45 pm
by Bassist_Diver
Disarm D'arcy wrote:Great instruments but for me the issue is most often the way to narrow necks.

My beginner instrument was also a Yamaha, an RBX170 bass in electric sparkle blue because I was 10 and super cool (a dork).

I initially wanted to keep it but I sold it because really it was uncomfortable for me to play... so I really didn’t play it though I spent 4-5 years learning with only this one.


My first bass was a Yamaha RBX260 in metallic blue burst that had a neck thicker than a Warwick, horrible intonation, and sounded like shit. I thought dropping EMG PJs in would make it a badass metal bass (I was 12 or 13, I think) and then I dropped it for a black Ibanez SR885 (I thought I was a badass metalhead when I was in high school).

Now I really miss having older TRBs and the TRBX line has piqued my interest. Although I'm also looking at used TRB1005s and 80s BB basses.

Re: No love for Yamaha?

PostPosted: Sat Feb 10, 2018 2:35 pm
by bubstance
Much love for Yamaha from this guy. Picked up this bastard a while ago and find myself not being able to put him down. He's an '81 SHB400.

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The pickups are pretty hot and tend to be a bit on the muddy side, but the coils are nice and chimey when split. I really want to pick up the sister model to this (SSC500) for the Strat stuff.

Re: No love for Yamaha?

PostPosted: Tue Feb 27, 2018 6:48 pm
by friendship
Just found out Yamaha SA500's have a chunky neck and now I'm looking into one as maybe a replacement for my Ibanez AS73.

Re: No love for Yamaha?

PostPosted: Wed Mar 14, 2018 10:21 pm
by Chankgeez
Denizens of the OZ, Found Sound just listed a couple nice ones:

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https://reverb.com/item/10865151-yamaha-sg-2a

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https://reverb.com/item/10865142-yamaha-sa15d

Re: No love for Yamaha?

PostPosted: Thu Mar 15, 2018 12:00 pm
by dubkitty
i LOVE the checkerboard binding on that second one!

Re: No love for Yamaha?

PostPosted: Thu Mar 15, 2018 6:35 pm
by JereFuzz
dubkitty wrote:i LOVE the checkerboard binding on that second one!


Mariachi binding ... :)