The Yamaha FG5 GL Red Label is a premium acoustic (non-electric) guitar that fuses vintage style with modern construction. Inspired by Yamaha’s original “Red Label” instruments of the 1960s, it features high-end tonewoods, careful bracing, and Yamaha’s A.R.E. (Acoustic Resonance Enhancement) wood treatment to impart an “aged” resonance feel right out of the box. Its dreadnought body provides a full, projecting voice suited to both strumming and flatpicking. The gloss finish and classic aesthetic details (V-style headstock, red label inside the soundhole) enhance its vintage character.
Specifications & Features
- Body type: Dreadnought (FG body shape)
- Top: Solid Sitka Spruce (A.R.E treated)
- Back & sides: Solid Mahogany
- Bracing: Scalloped bracing (optimized for balance and projection)
- Neck: African Mahogany
- Fingerboard: Ebony
- Bridge: Ebony
- Nut width: 44 mm (1.75")
- Scale length: 634 mm (25")
- Number of frets: 20
- Fingerboard radius: 400 mm (≈ 15.75")
- Nut & saddle: Bone
- Strings (factory): Elixir NANOWEB 80/20 Bronze Light (.012 – .053)
- Tuning machines: Open-gear chrome (Y1D)
- Body finish: Gloss (top and sides/back)
- Neck finish: Satin
- Binding & inlays: Black & white binding, classic rosette / soundhole inlay
- Classical “Red Label” aesthetics: V-headed headstock with tuning fork logo, red label inside body, wooden pickguard
- Output / onboard electronics: None (fully acoustic)
