Yamaha Repaint I - Custom Revstar RS502 Goldtop
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- Опубліковано 25 сер 2024
- This is a video just documenting a repaint on my Yamaha Revstar. Some technical tips on repainting a guitar that may be useful to some.
Tone Samples can be found here on this video...
• Lindy Fralin & Seymour...
Love it! Nice work!!!!
Thank you!
I got the 502 without the tailpiece today. It really surprised me with the quality for the price. I quite like the raunchiness of the stock pickups with a Marshall. It punches well above it’s weight. The only thing I don’t really like is the toggle switch feel and the colour… I reckon the gold top refin you did looks sensational!
Yamaha makes a good guitar and for the price you can’t beat it. Great choice! The stock pickups are fine. I can’t even play a Strat at the church I go to because the hum I get with single any coils.
@@gregsteffey1266 yeah I play mostly with quite a deal of gain so a noise suppressor is mandatory.
@@gregsteffey1266 - sounds like you definitely need a strat pickup upgrade. I recommend dimarzio area 58 / rwrp67 for the neck/mid. They're not really single coils so they won't hum yet their tone is unmatched. Nice work on this revstar upgrade. I'm in the process of upgrading mine. I can never leave a guitar stock it seems.
Beautiful job! May I ask what brand/color of gold paint you used and the white base coat primer?
Thanks! Just finished a TV Yellow paint job with grain filler that I will post soon.
@@gregsteffey1266 thanks! subbed!
Very nice job! I got mine two weeks ago (rs820), beautiful sound, warm and smooth, it could be the combination between sg and les paul, where did you get that pickguard? Have a nice day and congrats!!!
Thanks! I got the pickguard from Quick Guards in Deland FL.
@@gregsteffey1266 Thank you very much for the reply! Gonna be tricky to find something similar in Europe, then again, thank you very much and enjoy your beauty!
Hello. Do you happen to still have the original bridge/ posts and volume/ tone knobs? If so can I purchase them from you?
I don’t, sorry
@@gregsteffey1266 No worries. Thank you for the reply.
Wow, very cool work! :)
Out of curiousity: what did you think about the original Yamaha pups?
They initially sounded dark to me compared to other guitars that I have but the biggest issue was where I play the lights create hum with single coil pickups and it’s overwhelming. So if I wanted to play the guitar other then in my office, I had to find hum canceling P90s. I should have did a sound sample of the originals but I had pulled them out before I thought of doing the video. I believe this guitar is just not as bright as some of my other guitars even the way it is now, so I can’t really blame it on the original pups. Thanks for commenting!
@@gregsteffey1266 Hm, interesting. I find the guitar to be quite bright, actually with these pups. I guess it depends on the amp, right? Do you mean bright when compared to e.g. a Strat? I'm sure you know this already, but using that dry switch can brighten up the sound a bit.
Yeah, that sucks about the hum, I haven't experienced it luckily with my setup. I can compare the Revstar 502 with a Gretsch G2215 that I own and the Rev is definitely the brighter of the two by quite a bit.
@@Olegstuff21986 Yeah interesting. This one is kinda dark and was not bright even with the original pickups so I guess it’s the wood. I have a few amps and multiple guitars from Telecasters to PRS Custom 24. I am now using a 66 Princeton and Friedman Runt 20 for amps. I run pedals and have to turn up the overdrive tone/treble when I swap to this guitar. There is sound samples in the other video. I would not consider the tone in that video very bright. I am glad though so I have a different sounding guitar. I don’t want them all to sound the same. For now I took out the push pull and added 1 Meg pots. I do like that original mod though.
@@gregsteffey1266 That is strange, maybe something specific to the model you have? Obviously, not all guitars are created equal, even if it's the same guitar range/model. When I watched videos of 502 vs. the Revstar 620, 502 was definitely the brighter of the two, and yet the 620 was brighter than, say, a Les Paul. You certainly did a great job painting it, looks cool. I have that same shop black 502 but I like the colour.
As for the original pups, I think they have a focussed sound overall, the neck pickup can get slightly muddy at times but I guess that's what often happens with neck pickups anyway and it can 'neutralised' to a good degree using the dry switch. So the SDs didn't brighten up the sound much, I guess they just made the guitar sound different?
@@Olegstuff21986 yes these SDs are just different and a little clearer/ brighter. But it’s hard to compare single coils to hum canceling. One thing to note is I hear they have 250 pots from the factory. Just going to a 1 Meg volume would brighten up the originals. Maybe help that neck to be less muddy. Also a 500k push pull if the original is really a 250.
All of this work - repainting, replacing pickups, etc, etc, etc .... why wouldn't you just buy a different guitar? The stock RS502/RS502T are fantastic. What a waste.
Considering I sold it for twice what a new one costs I would say it worked out pretty well!
I liked the guitar but wanted it in gold. The pickup change was more about hum canceling than just to change them. Where I play has bad lightning 60 cycle with single coils so the hum was too much. I enjoy tinkering with guitars.