Links
Yamaha
The best forum on Yamaha instruments including a guitar section: https://yamahamusicians.com/forum/
A lot of great information on vintage FG’s: http://yamahavintagefg.com/
The Yamaha guitars and amps timeline as found on Yamaha Europe website: https://europe.yamaha.com/en/products/contents/guitars_basses/50th/chronology/
Great information on recent yamaha acoustics, but also a lot of history: http://www.yamaha.co.jp/english/product/guitar/aguitar/history.html
Information on the production of Yamaha Guitars in the ‘Yamaha Guitars, Essential Knowledge”: http://nl.yamaha.com/nl/products/musical-instruments/guitars-basses/special/images/essential_knowledge.pdf
Vintage Guitar article on Yamaha SG’s: http://www.vintageguitar.com/1979/yamaha-sg/
The same on the Yamaha Image: http://www.vintageguitar.com/5511/yamaha-image/
A lot of info on early SA’s and some great restore projects of these old Yamaha SA’s. Look at the Supposed String Meister website: http://www.thesupposedstringmeister.net/
A great resource of Super Flighter information: http://yamahasuperflighters.co.uk/, the most versatile guitar Yamaha ever made.
The John Denver Guitar Research Site with a huge amount of fantastic L-53 pics: http://www.jdgrs.com/index.php
A lot of great pics of very old Yamama Dynamic Guitars: http://www.geocities.jp/mmasmcb/catalog.html
Great pics and SG’s for sale on Elite Vintage Guitars http://elitevintageguitars.com/ and also a lot of SG info and great pics on http://yamahasggeek.com/index.html
A lot of info on different Yamaha’s on Bill Alston’s website http://www.alston-family.co.uk
Catalogs
A lot of old and newer Japanese catalogs: http://www.oldguitar.jp/catalog/yamaha.htm and The World of Musical Instrument Brochures: http://brochures.yokochou.com/
Great resource of catalogs: http://www.vintaxe.com/index.php
Other MIJ
Mark Fletcher’s great resource for vintage MIJ guitars: http://www.japanguitars.co.uk/
Great vintage Tokais and spare parts: http://www.tokaiguitar.de/
Guitars and other gear
Deacci, hand-crafted pickups: http://www.deacci.com/
More to come soon…