Yamaki Les Paul Standard

nice finish. Gotoh tuners.2 dimarzio super distortions from about 1975. Honduran mahogany. Lightly flamed maple top.Japanese made about 1975. (this guitar actually says les paul model on the open book headstock)Inlays are crappy. Other than that its a nice player.

I gave away my gibson les paul to my dad after buying this nuff said

After a new nut and setup the guitar plays nice. Fast neck that is slim but not to slim. Seems just right to me. Really nice flamed maple 2 piece bookmatched top.

Good hardware same as a gibson. This is now my #1. I forgot to mention it is honeyburst in color. Dimarzios already lasted 32 years I dont think they will crap out anytime soon

company is long gone. Daion bougth them out I think.

Have owned a rack of gibsons and this will match any of em.This is simply the best 300 bucks I have ever spent.Not the best guitar I have ever played but for stage playing it really cuts through the mix.

This sunburst Yamaki Les Paul Peformer was probably made in the mid 1970's but there is no serial number on it.

It has a mahogany body, 2 piece, and a 2 piece maple top. It has a rosewood neck with a nice moustache type headstock.

The Maple top is nicely carved and very deep. It's grain is really attractive, like an old antique or something, although not flame or curly etc, more subtle than that... and the guitar is aging nicely.

The original tuners were poor and I changed them for Grovers.....
This guitar is nicely made and has a good feel.

I have taken the existing pickups out and replaced them with seymour duncan 59s.
The guitar sounds great. It has lots of body and sustains well. The tone has a bit of soul to it.....it drives vintage amps really nicely.

You can play any style on this, I reckon, but it suits rock or blues so obviously well.....

It has an even tonal response across the whole fingerboard.

It's great, sounds as good as my old 1978 Gibson Les Paul did.

The workmanship is generally good......a million times better than most Les Paul copies I've seen, which are generally a bit of a joke anyway....

The Maple Top has a very subtle beauty....it has depth and quality....

I gig with this guitar all the time....

It's solid and reliable....and it sounds so nice. It feels comfortable and looks really cool.....

The guitar weighs around 8.5 lbs.....

The company that made this geetar sold out years ago and do not exist anymore.

This guitar is a comfortable great sounding, great looking instrument. A serious guitar in it's own right, unlike say your usual Columbus, or Eros or Vintage etc etc etc the list is endless.

It's as good as a Gibson IMO and I'll never sell it.....

Dead on replica of a late 50's sunburst Paul- long tenon, proper body specs, REAL Honduran mahogany body with real one-peice maple cap, nitro finish (aging wonderfully)...this one looks very similar to Page's #2. I get a lot of funny looks from ol' Zep-heads when I break this one out at a gig. Just a fabulously made replica of a classic design. Dead on headstock moustache..a REAL lawsuit model. These are SO rare- very, very hard to find. I only give it a 9 because I think any Les Paul deserves a 9.

Awesome tone- this guitar just zings and rings like a bell when played acoustically. Plugged in- pure tone Heaven. I can get great mellow, smokey jazz tones on the neck...very round and warm like on a good Paul. Middle position is great...roll down the neck tone and volume slightly and you can find rhythm guitar heaven. I have mine wired out of phase for that Peter Green-like nasal quack...the bridge position just smokes...pure honest rockn'roll raunch. I have bought, sold, traded, and played guitars for over 22 years (my God...has it been that long), and I can honestly say that this is in my top 5 for looks, feel and tone. I have probably owned over 200 guitars over the years.

Better than anything Gibson is putting out today, and it kills any Orville or Tokai Love Rock. I recently played this at a boutique guitar store in Los Angeles, and the sales people and passers'by were fooled by the looks and tone into thinking I was playing a 50's Paul. I stacked this up against the newer Gibson Historic models and my Yamaki kicked their asses all day and all of the night. I didn't want to believe it, but this guitar played better and sounded much better. It made the AAA Flame Historic sound like a water-logged boat oar! You can't beat the sound of 35 yr old wood...you just can't! The top on this baby is aging so fine!

Solid as a rock...but as with any Gibson you wouldn't want to knock it over or throw it( it is not a Telecaster). I changed the original tuners as they had worn out over the years, but other than that, she has stayed stock and fine. The neck has stayed true and straight all of these years and I use 11's! Fabulous craftsmenship. Here is another great thing- it does not go out of tune like a regular Paul.

Yamaki is long gone...but any competent luthier can repair a Les Paul replica.

What more can I say? It is a testament to Japanese craftsmenship and to their obsessive need to replicate the classic instruments to a tee. This is so easy to play and sounds so good...if I lost it I would feel like I had undergone an amputation. I have been looking for another since the early 90's with no luck. I have only seen three in that time and, of course, none of the owners was selling theirs (one guy had 11 Tokais for sale, but not his Yamaki). I once had a very big name play this for a while (my band opened) and he offered me $2000 for it. Am I stupid- maybe- but it was easy to say no. Better than any Tokai, Burny, Greco, Yamaha, or Orville that I have tried, and better than almost any Paul I have played. Go figure.

Japanese, It's an exact les paul copy built in 1979. It's absolutely fab. It weighs about half more tan a regular Les Paul std. I put in two Duncan 59's, It has Grover tuners from an old martin on it. I't a great cherry herritage burst, it looks relly nice with the little flamy touch in it. There is ONE difference with a normal LP std next too the weight of the guitar, it has an ebony key, it feals great looks really good as well, the guitar weighs more because the guys from Yamaki actaully left more wood in the body and put a big fat top on it. The holes that Gibson makes are real slots in the body and then they put the top on.. The boyz from Yamaki just made a narrow slit in it for the wiring, except for where the pods and the pickup switch go :) When I bought it it had Jumbo frets, and when I had them replaced I put in Jumbo's again. excellent feel and comfort. The neck is pretty thin at the nut and feels fine in your palm, but there is a lot of body.

I grew up with the Blues, I'm a Hard Rock player myself.. So I like a guitar that can be sharp and mild. It needs to have those features. It has a very rich tone and sound, I dislike one thing, it sometimes sounds as if the guitar is held back a bit when I'm playing it clean. That is a shame, though when in overdrive it sounds great. I can do all the jimmy page sounds with this one about. I like to play clean edge though, not to use any FX but what's in the amp.. I always try to make the most of my amp and guitar and mu own playing. My ussual setup consists of a Marshall :). The guitar is more silent then my LP classic Though it has just as much output on the pickups .

Hmm I can't tell you how it came from the factory, I only know the myths about that one..I heard that the guitars looked really sharp with a good all round setup (whatever that might be). Nothing on my guitar is original except for the bridge, stop bar and the wood :))).. THere is one thing that is not very cool, that is how the former owner treated it. By coincedence it's a guy I know. He really needs a lesson in treating guitars anyway.. It looks good but when you look at the binding of the body you can see I had some trouble with it. The nut was fucked as well, I fixed it by putting a new one in though and that does help :). The last guy who refreted it for me did such a good job that if I want I can put the bridge down to the body and it won't rattle :)) anyway that's not the way I like to play it but it's possible..

This guitar is the guitar I like to use for live playing, it feels great I can depend on it and it's fun to play. My LP classic isn't as relaxing to play. I used to have rough touch to my playing, I broke about three strings per rehersal session :), it cost me a lot of plectra too. Now I have settled down I noticede that this guitar can hold really long. Though I have learned never to do a gig without backup, you know anything can go wrong.. though with this guitar I'd take the gamble.. I've alredy done it before :).

Well the guitar is like 20 years old, the company disapeared without a trace.. if they hadn't I would hav surely bought another Yamaki LP

I love this guitar with all my heart.. If I'd lose it it would feel like losing my dearest friend. This guitar means about the most to me ever (although I don't have that much time to play it any more). I own some other gear: amps, MACK (10W) rebuilt (great fuzzy sound) MArshall valvestate 80W (you know :)) Yamaha G100-212R (best clean sound ever) I still want to buy a head.. I'm thinking of buying a kitty hawk or marshall jcm 2000 :) Guitars (electric): Gibson LP classic 1993 (good looks, cherry, tiger stripe) Yamaki LP std. (I love it) Squire Tele (sounds really good crappy neck though) Hondo Strat (rebuilt strat neck, fender/Ibanez pickups and funburst) Challange LP (nice guitar semi solid body, really weird though)
If you wanna hear the Yamaki and the Gibson go to www.muley-graves.com and then go to the dopwnload link... you can find some band stuff there and listen for the heavilly overdriven guitar and the clean bits ..