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About this product
Overview & specifications
The Yamaha FS800 Concert Acoustic Guitar - Sand Burst puts a solid spruce top on a compact concert body for players who want a real acoustic without the bulk of a dreadnought. It is the guitar for fingerpickers, singer-songwriters and anyone with a shorter reach. The Sand Burst finish shades from a pale centre to darker edges under the gloss.
Solid spruce top, 380mm concert body
The top is solid spruce, so it loosens up and gets more responsive with playing instead of staying flat like a laminate. The body is 380mm wide, 497mm long and 90 to 110mm deep, with a narrow waist that sits comfortably on the knee. Nato or okume back and sides, black binding and a tortoise-pattern pickguard finish it.
634mm scale on a matt nato neck
The 634mm scale takes a little tension off the strings compared with a full 650mm dreadnought, which helps beginners and anyone who fingerpicks. The walnut fingerboard has a 400mm radius, a 43mm nut and 10mm string spacing, and die-cast chrome TM29T tuners keep the strings where you left them.
Set up and ready
A walnut bridge with urea saddle and black ABS pins, strung with Yamaha FS50BT or D'Addario XT strings, gets checked for action and intonation here. Set up in-store by Guitar World Australia's techs before it ships to you.
Specifications
The finer details
Specifications
| Brand | Yamaha |
|---|---|
| Model | FS800 |
| Body Shape | Concert Style |
| Scale Length | 634mm (25") |
| Top | Solid Spruce |
| Back | Nato/Okume |
| Sides | Nato/Okume |
| Neck | Nato |
| Fingerboard | Walnut |
| Fingerboard Radius | R400mm (15 3/4") |
| Bridge | Walnut |
| Nut Width | 43mm (1 11/16") |
| String Spacing | 10.0mm |
| Nut | Urea |
| Saddle | Urea |
| Bridge Pins | Black ABS with White Dot |
| Tuners | Die-cast Chrome (TM29T) |
| Body Binding | Black |
| Soundhole Inlay | Black + White |
| Pickguard | Tortoise Pattern |
| Body Finish | Gloss |
| Neck Finish | Matt |
| Electronics | None |
| Controls | None |
| Output | None |
| Strings | Yamaha FS50BT or D'Addario XT |
| Body Depth | 90-110mm (3 9/16"- 4 5/16") |
| Body Width | 380mm (14 15/16") |
| Body Length | 497mm (19 9/16") |
| Total Length | 1021mm (40 3/16") |
| Included | Hex Wrench |
| Case | None |
| Colour | Sand Burst |