2018 Yamaha Revstar Billet Green with Original Gig Bag

Summary: Japanese minimalist style is simple to describe but hard to capture. With just enough of everything you need, and nothing that you don’t, the RS502T is exactly what it should be–beautifully simple. Includes gig bag.

Body: This guitar has a mahogany body with a maple cap. Its cream binding and smooth grey satin finish on top pairs nicely with a glossy red translucent back and sides. There are also arm and belly contours for comfort.

Neck: The Yamaha Revstar features a cream bound rosewood fingerboard with dot inlays on a gloss mahogany neck. This model features a set neck design for optimal tone and sustain. There are 22 jumbo frets on a 13.75” radius fretboard. Scale length- 24 ¾” Nut width- 1 11/16”

Pickups/Hardware: Designed from the ground up, Revstar features specially wound YGD pickups that are perfectly matched to each guitar. More than 50 prototype pickups were tested featuring different combinations of wire, windings, magnets and base plates. Eventually, a spec was settled on for each guitar model and the Revstar pickup series was born. This model features VP5 pickups (8.3k DCR) with Alnico V magnets, German silver baseplate and plain enamel wire for clear, vintage tone with bite.

Dry Switch
Designed especially for Revstar, Yamaha's proprietary Dry Switch gives you the versatility of a coil split, but with a tone that's miles ahead. Using a passive filter circuit painstakingly designed to give the perfect frequency response, the Dry Switch filters out low frequencies to give the punch and clarity of a single coil pickup minus the inevitable hum and hollow tone often associated with split humbucking pickups. And because it's a filter circuit, the Dry Switch works on both humbuckers and P90s for a totally unique, usable tone.

Custom Hardware
Inspired by the stripped-down custom Café Racer motorbikes popularized on the streets of London in the 1960s, Revstar's hardware captures the high-performance, individual character of those bikes with a wide range of totally unique, customized hardware. From the unique pickup covers and raw copper scratchplate on the Revstar Professional, to the totally custom floating aluminum tailpiece on the RS502T, each and every component is perfectly calibrated for great performance and unmistakable style—capturing the very essence of a Café Racer.

Cosmetics: This guitar is in near mint condition. The body and neck
are flawless but just a few scratches on the pickguard.

Playability: This Yamaha plays great up and down the fingerboard. It has been recently set up by our in house luthier and strung up with a set of 10’s. The neck is straight, truss rod is operating properly and the frets have little to no wear whatsoever.

Weight: 7lbs 14oz.

Case: This guitar ships with its original Yamaha gig-bag.