Japanese minimalist style is simple to describe but hard to capture. With just enough of everything you need, and nothing that you dont, the RS502 is exactly what it should bebeautifully simple.

Drawing inspiration from London and Tokyos vintage street-racing motorbikes, Japans heritage of engineering excellence and the 50-year legacy of Yamaha guitar craftsmanship, every detail of each Revstar model has been carefully engineered to bring out the unique personality of each guitar in the lineup. From the curves and contours of the ground-up body design to the distinctive colors and finishes and custom-wound pickups that perfectly match the guitars character, the Revstar collection comprises a diverse lineup of instruments as unique as the guitarists who play them. This is Revstar meet your other half.

Inspired by raw power and performance, Revstars sound is as unique and bold as its aesthetic. Working to evoke a visceral, unbridled power and an individual, organic tone that is made possible only by considering every detail, Yamahas engineers chose materials carefully and designed custom pickups to make sure Revstar sounds as stunning as it looks.

Pickups:
Designed from the ground up, Revstar features specially wound YGD pickups that are perfectly matched to each guitar. More than 50 prototype pickups were tested featuring different combinations of wire, windings, magnets and base plates. Eventually, a spec was settled on for each guitar model and the Revstar pickup series was born.

Dry Switch:
Designed especially for Revstar, Yamahas proprietary Dry Switch gives you the versatility of a coil split, but with a tone thats miles ahead. Using a passive filter circuit painstakingly designed to give the perfect frequency response, the Dry Switch filters out low frequencies to give the punch and clarity of a single coil pickup minus the inevitable hum and hollow tone often associated with split humbucking pickups. And because its a filter circuit, the Dry Switch works on both humbuckers and P90s for a totally unique, usable tone.

Custom Hardware:
Inspired by the stripped-down custom Caf Racer motorbikes popularized on the streets of London in the 1960s, Revstars hardware captures the high-performance, individual character of those bikes with a wide range of totally unique, customized hardware. From the unique pickup covers and raw copper scratchplate on the Revstar Professional, to the totally custom floating aluminum tailpiece on the RS502T, each and every component is perfectly calibrated for great performance and unmistakable stylecapturing the very essence of a Caf Racer.

Comfort Contoured Body:
Revstar is a workhorse through and through, but that doesnt mean there has been any compromise on comfort and playability. With every contour designed from the ground up to look and feel great, Revstars body features a deep belly cut, hidden forearm contour and a newly designed neck joint for outstanding upper fret access. This is a guitar made to be played all night.

Specifications:
General specifications
Scale Length: 24 3/4" (628.6mm)
Neck: Mahogany
Fingerboard: Rosewood
Radius: 13 3/4" (350mm)
Construction: Set-in
Frets: 22, Jumbo
Body: Maple top, Mahogany
Tuners: Die-cast
Bridge: Adjustable Wraparound
Pickups: VP5+ ; Vintage output P-90 with satin nickel plated cover
Pickup Switch: 3 position lever
Controls: Master Volume, Master Tone (Push-Pull, Dry Switch)

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