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They're not even that nice looking close up, but it's a serviceable guitar I guess if you change the pickups and electronics as is usual with this kind of stuff.
Probably stupidly collectable now but as it stands I can wouldn't give a hundred quid for one, whatever its quirky or interesting history.
Maybe it's just me, but the reputation of some of these Japanese guitars is being grossly inflated these days - some of them weren't terrible, but that's about it.
There are exceptions like the SG2000, but even then, being brutally honest the pickups still managed the muddy/spikey-at-the-same-time thing.
If that Yam is dirt cheap it would be an interesting talking point, but to me it's no better than any typical £300 Asian guitar being made now.
If Fender and to a lesser extent Gibson hadn't lost the plot around that time I doubt we'd remember any of those usable-but-dull guitars, although I'm glad they did gain a foothold, simply because of some of the great Asian guitars we've had and continue to have since.