If you're looking for a guitar with fantastic tone at a reasonable price, the APX500 is your choice. The cheapest of the three new APX guitars sports a spruce top and Nato back and sides, and comes in five amazing color variations. As for cosmetics, the APX500 features a beautiful mother-of-pearl sound hole ring inlay, white fingerboard binding, white/black body binding, mother-of-pearl APX & Yamaha headstock logos and position markers. The model features a revamped version of the tried and true System55T. This is a 1-way piezo pickup system that comes with a 3-band EQ and built-in tuner.
| Specifications |
| Top |
Spruce |
| Sides / Back |
Nato |
| Neck |
Nato / 22 Frets |
| Scale |
650mm |
| Fingerboard |
Rosewood |
| Bridge |
Rosewood |
| Pickups |
System 55TA |
| Controls |
3-Band EQ, Volume, Tuner |
| Machine Heads |
Chrome |
| Colours |
Natural, Black, Oriental Blue Burst*, Old Violin Sunburst, Dark Red Burst* |
| Finish |
Hi-gloss |