one major difference is body width. the Indonesianversion is 0.5" narrower.

Great review and awesome playing! Yamaha make some really great guitars and other musical products.

I have one, red as well, and it would be my desert island must have.

Hey, just wondering if you have a video demo on the 6120?

Absolutely fantastic have a wonderful day also Monday is my friends birthday ❤😊

Beautiful playing, great pickups. Tiho is the most underrated pro of his profession.

I'm a big Yamaha fan - two amps and one guitar, so I'll be checking one out very soon. The pickups are a type I've never used, so it gives me an opportunity to get one (If I really like it).

If anyone is interested in hearing the Revstar in a band context you should check out Cardinal Black, which Welsh Guitar Player Chris Buck's band. He also has a great KZfaq channel that's worth checking out.

Awesome playing Leonard! You are such a good guy. That sounds so good just plugged straight in! Definitely Ronnie Earl sounding, which I just love. Thank you my friend…….

Yamaha and Ibanez make good guitars. The only complain I have is that they lack vibe. Perfect tools without soul.

There is a good video made where the wiring of this model was simplified and the sound improved quite a bit.

Awesome points and great review!! Thankyou sir.

What does it sound like in the raw?

I think I want one of these...

I played one of these in a shop recently. It was a perfect construction and had no flaws at all. A dream to play and listen to.

Great playing!

I play the rss20 and after a nice setup and some changes of my luthier it has become my n1

Tried one a couple of weeks ago, just out of curiosity. The struggle to keep my wallet in my pocket and resist buying yet another guitar was real. Street price of c. £680 here in the UK, an absolute steal.

Very good test. 🙂

Great overview, as usual! The Revstar has had pretty well unanimously good reviews and it's no surprise, really. This P90 version looks and sounds superb and the price is a steal. Congrats to Yamaha - they are making waves 😃

Excellent review

They sound great. Only the pickguard is annoying.

Bought mine a few months back, but haven't been playing much as I was out of town. The tone is just amazing - but I am surprised that these pickups are "probuckers", because they do hum (a lot like a strat). Maybe the design just enhances the hum, IDK, but they're not quiet humbuckers in the usual sense. The neck PU is just amazing on its own, and the bridge is rather brittle though a super reverb (also like a strat), but the tone knob is smooth and highly functional and rolling back a bit gets it really creamy and so no problem. No neck dive that I notice, but with the strap button in the back like an SG, it tends to lean away from you - a little (which can easily be countered by looping the lower strap over the back upper body wing, but it isn't necessary if the angle doesn't bother you). I am astounded they can do this for the price. This ones a keeper.

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You are the Blues Dude, Leonard! You always feature good gear, and your playing is always quite tasteful and soulful! Also, I dig your hats.

They're ugly just like the Epiphone coronet but have good features

Which means awesome

Leonard, as we say in the UK -that playing was stonking

Love you playing! How would you compare Yamaha Revstar Standard quality with Sire and PRS SE guitars you reviewed?

Amazing how much quality they can put into a nice-sounding, reasonably-priced guitar. Sounds great.

Great review/demo! Some really sweet tones...I like it a lot!!! So, the tones combined with your (so enviable) chops, adds up to a very convincing look at this very impressive Yamaha! Think I'm gonna have to check it out! Thank you so much!! 😎

Yamaha? Heck yes. "Hot Merlot"? Yes, please! I've been playing a silver metallic SG800S since 1983 (my avatar shot) and have owned 3 other Yamaha guitars (as well as 2 clarinets, a flute, and an alto sax) over the years including a Revstar RS420 that I recently sold. The SG800S is sticking around, though.

That is one fine instrument! Your Note selection today is Spot On! Great usable tones.💥👏👍🤙

Next up… their made-in-Japan Professional (RSP20)?

That is a fantastic guitar. I did the crazy thing and bought made in Japan Revstar and all I can is WOW.

Beautiful playing! You make a good point about the Revstar not being just another slavish copy of a legacy guitar. The amazing young UK guitarist Chris Buck plays a Revstar and makes the point it lets him be totally himself - not stepping in the shoes of an earlier star and tone.

The Revstar line is pretty darn good and I'm a huge fan of the P90 pickups. I have the prior model 502T and not this latest one. Like you, I like the merlot color the best from their current line-up of colors. Excellent review and playing as you always do! 👍

Great view of the Yamaha

Epiphone ES-335 style guitars? I own 40 of 'em! Every one of them is set up to suit my style of playing Blues and Rock, most of them by me as I've gigged them relentlessly for the past 25 years. I started out in 1971 on a Coronet Telecaster copy that played OK but sounded less than OK. But it cost me $30 so I wasn't complaining. Then on Christmas Eve 1975 I bought a black Les Paul Lawsuit copy for $50. Immediately my playing lifted noticeably thanks to the much better playability and awesome sound of that guitar. In fact the entire sound of the band lifted thanks to my lead guitar sounding so much better. I sold the Tele straight away. For 11 years, that was the only guitar I owned. Then in 1987, my bass player told me about a wine red Gibson ES-335 copy with a trapeze tailpiece. It was at my local pawn shop which prior to that day, I'd never visited. Dunno why not. But I bought it and immediately fell head over heels in love with it, or more precisely, with the ES-335 style guitars. To this day I have never played any guitar other than either a Gibson or Epiphone, or other Asian-made ES-335. It was then that I read about my hero Ted Nugent owning 20 Gibson Byrdland guitars, and I quickly realised that it was perfectly OK to own more than one guitar! At the height of my career I owned over 15 x Epiphone Sheratons, 5 x Gibson ES-355s, 8 x Epiphone Rivieras, and other Epiphone models, including the Dot models. I took an interest in white Epiphone Sheratons many years ago and I own 11 of them at last count. Unfortunately I'm no longer active in the music industry because I can no longer play guitar at all. I have bone spurs on all my neck vertebrae and they're severely pinching the nerves to my hands, my left hand more so than my right. I'm intending to re-ignite my interest in bottleneck slide guitar. Guess I'll sell the vast majority of my guitars, since I can't play 'em any more, but which of my kids do I kick out of home first? I mean: they've all been really good to me, ultra-reliable, and they all look and sound fantastic. Which one do I let go for a fraction of what it cost me to customise it? I know they all paid for themselves dozens of times over and more. I played well over 3,800 paid gigs in my 25-year career, and I must have been to over 1,000 jam sessions as well. I've sold all but one of my Gibson ES-355s and I only still own one Gibson ES-335 Fat Neck. I wanna hang onto those in case I come good. But my 14 former stage guitars, all Epiphone Sheratons and Rivieras that are all customised to the max, I can't bear to sell them. They made me the player I wanted to be! I just can't reward them my letting them go for the measly prices they fetch, compared to the new up-market Epiphones that are available today. I had a storage drive go out of service a few years ago and it contained plenty of my videos from my prime as a guitarist. before I had the chance to upload them on KZfaq, so they're lost forever; but I still have quite a few videos on KZfaq filmed when I was in my late 50s and early 60s that still give an accurate view of what I used to play at every gig. I'll leave them up. I'm Number 3 in the Reverbnation Blues charts for my state capital city, despite my not doing anything at all to promote myself on that platform. So someone must be watching them!

Awesome playing!!!

Low and Slow, just right! Perfect complement of playing to a great guitar!!

That was a very well done review. And your guitar playing is excellent. I'm looking forward to more from you.

Sparkling Burgundy was a custom color offered, just a quick google search and you can find some vintage ones, found a 65 and 67.

Great job and thanks for sharing 😊 what's the nut width size? Thanks 🙏

Do you have some hum-cancelling system on guitar? Fralin used to sell those. If not, how do you deal with hum?

Tone Master is definitely better, but it's not chalk and cheese. I feel like you're paying 3x the price for 1/3rd better tone.

Thanks!

I’m inspired to play a Les Paul tonight! I agree with you that the finish is a bit too “satin”. I also agree that at this price point, and particularly when competitors to it more reliably, that Epiphone should up its finishing game and produce guitars with consistently better fretwork. Otherwise, I have no problem with the specs you mention and what I see. I have no problem with the name on the headstock, and I’d love to try one. Maybe even own one, however in full disclosure I already have three Les Pauls, each with different electronics configuration, and this one would double my Tokai. A further thought: it does seem this in every way, a “main” guitar. It seems good enough, and deserves better than being “backup” status. In any event, great playing, sounds and thoughtful review as always.

I got one of these, it was owned by Rick Derringer. I had just purchased a Epiphone Casino, but it was just too cheap to gig with so I took it back and got the D'Angelico. The Bedfore I got is the same color as the one in the video. I love the guitar and use it during gigs, it has a nice tone. It fits perfectly into my Tom Petty cover band as well.

Would you be up for a video comparison between the G&L Fullerton Deluxe Legacy, S-500, and Comanche? I'm curious about the differences between these three models...and would of course love to hear you play on all three. Thanks for your videos, I get a lot out of them.