NGD Yamaha APX500II

[ehdwuld]

back in December, a friend of mine had two guitars in his closet he didnt want
so I got em from him
one was a red Ibanez Sage acoustic
the other was a brand new Yamaha Pacifica he had never even tuned to pitch

well they hung round the house for a while and I really wasn't bonding with either one
nice guitars but ya know they just didn't inspire me to play them

so off to GC I went

I had seen in the catalog where they had the Ibanez V70CE in blue for $199
and i was interested in that

the sales man went to find a blue one, but by the time he got back I had played the Yamaha and the neck just played so much better than the Ibbys

so I swapped the two Closet finds for the Yamaha that inspired me



Crappy Cell Phone pics will follow

 

[greekdude]

Re: NGD Yamaha APX500II

I have the exact same guitar! Happy NGD. You can almost gypsy-jazz shred on this one! If only it had lower bridge!

 

[ehdwuld]

Re: NGD Yamaha APX500II

I was so impressed as it plays almost like an electric

the action is very low
the nut is 43mm

its gonna be a much nicer "Beater Acoustic" for me

I really like the tuner on the preamp
wish my Martin had that

 

[greekdude]

Re: NGD Yamaha APX500II

thats handy indeed.

 

[Oinkus]

Re: NGD Yamaha APX500II

Had an original first run for 20 some years was a good guitar let a former friend use it with an option to buy it cheap. He had serious issues with drugs and it went away.

 

[rgand]

Re: NGD Yamaha APX500II

Congratulations. Looks good. Thumbs-up!

 

[treyhaislip]

Re: NGD Yamaha APX500II

Congrats on the new guitar! Yamaha makes some great guitars!

 

[LesStrat]

Re: NGD Yamaha APX500II

Contrats. My first two gits were Yamaha e-acoustics. The last was an APX10-T. Sadly it died. I loved that guitar.

 

[ehdwuld]

Re: NGD Yamaha APX500II

I saw the same model used at GC in Portland wit a dead preamp for $99

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[LesStrat]

Re: NGD Yamaha APX500II

Mine died at the neck. The electronics were fine.

 

[ehdwuld]

Re: NGD Yamaha APX500II

hmmm how much you got left?

 

[Aceman]

Re: NGD Yamaha APX500II

Played a bunch of those. Great guitars!

 

[ehdwuld]

Re: NGD Yamaha APX500II

I had a Yamaha nylon string classical back in the 80's

strung it with steel strings cuz I just didn't know

action was almost a 1/4 inch

neck was too wide and strings too high to make a G chord

loved that guitar

tone was incredible

 

[greekdude]

Re: NGD Yamaha APX500II

Mine died at the neck. The electronics were fine.

how? truss rod defect?

 

[stef89]

Re: NGD Yamaha APX500II

I got the small one.

Ive tried all fg700 - 730 series. And The APX 500 and 700 even the LS6. GREAT guitars! Wery robust guitars that can handle dry weather to

Somehow all my picture I upload here gets turned 90 degrees.

 

[ehdwuld]

Re: NGD Yamaha APX500II

I do think Yamaha makes great acoustics

*(Sent from my durned phone!)*