AES620 SH The
Yamaha AES620 SH was the former signature guitar of former
Van Halen and current
Chickenfoot vocalist
Sammy Hagar. The guitar was designed by Hagar together with Yamaha's custom shop in Hollywood California and based on the AES620 with modifications designed by Hagar. The solid body guitar is fitted with two humbuckers, the neck being a standards Yamaha model and the bridge pickup being a
Seymour Duncan JB model both being controlled by separate volume controls and a single tone control. The rosewood fretboard also features a
Cabo Wabo inlay at the 12th fret.
CV820 WB The
Yamaha CV820 WB was the former signature guitar for current
Limp Bizkit and
Black Light Burns guitarist
Wes Borland. During his early career with Limp Bizkit, Borland was endorsed by
Ibanez but decided to end the collaboration, since Ibanez wanted him to modify one of their current guitars and market as a Wes Borland signature, while Wes himself wanted to be able to design a guitar from the ground up to create his own dream guitar. After leaving, Wes played
PRS for a short time before starting his current collaboration with Yamaha guitars. The semi-hollow guitar is developed by Borland and Yamaha
luthier John Gadesi, and built using the Japanese method Takumi-Kezuri (translates to "skillful carving"), which means that the back, the sides and the center-block is constructed out of one piece of alder and fitted with a maple top. The design for the body of the guitar is done by Borland several years earlier, but not made into reality until his partnership with Yamaha. Since leaving Limp Bizkit, Wes moved more towards vintage and semi-hollow body guitars since he likes their resonance and he claims they feel more alive. The guitar is fitted with a three-piece maple neck with a 24 fret rosewood fretboard without markers. The guitar is equipped with two splitfield humbuckers which are controlled by a three way toggle switch and wired straight to two separate volume controls and without any tone controls. He has recently switched to
Jackson Guitars.
PA1511MS The
Yamaha PA1511MS is the current signature guitar of American jazz guitarist
Mike Stern, known for his work with
Miles Davis. The PA1511MS is based on Sterns own heavily modified
Fender Telecaster and features an ash body and maple neck in similar design to the Telecaster. The guitar is fitted with a fixed bridge and single volume and tone controls for the two
Seymour Duncan pickups.
SA503 TVL The
Yamaha SA503 TVL is the signature guitar of
Troy Van Leeuwen the former guitarist of
A Perfect Circle and current guitarist and
multi-instrumentalist of
Queens of the Stone Age. The SA503 TVL features a semi-hollow maple body and neck. The guitar is fitted with a
Bigsby vibrato tailpiece and three
P-90 pickups controlled by two three-way switches.
Velvet Revolver's
Dave Kushner, fellow Yamaha endorser
Wes Borland as well as bandmate
Josh Homme have also been known to play the SA503 TVL. ==Bass guitars==