Product: Yamaha FG 251
Price Paid: UNKNOWN
Submitted
08/12/2007
at
02:46pm
by
Carter Boucher
Features
:
9
Gloss finish, top is EZO Spruce (which I have read is a rare Japanese spruce). The sides and Back look like Indian Rosewood. One of the reasons that I bought the guitar was that I have been buying, playing an trading Yamaha guitars for 30+ years and had never even heard of this model. It looks, feels and plays a lot like its more famous relative the FG 300 only without the fancy pickguard and inlay. The fingerboard looks like rosewood with perliod dot inlays. The pickguard looks like tortoise celluloid or plastic. The neck has the white binding just like the FG 300.
Sound
:
10
Very loud with a lot of clear bite. Would make an excellent blue grass lead guitar.It has that wonderful vintage Yamaha sound! WOuld be especially good for Celtic lead or blue grass lead as it really booms yet has a great clear sound on high notes.
Action, Fit, & Finish
:
9
ACtion is superb. It does not have an adjustable bridge but the action is low and it is very fast. One of the esiest guitars I have ever play the lead to an Irish gig on. I am giving it a 9 opnly because of some pitting on the spruce top which is very small and really could have been from some sort of accident since I bought it used. However it looks like pitting from age+ overly thin varnish.
Reliability/Durability
:
10
Hey it is approximately 30 years old and plays and sounds great. Solid as a Mack Truck.
Customer Support
:
No Opinion
Bought Used so no opinion.
Overall Rating
:
10
I have been playing for over thirty years and have had or currently have Gibson Hummingbird, Yamaha FG 300, Yamaha FG 150, Yamaha FG 200, Yamaha FG 75, Rhine custom made SG, Fender Stratocaster. The Yamaha FG 251 is really hard to put down. I also have to admit it is fun having a guitar that every body recognizes the Maker but not the model.
