I'm sure if I bought thousands like Yairi would have I'd have gotten them even cheaper. A back and side set of rosewood in the 70's sold for about 20 dollars to a guy like me buying the sets INDIVIDUALLY. To make your own plywood from logs requires HUGE machinery and effort. Plywood technology really isn't very cost effective for a commodity using that little wood, especially back in the 70's when rosewood sets sold for so little. I just never could understand a luthier operation doing that. If they were doing THAT with the wood I could understand. If you read carefully and slowly you'll eventually get to the part about them processing their own plywood. Sorry you are having trouble making sense out of my short post. anyway, believe rare hardwood logs are converted into "plywood" every day by Martin, Taylor and even Yairi ! yairi wood might have come from one trip long ago if it was used only as a laminate - you could probably make 3-4 guitars out of each set of back and sides. as everyone knows, laminates are stronger, more stable, much cheaper and allow for way more cuts from one log.Īs the matter of fact, it would make more sense that all the k. I bet it's rare for a highly figured hardwood to NOT be used as a laminate. Laminates are used in everything from furniture to car interiors to musical instruments. I mean, converting rare hardwood logs into laminates? That's probably where most rare hardwood logs go. I think you are getting confused b/w pressed particle board and laminated hardwoods.Įither way, your post makes no sense at all. Or you mean the wood probably couldn't have purchased in the 70's and used ever since b/c the luthier decided to use it as a 1mm thick laminate instead of as a solid piece? so rosewood is no longer rosewood when it is used below a certain thickness? that makes no sense. Over the last 30 years, all the cy-140 guitars that have back and sides made with jacaranda are not really jacaranda? and this is b/c the jacaranda is laminated with other less expensive rosewoods? so it's not a rosewood back b/c two different species are sandwiched together? what kind of wood is it then? a layer of glue doesn't change the species of wood. I'd say the guitar is worth anywhere from $350 to $650 in the USĪnd guitarcapo, you have no idea what you are talking about. yours will not sell for $1500 b/c no one knows of them and the market just won't support that kind of price for a laminate from a little known maker. Mine sounded better than most guitars I have played, but then it was vintage and that makes a huge difference. rosewood (lam.) so that makes for more value. the steel strings aren't (I was taking a slack key class in hawaii and onther student from japan couldn't believe I had a sada yairi - said he had one as a kid, they were expensive then).Īnyway, i think they are amazing guitars and it sounded better than my J 45 but it's a completely apples and oranges comparison. yairi classical, some can be worth a lot but they are MUCH more common. I got mine for $450 on ebay a few years ago. Generally, I would say your guitar is not worth much more than $500. told I would buy it back at any point and I will. he should have been thrilled b/c that guitar kicked serious ass. The guy was thrilled and I would have never sold it if i didn't have to pay for the bar. I just sold mine YD-303 for $500 on ebay and I accurately described it as having worn frets, candidate for reset, etc. They go for $1000 bucks beat up (when you convert it from yen). if you google sada yairi, you will find very few things, but in Japan (in Japanese) you will see them for sale, websites with them, etc. both the quality and rarity keep the prices high. Sada yairi guitars can be worth quite a bit. I'veĪ bunch of other guitars, but the Yairis just do something for me." Own a DY 57 and I am probably going to order a custom job soon.
The only difference is theirĪfter rereading my post, I sound like a manufacturers rep.
There are no manufacturing differences between anĪlvarez Yairi and a non-Alvarez Yairi. Guitars are handmade by one luthier and overseen by Kazuo YairiĪssociation of Yairi and Alvarez is related to an import andĭeal between the two. No computers, no machines, no assembly line. Process and still follows the same age old hand crafting procedures That trip created a tremendous inventory of wood that is still Sada sent his son Kazuo out with a barge to travel the world collecting While other guitar companies were trying to expand (Martin, " My luthier is a Yairi dealer and I have been picking his brain forĪbout the Yairi's. I got this quote somewhere, some ppl say they're cousins though:
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