Yamaha Revstar Standard RSS20 Electric Guitar, Sonic Blue

Were the '60s ever out of style, they are more than back with the Yamaha Revstar Standard RSS20. This Revstar, with an eye specifically fixated on the Café Racer bikes you'd see on the streets of London in the 1960s, assembles with a welcoming set of player-focused features meant to inspire.

The Yamaha Revstar RSS20 is a guitar designed to mash together vintage aesthetic and modern playability into an exciting, new sum. Kicking all this off, we have a chambered mahogany body that assumes an easy double-horned profile and plays with a lightweight, resonant feel – particularly when paired with its maple top for that top-end crispness. Here, a three-piece mahogany neck builds up with a carbon-reinforced design for balance and resonance. The neck's satin finish makes for a smooth feel in the palm while its rosewood fingerboard features twenty-two Jumbo stainless steel frets that enable speedy and comfortable fretting. A fast and flat twelve-inch fingerboard radius facilitates smooth moves from higher to lower registers.

Sonically, the Revstar RSS20 punches in with two Yamaha VH5b humbucker pickups. These humbuckers, designed with Alnico V magnets for an overall crisp and warm kick to cut through the mix and make a statement or two. The pickups are then fitted with master volume and tone controls with a push/pull "Focus Switch" that easily and noticeably shapes their frequency to fit a variety of musical styles. Backing up this voice, a number of sturdy hardware specs land on this model with a Tune-O-Matic bridge and Stopbar tailpiece that ground strings solidly for quick stringing and an effective transfer of motion. This Revstar Standard travels with an included Yamaha gig bag.

Matching modern priorities and vintage sensibilities, the Revstar RSS20 gets you off to the races.