Yamaha SG-3C

  • Yamaha SG-3C electric guitar
    Yamaha SG-3C

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1968 to 1971

The unusual shape of the Yamaha SG-3C has been described as an eggplant, an earlobe or even a flying banana. It was part of a small group of original designs introduced by Yamaha in 1968, these included the Yamaha SG-5.

The SG-3C has a bolt-on maple neck, rosewood fingerboard and samurai sword type headstock finished to match the body. The machine heads were open geared types, and chrome plated. It had 22 frets, plus a zero fret - with an overall scale length of 630 mm. It weighed 3.4 kg.

It is almost impossible to play sitting down, due to the curved shape of the underneath.

Pickups look like two closely spaced single coils (probably combined as a humbucker) at the bridge and a single coil at the neck. These are controlled by volume and tone knobs and a three-way selector switch. All are mounted on a white plastic pick-guard.

The SG-3C cost 21,000 Yen at its launch in November 1968.

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