Famous endorsees of the RGXRGZ guitars included Blues Saraceno and Ty Tabor of Kings X, who got his namesake RGX-TT and RGX-TTD6 signature models in 2000.

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These guitars had single digit suffixes - like SG-3, SG-5 and SG-7.

You can turn it with your fingers on my guitar but it doesnt come off.

This is also chrome and black but is a stamping not a casting.

And this isnt actually a neck plate because it doesnt hold the neck on.

If you remove the four screws this plate comes off, you will then see the actual neck plate which has four larger screws holding the neck on.

The neck plate has a rectangular window in it to allow you to access the truss rod through a hole through the body into the back of the neck (thats right, the truss is accessed through the back of the neck).

The black and silver areas that you see are actually the tops of the pickup bobbins themselves.

The black and silver areas are covered by a domed clear plastic piece.

I took the guitar apart a few years ago to give it a good cleaning.

I found that the pickups are not held in place with springs at the height adjustment screws like normal pickups, but instead had a large foam rubber block under the body of each pickup.

Thin enough that the side dots are actually located on the split line between the fretboard material and the wood of the neck.

Yamaha Guitars Lookup Serial Number Is Stamped

The guitars serial number is stamped directly into the fretboard between two of the lower frets.

If I lay it down next to my Strat, the Strat looks like a bargain basement model by comparison.

Yamaha Guitars Lookup Series Have Far

Later 1960s models in Yamahas SG series have far cruder appointments.

The bridge also has the normal coarse height adjustment screws on each end.

There are two sheet metal springs on the ends of the bridge pinching the saddles together so they dont move side-to-side.

As for the roller controls, the mysterious 3rd thumbwheel nearest to the bridge pickup is a balance control for the two bridge pickups.

This functions whether the slide switch is in the up or down position.

Featuring a peculiar asymmetrical body with an elongated horn on the treble side and a hockey stick style headstock, the guitar was designed with the input of Japanese Eleki legend Takeshi Terauchi.

Some come with Yamaha active pickups, two single coils and one humbucker.

Yamaha Guitars Serial Number Lookup