Regular Truss rod Cover used on Red Label FG's. Truss Rod Cover on Green Label and very early Red Label FG's. That cover made it onto the earliest FG’s imported into the US, before changing to the familiar one. I’ve also found the Green Label FG’s have a different truss rod cover, with “Reinforced Neck” on it, very different than the one you normally see. I’m looking for the transition between the Green and Red labels. I’m also tracking the Green Label FG’s, the earliest models (1966-67) only made in Japan, that share the same pool of serial numbers. With this, and other data I’ve been finding, I’ve discovered even though Yamaha says the first Red Label models imported in the US where in 1968, I’ve found many Red Label FG guitars made in 1967. I sent him a message asking if he saved all the information for these guitars, but I don’t know what will be lost in the language translation, of if he’ll even get back to me. He’s obviously used the internal date codes to determine the years. On YouTube I found a guy in Japan who’s posted short videos of many vintage FG guitars, with the year, model number, partial serial numbers, and in a most cases the internal date code. I’ve started a list of guitars I’ve found (including 3 of mine) with the model number, the serial number, and the date code, which will allow the 6 & 7 digit serial numbers to be grouped into a range for each year, allowing any 6 or 7 digit serial number to be cross referenced to the year it was made. I’ve also found there are internal date codes that will reveal when the guitar was made.ĭate Code located on one of the interior sides of the guitar. But the 6 & 7 digit numbers (located on the neck block) are just sequential numbers used by all the guitars they built, not just the FG’s. It’s widely known that the 8 digit serial numbers start with the year as the first number. My latest interest is decoding the mystery of the 6 & 7 digit serial numbers. I’ve written other articles on: the history of the Yamaha FG 1966-1981 & FG-3XX series vintage Yamaha truss rod adjustment procedure vintage Yamaha neck reset procedure replacement nuts & saddles Yamaha FG weights Japanese emperor date codes Republic of China date codes and I’m working on many others. This past May Yamaha deleted their Yamaha Guitar Archive web page, pushing me to start a forum to share the info that I’ve collected, including all the data from the Yamaha Guitar Archive. I’ve been collecting data on vintage Yamaha FG acoustic guitars for a few years. WANTED – Data from your vintage Yamaha FG guitars.
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