Yamaha Electric Guitar - Answered Questions & Fixed issues

Possibly this web site, but I didn't register to verify that it is legitimate. http://www.satsa.co/wiring/series-wiring-diagrams-yamaha-guitar.html Series Wiring Diagrams Yamaha Guitar With images

It was made April 2003 .

depends on where you are. You can try Bass Guitars

If I understand your question correctly, the tuner (the little machine that the string winds around so that you can- yep! you guessed it- tune the string.) has come loose/is coming loose from the guitar. Or someone offered to "fix it" and lost a screw. Either way, you can do one of two things: look on a website called StewMac.com. the Stewart McDonald company has been doing this since 1968, so they'll probably have the part. If, however, you want a little faster response: Get your guitar and find a music store that's been around awhile- a long while. Go inside, be careful not to knock anything over (because the light will be dim, and there will be stuff stacked and displayed *everywhere*. Walk to the back of the store (past the tatted salesmen and the harassed-looking girl who's answering the phone) to the repair counter. Ask the guy for the screws that you need- he may recommend that a larger size is needed if the hole has been stripped. Either way, you'll have the hardware you need- probably for about a buck or two. Keep playing!

Can you forward some photos to me? Serial numbers and Kay guitars vary by the age of the instrument. Also can you take a photo of any label inside the sound hole or at least tell me what it says in there, where was it made, etc. I'll await your response.

Dont give up on the neck. One tec you saw may not know what another that has had many years in the repair of gtrs knows !. But for the time being you can fix this your self. Find a alan wrench that came with your Gtr.thats your ntail pice. This is the bridge that each string cross,s over. Now slowly rase up the height of the string untill its high enough to stop the buzzing. Just half turns at a time. . All so if you keep the humitdy up near your gtr. it may correct its self, no **** just like magic. keep on playing DFD

Santana's had quite a few guitars, take your pick:
1972 - Gibson Les Paul / Gibson SG Special with Humbuckers / Gibson L-6S
1975 - Gibson SG Special with P90 pickup (Woodstock Festival)
1976 - Yamaha SG 175B / Gibson SG Special with 3 Open Coils
1982 - Paul Reed Smith (PRS) Custom
1988 - PRS Santana II with PRS Santana III nickel-plated pickups and .009-.042 D'Addario strings

What type yamaha is this and what type problem? The serial no is irrelevant.

Year Yamaha sg3000 serial # lmql013 was made?

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Try this site;

http://www.yamaha.com/apps/guitararchives/serialnumberwizard.asp

If you have a volt ohm meter, try unsoldering one lead from the pickup in question making careful note of where it was unsoldered from. Use one probe on the other wire or wire that aren't unsoldered from that pickup. Use the other probe on the end of the wire you unsoldered with the volt/ohm meter set to a setting which can cope with between 3 and 14 k. Generally the resistance will read between 3k and 14k. A shorted pickup will read considerably less but there will still be a reading. If your pickup is dead there are 2 possibilities. One is that a winding in the pickup is burnes out or broken and you will get no reading with the resistance test. The other which is rare but not impossible is that the magnet in the pickup has lost its flux which means that you could have weak to no sound. There are other possibilities such as your pickup being adjusted to low to sense the strings. If none of this helps if you can, try www.seymourduncan.com.There are wiring diagrams and lots of good info on this site.

my guess is two positions at one end work(aka 1 and 2, or 4 and 5)? if yes, then 2 of the pickups are wired wrong. (if 1 and 2 work, which are the forward positions, then the middle and bridge pickup are wired wrong, etc.) the problem is there is a variety of 5way switches that are different. i would guess yours is "import" style. are there 8 lugs in a single row on the back of the switch? if yes, you probably have an import switch. best i can do in text is tell you that the middle two lugs are common. this means one goes to the volume pot, and there is probably a little jumper between the two lugs as well. now there are 3 lugs on either side of those 2 common lugs. one set of 3 will probably run to the tone pot in some fashion or be empty. the other set of 3 lugs is for the pickup lead wires. it sounds like at least one or two of those lugs are empty but shouldnt be, or are wired wrong. i cant tell you colors of your wires without seeing it, but this is how it should be, with the exception that the tone knob will probably be on the bottom 3 lugs somewhere. 1 would be the neck pickup, 2 the middle, and 3 the bridge hope this helps, feel free to post a pic of your wiring, etc

Sounds like the amp (or speaker) blew. Do you have anything else you can plug into the amp to test? If possible use a different cord to preclude that as a cause, too.

what do you mean broken?

Try taking the guitar back to the store where you got it. Recreate the sound. If it is a faulty connection they will know what to do about it.

the serial number is the model number and is usually stamped on the back of the head or on the metal plate that holds the neck to the body

Try thiis site:

http://www.yamaha.com/apps/guitararchives/serialnumberwizard.asp

before I can properly answer this, I need to know...have you been humidifying the instrument? If you have not you really should...one of the main reasons why the action will get high on an acoustic guitar is that without proper humidification the top will start to bubble up and the bridge will start to come off. Check to see if this is the case by taking a piece if paper and seeing if you can wedge it under the bridge. If you can you have a bigger problem than just high action. You can seriously hurt the guitar and cause musch bgger problems if you adjust the action without addressing the real problem.

TRY E-BAY.